On Apr 26, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
The Marxists don't go away, they just delete
any information they
don't like
and argue endlessly. Although occasionally they will conceed that
some major
issue deserves a small mention in an article, down at the bottom, if
you
have extensive references for the point.
Is this why it's so hard to tell them
apart from some of your right
wing friends?
Regardless of the people and ideologies involved, it's typically
hard
to tell edit warriors apart from each other, let alone identify what
value systems they are promoting (other than anti-Wikiquette, of
course). Most of the time, the only way I know who's "Marxist" and
who's "right wing" is based on the furious labeling of users by their
opponents. You certainly wouldn't be able to tell based on the
progress being made in adding actual content to the encyclopedia.
I think an interesting thing to note is not the progress of content
being added, but the same content being reverted to countless times....
the big thing I notice about edit warriors is that once they get a
paragraph or pages "just right", any future edits or changes get
reverted to the warrior's preferred version, usually written solely by
them. Or, in another case, their 'perfect image' (see [[Dan Quayle]]
image war)... there's something of an inflexibility to let the content
evolve, change, and grow, once they have decided that the article is
"just right".
-Bop