A decade or so ago I enjoyed creating content on the wiki, even wrote a couple more major articles I now see copied to other areas of the Internet (much to my amusement). The wiki can be greatly manipulated by a very small number of folks, particularly if you can find an admin aligned with your agenda. You have to be dedicated and good at rules-lawyering to win these battles, citing existing (sometimes obscure) policies and guidelines. Ultimately however, this kind of stuff is less reflective of a grand conspiracy, and more about some regular douchebags enforcing their own perspectives.
Losers and shut-ins with no jobs and an entire lifetime of free time will inevitably rise to the top of any unpaid volunteer web monitoring that requires no real skills.
They, in turn, are easily manipulated by any small group with sufficiently solid in-group preference using social praise/social ostracism as carrot and stick, even without the less savory methods if control available.
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Lord_Kristopf ago
A decade or so ago I enjoyed creating content on the wiki, even wrote a couple more major articles I now see copied to other areas of the Internet (much to my amusement). The wiki can be greatly manipulated by a very small number of folks, particularly if you can find an admin aligned with your agenda. You have to be dedicated and good at rules-lawyering to win these battles, citing existing (sometimes obscure) policies and guidelines. Ultimately however, this kind of stuff is less reflective of a grand conspiracy, and more about some regular douchebags enforcing their own perspectives.
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Losers and shut-ins with no jobs and an entire lifetime of free time will inevitably rise to the top of any unpaid volunteer web monitoring that requires no real skills.
They, in turn, are easily manipulated by any small group with sufficiently solid in-group preference using social praise/social ostracism as carrot and stick, even without the less savory methods if control available.
It's almost like a natural law of the universe.
Lord_Kristopf ago
Well said.