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> ... bureaucracy and rules ... You say that as if it's a bad thing. All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource. I'm sure it

• tivert 3y ago
  > All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource. Eh, I'm not so impressed. I've seen how the sausage is made. IMHO, a lot of its kudos is due breadth (which is legitimately impressive) and to people trusting it because it's cheap (i.e. it's good because I happen to use it). > I'm sure it's easy to find anecdotes of failures, but if it does well in most cases, Wikipedia likes to toot its own horn about how it's detected and corrected 100% of the problems its detected and corrected. > and better than any other alternative Mainly due to a race to the bottom that's left no other alternative, because most people have low standards and you can't compete with free.