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come now boursier. are you really going to add meaningless articles as vague as computer languages and start them with non-sense descriptions such as "they prefer french"? |
come now boursier. are you really going to add meaningless articles as vague as computer languages and start them with non-sense descriptions such as "they prefer french"? |
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| + | Reply: Yes. In the broadest sense, this has been an exercise in exploring unpaved avenues abandoned by their creators. Because of the structure of a wiki, we feel the effect of crowd psychology at work. The same principle that explains why Kitty Genovese could be stabbed in the courtyard of her own building while 82 of her neighbors looked on and nobody called the cops explains why these abandoned articles remain linked. Any time a member of a large group, and psychologically speaking the internet ''is'' a large group, says "''Someone'' else will do this," they are in effect saying, "but not me." |
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| + | This is the problem overall with this particular comment. It criticizes not the originator of the idea, because I did not create the article that referred to "computer languages," I just clicked the dead link as a reminder. While you call this article meaningless, you still did nothing to change it. You are standing in the window, looking down on the courtyard, saying, "someone should really do something." |
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come now boursier. are you really going to add meaningless articles as vague as computer languages and start them with non-sense descriptions such as "they prefer french"?
Reply: Yes. In the broadest sense, this has been an exercise in exploring unpaved avenues abandoned by their creators. Because of the structure of a wiki, we feel the effect of crowd psychology at work. The same principle that explains why Kitty Genovese could be stabbed in the courtyard of her own building while 82 of her neighbors looked on and nobody called the cops explains why these abandoned articles remain linked. Any time a member of a large group, and psychologically speaking the internet is a large group, says "Someone else will do this," they are in effect saying, "but not me."
This is the problem overall with this particular comment. It criticizes not the originator of the idea, because I did not create the article that referred to "computer languages," I just clicked the dead link as a reminder. While you call this article meaningless, you still did nothing to change it. You are standing in the window, looking down on the courtyard, saying, "someone should really do something."