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The problem, as detailed quite extensively in the other articles in the series, is that this isn't simply vandalism. It's calculated and organized action, expl
by jarcane 12y ago
The problem, as detailed quite extensively in the other articles in the series, is that this isn't simply vandalism.
It's calculated and organized action, explicitly aimed at manipulating Wiki's hopelessly bureaucratic and clueless system. This isn't just some dork defacing a page, it's a whole virtual platoon of really hateful people playing at false good faith just long enough to keep their libels active almost perpetually, while tarring anyone who actually questions them as obstructionist.
The worst thing is, I'm ultimately not at all surprised. I stopped even attempting to edit anything on Wiki almost a decade ago, because the system was as hopelessly broken then as it is now. The site is, ultimately, run by a lot of amateur bureaucrats who're more interested in the fantasy than the reality of the system they've concocted. Yes, it mostly works, but it's more or less constructed to make actual good faith efforts to correct the site an uphill battle for anything but trivialities, while making it easy for local tribalism and policy to be used as a tool for nutjobs and fantasists to keep their version of 'wikiality' on the front page of Google for another day.