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As unpopular as the views in the grandparent post may be, I believe it to be an abuse of flagging-powers to flag-censor it into invisibility. The WMF fundraisi
by gojomo 12y ago
As unpopular as the views in the grandparent post may be, I believe it to be an abuse of flagging-powers to flag-censor it into invisibility.
The WMF fundraising efforts should be defensible without resorting to viewpoint-based censorship. Note also that a number of involved Wikipedians have reservations about fundraising appeals optimized for revenue rather than truthfulness, as collected by another active Wikipedia critic here:
https://www.quora.com/How-well-is-Wikipedias-fundraising-program-going-on/answer/Andreas-Kolbe https://www.quora.com/How-well-is-Wikipedias-fundraising-pro...
- ahelwer 12y agoYour link has a lot of good points (and I say this as someone who donated a substantial amount of money to Wikipedia this year). However, the parent's article was just of generally low quality with poor arguments.