[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[Ray Saintonge]

Bryan Derksen wrote:

>David Gerard wrote:
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>>On 30/05/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>month. [4] I'm also concerned that the bot is being used without bot
>>>approval, but Gracenotes says above that it's not a bot (which is
>>>either wrong, or it means that he sits mindlessly hitting a button
>>>hundreds of times for hours on end),
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>>I'm doing this myself of late with {{spoiler}} tags, so I find it
>>quite believable.
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>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.
>
Consistency is a predictable symptom of bots.

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