Thread:User talk:Tyrannis/I went to the top right corner of the page/reply (6)

@Ghengis, I agree completely. I have had people in real life ask me about a good resource to counter the anti-science movement and I HAVE given and linked RationalWiki... but the state of affairs about getting anything done here is atrocious and I have blatantly told people to not join the maintenance and contribution of the actual site because I don't want to share the drama and stupidity with any of my real life friends. There's a horrible attitude here that focuses on acceptable harassment targets and just lets established frat boys do whatever they want to remain here, not contribute, shit at other people, and never, ever pay any form of consequence for it. And then, when they do go just a bit too far out of line, they get to commandeer the whole site and whine about their rights being taken away that they never used other than to just shit on other people. And the amount of shitting on other people just discourages actual content creation: why even begin to work on an article when you have no idea if the community will want to pitch in?

This is not the kind of place I myself want to have to use as a resource, but it has the potential to be a truly great one. We're referenced in print, for petesakes. We should be united by a purpose, and that purpose should not be shitting on eachother.

I agree that there should be some kind of contribution bar for voting. In my university's SSA, to be a voting member, one must go on two community service outings a semester. This prevents people from flooding in and stacking votes; they must be a contributing member of the club to have a say in what goes on in it. I would support a similar system on rationalwiki.

Oh, and by the way: only one person at my university has ever complained about this system.

He's a raging sociopath and an utter asswipe. So in my mind, anyone that whines 'why should I HAVE TO HELP in order to have a say in what goes on here' is likely to be a person of similar character.