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_ Wikipedia in Blogland _ Two new examples of the awfulness of crowdsourcing

Posted by: EricBarbour

Both of which bear a remarkable resemblance to past and present Wikipedia problems.

First, the sordid story of the http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008050030. A group of manic teabag conservatives who attempted to game Digg into right-winginess.

And just today, Andy Breitbart http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36901_Breitbarts_Racist_Quack_Anti-Sherrod_Writer_is_Fired to http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/andrew-breitbart-hires-sock-puppetsex-w one of his right-wing bloggers--one Dr. Kevin Pezzi.
Not only is Pezzi a http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008050030, he's an invertebrate http://er-doctor.com/ and a http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008050034 on social websites.

Allowing your users to generate all the content without moderation? It has problems.
The same problems, regardless of what the content actually is........

Posted by: Subtle Bee

QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Fri 6th August 2010, 2:41pm) *

[...]he's an invertebrate http://er-doctor.com/ [...].

I'm not sure that wasn't deliberate, but either way, tongue.gif