Ray Saintonge wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
The Marxists don't go away, they just delete any information they don't like and argue endlessly. Although occasionally they will conceed that some major issue deserves a small mention in an article, down at the bottom, if you have extensive references for the point.
Is this why it's so hard to tell them apart from some of your right wing friends?
Regardless of the people and ideologies involved, it's typically hard to tell edit warriors apart from each other, let alone identify what value systems they are promoting (other than anti-Wikiquette, of course). Most of the time, the only way I know who's "Marxist" and who's "right wing" is based on the furious labeling of users by their opponents. You certainly wouldn't be able to tell based on the progress being made in adding actual content to the encyclopedia.
--Michael Snow
On Apr 26, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
The Marxists don't go away, they just delete any information they don't like and argue endlessly. Although occasionally they will conceed that some major issue deserves a small mention in an article, down at the bottom, if you have extensive references for the point.
Is this why it's so hard to tell them apart from some of your right wing friends?
Regardless of the people and ideologies involved, it's typically hard to tell edit warriors apart from each other, let alone identify what value systems they are promoting (other than anti-Wikiquette, of course). Most of the time, the only way I know who's "Marxist" and who's "right wing" is based on the furious labeling of users by their opponents. You certainly wouldn't be able to tell based on the progress being made in adding actual content to the encyclopedia.
I think an interesting thing to note is not the progress of content being added, but the same content being reverted to countless times.... the big thing I notice about edit warriors is that once they get a paragraph or pages "just right", any future edits or changes get reverted to the warrior's preferred version, usually written solely by them. Or, in another case, their 'perfect image' (see [[Dan Quayle]] image war)... there's something of an inflexibility to let the content evolve, change, and grow, once they have decided that the article is "just right".
-Bop
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