Vigilant goes after Jimbo hammer & tongs on Reddit AMA
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 11:44 pm
IamA Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia now trying a totally new social network concept WT.Social AMA!
So, Jimbo has a new project. There is a lot to criticize about the history of Wikipedia and the reality behind the hype, but what Vigilant brings to the table amounts only to slime, the expression of arrogant contempt, and hatred.
Jimbo wrote:
(2) Jimbo was right. Most people are nice, but social media have a way of concentrating the nasties, which is part of what Jimbo was talking about.
(3)That Vigilant comment has an astonishing -348 points.
There was a brief response:
His post before that last one ("hammer and tongs") is an example of his "criticism." That's a pure personal attack. And such are a major part of why Wikipedia criticism has accomplished so little.
Jimbo is not the problem with Wikipedia. Sure, if he'd been wiser, it might have turned out better, but few are wise with first attempts at something. However, people who call others "shits" or "shitheels," with it being tolerated, are very much a symptom of the problem, whether it is on Wikipedia, Wikipediocracy (Vigilant's lair), or here or anywhere.
So, Jimbo has a new project. There is a lot to criticize about the history of Wikipedia and the reality behind the hype, but what Vigilant brings to the table amounts only to slime, the expression of arrogant contempt, and hatred.
Jimbo wrote:
Vigilant's response was:Out of every 1,000 people I think 990 of them are perfectly nice and wonderful. 9 of them are super annoying but not really actively malicious. And then there's that 1.
(1) Jimbo had not called anyone "nasty."On en.wp?
LMAO!!!!
Are you just a miniTrump where anyone who critiques you in 'nasty'?
(2) Jimbo was right. Most people are nice, but social media have a way of concentrating the nasties, which is part of what Jimbo was talking about.
(3)That Vigilant comment has an astonishing -348 points.
There was a brief response:
and Vigilant came back with:Found the 1.
Profile: WOvigilantProud of it.
Holding shitheels' feet to the fire for over a decade.
His post before that last one ("hammer and tongs") is an example of his "criticism." That's a pure personal attack. And such are a major part of why Wikipedia criticism has accomplished so little.
Jimbo is not the problem with Wikipedia. Sure, if he'd been wiser, it might have turned out better, but few are wise with first attempts at something. However, people who call others "shits" or "shitheels," with it being tolerated, are very much a symptom of the problem, whether it is on Wikipedia, Wikipediocracy (Vigilant's lair), or here or anywhere.