Peter Vermaercke » myspace http://alphadelta.be/blog Things in between Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The best thing since pants http://alphadelta.be/blog/2007/12/the-best-thing-since-pants/ http://alphadelta.be/blog/2007/12/the-best-thing-since-pants/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:45:29 +0000 Peter http://alphadelta.be/blog/2007/12/the-best-thing-since-pants/ This so-called vandalism on produsage (user-led content creation) driven sites can sometimes be really interesting. It shows how well sites like Wikipedia can work out if there’s a large community surrounding its platform.

Within the minute the article was re-edited again and reset to its former state. Okay, this is probably a popular article which gets hundreds of hits a minute but still…

MySpace best thing since pants

Some comments on the user profile of the vandal give an idea of how closely attached people are to their wikipedia. They react like someone insulted them.

Some people even feel sorry about their vandalism acts. I mean, this is really strange behaviour if you ask me. I wouldn’t have ever expect this to happen. Normally I’d expect people to become more offensive and unconcerned on the internet because of the idea of anonymity.

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