Eben King wrote:
>>Another form of this self-correcting principle is the "popularity"
>>test...If a wiki develops a reputation overtime of being inaccurate,
>>inconsistent, etc., (and word spreads fairly quickly on the Net) it just
>>won't survive to any meaningful extent.
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> I see no reason why a well-executed troll in an otherwise factual wiki can't
> persist.
Oh true...but I would think that after a while the visitors would give
up and move on in search of other wikis perhaps...(troll succeeds)...
Although, I admit I'm not all that familiar with the exact way they
work...Isn't there some kind of "ownership/moderator", etc., that can
set a wiki up with rules wherein changes are approved by the person that
"owns" the wiki...(kinda in a blog comments way?)
Of course I haven't been able to stop the damn poker site spammers yet,
although I haven't really tried either....LOL
>>>It's kinda like using a pre-written program vs. writing your own. If I use
>>>grep, I don't check it for bugs -- someone else already did. But if I write
>>>my own program to perform a grep-like functionality, I bug check it.
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>>True. But if you then shared that with me, I probably wouldn't check it.
>>You already did....:)
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> I don't trust any one person that much. A dozen, maybe. A hundred, yes.
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That's me being lazy...:)And remember too, I've been using Windos up
till now...so I'm entirely conditioned to complete system re-installs..LOL
Chris
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