The best counter to bias is in an openly edited project is contributing corrected information with high quality sources. So instead of spending their time doxxing wikipedia editors, how about actually contributing quality data?
Are you really saying that conservative groups should start publishing facts?
I’m guessing you don’t quite understand how these people work. Most of their policies are crap and most people are still smart enough to understand so they lie. They lie a lot. They lie about just about everything.
See Fox News, for example. Whenever fox News tells a truth, an angel gets its wings and let’s just say that angels learned to dig like worms instead.
See influencers like Ben Shapiro whom I just saw fantasising about his sister btw
See president cheeto, who would excuse himself if he ever said a truth
Are you really saying that conservative groups should start publishing facts?
Yes.
I also understand how they work. That doesn’t change the fact that they should change to start publishing facts.
Some of their policies are acceptable (on paper). I’m generally a fan of lower taxes (ironically, the progressive income tax was created under Republicans Roosevelt and Taft), smaller scope of federal government, and reducing barriers to economic development. And that used to be what conservatives in the US stood for, at least on paper. These days they’re merely obstructionist and don’t seem to actually have a plan themselves, adding as much or more to the national deficit compared to Democrats.
I’m long past believing anyone with power will actually act on their ideological convictions. Democrats are supposed to be the pro-worker party, yet Biden gave railroad workers a pretty crappy deal. Republicans are supposed to be “fiscally conservative,” yet spending rose dramatically during Trump’s first term and is rising this year too (despite claiming to make fiscal cuts), and here’s the official Treasury page stating we’ve already spent 3.5T this year (fiscal year starts in October, so only half that time was under Trump).
Sure. I absolutely hate that “anonymous” edits aren’t actually anonymous, and you basically need a user account to not get insta-reverted. It would be pretty cool if they had a trust system where untrusted edits go to an approval queue or something and you gradually build up trust by not doing graffiti everywhere.
I’d like to make anonymous edits to WP and personally resent their lack of accommodation of that. But I don’t have a very solid proposal as to how it could be done. So must forgive them.
You’d need some kind of account system, but you could probably get away with just signing your edits. If the same key is used to sign an edit, then it can be considered the same “user” even if there’s no persistent account associated w/ it. You’d need to register a public key, but that’s about it.
The best counter to bias is in an openly edited project is contributing corrected information with high quality sources. So instead of spending their time doxxing wikipedia editors, how about actually contributing quality data?
What high quality data? They have nothing, that’s why they are doing this bullshit.
Are you really saying that conservative groups should start publishing facts?
I’m guessing you don’t quite understand how these people work. Most of their policies are crap and most people are still smart enough to understand so they lie. They lie a lot. They lie about just about everything.
See Fox News, for example. Whenever fox News tells a truth, an angel gets its wings and let’s just say that angels learned to dig like worms instead.
See influencers like Ben Shapiro whom I just saw fantasising about his sister btw
See president cheeto, who would excuse himself if he ever said a truth
Truth and facts are poison to these people
Yes.
I also understand how they work. That doesn’t change the fact that they should change to start publishing facts.
Some of their policies are acceptable (on paper). I’m generally a fan of lower taxes (ironically, the progressive income tax was created under Republicans Roosevelt and Taft), smaller scope of federal government, and reducing barriers to economic development. And that used to be what conservatives in the US stood for, at least on paper. These days they’re merely obstructionist and don’t seem to actually have a plan themselves, adding as much or more to the national deficit compared to Democrats.
I’m long past believing anyone with power will actually act on their ideological convictions. Democrats are supposed to be the pro-worker party, yet Biden gave railroad workers a pretty crappy deal. Republicans are supposed to be “fiscally conservative,” yet spending rose dramatically during Trump’s first term and is rising this year too (despite claiming to make fiscal cuts), and here’s the official Treasury page stating we’ve already spent 3.5T this year (fiscal year starts in October, so only half that time was under Trump).
Yeah, that was fake.
Yeah, I just saw that too. Hard to see these days with the idiocies that people like him post
Wikipedia has been doxing their own editors for decades. Heritage is just using the public data. They’re still fash but wikipedia isn’t much better.
Sure. I absolutely hate that “anonymous” edits aren’t actually anonymous, and you basically need a user account to not get insta-reverted. It would be pretty cool if they had a trust system where untrusted edits go to an approval queue or something and you gradually build up trust by not doing graffiti everywhere.
How would that work without accounts?
I’d like to make anonymous edits to WP and personally resent their lack of accommodation of that. But I don’t have a very solid proposal as to how it could be done. So must forgive them.
You’d need some kind of account system, but you could probably get away with just signing your edits. If the same key is used to sign an edit, then it can be considered the same “user” even if there’s no persistent account associated w/ it. You’d need to register a public key, but that’s about it.