2008/5/9 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
Trying to game the system to push a point is disruptive. I believe most communities pretty much accept the standard of "disruption leads to blocking." Yes, they are subverting, but what difference would a Foundation resolution make? It's not as though it would make lobbyists suddenly admit themselves and say "Ah, you caught me."
Well, yeah. The thing I've seen most rein in PR company blog advice on how to get on Wikipedia is not "the Wikipedia community will be upset at you" but - in the wake of WikiScanner's media moment - "the public will lynch you and send your client's brand into the toilet."
Mission posters are of course much more Terminator-like in their persistence. But with that sort of persistence comes stupidity.
- d.