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<br>I apologize to all decent editors, but I've decided to leave the English Misplaced Pages for indefinite. There's little room to do constructive edits and to realize one's potential when the whole project can be hijacked by a couple of mobs pushing their crazy political propaganda, combined with an unwillingness of moderate majority. And almost no one is willing to help, when one is being chased or harassed by a couple of jerks. This project could work if everyone would mainly work only within the areas of their knowledge, and only within the limits. But that's not the case. Recently, I tried to watch over certain articles to prevent from compromising the quality, yet, no one was willing to help. I'm not going to work under the mob rule. I finally see that the concept of "absolutely" free encyclopaedia doesn't work in reality, at least not under conditions as we have now. If this project has ever some chance for success, it's openness will require sometimes radical reforms, sorry. ] <sup>]/]</sup> 18:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)</center></div> | ||
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Retired This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages.I apologize to all decent editors, but I've decided to leave the English Misplaced Pages for indefinite. There's little room to do constructive edits and to realize one's potential when the whole project can be hijacked by a couple of mobs pushing their crazy political propaganda, combined with an unwillingness of moderate majority. And almost no one is willing to help, when one is being chased or harassed by a couple of jerks. This project could work if everyone would mainly work only within the areas of their knowledge, and only within the limits. But that's not the case. Recently, I tried to watch over certain articles to prevent from compromising the quality, yet, no one was willing to help. I'm not going to work under the mob rule. I finally see that the concept of "absolutely" free encyclopaedia doesn't work in reality, at least not under conditions as we have now. If this project has ever some chance for success, it's openness will require sometimes radical reforms, sorry. MarkBA 18:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)