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LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot
ubermiester writes "The LA Times pulled down it's "beta" wikitorial after people began inserting obscene content faster than the editors could remove it. Though there is nothing on the LA Times editorial page or in the general coverage, the NY Times notes (free reg req) the fact that the bulk of the vandalism occurred after a posting about the wikitorial appeared on Slashdot and goes on to quote a member of the LA Times editorial staff as saying, "Slashdot has a tech-savvy audience that, to be kind, is mischievous and to be not so kind, is malicious". " Apparently Michael Newman thinks that all half a million daily Slashdot readers are malicious, although I personally would guess more like a 60:40 split myself *grin*.
I bet the entire article was changed to "frist post".
Those mean old Slashdot readers, pointing out the obvious all teh time!
It would have happened sooner or later, they should thank us for finding the bugs right away.
Raydude
I am proud of Slashdot
(wipes tear from eye)..
I just knew someday, you'd make something of yourself...
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Myself, I bet it was the Crips.
12:50 - press return.
Getting lectured on ethics from the staff of the New York Times is interesting.
Someone you trust is one of us.
It sounds like Michael Newman is just jealous that Slashdot has a MUCH larger viewing audience than his rag!
That was me, sorry about that. I thought I was on Wikipedia.
It's as censored as a Chinese blog... and congrats to slashdot. THis may be the first time a site was taken down by slashdot users without it being a bandwidth issue.
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Just think, we gave you over a year's worth of experience in about 24 hours. We're not malicious, we're efficient!
I spent 3 days pounding that site and all I get is a link to NYTimes?
It took me an hour to discretely put in links to 'hello.jpg'....
You make a editable page available to the PLANET and then are surprised when there's lots of problems with people posting "unacceptable" content?
BS I say...Put that in your required registration and smoke it.
Now the problem in replying to this article is that if I troll in my reply am I trolling or being insightful? Or, if I try to be insightful about trolls, am I trolling?
...err.. no... ...PROFIT!!!! err...
Damn you Taco! How does one reply to a post about slashdot trolling properly?
In soviet russ...
goatse.. no..
***USER BRAIN OVERLOAD. CORE DUMPED***
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Who are you calling poorly socialized you dick!
I, for one, blame it on the boogie.
Of course it was a disaster. /. bred trolls against a brand new site. Good luck.
Holy cow, you're right: this just totally wrecks our reputation for mores, decency, etiquette!
Seriously, I would like to see a poll along the lines of
( ) Yes. It was me. I screwed the LA Times wiki.
( ) Like above, but repeatedly.
( ) Like above, but repeatedly and I let my friends take a stab as well.
( ) No. It wasn't me. So where was CowboyNeal at the time?
Here's a radical idea for LA Times:
How about reviewing each wikitorial submission *BEFORE* it gets posted on the web site?
I know, I should've patented this idea before suggesting it but Amazon already filed for it an hour ago.
(dramatic pause)
KAHNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
I believe this is the one you where thinking of.
Seriously, C_Taco can't even remove all the trolls from the News Submissions!
In that case, the king is the man sitting on the porcelain throne. He's also the only one who gives a shit.
He who has no
dead horses beat YOU!
Sorry, had to be said :)