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Hey thanks, I guess that will be especially useful as I might volunteer more time to the wiki in the upcoming months. And I think I should give you [[Image:Globestoppeuse-prino.jpg|left|thumb|200px]] this photo too. --[[User:Globestoppeuse|Globestoppeuse]] ([[User talk:Globestoppeuse|talk]]) 19:43, 27 March 2016 (CEST)
== Consensus, transparency, and accountability ==
I'm taking [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Drumroots&diff=83459&oldid=83449 this conversation] here because it doesn't really concern Drumroots at this point.
You've created a number of rules (i.e. no editing per section, must edit the whole page; no changing autobahn to motorway or rasthof/raststätte to service station; no writing the name “McDonald's”; and no changing a page more than three or four times in a row), and I don't see where you get the right to do so. As far as I can tell, you have unilaterally decided these rules, they have no consensus behind them, and they can only be found on the talk pages of users who happen to violate them. This is not okay. It is authoritarian and lacks any transparency or accountability.
Drumroots asked you a legitimate question about the message you left on his talk page. You waited over a week to respond and did so in a post full of imperative sentences and beginning with “I'm getting pretty fed up with your editing.” This is not friendly; indeed, it is openly hostile.
Regarding RecentChanges, I agree that it's important to keep an eye on them to deal with spam. However, eliminating every red exclamation point is by no means necessary; it merely communicates to other admins that someone has already checked it. This is especially relevant when dealing with users who have a history of productive edits, where spam and vandalism are not a concern. If you feel the need to patrol recent changes for quality control reasons, please accept that that is your decision, and there is no reason why other editors should have to change their behavior to make things easier for you. Why should other users change the way they do things to accommodate you when you can change the way you do things to accommodate others?
And I see welcoming new users as vital to maintaining a cooperative environment here. Without it, the entirety of most users' interactions with other users would consist of being told what to do. I don't like being told what to do, I don't like telling others what to do, and I don't like seeing other people tell other people what to do; I prefer working together, cooperatively, towards a common end (in this case, building a great resource for hitchhikers around the world), and I want to encourage that. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 20:57, 13 June 2016 (CEST)
