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*.

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Nah,

[Sierpinski]

Couldn't be more than 65/35!

Seriously though, you're going to have malicious people do that kind of thing anywhere, but to blame one particular site's users for that kind of behavior is just wrong. "Tech-Savvy" doesn't mean malicious. Its like the adjectives Yellow and Big.
Just because you're Big, doesn't mean you're Yellow, but there are definitely some Big Yellow folks out there.. (Big Bird?) Ok, maybe that was a bad analogy...