Re: [Vo]:Scandal in Wikiland...

2012-09-20 Thread Jed Rothwell 
Here is another report about this:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/20/roger_bamkin_gibraltor_s_repeated_appearance_on_did_you_know_provkes_existential_crisis_for_wikipedia_.html

Re: [Vo]:Scandal in Wikiland...

2012-09-20 Thread James Bowery 
Oh, I should add that the Wikipedia scum deleted all reference to Bussard's
letter to Congress.  You can't get it into Wikipedia.  "Original
research..."

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, James Bowery  wrote:

> Incentives create self organizing systems that can do amazing things.
>  There is no instinct to ignore facts.
>
> Its all about incentives.  That's why my reaction to P&F's announcement
> was this .
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote:
>
>> Not so good for us.
>>
>> The inquisitors that block LENr feel they have a sacred mission to
>> protect the population from manipulation and herery...
>>
>> they will became even more fanatic.
>>
>> I'm not too much afraid about greedy people, because they are a little
>> rational, more about honest closed minds.
>>
>> The Roland Benabou groupthink model insnot based on greedyness but on the
>> insticitive method to ignore facts when someone put your beliefs assets in
>> danger...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/9/19 MarkI-ZeroPoint 
>>
>>> FYI:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/
>>> 
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> …and this is probably more common than we think:
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> As with anything on the net, if you want ALL the facts, you need to
>>> visit a number of sites which are discussing a given issue and use them as
>>> a kind of ‘debate’, where each site has its own slant.  Reading the comment
>>> section can also be quite helpful…
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> -Mark Iverson
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: [Vo]:Scandal in Wikiland...

2012-09-20 Thread James Bowery 
Incentives create self organizing systems that can do amazing things.
 There is no instinct to ignore facts.

Its all about incentives.  That's why my reaction to P&F's announcement was
this .

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote:

> Not so good for us.
>
> The inquisitors that block LENr feel they have a sacred mission to protect
> the population from manipulation and herery...
>
> they will became even more fanatic.
>
> I'm not too much afraid about greedy people, because they are a little
> rational, more about honest closed minds.
>
> The Roland Benabou groupthink model insnot based on greedyness but on the
> insticitive method to ignore facts when someone put your beliefs assets in
> danger...
>
>
>
>
> 2012/9/19 MarkI-ZeroPoint 
>
>> FYI:
>>
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/
>> 
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> …and this is probably more common than we think:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> As with anything on the net, if you want ALL the facts, you need to visit
>> a number of sites which are discussing a given issue and use them as a kind
>> of ‘debate’, where each site has its own slant.  Reading the comment
>> section can also be quite helpful…
>>
>> 
>>
>> -Mark Iverson
>>
>> ** **
>>
>
>

Re: [Vo]:Scandal in Wikiland...

2012-09-19 Thread Alain Sepeda 
Not so good for us.

The inquisitors that block LENr feel they have a sacred mission to protect
the population from manipulation and herery...

they will became even more fanatic.

I'm not too much afraid about greedy people, because they are a little
rational, more about honest closed minds.

The Roland Benabou groupthink model insnot based on greedyness but on the
insticitive method to ignore facts when someone put your beliefs assets in
danger...



2012/9/19 MarkI-ZeroPoint 

> FYI:
>
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/
> 
>
> ** **
>
> …and this is probably more common than we think:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797
>
> ** **
>
> As with anything on the net, if you want ALL the facts, you need to visit
> a number of sites which are discussing a given issue and use them as a kind
> of ‘debate’, where each site has its own slant.  Reading the comment
> section can also be quite helpful…
>
> 
>
> -Mark Iverson
>
> ** **
>

[Vo]:Scandal in Wikiland...

2012-09-19 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint 
FYI:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-
scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/

 

.and this is probably more common than we think:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19527797

 

As with anything on the net, if you want ALL the facts, you need to visit a
number of sites which are discussing a given issue and use them as a kind of
'debate', where each site has its own slant.  Reading the comment section
can also be quite helpful.

-Mark Iverson