'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips and drama.'
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=856284&postcount=...
Fred
On 1/13/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips and drama.'
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=856284&postcount=...
Fred
You want I should dig out all the threads from digital point complaining about our removeing external links?
Or the various threads out there on various forums complaining about this arbcom thing?
Come on a forum post based on reading a blog. I'm really not too worried.
On 13/01/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips and drama.'
Wikipedia is the finest free MMORPG available. I'd rename it "Zeroth Life" but I think that's IRC.
* You have fallen into a Gdanzskig trap * The troll hits! * The troll hits! * You take one point to your credibility
strike
* You strike! * You defeat the troll! * The good version stays * You have leveled up to Admin
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 13/01/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips and drama.'
Wikipedia is the finest free MMORPG available. I'd rename it "Zeroth Life" but I think that's IRC.
... shall we make a Game: of it on Uncyclopedia? :)
On 14/01/07, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 13/01/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips and drama.'
Wikipedia is the finest free MMORPG available. I'd rename it "Zeroth Life" but I think that's IRC.
... shall we make a Game: of it on Uncyclopedia? :)
Something similar has, of course, already happened:
http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
- d.