On 12/10/2007, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
It's great advice. And paid PR people are not OK. But, frankly, they're not OK in the same way sockpuppets aren't OK. It's not that you're not allowed to do it, it's just that you're not allowed to do it so badly that we notice and go "Oh for fuck's sake."
Heh.
"You're not allowed to do it so blatantly that I notice, because then I'd have to stop you. Also, don't tell me about it, because then I'd have to stop you. You know I don't approve, right? Just don't make a noise, I'm trying to work."
Wikipedia users and over-enthusiastic thirteen-year-olds: not so different after all.