On 6/17/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:14:56 +1000, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
AfD and RC Patrol and Wikiproject Spam and those CVU people and so on seem to have taken a different view of spam. Remember when we had biased articles and said, "Time to rewrite this to be more neutral"? Remember when we said to those who wanted to have articles about their companies or whatnot in Wikipedia and we said, "Good authors are always welcome, just don't step out of line, punk"?
Yup. You know what changed? Two million plus articles and a top ten ranking. Now we are the target of choice for vanity, spam and all manner of self-serving crap, and we are not so short of articles or editors that we get much back from the transaction.
We've always been a target for vanity, spam and all manner of self-serving crap. See BJAODN.
(Not to say that things don't change when you're in the top of nearly every Google search, just that people have feared and fretted over vandals and barbarians from day one.)