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It's just one of those muddled days again, blog sites like a few we've read are now having to deal with content disputes and litigation. Otherwise, that lavatory wall that now is Web 2.0 has lately had a conscience recap. Civility is the word of the day, but how much of that covers commenting freedom of abusive speech is, quite what most are debating these days.

Do we really need to police Web 2.0?

No. I've tried it on Wikipedia. It doesn't effin work. That's my POV. Why? I discovered "Reverts", "Sock Puppets", "Admins", and techie plugins like links. Wikipedia changed my view on the righteous igno-majority. An example:

Idiot A reverts and adds much of his/her self serving rhetoric on someone else's carefully prepared text. Idiot A then invites Barnyard Star Idiot B to lend support and certify the entire article theirs to edit and own. Idiot A and B clump together and go on cluttering articles with innaccuracies too sorry to mention. They then form a community with Idiot C, who is primus inter pares on the clueless stakes. The 3 have approximately eight marbles between them and they then proceed to carve out their loused niche in the Wikisphere.

This little community then scurry along Meercat-like to "protect" their precious articles. They fling abuse on Usertalk pages and generally contrive to use the wide array of tools available to them. These range from IP Blocking, to defacing and finally threats, especially when proven wrong.

That is the sad thing about Wiki- It has become the mirror in which we see a distorted, self policed, voting majority internet, engaged in less article writing and more on reactionary disputes. Not unlike the Image of the Old Engine above. Except sadder because you're dealing with Idiots.

So you think commenting is nice. Read this and this is why it's fucking great. It's a living breathing democracy of voices and opinions.

Can I put up with that?

Yes.