Wikipediocracy

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Back in the news, badder than ever. http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iSowZf59--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/nj67o1k89tg62jyycwhf.jpg For that he deserves to be transferred to one of the secret camps in Siberia where the North Koreans log birch trees for IKEA, where he will cu...

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The thing's a ripoff of the Barmalei Fountain of Stalingrad and any number of "Atlas holding the earth" statues.

http://slavs.org.ua/img/photo/stalingrad.1947/03.jpg

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In a weird way, having the former volunteers join the Wikimedia Foundation for a paycheck reminds me of how ex-military officers would wind up working for military contractors after their time in service was done. That was a scam, and so is this.

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"Money, not knowledge, is power." Motto, Alfred E. Neuman University

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For the first time, the Burning Man organizers have publicly admitted that not all of their participating "communities" clean up the Black Rock playa as pristinely as journalists keep claiming . They just published a map of the "moop areas" from the 2014 meeting. "MOOP" is official BM jargon meanin...

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Several of the interesting individuals who habituate in Wikipedia's heraldry collective are the sort that believe that they know better than official sources. Thus, they are perfectly willing to replace the officially accepted coat of arms of some entity with what they believe to be the correct coa...

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"Reddit is a failed state---The "front page of the internet" is run by warlords" Imagine you live in a nice little community. You have barbecues with the folks next door and discuss your mutual interests. You feel safe walking the streets at night. You trust the local police, who are selected from ...

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What does a "gaming vlogger" do? Moreover, what does a "feminist gaming vlogger" do? 1) Critique video games using online videos 2) Critique video games using online videos and feminist theory It would be hilarious, and if done right not adhere to either 'side' in this controversy, if someone did a...

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Denton's a shitbiscuit, but that goes without saying. Give the social media millionaires a year in a Siberian gulag, one year for every thousand dollars they are worth. By the end they will be begging for their nine grams and three square arshins. And that will end the endless prattle about "disrupt...

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"Can investors throw money at Reddit without losing their souls?"

Better questions:

Do investors in social media have souls?

If there are souls, does contact with Reddit ruin yours?

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thekohser wrote:I didn't know Larry Sanger was from Alabama!

Rimshot offstage.

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Reddit hits peak irony by Andrew Leonard. But that’s giving investors too much credit. The pathetic truth is that the success of The Fappening at driving traffic numbers so huge that Reddit’s CEO was embarrassed to admit them publicly just offers more validation for Reddit’s upwardly mobile market ...

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That's crappy of them......next they will be scraping material from old Thordarson transformer guides.

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Here's a thread that has been white-hot today, warning, there is much disturbing material here: [SERIOUS] [NSFW] Men who have been raped by a woman, what happened? Numerous stories of being molested by female family members, friends or babysitters, spun for maximum impact. What is the point of havi...

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http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/woman-discovers-husband-is-an-internet-troll-threatens-divorce.454160479/ That's quite a disgusting, and not unusual, story. Like Brutsch, a remarkable percentage of hardened forum trolls turn out not to be angry 14-year-old boys in basements, but men with careers ...

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I've still not seen the point of reddit, I simply can't fathom what its purpose is to the site owners. I've not looked too hard but what are they selling and how? Officially it's a "social news" site, where people vote news links and news material they find appeasing to them, but of course most of ...

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Must be read to be believed: Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common Dreams these posts have been so frequent and intense they have driven away donors from a nonprofit dependent on reader generosity. A C...

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Why no mention in Wikipedia of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s years living in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill?

The Internet only cares about The Wire.

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When exactly did we become Reddit Review ? We should write up about CGP Grey, one of Reddit's cheerleaders. He's just a dork on YouTube, making educational cartoons with stick figures. You want to hit the real power within Reddit, go after: 5days, Acidtwist, Dacvak, Deimorz, Sporkicide, ajacksified...

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greybeard wrote:When exactly did we become Reddit Review?

Blame me, I came here from Reddit with a sack full of info on insane redditors, their mad vendettas, and other pastimes of the basement-dwelling Masters of the Internet.

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It would have been better if it was not only a hitchhiking robot, but also did impressions of Christopher Hitchens after he lost his mind and backed Iraq War II: Electric Boogaloo.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...

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FCIPH made me laugh so hard I blew milk out my nose. https://web.archive.org/web/20140326141534/http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/ Were you ever on portal of evil? https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Portal_of_Evil Yes, I remember PoE, and cranks.net and the Kooks Museum (which linked me to Stormfro...

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Political and religious squabbles, those start you will not. :axemurderer: Just laying down some truth....BTW, the Skeptics Bible guy, Steve Wells, has a book out titled Drunk With Blood and it's a listing of all the murders in the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and the Apocrypha. Spoiler: God k...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/arrested-over-facebook-po_n_683160.html In the vast majority of the incidents detailed in that Huffington Post article, I am quite pleased and thankful that Facebook activity helped to bring certain miscreants to justice. The "bong baby" was idiotic. One of ...

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The Skeptics Annotated Bible, which will prove to anyone how contradictory the holy book really is.

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Reportedly, Robin Williams complained to a friend shortly before his death that he was effectively broke because his two ex-wives had taken him to the cleaners with alimony. That's the kind of thing that men's rights activists would make hay with. However, reading the article about his daughter it ...

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....but I've been feeling too much Love and Fellowship and Goodwill and Forgiveness and Christmas Spirit.....

In August?

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Yes, but at Slashdot he posted anonymously. How did our resident tube genius get from "Anonymous Coward" to "Gronky?" Eh wot? He used this account , and it could easily be his real name (I'm not going to bother checking this though). I thought he was talking about this troll: by Anonymous Coward on...

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This guy: Quote: Well, this article he wrote is nonsense. I know nothing else about the guy. He just takes every controversy and paints it as an unsolvable failure of the iron-fisted Wikimedia Foundation. I hope he edits Wikipedia better than he writes blog entries. turns out to be Ciaran O'Riordan...

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This guy: Quote: Well, this article he wrote is nonsense. I know nothing else about the guy. He just takes every controversy and paints it as an unsolvable failure of the iron-fisted Wikimedia Foundation. I hope he edits Wikipedia better than he writes blog entries. turns out to be Ciaran O'Riordan...

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This was a balanced article which got the vibe of that conference; nice work Mr. Kolbe. Wikimania 2014 was probably the last big hurrah for Wikipedia, the next one in Mexico City will have to have a panel on why Wikipedia is beginning to ossify, and Jimbo will only show up through teleconferencing. ...

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EricBarbour wrote:Got it. Look at the article history, since 2006 Mr. Frank has had his "minions" try to remove or change items in the article, and they seem to have failed every time.

That's fitting, because every Japanese show Sandy Frank imported, dubbed, and made into a movie failed as well.

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This is the whole Technolibertarianism/"California Ideology" thing swinging round to bite its proponents in the ass, again.

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Reviewed today in the Sunday Times , Amazon . Has anyone looked at this? Hasn't been released yet. I'll preorder a copy. Most likely, it's full of info about hackerish activities, and little or nothing about WP; or perhaps there is a whole chapter about WP problems. Need to see it. I wouldn't expec...

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Randy from Boise wrote:
Triptych wrote:Is Sue Gardner still on the WMF payroll then?
Exxxxxxxxxcellent question. I noticed that.

Mr. Kohs, you have your research project for the week...

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This music starts playing in the background:

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"BBC Newsbeat didn't even bother posting it to their YouTube channel...."

Didn't want to get a call from the Queen: "Stop wasting bandwidth and server space!"

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Erik Möller: Wikipedia can be read on mobile for free in developing world http://cydeweys.com/pics/Erik_Moller.jpg You can just call me "Uncle Erik" The Wikimedia Foundation’s Erik Moller problem : http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/08/erik-moller-wmf/ Let Erik show you his library http://upload....

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Midsize Jake wrote:
Peter Damian wrote:Aren't you all ashamed?

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Randy from Boise wrote:

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Which one is the monkey?

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Only way out: a beatboxing contest with Biz Markie as judge.

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Take, for example, Richard Cardo. He was a security guy for one of the bigger hardware outfits and he was obsessed with the JonBenét Ramsey murder case and he fingered Brad "PLA" Carter as a key suspect, mainly because Brad and some of his friends had flooded the Boulder News Forum in Colorado with...

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Some of it might be a joke "Might" be? There are people who take even the goofiest things in hackerland seriously. Take, for example, Richard Cardo. He was a security guy for one of the bigger hardware outfits and he was obsessed with the JonBenét Ramsey murder case and he fingered Brad "PLA" Carte...

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The memes are vanishing because Jimbo's importance is vanishing; he hasn't come up with new stuff, so the cameras have gone elsewhere.

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Some of it might be a joke; Brad Carter of the Phone Losers of America (who is on the fringe of the phreaking/hacker culture) had to deal with a lot of trolling weirdos (Phonewinnerz.com, Jason Heckathorne, Curtis Lee "Superhacker" Jones, etc.) especially in the first fifteen years of existing.

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thekohser wrote:Suggest a merge or delete of this thread, as Mancunium was already on this hours before Kiefer.

Mancunium is on this stuff all the time.

Merge if you wish.

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This is what Wikipedia will look like when they run out of contributors/volunteer editors and the WMF misses locking every page.

That day is coming.

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Wonder if Jimbo reads Yarvin, and takes him seriously. No, scratch that, if anyone we've seen in the Wikipedia orbit lately was prone to following Yarvin, it would possibly be Wil Sinclair. Plus, ADHD people usually make horrible leaders. Wikipedia, Reddit and 2.0 in general seem to prove that over...

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Corey Pein wrote about it in Baffler magazine's blog this May. And he wrote at length about "Moldbug" . One of the most dangerous crackpot bloggers I've ever run across. Dangerous, because he's popular in the Valley, despite being unknown elsewhere. And now good buddies with Thiel. Which is probabl...

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