User:BirdValiant
I've become disillusioned with the
All of the above is still true, but I'm back for now. I needed a couple years to recover from a perfect storm of everything bad about Wikipedia's culture. I encountered a total lack of concern about an obvious conspiracy theorist and complete lack of anyone with common sense willing to help until I took it upon myself to go through the laborious bureaucratic process demanded by the pedant overclass. At the same time, after trying to make some modest contributions, I found myself engaged in an extremely unpleasant exchange with someone who eschewed any sense of good faith, who chose to revert all contributions until an arbitrarily high standard was met, while also refusing to make any compromise or contributions of their own.
Frankly, I don't like a lot of you people. But, still, let's try to make something good out of this dumpster fire.