[WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

[David Gerard]

On 18 April 2012 14:24, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> User:Fluffernutter gave a talk about paid editing last year at Wikimania, comparing it with needle exchange programmes. Much as my gut feeling is "god no, don't give an inch to PR people even if they are claiming to act 'ethically'!", I have a funny feeling we're going to need to do something very soon.


As these things usually do, the ones who behave will be put through
increasingly onerous requirements, the ones who don't will continue as
they were and the ones who do will then be regarded the same way as
the ones who don't. Ah well.


- d.