[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?

[Alphax]

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steve v wrote:
> * Ghost of Nupedia (aka. Nupedia's Monster): On-wiki institution of
> Nupedia-style credentialism. Ranking of academic degrees by type:
> conservative American Ivy League institutions first, everyone else
> second, all the way down to mail-order degrees from North Korea.
> 

fnord! Ranking of academic degrees by age of institution which offers
them, with weighting based on age of faculty at that institution.

Anyway, the Ivy League is an athletics association.

> * Paranoid Web of Trust: People get ranks (in addition to barnstars)
> and parade them proudly. Everyone sucks up to the Board members, and
> they eventually get military-style badges made to pin on their ©&? 
> Wikimedia Nohat-logo sweatshirts.
> 

func's micronation is spreading :)

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