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> "by (...) using software that makes undoing most vandalism far easier than doing it, the participation goes through the roof" The bitter irony is that this c
by tsukikage 10y ago
> "by (...) using software that makes undoing most vandalism far easier than doing it, the participation goes through the roof"
The bitter irony is that this cause of wikipedia's early success is the seed of its current rot: one person's contribution is another person's vandalism; if undoing a contribution is always less effort than making it, participation must decrease.
Ah, well; everyone who's ever sneered at the list of fictional starfish back in the day have what they wanted now, I guess.