On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
But that they're old problems suggests it's not simply someone being negligent or malicious.
Or it could be that there are negligent and malicious people in other online communities too... Just because people have done something before doesn't make it ok for people to do it now.
Of course. But Wikipedia being unique in some ways doesn't make it necessarily unique in other ways. Reread the Shirky essay. All this has happened before.
(The hard bit of Shirky's prescription is how not to bite the newbies.)
- d.