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Anyone who has tried to deal with Wikipedia on any remotely controversial topic knows this is true (from the article): > Clearly, a small group of Wikipedia ed

by the_af 4y ago

Anyone who has tried to deal with Wikipedia on any remotely controversial topic knows this is true (from the article): > Clearly, a small group of Wikipedia editors seems to be trying to exhaust the other side until they no longer have the time or energy to fight. This is what gets me. I really like Wikipedia. It's probably my single most visited website ever. But in the end, what stays there is whatever a group of editors with too much time on their hands is willing to spend seemingly limitless time and energy to fight for. It can be exhausting to try to correct something if you don't have limitless time or don't "know" the right people, which makes Wikipedia way less open than it pretends to be. Then again, I wouldn't be able to edit an article on the Encyclopedia Britannica...

TMWNN 4y ago
>This is what gets me. I really like Wikipedia. It's probably my single most visited website ever. Me too. >But in the end, what stays there is whatever a group of editors with too much time on their hands is willing to spend seemingly limitless time and energy to fight for. "Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827>
throw0101c 4y ago
> Clearly, a small group of Wikipedia editors seems to be trying to exhaust the other side until they no longer have the time or energy to fight. DoS? > Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

by the_af 4y ago

TMWNN 4y ago

>This is what gets me. I really like Wikipedia. It's probably my single most visited website ever. Me too. >But in the end, what stays there is whatever a group of editors with too much time on their hands is willing to spend seemingly limitless time and energy to fight for. "Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827>

throw0101c 4y ago

> Clearly, a small group of Wikipedia editors seems to be trying to exhaust the other side until they no longer have the time or energy to fight. DoS? > Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning