Re: [flalug] Dvorak - "Eventually, wikis will go downhill."

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 22:44:52 EDT


On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:13:43PM -0400, Khepri wrote:
> It was John C. Dvorak, columnist at PC Magazine....:)
>
> He's never been shy about writing controversial articles....keeps people
> reading I suppose.

He doesn't seem shy about writing articles that make him look like a
pretentious ignoramus, either. He's displayed, in that one article, a
thorough lack of understanding of A) Wikipedia's social mechanisms, B)
US culture in the aggregate, C) psychology, D) the behavior of both
vandals and knowledge-seekers, and D) the proper use of several terms.

That's okay, though. People like him make the rest of us look good by
comparison.

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Chad Perrin
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