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How so?

• Viliam1234 3y ago
  I wouldn't call it "trash", but it comes with some political bias and personal vendettas. The reason for both is that the entire wiki probably has about dozen editors, some of them way more powerful than others. So you might think that "wiki = something edited by lots of people", but for many topics there was one person who decided whether something was okay or not and wrote the article accordingly, and everyone else only added details afterwards (or disagreed and was banned). From my perspective, the greatest problem is the local cultural norm that once you decide that someone is a bad guy, it is allowed (even encouraged) to exaggerate about them, and complaining about exaggerations can get you banned. Which means that when a mistake is made, it becomes very difficult to fix it, because of course after the exaggerations anything can look stupid.
• tptacek 3y ago
  It is by reputation very online, very judgy, and very left, so its pronouncements are perceived as cliquish and insubstantial. That's probably the case; it's probably a mistake to just go click around that site and draw conclusions according to what it says. But it is also a useful link aggregator, so when it claims something, like "this person earnestly believes that the Earth isn't round and that there is not an atmosphere but instead an atmosflat", it's worth checking the links to make sure that isn't clearly the case. Oftentimes it is.