the problem with wiki
23 Mar 2011 03:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigou...is that you start out, in all innocence, looking up truth serum to find out if it's actually real or just memorex hollywood, and suddenly it's three hours later and you've read about the Bunny Man of Fairfax County, gaslighting, the break-ins at the Watergate, Munchausen by Internet, and somehow ended up on biographies of lesser-known but no less chilling serial murderers from the '20s, capped with a pleasant finale of fictional lethal viruses.
Wtf, wiki, you need an off button.
Wtf, wiki, you need an off button.
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 05:10 pm (UTC)Of course for every awesome history / ghost story thread there's a thread about "What are your terrible habits as a bachelor?" so...
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 01:30 pm (UTC)This. I swear to god, this. I do the exact same thing, it starts out innocently enough:
"Hmmm what does/what is this...."
and then BAM! three hours later I have filled my brain with useless information, that I only store in hopes I would need them whenever I go on Jeopardy! or if some undercover TV show pops out to ask people questions as a means to measure the intelligence of people >_>
After these binges, I usually delete my history, I don't want people to speculate on what thoughts the Wiki-train may take me.
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 04:04 pm (UTC)It's good to know we'll both be ready if this ever happens.
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 01:39 pm (UTC)Munchausen by Internet?!
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 04:08 pm (UTC)What's really crazy is that there are people who are doing this fake-illness thing up to three at a time, like one woman who was "dying of cancer" in the morning on one forum, then suffering a difficult pregnancy by mid-day, and would round off the day with a few hours on a forum for people with hepatitis C. There's crazy, and then there's...
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 03:24 pm (UTC)...so wait, from truth serum you ended up there?
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Date: 26 Mar 2011 01:11 am (UTC)HOW I HAVE NO IDEER.
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 02:00 pm (UTC)Most commonly heard when Quill looks back on 50 something wiki tabs: Dude!! WTF?? How did I get from there to there?!
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 04:12 pm (UTC)Wiki just seems to make us all incapable of using that.
(At least it's better than TVTropes, where you think "I could close this tab..." and then find yourself immediately opening five more to counteract that heretical thought.)
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 07:13 pm (UTC)Y'know, I don't think those little-X's work on my browsers. Maybe my browsers are defective. Or they came equipped with pro-Wiki virii that prevent little-X's from working.
Alright, from now on, that's my story, AND I'M STICKING TO IT.
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 04:03 am (UTC)Wait a minute--now I can't even remember why I thought I needed to be looking up NAO inhibitors.
Can't we go have fun with something like varroa mites on bees or how to eat kudzu or something?
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 02:59 pm (UTC)D:
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