Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

Re:Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists by cookiecaper on Friday February 20, 2009 @04:06PM (#489237)

It's not far off of Wikipedia either. A large number of participants in my Wikiproject, including myself, were eventually burned out by dealing with a few too many highly obsessive and misinformed users.

Seriously, go try to edit one the few somewhat-prominent WP articles that aren't locked and see how quickly someone comes up with a BS reason to revert your perfectly good edits. This happens especially often if you edit something political or religious in nature. It's a mess.

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Re:Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists by endtime on Friday February 20, 2009 @04:11PM (#489252)

Haha, I don't have to try it to know not to mess with politics or religion on Wikiepdia. I don't bother reading those articles either, for the same reasons.

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Re:Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists by jrockway on Friday February 20, 2009 @07:01PM (#489440)

+1.

I edit Wikipedia fairly regularly, and have never had anything reverted.

Actually, there was one time when I edited John Dvorak's page to call him a "gasbag". That was reverted pretty quickly, but he did mention the incident on his podcast (which was the point of making the edit). (Also, he is a gas bag. Thankfully I haven't heard about him for a few years now ;)

But really, no legitimate edits of mine have been reverted :)

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