[WikiEN-l] Re: Consumerium

Sat May 8 02:49:17 UTC 2004

uninvited at nerstrand.net wrote:

>Anyone who believes that the trolls will go away if not fed should take some time to review:
>
>http://develop.consumerium.org
>
>Among other features of the site are a number of articles that attempt to organize leftist POV authors and get
>them to edit at Wikipedia.
>
Finally, we have found a wiki to which we can direct our trolls, instead 
of trying to pawn them off on Meatball or Sheldon's Disinfopedia!

I agree with Stan that this is no threat to us. Trolls are far too 
focused on provoking people to concentrate on promoting any political 
agenda, and this site demonstrates that even trolls can be trolled. At 
best, if it manages to remain coherent, this site might eventually 
become a place for outside criticism of Wikipedia. And if we're going to 
present knowledge to the world, criticism comes with the territory. The 
way to deal with it is to answer it - see [[Wikipedia:Our Replies to Our 
Critics]].

--Michael Snow