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QUOTE(UseOnceAndDestroy @ Wed 12th November 2008, 9:20am)
I can't quite comprehend that wikikids have
such short memories.
Still, I guess composing the next "oooo look who's running for arbcom" post keeps folks too busy to look up and see what's what.
So when did you join WR the first time? Or do you encourage every user to read all the threads since the site was created?
Actually, I would recommend that. It would be a better use of time than playing Fantasy Election, and would generally reduce the incidence of misinformed posts. You might learn something, too.
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If you don't value the content I provide this site, I want you to say it outright. I don't have to pollute this place with my wiki-childishness.
I'm not sure how much more "outright" I could be. At least taking the time to click the link at the top of Kato's post, taking you to directly to the original email,
before tapping out a reply questioning whether it was a "real quote", would have made for an improved post (or better still, no post at all).
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Let me tell you what's what. In case you have noticed, most the remaining meta critics have fucking left the building. Why? Well, because the owner of this site thought it would be fun to shit on the most prolific contributor. I've seen
precisely zero evidence that this site is interested in remedying the situation. You should accept that WR is not the premiere (or even a very good source) of "deep" Wikipedia criticism. To my mind, that leaves you with us insufferable wikikids who want better for WP. Yeah, I'm sure we suck, but what else are you going to do? If WR isn't willing to be a kind of alternative Wikipedia watchlist, then no longer serves any purpose at all.
It certainly serves the purpose of exposing what wikipedia really does to the "sum of human knowledge", and seems to have a track record of doing that pretty effectively. The continual demonstration of the "wikipedian" tendency to post the first damn thing that comes into their heads without doing some simple fact checking, or learning the lessons of very recent history, is all part of the mix, I guess. Tiresome, at times.
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That's what's what.
Meanwhile, "arbcom elections" are still a sad parody, Sandifer still gets away with a weak backpedal from his unguarded bravado, and "wikipedians" carry on abusing
real people.That's what's what.