This is an old revision of this page, as edited by GK (talk | contribs) at 01:45, 28 September 2005 (Cleaned up my goodbye that I madly dashed off in January. This time I really am finished! gK). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 01:45, 28 September 2005 by GK (talk | contribs) (Cleaned up my goodbye that I madly dashed off in January. This time I really am finished! gK)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)When I first found out about the Misplaced Pages my first thought was "Wow! That's a great idea". But then, when I visited topics that I was familiar with, I found that many of them were woefully inadequate for an encyclopedia. There were topics that didn't have articles yet. Many of the articles that I found were just stubs. Even larger articles were missing important information. Too many articles had factual errors.
So I decided to join in this noble experiment. I started editing—anonymously first, but then quickly getting a user account. If I had just kept to those topics I was most familiar with, things might have been different, but even there I had one very odd run-in with another editor, which should have given my a clue about how the Misplaced Pages really works.
But I wanted to help, to make the Misplaced Pages better. I saw other things that needed work, and so I started to get more involved in the "backstage" stuff in the Misplaced Pages namespace. Sure, I realized that there were problems, but I thought that things could be improved, just as any Misplaced Pages article could be improved.
It took me way too long to realize the underlying facts about the way the Misplaced Pages works. In this libertarian anarchy, any process is only as functional as it's most dysfunctional participant. What that means is that in too many areas the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Sooner or later someone or some group will take a look at this experiment and will figure out how to avoid most of the problems that exist on the Misplaced Pages. They will fork things off to build a better user-edited internet encyclopedia and the Misplaced Pages will be replaced. Until then, I wish the best of luck to all the nice (and sane) users on the Misplaced Pages I have met and hope that they can help make the Misplaced Pages function more effectively. I, however, have decided that I can find better things to do with my spare time and am leaving.