Why I hate Wikipedia

[Sploops]

I have contributed to wikipedia several times in the past.  Either creating a new entry or modifying an existing one.  My entries have been entirely factual and brilliant.  And yet some factory wrapped douche of some high ranking in the wikipedia hierarchy saw fit to expunge my contributions.  These *people* seem to spend atleast 12 hours a day ruining wikipedia.  And I thought I didn't have a life.  I loathe these people and whenever I express this opinion of them on that site they delete it.  Thus I mention it here even though nobody here actually cares.  I just needed to vent.   
God I hate them.  They are complete losers in real life but on wiki they have this little bit of power and they lord it over you like they're some great shakes.  Die wiki scum!

[Jason]

Man, that's annoying.

[Fido]

The image I have of the kind of person you're describing is this very niggling, petty, schoolmarmish people who are really devoted in a kind of sad way to their esoteric, arcane subjects and who are quite willing to defend, tooth and nail, utter minutiae.  I'm picturing reference librarians, the less agreeable and more ornery sorts.  Come to think of it, all this is sort of reminding me of academia and the kind of tempests-in-a-teapot that happen all the time all over the place in the academic world.  Or so I'm told.  Christ, who has the time?  I actually read wikipedia entries a lot, and I like the concept, but I'll probably never contribute, just for the reasons you suggested, Sploops.  I hear what you're saying loud and clear buddy.

[Laurie]

I imagine these people look an awful lot like Harry Knowles.

Oh my lord, my fingers are numb from playing Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. Yikes!

[John Junk]

I kinda think hardcore wikipedians are on some next shit or some next-to-last shit, like when you look at an entry and it's like "This entry contains emotions and hyperbole" or whatever it says and then the words "emotions" and "hyperbole" are links to wikipedia entries on those things.  Which is kinda annoying, but which is also not to say that these people are bad, because they're just doing their fact-ranger thing that they have to do to maintain intellectual rigor and whatnot.  What you should do is start your own blog or website entries about those things or start something called "brilliantpedia" that's more about being fucking brilliant about somthing.  I'd read it. 

[Sploops]

It's ridiculous.  I've been fighting with someone called wikibofh over, of all things, an entry on songs about masturbation.  He takes it so seriously.  It must be a subject near and dear to him.

[Marcus Mannings]

If you've been fighting with him rather than, say, not caring, then the evidence suggests that it is a subject both near and dear to you as well. Unless perhaps there is a flaw in your accusation.

It is easy to attack people on the Internet, and meaningless. I could, for instance, say that kenkwan is a jerk and a racist, just because he took one of the top scores out from under my feet in the arcade and is making an approach on my first-place title. However, I will not do that because I am a greater man than he. Perhaps you, and Wikipedia, can learn from this.

[Sploops]

If you've been fighting with him rather than, say, not caring, then the evidence suggests that it is a subject both near and dear to you as well. Unless perhaps there is a flaw in your accusation.

It's not the subject that has me caring, it's the gall of this guy to repeatedly excise my completely legitimate and accurate entries.  He's power-mad and I shant stand for it. I'm fighting for the little guy....
And, yes, I do like rubbing one out now and then and it's important to me that musical odes to this blessed act are thouroughly documented.  So there.   

[Chris L]

Slobs vs. snobs on Wikipedia!  Let's get Harold Ramis working on a script. 

[Marcus Mannings]

Speaking of slobs, it's good to see you posting after me, Chris L, just like you took the Mind Me Bloody Beer title from me. You're all a bunch of vultures. I'm out of the area, but someone has to call in to tonight's show for me. Just use my name so I can be famous. Thanks.

[Marcus Mannings]

You're all a bunch of vultures.

Forgive me. That may have sounded spiteful to those who don't know that I quite like vultures. Some actually know me as a vulture enthusiast. This is a picture of me in the Bloomsday march, at what I now consider a low point in my life.

[Emerson]

As humorless and pedantic as they can be, I'm glad those hardcore "Wikipedians" have made themselves useful. In the proper context (think "airtight journalistic integrity," not "interpersonal relationships"), arrogance and resistance to compromise can be assets.

Here's the inverse of Wikipedia's nail-biting geekdom:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/

There are many paths to the top of Mt. Annoying.

~EmD

[Dan B]

[John Junk]

As humorless and pedantic as they can be, I'm glad those hardcore "Wikipedians" have made themselves useful. In the proper context (think "airtight journalistic integrity," not "interpersonal relationships"), arrogance and resistance to compromise can be assets.

Here's the inverse of Wikipedia's nail-biting geekdom:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/

There are many paths to the top of Mt. Annoying.

~EmD

You said it, brother!  I looked at that link there.  Woah boyy.

[Tim K in DC]

Where's the category for Scumfuc (sic intentional) Rock?

GG was supposed to appear on some local afternoon talk show in the Boston area before he died, and it never aired, but the promo spot did. I never saw it, but some day I hope, perhaps via youtube, to see him screaming (as my uncle recalled to me) at the audience: "I'll (bloop!) your daugthers. I'll (bloop!) your SONS!!!"