David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war

Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by avmich on Sunday June 11, 2017 @11:57PM (#14535142)

I've skimmed through Bitcoin article on RationalWiki and phrases like

"The use case of the currency is purchasing illicit goods (e.g., drugs and stolen data on darknet marketsWikipedia's W.svg) and darknet scams (e.g., murder-for-hire)[10][11] and extortion (e.g., "ransomware", for which it is the currency of choice[12]).[13]"

make me doubtful.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by petre on Monday June 12, 2017 @12:42AM (#14535226)

RationalWiki looks pretty much like a troll enterprise disguised as an encyclopedia.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by lawless123 on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:13AM (#14535958)

it's handy for dodgy medicine, if you see some weird "Miracle cure" or diet etc Rational Wiki usually already has en explanation with citations as to why it's bullshit woo.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by AstralStorm on Monday June 12, 2017 @03:15AM (#14535600)

Poe's law at work. It is quite a genuine extremist wiki, only a bit of troll.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by cholantesh on Monday June 12, 2017 @08:01AM (#14536563)

Skepticism is extremist now? Is that because it is not practiced enough or because expressing it hurts people's feelings?

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by vibratoo on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:27PM (#14542695)

Just pick your side and get polarized into fruitless, shrill conflict like the rest of the world.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by cholantesh on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:07PM (#14547087)

This is a misrepresentation, but I still enjoy that you created an account to disparage behaviour that you're exhibiting yourself.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by hoofish on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:23AM (#14543163)

skepticism is not extremist, but RW editors are extremists

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by ue_ on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:50AM (#14536488)

It's worth noting that RationalWiki can be extremely biased on certain topics, to outright unresearched and amateur content on others. I would be careful taking anything from RW (or Wikipedia, but to a lesser extent) at face value.

https://xkcd.com/906/

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