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It was reading the ultimate paragraph of this post: that finally convinced me it was time to go, yes, Hans is quite right, I am stuck in a vicious circle and there was no likelihood of things improving.

I told one of the someone the other day that whenever I start a page, it is seized on by others immediately before it's even finished and warring and argument starts; the last page being a prime example (WP-Own is one thing seizing on every edit an editor makes is quite another) the page was locked for days preventing me from properly finishing it - and I can only think of just one other editor here who knows enough to know where the points I was outlining were leading. I have not wanted to touch it since and complete it - too much stress, too much bother and life is too short.

There have been hundreds of other similar incidents and I'm tired of it - I start pages in userspace and then lose interest because I cannot face having to justify every commonly held opinion to some idiotic Randy from Boise and his piled on friends, so the pages are never completed. No doubt, some will be screaming WP-OWN, but that cannot be the excuse to allow pages to sink, be over-simplified or just plain erroneous or misleading. Anyhow, I've always said and believed that If one can't write here, one might as well not be here because all that leaves for me here is posting and opining on the talk pages - and that eventually only leads to further bitterness and we have enough of that here already. In short, it's been made clear to me, that I have no future here. Pity really because I would have made a bloody good Arb :-)

Misplaced Pages is edited mostly by people who know a little about everything and a lot about nothing, and anyone who knows a lot is considered a danger to the project. That's because the under-educated fear exposure from the over-educated and keep them down and themselves on top - and that is certainly true of many of the Admins and it's a practice which begins at the top of the tree, and know that many on top of that tree will be more than delighted to see the back of me.

Successive Arbcoms have become more and more lack lustre, and the acceptance of the case against Malleus Fatuorum ,in particular the amount and length of permitted spite (evidence - I believe it was called) that was posted against him, is just one more example of the self-satisfied, smug, puritan lynch mob that's allowed and encouraged to rule here. For that the Arbcom, and editors who posted such lengthy vitriol, should be hanging their heads in shame. I hope Malleus and others like him survive because they are a breath of fresh air. However, if nothing changes (and I seriously doubt it will) they'll eventually end up feeling just as I do now - I know of many other editors who are too on the point of going - only the addiction and their friends keep them here. People say that other editors come along, and yes, they do, but for every good new editor who comes along, it seems that ten social climbing, ignorant little would-be admins come too.

So as you will have gathered by now, I am pretty hacked off with the project, so all that remains to say is thanks to all those who have been my friends and supported what I was trying to do here. Never, is a very long time, but I certainly have no plans for returning unless the admin system changes drastically - send me an e-Mail if it does, but I won't be holding my breath. There's a few unfinished pages here if anyone wants to finish one off or paste into their own space - feel free, help yourself. So long all of you. Giacomo Returned 10:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)