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Encyclosphere - a decentralized network of the world's encyclopedias(encyclosphere.org)

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blowininthewind 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun 3 years ago

just checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger#Encyclosphere this is real, pls do make this happen

magnora7 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun 3 years ago

Hm seems someone has used a bunch of accounts to fraudulently upvote this post

edit: It wasn't the OP, the trolls new tactic is to target innocent posts to try and trick me in to banning innocent people to cause drama. But instead I'm just banning the fraudulent accounts.

[deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun 3 years ago

These trolls really don't have a life, do they?

magnora7 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun 3 years ago

It goes beyond that, they're clearly being paid to do this. No one spends hours a day doing this every day for years. Even psychopaths have limited attention spans. The only explanation for the level of sustained intensity (and complexity of the attacks) is that they're paid to do it.

Jesus 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun 3 years ago

Imagine that. Getting paid to do this. I wonder where they are stationed and who pays them.

magnora7 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun 3 years ago

Probably JIDF or the Russian/Chinese equivalent

[deleted] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun 3 years ago

But this site is not big enough to get sirious attention from whomever is paying them.

Why is this site worth the trouble? Because of free speech?

magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun 3 years ago

Apparently, it is big enough. It's not hard at all to pay 3-4 people $12/hr to destroy a forum if you're a government, or a giant corporation. They don't like competition and don't like people saying things they shouldn't say. This kind of forum destruction is becoming very widespread across all forums. If a forum gets more than 1,000 pageviews a day, it will probably be attacked until it dies. This is what the internet is like now, apparently.

[deleted] 9 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 7 fun10 insightful - 8 fun 3 years ago

https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/wikipedia-co-founder-launching-competitor-website-upset-about-pro-socialism

LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun 3 years ago

I like this Larry Sanger guy.