Re: Is Wikipedia censorship or...
Cork Soaker
> ...just a bunch of conceited, immature, juvenile, control-freaks who get
> picked on every day by the school bully and take it out on the Internet
> when they get off the bus?
>
What are you going on about, loon?
Miles Bader
Clearly his attempts to spam his malware on wikipedia got him banned...
-Miles
--
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that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]
Cork Soaker
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:00:36 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>
>> Cork Soaker <Thund...@Intrepid.invalid> writes:
>>>> ...just a bunch of conceited, immature, juvenile, control-freaks who get
>>>> picked on every day by the school bully and take it out on the Internet
>>>> when they get off the bus?
>>> What are you going on about, loon?
>> Clearly his attempts to spam his malware on wikipedia got him banned...
>>
>
> the same thing) make huge "National Treasure"-style jumps in their thinking
> and actions?
>
Why are you still talking nonsense?
Cork Soaker
> spamming and spreading malware follows the same type of disconnection in
> logic as found in the National Treasure movies.
>
That's nice. Have you taken your drugs?
Cork Soaker
>
> Proper thinking:
>
> Wikipedia contributor behavior->AzzMazta's suggestion of linkage to school
> bullying and narcissism->Cork Soaker: "What are you going on about,
> loon?"->(insert your personal opinion on Wikipedia contributors, or the
> main argument in the post, here)->(continue responding to posts by
> AzzMazta, Cork Soaker, Miles Bader, and others with relevant answers)
>
> National Treasure:
>
> Wikipedia contributor behavior->AzzMazta's suggestion of linkage to school
> bullying and narcissism->Cork Soaker: "What are you going on about,
> loon?"->AzzMazta's crazy->Spammers can be crazy->Hackers can be crazy
> too->AzzMazta probably placed links to malware->Malware on Wikipedia gets
> you banned->If AzzMazta's banned, he's probably upset->Miles Bader: He's
> complaining on the newsgroups about being banned for spamming Wikipedia
> with links to malware!
>
> What Cork Soaker just did, also the National Treasure sequence:
>
> (National Treasure sequence above)->Upset, he must take psychiatric
> medication->psychatric medication is prescribed->He must have not taken any
> prescribed medication of any kind recently!
>
Completely and utterly barking mad.
mike3
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:52:47 +0000, Cork Soaker wrote:
> > AzzMazta wrote:
>
> >> Following the "National Treasure" pattern. Here's what I mean:
>
> >> Proper thinking:
>
>
> describing the sequence of events - that it was "completely and utterly
> barking mad". Or that I was "completely and utterly barking mad" for
> believing that (or posting that).
>
This entire thread is absolutely, utterly, pointless.
mike3
> ...just a bunch of conceited, immature, juvenile, control-freaks who get
> picked on every day by the school bully and take it out on the Internet
> when they get off the bus?
Bullying is evil.
mike3
>
> Proper thinking:
>
> bullying and narcissism->Cork Soaker: "What are you going on about,
> loon?"->(insert your personal opinion on Wikipedia contributors, or the
> main argument in the post, here)->(continue responding to posts by
> AzzMazta, Cork Soaker, Miles Bader, and others with relevant answers)
>
So what's the main argument in the post? Sounds more like just stating
opinions about Wikipedia contributors than an "argument".
AzzMazta
>
> So what's the main argument in the post? Sounds more like just stating
> opinions about Wikipedia contributors than an "argument".
Wikipedia is frequently criticized for censorship - this is often discussed
in these newsgroups. I agree that censorship occurs on Wikipedia, having
dealt with it myself in the past (no, not because of malware spam).
I suggested that maybe the user base consists primarily of bullied
students.
I should have mentioned, it seems that the articles which are blocked from
public editing are always topics which would appeal to/be targets for
[junior]high-schoolers, like "Zac Efron", "Emo", "Jonas Brothers", "Michael
Jackson", "Ass", "Fuck", "Penis", "Gay", "Tits", "Family Guy", "Rugrats",
and "Spongebob"
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mike3
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:50:01 -0800 (PST), mike3 wrote:
>
> > So what's the main argument in the post? Sounds more like just stating
> > opinions about Wikipedia contributors than an "argument".
>
> Wikipedia is frequently criticized for censorship - this is often discussed
> in these newsgroups. I agree that censorship occurs on Wikipedia, having
> dealt with it myself in the past (no, not because of malware spam).
>
> I suggested that maybe the user base consists primarily of bullied
> students.
>
> I should have mentioned, it seems that the articles which are blocked from
> public editing are always topics which would appeal to/be targets for
> [junior]high-schoolers, like "Zac Efron", "Emo", "Jonas Brothers", "Michael
> Jackson", "Ass", "Fuck", "Penis", "Gay", "Tits", "Family Guy", "Rugrats",
> and "Spongebob"
>
Well there's also a lot more that are less crude, too, such as
"Dinosaur",
"Genetic engineering", "Italy" (!), "Jew" (go figure), "Jesus",
"Christianity", "Atheism", "Middle East", "Iran", and "Moon" (!!). In
general,
most blocked articles are usually "hot" and "controversial" topics and/
or
ones where people hold strong views (e.g. Jew, Middle East, Iran, the
religious articles, etc. Moon? That's an odd one.) with strong
emotions
behind them. Such is not limited to high school kids subjected to the
evil of
bullying. Though it is possible such high school kids may be the
reason for
blocking of the "crude" articles you mention. But not all of them, as
many
more are blocked that are not crude stuff at all.
For a full list of blocked articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Pp-protected
I'm curious as to some of the examples of the WP censorship you are
referring to. How would you know it was high school kids and not
possibly
others (there are others that could take "advantage" of censoring WP
too)?
mike3
Just thought to add to all the above: Hey!!! Maybe the bullies
themselves
are in there editing too!
samvaknin
jellybean stonerfish
>
> Following the "National Treasure" pattern. Here's what I mean:
>
> Proper thinking:
>
> Wikipedia contributor behavior->AzzMazta's suggestion of linkage to
> school bullying and narcissism->Cork Soaker: "What are you going on
> about, loon?"->(insert your personal opinion on Wikipedia contributors,
> or the main argument in the post, here)->(continue responding to posts
> by AzzMazta, Cork Soaker, Miles Bader, and others with relevant answers)
>
> National Treasure:
>
> Wikipedia contributor behavior->AzzMazta's suggestion of linkage to
> school bullying and narcissism->Cork Soaker: "What are you going on
> about, loon?"->AzzMazta's crazy->Spammers can be crazy->Hackers can be
> crazy too->AzzMazta probably placed links to malware->Malware on
> Wikipedia gets you banned->If AzzMazta's banned, he's probably
> upset->Miles Bader: He's complaining on the newsgroups about being
> banned for spamming Wikipedia with links to malware!
>
> What Cork Soaker just did, also the National Treasure sequence:
>
> (National Treasure sequence above)->Upset, he must take psychiatric
> medication->psychatric medication is prescribed->He must have not taken
> any prescribed medication of any kind recently!
You are stupider than the movie.