On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> I doubt that the responsible Slashdot editor was aware that they were
>> falling for a troll. Is there a lesson here somewhere? If so, it's
>> perhaps that documentation of subcultures in Wikipedia is
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Erik Moeller wrote:
> I doubt that the responsible Slashdot editor was aware that they were
> falling for a troll. Is there a lesson here somewhere? If so, it's
> perhaps that documentation of subcultures in Wikipedia is very much
> worth doing.
Wikipiedia has a general problem
The same thing happened after Michael Jackson's death; IIRC there was a
website in which people could insert a celebrity's name, and a "death
article" would spew out. I recalled somebody did that with Kevin Spacey
back in 2009:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Spacey&diff=2986623
