User:Ringo62

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I'm done with this site. No matter how well-sourced and authoritative one's edits are, there always seem to be people ready to accuse others of violating vague, opaque "behavior policies" like WP:CIVILITY—ironically, often in highly uncivil ways themselves, which are somehow rewarded by the community. The level of disruption an ordinary editor faces here is astronomical.

For some, Wikipedia is a platform for agenda-pushing (whether it's promoting genocide denial, attacking academics one doesn't like, etc.), where the goal is to make as many ridiculous reverts, talk page warnings, and AN/I reports as possible, all to insinuate that editors they dislike are problematic—until those editors either give up and leave or become frustrated enough to violate some obscure "behavior policy" and get banned.

It seems genuinely enjoyable and gratifying for some to punish an outcast editor—someone who dares to criticize admins and established users, and who doesn't conform to the entrenched "norms" and unwritten rules that, in reality, have nothing to do with the goal of building a high-quality online encyclopedia.