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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (sh.itjust.works)

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting anecdote. Though to judge by your username, it seems you may have an agenda yourself.

So you end up having situations where companies hire agencies to improve their image by changing the wikipedia article about them and their products, same thing for celebrities

This is a major problem that takes up a lot of time for the editors. It explains some of their trigger-happiness.

That said, you have a valid point. I once tried to water down what I considered to be excessively POV language in an article about diet. This earned me an official warning for "extremism" or "conspiracism" or whatever. My impressive account pedigree also counted for nothing. So there's definitely a bit of the political bias, the power-tripping and gatekeeping that you see in any online community. But it's a bit of a conundrum too, because they are fighting an uphill battle against people with strong incentives and sometimes money too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Interesting anecdote. Though to judge by your username, it seems you may have an agenda yourself.

This wasn’t the ME/CFS article (the illness I am personally disabled by) and anyways all this happened before I became disabled.

Anyways my ban is over now, but I can’t get myself to edit wikipedia anymore. It was a pretty shitty experience and I don’t wanna go back.

And it wasn’t the only one. So much NPOV-violating stuff on most the fringe articles and whenever you edit to make more neutral tone or you remove something unsupported by citations you end up in an insufferable straw man argument chain on the talk page.

The main fun part is filling out abandoned articles and making new articles yourself. But anything showing problems in other people’s work becomes really tiring really quick with all the talk page nonsense and endless reverts.