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Many players of Eve Online have become convinced that CCP (the company that makes Eve) has rigged the game in favor of a mighty alliance of players called Band of Brothers. In what appears to be a first, the company plans to hold elections so that players can select members of an oversight committee. -
1voteLast summer, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, hired Patrick J. Hynes, a conservative blogger and political consultant, to be his campaign’s blog liaison. Mr. Hynes quickly ran afoul of fellow bloggers by initially concealing his relationship to the McCain campaign while he was writing critically about other Republicans.
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Essjay was a trusted, credible Wikipedia editor/contributor, but it turns out that he fabricated his identity. He's not really a tenured professor but a 24 year-old who has never taught a class before. This raises questions of identity, credibility, transparency on open source collaborations such as Wikipedia. -
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Another follow up article about the Wikipedia editor, Essjay, who lied about his credentials. The article discusses Wikipedia's response, which is to verify credentials. This is causing a debate within the Wikipedia community between credentials as a basis of trust vs. quality as a basis of trust. -
2voteA follow up article about the disgraced Wikipedia administrator named Essjay. He presented himself as a tenured professor when he was really a 20 something with a BA. His contributions to the Wikipedia community were of high quality & he was very well regarded. He said he was just trying to protect his identity, but people feel betrayed b/c they based their trust initially on his credentials.
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2voteThe Valentine's Day breakup of two North Carolina college students that featured singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade was a hoax after all.Ryan Burke confessed Monday that the confrontation, which became an instant hit on YouTube.com, was all a stunt to show the power of Internet communities and the amount of money that companies make from them. The pair weren't even dating.
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