[WikiEN-l] Viral swarming teenage vanity spam

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Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:  Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 7/5/06, geni  wrote:
>> On 7/5/06, Erik Moeller  wrote:
>>> The page was now deleted, in spite of no consensus, and in spite of a
>>> very large amount of blog coverage and a newspaper report in Politiken
>>> about it.
> 
>> Slight majority in favor of keep in fact. on that basis I've undeleted.
> 
> Thanks. Now get ready for the accusations of starting a "wheel war."

>>And now it's deleted again. It's been put up for review at
.

>>I don't frequent AfD so perhaps I get a skewed impression, but does
>>anyone think that the prevalence of extremely hyperbolic "strong" >>voting
>>is on the increase? AfD isn't even supposed to be a vote in the first
>>place, technically, so giving a vote to "Destroy, pillage and salt the
>>earth of this accursed article" or "Strong strong strong KEEP" seems
>>kind of silly and pointless. The calls to _ban_ article contributors
>>and/or people who voted to keep the article are even more silly, well
>>over into the realm of blatantly stupid - AfD is not ArbCom, the very
>>notion of crossing the two gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe it's >>just
>>these specific highly contentious arguments where that sort of thing
>>happens.

  I think the problem with DRV and other processes that reivew content is  the entire premise. I reviewed a backlog previously to discover a  template. To my horror,  it noted:
    
  "The community is interested in process not content". 
    
  This is madness. - Randall Brackett
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