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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by grpt on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:43PM (#38534249)
> Spent literal hours on it collecting citations and what have you. Within a couple hours the page was deleted

> No chance to explain. No chance to reword. Just gone completely

I've had the same experience. It requires too little effort to dump other people's contributions. I don't understand the super users' motivations in cases like this.

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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by Viv_moira on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:46PM (#38534313)
I don't understand the lack of respect towards other people's obvious efforts. Probably has a psychological side to it.
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