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by Carrite
Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did the Wikipedians live up to what Larry Sanger hoped they would become?
Replies: 5
Views: 13236

Re: Did the Wikipedians live up to what Larry Sanger hoped they would become?

• to be open and warmly welcoming, not insular, —C-minus. Talks the talk but does not walk the walk with respect of "don't bite the noobs" • to be focused singlemindedly on writing an encyclopedia, not on Usenet-style debate, —A-minus. Plenty of pedantic debate over style and policy, to be sure, bu...
by Carrite
Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Describing Wikipedia in 3 words.
Replies: 15
Views: 20808

Re: Describing Wikipedia in 3 words.

Not an encyclopedia. Techbro's last stand. Threat to children. Run by children. Bad for you. Waste of resources. Waste of money. Waste of life. One epic grift. Jimmy's biggest regret. $75 an hour. Hate over hope. Fantasy over reality. Hiding its truth. Protecting its own. Works in theory. Broken in...
by Carrite
Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:50 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: No new WPO action?
Replies: 13
Views: 9251

Re: No new WPO action?

ericbarbour wrote:
Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:48 am

Glad I'm out of that scene.

Mutual.

TtGBT
by Carrite
Mon Jun 08, 2020 12:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: We don't mind liars, as long as they are "on our side."
Replies: 8
Views: 6318

Re: We don't mind liars, as long as they are "on our side."

This is my first post here since I experienced an ischemic stroke. When I wrote the above, I was already experiencing early stroke symptoms. My doctor did not recognize them but I think the post above was the last one I wrote before I went to bed that night and I woke up in the middle of the night ...
by Carrite
Mon May 25, 2020 2:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Larry lectures us again
Replies: 5
Views: 4520

Re: Larry lectures us again

When did Sanger become the right-leaning centrist conspiracy-leaning rightist? Obama ran the country on Republican lines - we never got a second New Deal out of the economic collapse, and none of the bankers responsible were tried, then taken out and shot as what should have happened. The actual sc...
by Carrite
Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:20 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: We have passed 1000 coronavirus deaths....
Replies: 17
Views: 13641

Re: We have passed 1000 coronavirus deaths....

ericbarbour wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:14 pm
Running about a 5% fatality rate, as some medical authorities predicted weeks ago.
NEW YORK (as of 11:59 pm, 4/5/20, per Johns Hopkins via Guardian)

DEATHS = 4,159

CONFIRMED CASES = 123,160

4,159 / 123,160 = 3.38%

Virtually all other states have a lower death rate than that.


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by Carrite
Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:03 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Vigilant!!!
Replies: 143
Views: 86822

Re: Vigilant!!!

Abd wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:06 pm
Very unlikely the ViliGnat is Dutch.
Zero percent chance of that. Anyone making such a claim is a lunatic.

RfB
by Carrite
Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Evil!!!
Replies: 15
Views: 9892

Re: Evil!!!

Surely you are of such an age, and capable enough of reading, to realize that "boss" is being used as an adjective.

Enjoyed the 700 word reply.

tim
by Carrite
Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Evil!!!
Replies: 15
Views: 9892

Re: Evil!!!

You're a very sad person if you think your idiotic, sexist "Vagina = Vigilant" wordplay that you copped from Eric is even a little bit funny.

(I'm happy to virtue-signal for the Gender Scribe, she's boss.)

RfB
by Carrite
Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Handling Trolls for Fun and Profit
Replies: 20
Views: 12690

Re: Handling Trolls for Fun and Profit

My theory is that communities that allow trolling (on a "free speech" argument) seriously damage participation. Most sane people walk away from trolling, so . . . what's left when they do? Yes, there is a problem, how to distinguish between discussion and disagreement and trolling. But, in fact, wi...