On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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.