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Chinese kids are forced to play World of Warcraft 12 hours per day to earn virtual money for Gold Farming companies and gangs. It is known for a while that there companies in China and other countries that pay workers to play WOW to generate virtual...

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Damn!

I'm not easily non-plussed, and I don't usually have those "what's this world coming to" reactions that a lot of people have about things that happen on the internet, but this takes the cake! I'm even setting up a new SubForum for articles like this... Technically it's not all that relevant to Wikipedia, but I couldn't bear to have it languish in the "Less Relevant" subforum.

On the other hand, Cyde is big on World of Warcraft. How much you wanna bet he's cheerfully helping to prop up the Chinese cyber-slave labor economy?

I've written about stuff like this on Uncyclopedia, ferchrissakes. I had no idea people were actually doing things like this! So in a world where this stuff can really go on, how long until the Chinese start working up Wikipedia admin accounts and selling those too? And might that even explain Cyde's status on Wikipedia?
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QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 10th October 2006, 3:03am) *

how long until the Chinese start working up Wikipedia admin accounts and selling those too?

What makes you think they aren't already?
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QUOTE(guy @ Fri 13th October 2006, 4:56pm) *
What makes you think they aren't already?

Nothing! In fact, the existence of User:Cyde suggests that they started doing it several months ago.
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