User:Orangemonster2k1/OpenLetter
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An Open Letter to an Editor who shall remain Nameless
Of the almost 1 month I have "known" you online, I and many other Wiki members have tried our best to get along with you. We have tried our best to provide you with information stating our side of a subject, only to have it thrown back in our faces and our intelligence insulted. We have done nothing to bring this one, except, as far as I can tell, give an opinion that differs from yours. You assert your opinion in place of others and call it a consensus or truth without backing it up with reference or source and be damned those other that try to voice an opinion different or tell you otherwise. Three seperate discussions are open about you, once started in part by me and this doesn't stop you. You don't change the way you act, it actually just makes your worse. You continue with you rude and incivil comments to incite a response out of anyone to keep any arguement or disagreement going. It is like you feed off it. Even after the person walks away in disgust (or leaves Wiki altogether) you continue to insult them on any page possible into a response and keep whatever arguement going as long as possible.
I have had my run-ins with you. I have had my run-ins with other editors. Metros232, who him and I never got along, actually had a calm conversation today. AMIB and I talk on a regular basis without "screaming" at each other. But you and I or you and anyone else can not get along. Even when it is someone on your side, you snip at them trying to cause another arguement...and for what? What do you plan on gaining from essentially driving people and some very good editors away because they have an opinion that differs from yours or they don't known all the rules like you do. Hell, until last week, I didn't know what an interwiki was. Someone told me, I learned. There are noobies here, ya gotta teach 'em. I am not saying sit down and go over each rule on an index card and give 'em a lolly afterwards, just when a noobie messes up, help 'em out. I have to do it myself and I am gald to do it. You would just insult the poor person, throw a rule at them, and insult them some more....and again for what? What are you trying to gain?
Even the line on your front page is rude. Dude, if you plan on getting anywhere and doing anything here on Wiki besides arguing with people, you are going to have to just accept that people are going to have opinions that differ from yours, that you have to be nice to get things done, that there will always be a noobie who messes something up because they think they are helping and you have to give them a hand and that if you don't change your act soon, you are going to get in a crapload of deep water.
Now, I know you probably won't even read this, as it doesn't interest you and it takes time away from your "clean-up duty", but take a couple minutes and actually read it....think about it. I await you response, if any. - SVRTVDude (Yell - Toil) 06:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
