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ginandbacon

2012-01-18 10:02:57 AM

Oh.Em.Gee.

doglover

2012-01-18 10:17:40 AM

What's a wapo? Is that some new racist thing I've never heard of?

exick

2012-01-18 10:29:36 AM

I'm not even sure where to start with how full of nonsensical bullshiat this article is.

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 10:31:56 AM

doglover: What's a wapo? Is that some new racist thing I've never heard of?

WaPo=Washington Post.

GAT_00

2012-01-18 10:36:09 AM

Did the Post decide to write the most retarded articles possible today or something?

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 10:45:52 AM

GAT_00: Did the Post decide to write the most retarded articles possible today or something?

Apparently, yes.

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2012-01-18 10:50:07 AM

ginandbacon: GAT_00: Did the Post decide to write the most retarded articles possible today or something?

Apparently, yes.

Why should today be different?

sweetmelissa31

2012-01-18 10:54:43 AM

While there has been some hue and cry across the Internet about the potential impact of a Wikipedia Blackout, the response to Wikipedia's move has been lukewarm at best.

Lukewarm by whom? Washington Post, presumably?

Sid_6.7

2012-01-18 10:59:28 AM

ginandbacon: GAT_00: Did the Post decide to write the most retarded articles possible today or something?

Apparently, yes.

The article would have been better, but they couldn't look up the information they needed on Wikipedia.

Ishkur

2012-01-18 11:00:26 AM

Well, it's true.

People prefer to get their information from their friends than from a factual, accredited resource.

Mentat

2012-01-18 11:26:50 AM

sweetmelissa31: While there has been some hue and cry across the Internet about the potential impact of a Wikipedia Blackout, the response to Wikipedia's move has been lukewarm at best.

Lukewarm by whom? Washington Post, presumably?

By me, because I run Firefox with NoScript which apparently gets around the blackout. I couldn't figure out why Wiki wasn't blacked out until I turned scripts on.

Humean_Nature

2012-01-18 11:31:05 AM

Sid_6.7: ginandbacon: GAT_00: Did the Post decide to write the most retarded articles possible today or something?

Apparently, yes.

The article would have been better, but they couldn't look up the information they needed on Wikipedia.

Excellent.

Linoleum_Blownapart

2012-01-18 11:44:54 AM

Wikipedia still looks like something out of the text-heavy 1990s

Yeah, that silly Wikipedia! Wapo's got FOUR competing menu systems just on this single article!

Wait, no. Five. Missed the one at the bottom. Also five different 'Twitter' buttons.

GAT_00

2012-01-18 11:46:14 AM

Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 11:50:05 AM

GAT_00: Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

Not just you.

Linoleum_Blownapart

2012-01-18 11:50:49 AM

ginandbacon: GAT_00: Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

Not just you.

I am also visibly dumber today.

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 11:57:57 AM

Linoleum_Blownapart: ginandbacon: GAT_00: Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

Not just you.

I am also visibly dumber today.

How does that manifest? I mean visually?

GAT_00

2012-01-18 12:02:36 PM

RexTalionis

2012-01-18 12:14:11 PM

RexTalionis

2012-01-18 12:16:10 PM

ginandbacon: Linoleum_Blownapart: ginandbacon: GAT_00: Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

Not just you.

I am also visibly dumber today.

How does that manifest? I mean visually?

For my part, I have manifested the epicanthal folds on the eyes commonly associated with Down's Syndrome.

/Granted, though, I am Asian. However, I don't think that's a factor at play here.

Slives

2012-01-18 12:19:14 PM

What an idiot.
The basis of his whole argument is basically that Wikipedia is not social enough.
If you stretch his logic a little further, you could say your online banking website is outdated and useless because you can't 'like' the notification of when another customer pays his bills.

Though personally, I think youtube should have gone black for the day as well. that would have certainly gotten all the attention needed.

I_Am_Weasel

2012-01-18 12:32:35 PM

Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter - companies that are essential to today's businesses and society

We're done. Cooked. Stick a fork in humanity and make the pronouncement. Whoever is the last leaving society, please turn the light off.

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 12:33:50 PM

GAT_00: Drooling usually.

RexTalionis: Pants on head.

RexTalionis: For my part, I have manifested the epicanthal folds on the eyes commonly associated with Down's Syndrome.

/Granted, though, I am Asian. However, I don't think that's a factor at play here.

One out of three. *phew*

teto85

2012-01-18 12:39:36 PM

So? I've never clicked a "like button" for WaPoo either.

Po. WaPo.

FTFM

chimp_ninja

2012-01-18 12:41:26 PM

I_Am_Weasel: Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter - companies that are essential to today's businesses and society

We're done. Cooked. Stick a fork in humanity and make the pronouncement. Whoever is the last leaving society, please turn the light off.

Meh. Google and lesser search engines are pretty essential, for the same reason Wikipedia is-- rapid access to information.

Facebook and Twitter, however, could vanish tomorrow and society would improve.

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 12:42:12 PM

teto85: So? I've never clicked a "like button" for WaPoo either.

Po. WaPo.

FTFM

I dunno, I "like" WaPoo...

GAT_00

2012-01-18 12:45:00 PM

ginandbacon: One out of three. *phew*

All right, I'll bite. Which one?

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 12:57:05 PM

GAT_00: ginandbacon: One out of three. *phew*

All right, I'll bite. Which one?

Drooling. You should see my pillow when I wake up. Or maybe not.

Wait, is it too late to say "pants on head"?

GAT_00

2012-01-18 01:05:28 PM

ginandbacon: GAT_00: ginandbacon: One out of three. *phew*

All right, I'll bite. Which one?

Drooling. You should see my pillow when I wake up. Or maybe not.

Wait, is it too late to say "pants on head"?

I'm good either way.

Pants full of macaroni!!

2012-01-18 01:19:16 PM

Linoleum_Blownapart: ginandbacon: GAT_00: Is it just me, or is the Internet visibly dumber today?

Not just you.

I am also visibly dumber today.

The day the earth stood stupid.

/watch out for the brainspawn

Rwa2play

2012-01-18 01:23:51 PM

WaPo is irrelevant because it's not news.

/it's not FARK either
//FARK is funnier
///And more relevant

Coming on a Bicycle

2012-01-18 01:24:43 PM

No no no. This has to be a troll. Or an attempt at humour. Or something.

FormlessOne

2012-01-18 01:25:24 PM

ginandbacon: Oh.Em.Gee.

"We can't force control of Wikipedia through market manipulation, so they're just not relevant."

ginandbacon: Wait, is it too late to say "pants on head"?

For the Washington Post? No, it's never too late for that. What friggin' morons.

PanicMan

2012-01-18 01:27:28 PM

I'll admit it. I knew all about the Wikipedia blackout and I still tried to look things up there twice today. I'm a trained monkey.

wraithmare

2012-01-18 01:27:33 PM

Now print media, that's the up and coming thing and so relevant!

ginandbacon

2012-01-18 01:28:26 PM

wraithmare: Now print media, that's the up and coming thing and so relevant!

Heh.

oldfarthenry

2012-01-18 01:28:31 PM

Not `smart' nor `funny'. Why bother?

Thwack

2012-01-18 01:29:38 PM

Never really thought of Wikipedia as a "Social" site.

It's not quite down you know. My Wikipedia mobile app works just fine.

SlagginOff

2012-01-18 01:29:45 PM

This might be more retarded than the MPAA saying that Wikipedia is abusing power.

theorellior

2012-01-18 01:31:26 PM

Is it just me, or has it become harder to tell the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times in recent years?

abriggs1

2012-01-18 01:35:06 PM

This article is horrible, and an example of blatant shallowness and trendiness. Wikipedia remains one of the most popular websites in the world, and it's because of it's simplicity and refusal to jump on every trendy bandwagon that it's the single greatest website in the world. If the writer is interested in "rock star status" I bet The Situation from Jersey Shore has a twitter feed.

epoc_tnac

2012-01-18 01:35:53 PM

While other sites have been integrating social elements - even simple things such as the Facebook Like button - and updating themselves for the visual Web, Wikipedia still looks like something out of the text-heavy 1990s.

The visual web? You mean we'll be able to see pictures and stuff? On computers?

No, sorry. I don't believe that will happen in our lifetimes.

Gotta love the part about the 'text-heavy 1990s'. Luckily the article wasn't too heavy with facts, unlike those boring wikipedia pages!

BuckTurgidson

2012-01-18 01:38:02 PM

Only when pro-SOPA sentiment became fashionable, with sites such as Tumblr and Reddit leading the way, did Wikipedia join the war on SOPA.

LOLWUT?

That whole damn article was damn near incomprehensible. Did Wikipedia steal one of that dork's LEGO Star Wars pieces or something?

SisterMaryElephant

2012-01-18 01:41:14 PM

while Twitter's Dick, Costolo has commented that the Wikipedia Blackout is all a bit of misguided foolishness.

^^this is how I read that.

Lone Stranger

2012-01-18 01:42:11 PM

WaPo is not relevant because it is printed on paper that gets ink all over my hands and it only comes once a day at a certain time.

Kar98

2012-01-18 01:43:16 PM

epoc_tnac: While other sites have been integrating social elements - even simple things such as the Facebook Like button - and updating themselves for the visual Web, Wikipedia still looks like something out of the text-heavy 1990s.

The visual web? You mean we'll be able to see pictures and stuff? On computers?

No, sorry. I don't believe that will happen in our lifetimes.

Gotta love the part about the 'text-heavy 1990s'. Luckily the article wasn't too heavy with facts, unlike those boring wikipedia pages!

An encyclopedia, you know, text heavy, that everybody can edit? How much more social web two oh do they want it at the WaPo?

Loreweaver

2012-01-18 01:44:18 PM

teto85: So? I've never clicked a "like button" for WaPoo either.

Po. WaPo.

FTFM

No no, I think you got it right the first time.

Wa-"Poo" it is!

LordJiro

2012-01-18 01:47:56 PM

WaPo biatched about Wikipedia being text-heavy.

What the actual fark? Are these people five year olds? It's a farking encyclopedia, you don't get to biatch about it having too many big words and not enough pretty pictures!

syberpud

2012-01-18 01:50:26 PM

exick: I'm not even sure where to start with how full of nonsensical bullshiat this article is.

Welcome to the Washington Post: Proud sailors on a sinking ship.

Funny how a newspaper dislikes "lots of text". Maybe they should put infographics and things on each front page. Maybe color code each section too while they are at it...

syberpud

2012-01-18 01:52:07 PM

BuckTurgidson: Only when pro-SOPA sentiment became fashionable, with sites such as Tumblr and Reddit leading the way, did Wikipedia join the war on SOPA.

LOLWUT?

That whole damn article was damn near incomprehensible. Did Wikipedia steal one of that dork's LEGO Star Wars pieces or something?

Actually no - it's a Facebook planted hit piece. WaPo is relying on it's "social reader" app that is tied to Facebook to keep itself alive.

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