Wikipediocracy

MilesMoney

Most musicians don't have the wherewithal to create a distribution service. There are also more people involved in the creation of the production than the artist: sound engineer, producer, session musicians, etc. Most musicians I know play music they don't want to be running some complex distributi...

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Look, as much as I hate to admit it, Hochman is right. This is Wikipedia we're talking about, and it's essential to maintain the veneer of civility. User:Ceoil could just as easily have posted " Please back the fuck off of Colonel Warden's talk" to AGK's talk page and there would have been no probl...

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OK. Someone writes some song, or plays some music. They look for a recording outlet and a record company strikes a deal with them. Most music artists look for such a deal. Sometimes the deals are heavily in favour of the record company and the copyrights are assigned to the recording company, we kn...

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I have little sympathy for any of those. Some parents spend $30 to gain access to an illegal file download service. Some one lets hos grandkids downloading shit from his computer. And a case of mistaken identity. We see that everyday with companies sending out bills, to the recently dead. It doesn'...

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When did they do that? There are two cases that actually went to court. Neither were teens, grandparents, or dead people. 100% of those two were sent cease and desist letters, and refused to cease and desist. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030909/0116235.shtml http://betanews.com/2003/09/09/ri...

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Mancunium wrote: English Wikipedia:
He also denied that he was anti-Semitic, saying he was rather pro-Ukrainian.

I didn't realize there were so many comedians in Eastern Europen politics. That's like saying Hitler was pro-German, not anti-Semitic. It's the sort of BS that would make him a fine ArbCom member.

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It may cut both ways. Prior to discretionary sanctions, an administrator could not issue a topic ban, in theory. In practice it was done, but that's another matter. With discretionary sanctions, administrators were given increased power, as long as they claim to be enforcing "disretionary sanctions...

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Really? I think you've been listening to too many Google shills. The RIAA has had no problem with you format shifting for getting on 10 years or more. I'm not gonna defend Google, but for all that's wrong with them, at least they've never sued teens, grandparents and even dead people for crazy amou...

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???? I suspect he means whether he should hate Google more, or the RIAA more. And I'm afraid I have to agree, it's a tough call. That's right. It really is a tough call, but I've thought it through and I've got to go with the RIAA. They're the ones who'd be thrilled to sue me for three times my tot...

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lilburne wrote:http://www.riaa.com/blog.php?content_se ... ilter=2012
http://www.annenberglab.com/projects/ad-piracy-report-0

The dilemma for me here is which one to hate more.

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Unintended consequences. After the bullshit that Google and its shills pushed out about the piracy not being a problem, the RIAA pointed out that Google limited the number of take downs they could issue. As a result Google relaxed the limits and the number rose from a few 100,000 per month to 20,00...

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The money shows the relationship between the two organizations. I've no doubt that it wasn't a question of we'll give you 500K if you politicize your peons over this. Rather it was a question of: you could get your peons agitated over this, btw aren't you having a donation drive at the moment, well...

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Johnny Au wrote:I am a secular atheist yet am calling out both Wales and Zuck. Of course their arrogance has nothing to do with their atheism. After all, correlation does not imply causation.

I don't even see a correlation.

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What an asshole. That settles it, he's not getting "benefit of the doubt" anymore. I stopped giving him the benefit of the doubt long ago. Binky's the same guy who bragged about his ignorance of and disdain for economics, claiming that it's not any sort of science. He then went on to edit-war to ke...

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mac wrote: "Heckler" has a nice ring to it as a user rank.

Sure does, and I wouldn't object to it. Everyone's a critic, but a heckler is more disruptive.

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I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain or just point me to an article? You might want to try this . Thanks. I still don't get it. Some of the technical stuff is over my head (DNSSEC?!), but what really confuses me is the focus on the half million $US from Brin-Wojciki in 2011 when Google gave htt...

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Johnny Au wrote: Congratulations fellow Torontonian, MilesMoney!

Thanks. I'm doing my best to single-handedly wipe out the stereotype of the polite Canadian. You can help out by being more rude.

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This was over two years ago. Long story short: By lies and deception the WMF frog marched their community to the market square and sold them to Google for a $500,000 donation from Serge Brin. Since then Google has been hoisted on their own petard and are dealing with 20,000,000 takedowns per month ...

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Can I take the opportunity to congratulate sensational newcomer MilesMoney, who at 9.33 posts per day has the second-highest posting rate on the site (after of course EricBarber at 9.78 posts per day). And that's not even including the ones being removed for vicious but well-deserved personal attac...

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Not the particular ones you mention, but, this is how it rolls, lots of sociopaths, and the admins are not creating content, stopped for years, so what do they know about or care about the supposed goal of the encyclopedia? Not disagreeing with your choices, just don't know them. Worked briefly wit...

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But then all those volunteers who are motivated to a greater or lesser extent by the chance to get fancy titles and powers would lose one of the very top prizes. I can't see the WMF doing anything to deter their keenest volunteers like that. I think it's more than that. CU's have the important job ...

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It is comments like this that keep me reading WO every now and then. With mobile ranges and proxies, anyone who wants to avoid a block can easily do so, and quite a few "long-term abusers" do. I have always been amazed at the apparent need for admins to get rid of any user who disagrees with them o...

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What was not possible was building a reliable encyclopedia, only by using an open wiki. However, one might so build a content-generating engine that feeds a reliable encyclopedia. The issue is review of content. Basically, the WMF has never developed a care about reliability. This is exactly right....

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In short, they want a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, eh? Yeah, great idea. That'll work. Works great, if your goal is to avoid responsibility. The sane alternative would be to get rid of volunteer CU's and replace them with paid employees. The WMF's got a budget in the dozens of millions. They can...

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Trying to provoke people, eh? Just can't help yourself? Why the surprise? After all, that's his MO on WP. If he can't actually bait you, he'll just lay down and cry about how you punched him. You'd think that crying wolf would get old, but I guess it still works for him, so he keeps at it. Anyhow, ...

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Okay, color me sucked in. The essay starts out with a description of what happens in the community. It's pretty accurate. Then it segues into something that completely misses the point. After establishing the concept of Power Users, it then has, addressing Power Users: The inescapable fact is that ...

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What, you guys are just now discovering that thing?.....when I wrote up a book-wiki article about Madame Snyder, in February I saw and noted this, but didn't tell anyone else. Because I assumed you had all seen it. Previously mentioned here. http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=83147#p83...

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Just another pissed-off manchild? Or another Adam Lanza in the making? Moonlitsapphire Why choose? If insanity really is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results", then maybe you should keep track of the sane people, instead. It'll be a much shorter list, and most o...

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Notvelty wrote:That helps, but I did say "what".

Lemme help. I'd call it a unicorn. The left is too disorganized to scheme and too idealistic to make shit up.

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So, why did you want him banned for thanking you too much? You're not such a delicate flower, surely. Not to be picky, but Collect was already working hard to get me banned earlier in the day that I Thanked him. Hell, he'd been trying for months. There's not a single vote where he didn't oppose me,...

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Bishonen (T-C-F-R-B) = Little Stupid, Bishzilla, Bishapod, Bish and chips, Maxypode, Ka of Catherine de Burgh, Baby Stupid, Darwinfish [2]. Admin account Darwinbish was a joke. Bishonen often gave advanced permissions to his/her/whatever sockpuppets.[3] I'll have you know that Bishonen is a saint! ...

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I don't have a lot to add here, but I do want to say that this is a particularly interesting thread and I find myself agreeing with most of what was said.

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Your only real problem is that I am not "right wing" which only seems to stall MM for a nanosecond or so. Nor am I a "leader" of any group whatsoever -- note my friendships with Andy the Grump, Snowded, Baseball Bugs etc. and my lack of friendship with some Australian right-wingers. Ikip (Okip, Inc...

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Zoloft wrote:*sigh*

We have a 'foe' button for a reason. I suggest both of you use it.

No, no, no, he's my friend. I know this because he tells me so and he wouldn't lie to me.

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I do confess that I'm not the attention seeker I once used to be. I did troll on wiki and youtube, but you know what I matured. I changed my ways and that's what I'm trying to advice him and other lynchers out there. I guess unless there's any serious consequence, the tactics used by lynch mob memb...

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Oh, cry me a river. :tinyviolin: Standards are a good thing, so good that double standards must be even better. Am I right or what? I seem to remember an ANI lynching while I was unable to respond, followed by an unexplained rejection by ArbCom and silence from Jimbo. This seems to me a bit more se...

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Discuss . I'm not the least bit bothered by honest muckraking, but the unevenness is a problem. Why does Martha Stewart mention that she dated Anthony Hopkins if Anthony Hopkins doesn't even mention Martha Stewart? Is this simple sexism, where women are judged by their dating record but men get a f...

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Do as I say, take the tip of the day and keep the haters away. Keep to your passion of editing football and other stuff instead of going on ANI deliberately to stiring up trouble. Banning people with differing opinions by starting popular votes instead of dispute resolution processes is hardly a wa...

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Unanswered emails, correct? It accuses him of nothing other than of me holding a conditional opinion about a person who fails to respond to a number of emails over a period of over six months regarding a formal proper appeal of an arbcom decision. Cheers -- now go to bed. Collect (talk) 6:34 pm, To...

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(This is in no way an encouragement to sue. It is a recognition of a risk, and it's essential that the risk be understood, so that it can either be consciously assumed, or avoided.) Still, you've proposed yet another way the Wikidebacle can end, which is through a single successful lawsuit bringing...

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... Just imagine the horror of it! They might someday make *secret decisions* based on *secret evidence* or even just whatever the hell they want! Who would know? No, we can't allow that, it violates all that is Sacred and Good about Wiki Principles. Wait, ArbComm does this! Yeah, but we elected th...

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enwikibadscience wrote: Your idea is sound and functionally appropriate. It does not stand a chance.

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enwikibadscience wrote: I asked because I was looking at some admin stats, and it seems admins are not big on editing articles.

Editors edit articles; admins edit editors. For example, I was deleted.

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If I ever meet her, I hope I have a glove, a sock and a 12 foot pole. She'd probably like that. :B' You have a sick imagination. It's just that she's the sort I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, so I'd put the sock on the end with glove over it so that I could shake her hand without coming too c...

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The Adversary wrote:Hmm, for some reason the term "Bunny Boiler" pops into my mind every time I hear the name "Rachel Marsden".......

If I ever meet her, I hope I have a glove, a sock and a 12 foot pole.

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This is nuts. The subject of a BLP complains about defamation, so she's blocked?! :wtf2: Just for background, she also happens to be the woman Jimbo broke up with on his talk page a few years back. I forget sometimes that not everyone has the backstories. We should really come up with a glossary so...

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It can't keep on the way it is, not with editors leaving and articles getting crappier. The assumption is that as article quality drops, more people will join; it is fairly well-known that a good portion of Wikipedia's editors joined to fix something that they found wrong (the "someone is wrong on ...

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That does indeed seem to be the case. He seems to be active on ANI defending wiki-bullies. He interjects in disputes even though he's not an administrator. I knew a non-sysopped user who did that but he'd actually advise and warn all involved instead of picking sides. He seems to be retired now. He...

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Wikipedia is corrupt from top to bottom, and has been from the start. :agree: I feel like when me and my friends were banned, we were the only ones who saw it. There were a few reports online criticizing wikipedia and a couple of websites, but that was it and a banned individual who emails users re...

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And thanks Greg for analysing the article in question; we know now that CashBag isn't just one of the attention-seekers turning up to get sympathy, with no merit to their claims. Partially true. I came here because it sometimes feels good for one to share his/her troubles, but as a result I got som...

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