QUOTE(Kato @ Thu 29th May 2008, 1:52am)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI..._and_BassettcatOn the admins noticeboard, where this business is being discussed, there is a complete absense of the usual idiotic mob. No Sidaways. No Sandifers. No Gerards. No JzGs. No SlimVirgins. No Jayjgs.
Where have they all gone? Where are all the people who have been attacking the mere idea that Gary Weiss was using socks to corrupt a series of articles? Where are all the people who attacked Wordbomb, Cla68, this site, even Cade Metz, over the last year or so?
Where are the admissions of responsibility? Where are the arenas where this corrupt crew can be held accountable for their actions over this?
The whole Weiss thing was classic Wikipedia. It was so damn obvious what was going on after any kind of mature analysis of the facts back in the early days. And yet those lunatics were allowed to get away with it in the face of any form of common sense for sooo long. And not only that, they aggressively rubbed people's noses in their nonsense. Just ridiculous.
A typical
"Elephant in the Room" scenario. Everyone sees it, but no-one wants to say anything at all. Then, after the fact, voilà , everyone at Wikipedia becomes an expert in the analysis.
It'll be the same again, and again, and again, for there are many
"elephants in rooms" yet to be addressed. (IMG:
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