User:LocalNet

Hey there! Welcome to my user page! I'm LocalNet, a 24 year old editor from Norway.

Long story short:

I very actively edited Wikipedia's coverage of technology from April 2016 to July 2017. I was maintaining 80+ pages and feeling so proud. But it became too time-consuming, and I encountered policies and procedures I disagreed with that ruined my joy in contributing. I originally decided to stop at that time, but have returned sporadically in the months since when I wanted to test re-joining the community, eventually falling into the same negative patterns as before. I have very conflicting feelings about Wikipedia, having loved to do the work I've done but frequently felt very frustrated by how Wikipedia works; the site's availability and extensive coverage makes it awesome, but an overabundance of extremely strict rules, an open nature allowing anyone to edit at any time without proper qualifications, and the lack of an authoritative quality-control system brings too many downsides to the table for me personally. I have made thousands of significant contributions through this account that have improved Wikipedia's factual accuracy and overall quality of technology, but that's no good when going to sleep one night can result in an anonymous or newly-registered user changing everything without explanation within the next 8-or-so hours I'm asleep. Too many downsides, not enough upsides, sadly.

'''This is an inactive account for now. I wrote this messaged logged in and I do periodically check in to check notifications, but my overall activity has stopped. Feel free to leave a message on the talk page, but don't expect a quick reply. :)'''