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- maeon3, on 05/09/2009, -0/+43I think wikipedia only works because the number of honest people creating good data and cleaning up vandalism when they see it vastly outweigh the number of vandals who get their jollies from damaging it.
- matude, on 05/09/2009, -1/+21The very fact that most of the time Wikipedia works truly brings my hope for the human kind back.
- hardwired, on 05/08/2009, -0/+17Nice one, this mocking of Wikipedia makes my Friday.... not only that, someone actually updated the US Sec. of Labor's Wiki Page in 5 mins!
- kd420, on 05/09/2009, -0/+15http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_S ...
lol - Speed, on 05/09/2009, -2/+8I've never understood that. I understand not allowing everyone and their dog to have a Wiki page, but why are people so anal about everything being notable? Is bandwidth and storage at Wikipedia really so minuscule that they can only have the minimum number of entries? It's not like they'll ever be taken seriously as an encyclopedia, just like the blogs submitted to Digg will never be taken seriously as news sources.
- fandyllic, on 05/09/2009, -0/+5Well Wikipedia works in the cases where there are honest people. Unfortunately, there are tons of biased people contributing to Wikipedia and gaming it so they're point of view only gets heard (despite a supposed Neutral POV policy). Wikipedia is best for non-controversial topics, but bad, misleading and horrible for some controversial topics.
Use Wikipedia wisely. It is a micro-cosm with its own religions (deletionist mostly). Unfortunately, some of the most powerful editors in Wikipedia appear to be immune from prosecution, but maybe someday it will become more fair.
Ironically, Wikipedia has a fundamental policy against using itself as a reference, but people rarely re-iterate that one and pretend it is just an online reference. - Nickolassc, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5THIS IS THE BEST DILBERT EVER!!!!
- strykefive, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Gotta love Topper and Loud Howard. Great characters.
- Stinkylicious, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3[citation needed]
- iritegood, on 05/09/2009, -1/+4Except when you find out all the talk pages are full of stuck up douchebags arguing about how the article isn't relevant enough or offends them in some way.
- Kinneas12, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3"Don't be a one-upper, like I said before"
-Queen of Myspace on the Adam Carolla Show - Vishalrix, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Lately? That book was published in 2001.
That was 3 years before digg was launched! - themastersb, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2Sometimes they clean up stuff that isn't vandalism as well.
- chadsmith729, on 05/09/2009, -1/+3Dugg for Dilbert on the front page!
- Dumbledorito, on 05/09/2009, -1/+3I loves me some Dilbert, but the way he names characters apart from the core ones is about as creative as a kid naming their dog "doggie".
- macwally, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2I know a guy just like this :)
- therodersabides, on 05/10/2009, -0/+2Well.... *****. You've got me there.
- merreborn, on 05/14/2009, -0/+1"The very fact that most of the time Wikipedia works truly brings my hope for the human kind back"
If you think that's remarkable collaboration, wait til you find out about "driving".
Thousands of people drive multi-ton machines by my office every day. And most days, there's not a single crash. The vast majority of people obey traffic laws, signs, and signals... at least in the contexts where it really matters.
But once in a while, some jerk will run a red light. Presumably because he's in a hurry to get home and vandalize wikipedia. - therodersabides, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1Is it just me, or has Dilbert been on a roll lately?? God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams is also a great book.
- SandWraith, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1This may be the first humorous subtitle I've ever seen on Digg. Props!
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -0/+0Oh, now I get it. I wondered why that guy was being such an *****.
- PisoMojado, on 05/09/2009, -2/+2Damn! I thought this was about that old TV sitcom with the alcoholic St. Bernard. :(
(And the comic is old news - from yesterday's paper.) - veriix, on 05/09/2009, -3/+1Let me guess, you find Cy&H funny.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -3/+1Yes. Yes I do.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -24/+4Dilbert isn't funny...
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