Thread:Project talk:New contributors/Greeters?

I read the page, skimmed the talk page and am still left with the sense that a big elephant in the room is missing. Please excuse me if I have missed this idea somewhere else. From the people I talk to and a few experiences I have had - the issue, as I see it, is that people who do some work on Wikipedia don't have their work honored. Tools are great steps forward, but if some sysop or another editor comes along and stomps all over my work, without a good reason or communication - it sucks. I learned this lesson, for myself, from the early days of WikiIndex. So how does one help a cultural shift happen - that tools can augment? Best, MarkDilley (talk)