[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[Blu Aardvark]

Slim Virgin wrote:
> On 5/30/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
>   
>> Bryan Derksen wrote:
>>     
>>> I've actually been called a bot before, IIRC based on some work I was
>>> doing with categories at the time. Sometimes it can actually be quite
>>> relaxing to sit on Wikipedia for a few hours just
>>> edit-paste-edit-pasting my way through hundreds of articles in a massive
>>> cleanup binge.
>>>
>>>       
>> Yeah, people who feel it is implausible that a person could hit a button
>> 5-10 times a minute for hours on end with reasonable quality control
>> have apparently not ever had a modern manufacturing job.
>>
>>     
> I doubt that anyone with a modern manufacturing job would do it
> without pay, William.
>
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That's somewhat of an interesting statement coming from someone with 
over 50,000 edits. It can't be that implausible that someone would do it 
entirely for free.