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I had a similar experience a few years ago. I started a new topic and immediately I had some guy marking it for deletion. In the talk page he made various claim
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
I had a similar experience a few years ago. I started a new topic and immediately I had some guy marking it for deletion. In the talk page he made various claims, almost all of them nonsensical, apparently with goal of getting me to go away. Eventually, after some fairly harsh replies, he went away, and the pages stand to this day.
But it worked, I gave up soon after and haven't contributed since.
It's like the existing editors want to keep WP all to themselves and don't appreciate "outsiders" interfering. The irony is I'd been contributing since 2002 off an on, but that made no difference.
- JackFr 3y ago> Eventually, after some fairly harsh replies, he went away, and the pages stand to this day. Which brings up the point I was going to make about TFA. If 'toxic' comments are an effective way to reduce the impact of bad editors, then it's not clear that 'toxic' comments have a negative effect on the quality of Wikipedia. They might be improving it.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoJust to be clear, I wasn't toxic (although unclear what the definition exactly is), I just vigorously called him out on his bullshit.
- lelanthran 3y agoI hate to dogpile and I almost never do, but the parent's and GP's experiences are almost the same as mine. It doesn't take too much blatantly dishonest interaction before I decide "life is too short", regardless of whether it is on Wikipedia or elsewhere.