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David Gerard wrote:
Alphax (alphasigmax@gmail.com) [050816 17:55]:
I'd assume that a body corporate like the BBC would have its own range of IP adddresses. If they will hold us to ransom, we could quite easily block their entire IP range from editing, consequences be damned; better yet, encourage people (read: slashdot users) to DDoS BBC until they cease and desist. Remember, it's our site, we make the rules.
Y'know, diplomacy does have a lot going for it as a first option.
In the last 2 days 5 sites have been picked up by Google Alerts as being about the viral marketing campaign. The first summary was:
Someone has apparently abused collaborative reference site Wikipedia in a viral marketing campaign for a BBC online alternate reality game.
then:
Yesterday, the BBC Alternate Reality Game, Jamie Kane and the presumed viral marketing use of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, hit ...
I haven't read the stories, but some nutter in the marketing department will probably not respond to diplomacy. And meanwhile, we, the community, have to put up with this crap. We don't go and abuse their services, do we?? People need to learn that Wikipedia has power far beyond deleting and blocking.
For one thing, we have NPOV, and your remarks on its power are fondly remembered :)
For another, we have plenty of users who would gladly go out of their way to defend us.
DDoS has been remarkably effective in changing corporate minds in the past. Look at the case of eToy.
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