>> Took approximately 10 minutes, in fact. Which makes it all the more
>> surprising that I happened to hit the page within that 10-minute window.
>
> It happens. I once tried to read the article on the first Halo game, and one
> section, quite a large paragraph, consisted entirely of the phrase 'halo is gay'
> in block capitals over and over again. Several minutes later, back to normal.

Subtle. Real subtle.

Of course, one does not have to *utter* the words "Halo is gay". This 
fact is self-evident, uttered or not. ;-)

>> Of course, if instead of inserting something obviously bogus, the person
>> had made several small factual edits which look superficially plausible,
>> you could slowly pollute large sections of Wikipedia with false data and
>> nobody would notice for a very long time.
>
> Except that there's a large army of editors who get notified of every edit, and
> likely catch even subtle changes relatively quickly.

You would have to be careful to not just indiscriminately edit dozens of 
unrelated articles changing dates and so forth. That would be a tad 
obvious. But if your edits were of low frequency, it's unlikely that 
anybody would bother to look up every single fact you changed to make 
sure it was correct.

OTOH, I gather that if you try to make /genuine/ corrections, your edits 
get automatically reverted, so... :-P

> Still funny when you happen to catch some vandalism in the act tho :)

Yeah, well... not so much.

> And then there's always the anti-Wikipedia:
> http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

My brain! Urrrgh!! >_<

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Of course, one does not have to *utter* the words "Halo is gay". This
> fact is self-evident, uttered or not. ;-)

Oi, I quite enjoyed it :) Unless you meant that it has a lot of homoerotic
content. Or, archaically, that it's a really happy carefree game.

> My brain! Urrrgh!! >_<

Quite. I've not been brave enough to look at Warp's link yet, I might turn big
and green and smash things.

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On 12/01/2012 04:26 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Of course, one does not have to *utter* the words "Halo is gay". This
>> fact is self-evident, uttered or not. ;-)
>
> Oi, I quite enjoyed it :) Unless you meant that it has a lot of homoerotic
> content. Or, archaically, that it's a really happy carefree game.

The former is debatable, the latter is undeniably false. ;-)

>> My brain! Urrrgh!!>_<
>
> Quite. I've not been brave enough to look at Warp's link yet, I might turn big
> and green and smash things.

I tried. I got a domain name holding page.

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   If you want your IQ to drop, try conservapedia.org.

  It should have been conservapedia.com.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:54:23 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> And then there's always the anti-Wikipedia:
>> http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
> 
>   If you want your IQ to drop, try conservapedia.org.
> 
>   Their slogan is an exquisite oxymoron: "Conservapedia, the trustworthy
> encyclopedia." (In reality, if conservapedia claims something it's
> probably wrong.)

Which, logically, means it can be trusted.  To be wrong, that is. :)

Jim

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >   If you want your IQ to drop, try conservapedia.org.

Arg. Just looked at the main page. I can't believe I've sullied my browser
history with it.

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>>    Their slogan is an exquisite oxymoron: "Conservapedia, the trustworthy
>> encyclopedia." (In reality, if conservapedia claims something it's
>> probably wrong.)
>
> Which, logically, means it can be trusted.  To be wrong, that is. :)

"I'm dishonest. And you can always trust a dishonest man to be 
dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest men you want to worry about, 
because you just never know when they're going to do something really... 
really... stupid."

Name it.

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:52:11 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>    Their slogan is an exquisite oxymoron: "Conservapedia, the
>>>    trustworthy
>>> encyclopedia." (In reality, if conservapedia claims something it's
>>> probably wrong.)
>>
>> Which, logically, means it can be trusted.  To be wrong, that is. :)
> 
> "I'm dishonest. And you can always trust a dishonest man to be
> dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest men you want to worry about,
> because you just never know when they're going to do something really...
> really... stupid."
> 
> Name it.

Easy, because we just watched it.  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the 
Caribbean.

A former friend of mine once said something similar - he asked me if I 
trusted him, and I said yes, and he said "you shouldn't."

He was right (hence "former friend").

Jim

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On 12/01/2012 07:00 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>>>    If you want your IQ to drop, try conservapedia.org.
>
> Arg. Just looked at the main page. I can't believe I've sullied my browser
> history with it.

Oh come on, it can't be that bad. :-P



...no, wait. It is. >_<

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > "I'm dishonest. And you can always trust a dishonest man to be
> > dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest men you want to worry about,
> > because you just never know when they're going to do something really...
> > really... stupid."
> > 
> > Name it.

> Easy, because we just watched it.  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the 
> Caribbean.

  The problem with quotes in the modern world is that it's trivial to write
them in google and get the source in a few seconds. There's no challenge
anymore.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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