Jeff Raymond wrote:
Let me repeat what I was responding to
No matter what, people will be paid to edit. The
questions is whetehr
>they'll bother to tell us.... let's
make a registration requirement,
>and ban the hell out of anyone who violates it, and see where that
>takes us.
This is the best possible solution, I think.
Encourage people to be open
about it, and we'll run into far fewer problems.
Jeff Raymond wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
What's encouraging about it?
More, better content? More detailed articles about organizations that
may not get written otherwise? A more comprehensive encyclopedia?
When someone starts from a position of "banning the hell out of anyon"
how can that possibly be encouraging? I very much prefer to assume good
faith I know that it was Jake's idea and not yours, and please forgive
me if I wrongly interpreted your response as a support of that
attitude. Your most recent comment is more in line with what I support.
The clear need
to be cautious about corporate behavioue should not
translate into anti-corporate paranoia.
Yet that's mostly where it comes from. Maybe not from you, but it's
certainly rooted there.
Most of the stuff that will
come from corporations will probably be fairly
middle-of-the-road and
informative. We already have plenty of rules for dealing with the bad
actors.
Right, so why be so firm about trying to discourage it?
Discourage? I support reasonable editing from the corporations. A
system for knowing where these edits are coming from is fundamentally a
good thing. What really bothers me is the desire of some to keep such a
tight control over the process. They appear frighteningly intent on
rooting out every bit that they consider to be against the rules.
Putting these corporate spokespeople constantly under a microscope and
treating them like schoolkids does absolutely nothing to build trust
between ourselves. It does not motivate them to work with us.
I find it bizarre now that I, an old fart leftist with sympathies for
Marxist causes. The whole debate with some of these doctrinaire and
utopian libertarians have a peculiar parallel to the issues that Lenin
faced with left-wing communists. See
http://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/ Sometimes these people who
take strong anti-corporate, anti-commercial attitudes strike me as
though they just haven't thought things through, and I end up defending
corporations. :-[
Ec