So if you become jaded about perpetual Talk wars, edit reverts, pissing contests about who is really the expert or what is really notable, and decide that you just don't want to work with those cliquy self-appointed arbiters of what is right and fair, then you're evil?
Are there degrees of evil? If you used to contribute before your underwear burned away, are you less evil?
Do you start off good (when you first find wikipedia) and become evil by leeching?
Or is it the exposure to the dirty secrets of its inner workings that make you evil? With good arising from joining the fight against those machinations?
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[ 5.9 ms ] story [ 31.8 ms ] threadWhat point is this trying to make?
Something along those lines.
Are there degrees of evil? If you used to contribute before your underwear burned away, are you less evil?
Do you start off good (when you first find wikipedia) and become evil by leeching?
Or is it the exposure to the dirty secrets of its inner workings that make you evil? With good arising from joining the fight against those machinations?
How is this category notable, BTB?
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No need to get upset, move along.