Peter Aronson wrote on Thu, Jul 7, 2005 09:27 PM UTC:
What a darkly-funny, weird train-wreck of a discussion! I see why many
people don’t take the Wikipedia very seriously. Given the way Wikipedia
appears to work, people who have nothing better to do with their time than
hack around on Wikipedia are assumed to be real people who votes count,
even when they adamantly refuse to do any actual research on what they are
voting for, whereas people with actual expertise in a subject, who are
usually too busy actually working in the field to hang out on the
Wikipedia, votes don’t count. It’s very Orwellian -- someone refuses to
agree with you? Call them a Sockpuppet! What a racket! I haven’t seen
such a doomed-to-failure approach to running things since I found out how
most law firms determine partner salaries. It seems to me that the
Wikipedia is doomed to mediocrity and eventual irrelevance.