User:Viveredisce

Hi.
Welcome to my Wikipedia page. I am brand new to being a user on Wikipedia and was looking forward to making contributions in my areas of interest as I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable with regards to research and neutral reporting.

I must say I started this account a while ago and did not get around to contributing right off as apart from the standard time excuses, 1) the more I learn about Wiki rules and regs, the more intimidating Wikipedia seems, and 2) I've already witnessed some severe snarkiness on pages to which I thought I might contribute that reminds me of the Apple Support forums (that's bad). I'm a person that thinks there is a difference between discussion and debate to the death. I'm also aware that sociologically speaking, many of us that might be interested to be Wikipedians may well have a lot of pride wrapped up in being "smart" which inherently biases all thought and lends to aggressive arguing (which is bad). And yet here I am to press on and learn!

I'd love to hear any of your stories of getting started as an editor here, and if any of you are real world editors and if you find that experience helps or hinders you here. I also hope that this user page is where I can write personalized content like this. Oh man, did I already screw up?

--vivere disce (talk) 19:38, 8 April 2012 (UTC)