I know it has always been the case in some form or another but any sort of 'heavy' editorial intervention is a bad idea. I see more evidence than before that established users in wikipedia delete legitimate things that I am sure most agree belong to a certain page. 'External links' is one example, the way some users systematically edit certain links out of a page reminds of the failings of dmoz and dmoz editors.
One more similar example that I used to be part of long before web 2.0 and the blog fad http://www.e-sports.com/ Nothing new and there are others that share ad revenue too.
I agree, whether or not its the right thing to be doing, they were the ones who actually managed to carve out a market of sorts online. I remember the days when wallstreet was waiting for sites like amazon (maybe deserving to be on the list too btw) to make money as an online entity.
How about...lets argue about this until the day the slashdot servers and datacenter are the last surviving things on earth.
Its already too late people.
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I know it has always been the case in some form or another but any sort of 'heavy' editorial intervention is a bad idea. I see more evidence than before that established users in wikipedia delete legitimate things that I am sure most agree belong to a certain page. 'External links' is one example, the way some users systematically edit certain links out of a page reminds of the failings of dmoz and dmoz editors.
One more similar example that I used to be part of long before web 2.0 and the blog fad http://www.e-sports.com/
Nothing new and there are others that share ad revenue too.
I agree, whether or not its the right thing to be doing, they were the ones who actually managed to carve out a market of sorts online. I remember the days when wallstreet was waiting for sites like amazon (maybe deserving to be on the list too btw) to make money as an online entity.
My clients won't know its an email address if they don't see 'hotmail' or 'yahoo' on my business card :P
How about...lets argue about this until the day the slashdot servers and datacenter are the last surviving things on earth. Its already too late people.