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If people are this open and brazen about it then ultimately we have passed the point of usefulness. This can be seen in social media vote farms where you pay fo
by deathhand 8y ago
If people are this open and brazen about it then ultimately we have passed the point of usefulness. This can be seen in social media vote farms where you pay for exposure. Once they start appearing en masse then it is the death knell of the platform.
This also has a chilling effect on free speech and what an individual is allowed to know about an organization, person, company etc. As any 'trusted' source of information is now spoiled.
The way we get ahead of this is do what the internet forefathers wanted to do to any problem... re-route. There are wiki clones and methinks their popularity will only grow now.
This should be the chief concern for Jimmy Whales and the Wikimedia foundation if they actually cared about providing 'an encyclopedia for all' because they are no longer providing a platform for learning but rather just another corporate blog.
- oblio 8y ago> The way we get ahead of this is do what the internet forefathers wanted to do to any problem... re-route. There are wiki clones and methinks their popularity will only grow now. It's wishful thinking. In the software and internet world, once something is entrenched, it's rarely removed from first position unless it no longer serves its primary purpose to its main audience. Which Wikipedia does. It's a bit like Facebook vs Mastodon. Ask your non-techie friends about Mastodon and they'll probably go: that was a sort of elephant or dinosaur, wasn't it?
- xondono 8y agoI’m amazed of how many people share this “once stablished things never change” mentality in this forum. Most of the people reading here are either thinking of or trying or actually becoming living proof that this way of thinking is wrong. Maybe instead of asking non-techie friends about mastodon we should be asking kids about myspace..
- oblio 8y agoMyspace popped up before the market was mature and it definitely didn't have 80% market share all across the globe. Facebook might fall on its own due to user fatigue. But it will still have 1 billion users 20 year's from now :)
- SiempreViernes 8y agoHonestly, it's likely better to use wikipedia with its well known problems rather than some random encyclopedia with well hidden problems instead.