Jimbo's beef with paid editing, Why does he have it? Options

[that one guy]

Sort of a tangential topic from the timidguy case, which seems to be an issue of paid editing and Jimbo's ever lasting hate of it. I know we had the Kohs issue in the past but what's his issue with paid editing?

[Peter Damian]

In which Jimbo and others decide that it's OK to 'out' paid editors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jim...act_Information

We simply don't have the kind of time at our hands to compete with a paid editor

Nor do people people with proper jobs and family commitments have time to argue with people with no proper jobs pushing strange ideas about sex, political activism, crank theories of all kinds.

So it's really the ordinary public who lose. Paid editors and nutcases win.

[thekohser]

In which Jimbo and others decide that it's OK to 'out' paid editors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jim...act_Information

Wow -- that paid editor is Bill Beutler, recent guest star of C-SPAN's "Q&A" show! Even the "pro Wikipedia" paid editors get the rough-up treatment, it seems.