It's all about hostility

Jimbo said "Don't bite the newcomers"...because they might have RABIES. It's just a precaution :)

Rabies? Well, I learned something else today: Don't try to help newbies and encourage them, as it only attracts the Vampires and they do a whole lot more than just bite the newbies! ;-) The more areas of Wikipedia I've explored, the more I'm convinced we've already passed the tipping point. 'Back in the day', people added material to an article, and cut other contributors a lot of slack while the article was 'in development' (as long as the material wasn't libelous, of course). Now it's not just looking for any excuse to delete a new article, it's looking for an excuse to delete any and all material in existing articles as well. It's like watching two-year-old boys who love nothing more than to knock over whatever some other child has just built. They love being destructive, and they laugh hysterically when all that work is destroyed. I was under the impression from the surveys that Wikipedia was filled with male teenagers and twenty-somethings, but based on what I'm seeing (and hearing from others), I suspect the age range is a whole lot lower. Emotional age, anyway. Maybe this is what living in the midst of gang terrritory is like? Crips and Bloods? Flatterworld 03:33, 27 March 2011 (UTC)