Wikipedia: The Worlds Best Example of a Hypocrisy!

Trying to contribute to Wikipedia is like fighting a forever losing battle, incredibly frustrating and eventually not worth doing anymore.

This post is inspired by Brydon's current frustrations with Wikipedia.

You try to do things for seemingly valid reasons, enough so that you are actually inspired and motivated to actually get off your ass (not literally though) and do something about it, which is a stage most people never get to, and then after all that effort and gusto you smack flat into a brick wall. You have no dynamite, pickaxes, ladders, or shovels. You can only just keep running into the wall until you finally get tired of it and your face hurts too much. You turn around and shout FUCK IT, and you walk back down to the couch to grumble. I've heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome, well that my friends is contributing to Wikipedia.

Insanity is facing a wall of limitless fucktards who's only goal in life is to curate and stonewall everything you deem important out of the history books. And they don't do it for money, oh no, they do it for something far more compelling and powerful, their own sense of pride and accomplishment, their beliefs and ego, as well as their sense of justice.

You can never escape them and there are just too many to avoid detection. Sooner or later (but most likely instantly), your post will be removed, your additions edited away, and half the time they just write robots that assume everything you do is fake or from a bad IP and remove your shit anyways!

Wikipedia reminds me of that episode of South Park (#100) where Cartman explains that America is a country founded on the basis of saying on thing and doing another, a living hypocrisy. He says it's called eating your cake and having it too.

This is Wikipedia. It's open and free for the world to use! Anyone (yes even you, lowly scum) can go in and edit and add pages! TV shows make fun of how easy it is to change when people rely on it, scholars get mad at how the information is always false, but nobody can really change anything, save the select few who live off of the newscasts and research papers published. They own content, they own random subjects, and their life is making sure those pieces of virtual property doesn't get messed up! Nothing goes through without their approval, they are the landlord that doesn't have a life except to make yours miserable.

This is Wikipedia.

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THIS IS SPARTA!