Wikipedia Sucks!

I am sure that you know that in 2005, an anonymous troll said on Wikipedia that he was a suspect in the Kennedy assassinations. During an interview on the matter, he said the following (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... y_incident):

Can I just say where I'm worried about this leading. Next year we go into an election year. Every politician is going to find himself or herself subjected to the same sort of outrageous commentary that hit me, and hits others. I'm afraid we're going to get regulated media as a result of that. And I tell you, I think if you can't fix it, both fix the history as well as the biography pages, I think it's going to be in real trouble, and we're going to have to be fighting to keep the government from regulating you.

Basically, Wikipedia likes to lure in trolls by letting them spam for a while. Then, they start blocking large IP address ranges and accounts, putting the blame on the trolls. This makes Wikipedia far harder to edit than it should be.

R.I.P. John Seigenthaler. He was truly ahead of his time.

What is amazing to me is that

1) this is an entry in a website that claims (falsely) to be "encyclopedia!"
2) that folks still diddle with this nonsense to this day;

Some recent diddling;

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The human-tools waiting their time on this nonsense need to get a life.

The worst part: Seigenthaler's media attention made Wikipedia MORE popular, not less. The media circus encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to mess with it. For good AND for bad reasons.