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Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia
marpot writes "In an effort to assist Wikipedia's editors in their struggle to keep articles clean, we are conducting a public lab on vandalism detection. The goal is the development of a practical vandalism detector that is capable of telling apart ill-intentioned edits from well-intentioned edits. Such a tool, which will work somewhat like a spam detector, will release the crowd's workforce currently occupied with manual and semi-automatic edit filtering. The performance of submitted detectors will be evaluated based on a large collection of human-annotated edits, which has been crowdsourced using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Everyone is welcome to participate."
The people involved in the tea-bagging movement (I know they changed their name once they realised, tough shit) are objectively scum. So it's fine for the article to be negative. Also it helps to increase their paranoia regarding left-wing media conspiracies, and will hopefully bring forward the day when they really do take up arms and subsequently get murdered en-mass by the police & military, which is the optimum outcome in this case.
What I'm really trying to say is that you sound like another whiny republican/libertarian who is "just asking questions" and I hope you die of something horrible at the first possible opportunity.