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Oops: LA Times wiki experiment fails after inundated by porn watch!

fora.tv — It started out as an experiment in creating an editable newspaper wiki, and ended when it was overrun by people with quite different motivations... Despite the utter failure, journalist Michael Kinsley still believes technological changes are the key to saving newspapers.

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  • sjbdallas, on 01/04/2009, -0/+76It's all fun and games until someone uploads porn.
  • cdawzrd, on 01/05/2009, -3/+33"we bought the software" -- FAIL

    Also, how did they fail to notice that the reason Wikipedia is so successful is because of the time put into moderating the content by very NOT anonymous editors?
  • macmcraeart, on 01/05/2009, -1/+30Since when is porn inundation considered failure? Sounds like win in the making.
  • FoxRaysing, on 01/05/2009, -1/+22"Really horrible pornography" to me means Goatse...those bastards!
  • Garlik, on 01/05/2009, -10/+30LA Times Wikipedia is almost as bad of an idea as Dane Cook Stand Up Comedy.
  • mogebier, on 01/05/2009, -4/+23This just in:

    The LA Times is full of Naive, goofy old men who live back in the 1950's where people were all nice to each other and there was no Internet.
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -4/+23Anonymous Delivers.
  • vilago, on 01/05/2009, -0/+16... then it's even more fun with more exciting "games"
  • supermanred, on 01/05/2009, -0/+16LA Times wikipedia? Lol. Without any kind of safeguards or checks and balances? Yeah, great idea.
  • GuacamoleSan, on 01/05/2009, -2/+17THE PRON COMETH
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+14that's what she said
  • offrdbandit, on 01/05/2009, -1/+15The most interesting portion of the video is the fact that is "never occurred" to them there might be more than one viewpoint on the editorial topic.

    But I guess this is the LA Times after all...
  • scoobycarolan, on 01/05/2009, -1/+14An uninsightful look into how business 1.0 fails at business 2.0. Still I give them a thumbs up for trying.
  • janinekahn, on 01/04/2009, -3/+16Haha, I remember this one. An oldie but a goodie.
  • groovechamp30, on 01/05/2009, -2/+14Please accept the warmest congratulations from the kingdom of Yourmomsbasementistan.
  • P5ycHo, on 01/05/2009, -1/+12S l o w s p e a k e r . T o o s l o w .
  • glendower, on 01/05/2009, -3/+13why you think the net was born?
  • xGeneric, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9"Really horrible pornography"

    lol
  • punkcat, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9how old do you have to be to not see that coming?
  • thrashertm, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9Depends on how you look at it. I'd call it a smashing success :)
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9That's pretty small.
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9Ok that video was the most boring Porn I have ever watched!
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -4/+12I have 27 GB of porn.
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -3/+11They did it for the lulz.
  • HonoredMule, on 01/05/2009, -0/+8I for one appreciate the open-minded and positive attitude toward open technology and open society that the "old timer" portrayed--even in the face of failure.
  • groovechamp30, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7Im guessing it was horrible things that only 4channers could think of.
  • flangepiece, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7Vidi...Vici...Veni.
  • Garlik, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8lol
  • trollick, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7That does not make any sense. Porn would only make it better.
  • PGPirate, on 01/05/2009, -0/+6I would love to see a video that has a screen shot every minute or so. To see how long it goes from good to bad to horribile to OMFG
  • humpdave, on 01/05/2009, -0/+6Pics or it didn't happen!
  • CubFan185, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5Something tells me it was along the lines of 2girls1cup, or the Pains.
  • Sakumi, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5This is why we can't have nice things...
  • jmptexas, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5wait wait wait....porn's now on the internet?
  • bpoteat, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6almost.
  • raydeen, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5For porn, porn, porn?
  • specialK16, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4Exactly what I was thinking.
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4yummy yummy poopoo ice cream cone!
  • dissonantlife, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4Long Day's Wiki into Porn.
  • GiggleStick, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4Wait that's backwards. It's supposed to be .... Ohhhhhh.
  • rinote, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4Lol. What a n00b.
  • PurpleDee, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4I chuckled at the way he said 'flooded it with reeeeally, horrrrrrrrible pornography'.


    Doesn't take much to amuse me :(
  • geniusNOTatWORK, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3...then it gets sexy.
  • MountainManMark, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3THERE IS NO PORN ON THE INTERTZ!
  • PurpleDee, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3I nearly had if it wasn't for you.
  • bscene, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2i came, i caught, i cankered
  • linagee, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2The other 19 were laughing and also the anonymous porn posters. LOL!
  • Zaxcomp, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2Hail Eris!
  • Navicerts, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2about that guys age, the other 19 were probably the same.
  • DealCracker, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2These guys just don't get it. They think their papers are failing because of alternate technology. What they have proven here is that they are as inept at running a website as they are at writing stories that people actually want to read.
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