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LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-little-below-the-belt dept.

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*.

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  1. Dammit Taco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    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*.
    Dammit Taco! Which are the malicious ones, the 60% or the 40%? Argh!
    1. Re:Dammit Taco! by Sj0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      If these supposed geeks were any good, they would have written a program to send out warnings automatically. If they were a bit better, they would have found a way to get the GPS transmitters onto the women so they could be avoided. If they were even better, they would have mounted sensors in the womens cubicles to detect the exact start and end of "that time of the month".

      And if they were great? They'd rig up a bit of biotech to cancel the effect altogether. :P

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  2. What did they do? by FriedTurkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet the entire article was changed to "frist post".

    1. Re:What did they do? by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is that the fault you find in this? That some people are idealistic and would like to live in a world without assholes?

      In a world without assholes, everybody would be full of shit.

      Sorry. So sorry. The pun was just too easy to ignore.

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    2. Re:What did they do? by Silent_Shadow900 · · Score: 3, Funny

      If everybody was full of shit, we'd all get along wouldn't we?

    3. Re:What did they do? by infinite9 · · Score: 4, Funny

      In a world without assholes, everybody would be full of shit.

      In the land of the assholeless, the one-assholed man is king?

      ok, someone needs to reply with a joke about thrones.

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  3. LOL by RayDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

    1. Re:LOL by kernelfoobar · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mispelled "the". :-)

      You misspelled "misspelled".

      You misquoted 'mispelled' as "misspelled" to indicate that 'misspelled' was misspelled as 'mispelled'.

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  4. I can finally say... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am proud of Slashdot

    (wipes tear from eye)..

    I just knew someday, you'd make something of yourself...

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    1. Re:I can finally say... by ahem · · Score: 4, Funny
      ... there is a definite kind of web/mob (wob?) mentality here. ...

      I would like to congratulate Andrew Kerr on the coinage of an excellent word. I declare that henceforth, we should all refer to any web based mob behavior as 'wob behavior'.

      Spread the love, people.

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  5. slashdot hah by kalpol · · Score: 3, Funny

    Myself, I bet it was the Crips.

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  6. LA Times wiki by ChrisF79 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  7. You're welcome! by digitalamish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just think, we gave you over a year's worth of experience in about 24 hours. We're not malicious, we're efficient!

  8. It was me, sorry. by OctoberSky · · Score: 3, Funny

    I spent 3 days pounding that site and all I get is a link to NYTimes?

  9. So, now the problem is... by Mr.+Flibble · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    Damn you Taco! How does one reply to a post about slashdot trolling properly?

    In soviet russ... ...err.. no...
    goatse.. no.. ...PROFIT!!!! err...

    ***USER BRAIN OVERLOAD. CORE DUMPED***

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  10. Post Mortem: LA Times lacking common sense by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  11. PA Link by danl125 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe this is the one you where thinking of.

  12. Throne into the mess by Zancarius · · Score: 5, Funny
    ok, someone needs to reply with a joke about thrones.


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