Wikipedia Bashers

Really, why do so many people have to hate one Wikipedia? And/or wikis in general? Oh, right, by using their stupid flawed logic: "UH DONT U KNO ANY1 CAN EDIT IT AT ANY TIM AN MAKE IT SAY W/E THEY WANT". Great point, morons, except for one thing: YOUR ARGUMENT DISPROVES ITSELF. Yes, you can edit Wikipedia to say anything you want. By that, you mean any spamming dickwad can say whatever he wants (this is usually accomplished every 20 seconds by "gangstas" on their rivals' pages), and yet any editor with an ounce of good faith (that's what wikis like to generalize the qualities of decent editors as, "good faith") can change it right back like *snap* THAT.

Seriously, when I systematically prowled my wikis for mistakes, I found a bunch of these dipshits. You know what I found my average response time to be? Five minutes. FIVE minutes. 10 minutes, (for me), tops. You know what the longest period between vandalism, and someone correcting it, that I saw is? 20 minutes. It's only a matter of minutes before your dumbass is no longer in danger of lapping up whatever shit you read, wherever, whenever.

That being said, even on the off-chance that you're a non-editor stumbling upon some of this shit, how stupid would you be to just mindlessly set every damn thing you read, on the internet, down onto stone? I once had a teacher that was just like countless educators across the nation (most of which I've personally had): completely ignorant on the subject. She would prattle on and on, "IF SOMEONE JUST WENT ON AND SCREWED WITH A PAGE SAYING THAT _____ SCHOOL WAS MADE OUT OF CHEESE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, NOBODY WOULD STOP THEM". Yeah, no shit, it's called the 1st Amendment. And then we'd change it back, give them a stupid warning instead of an eternal ban, and then I'll smack you upside the head. Why? Because I'm not a dumbass who would actually buy that, like her.

It's just plain ignorant and insulting to overhear people who say things like "Oh, well, you can't trust Wikipedia, anybody can say anything they want." You know what? Popular pages get protected from attempts to do things like that. If you're not a frequenter of wikipedia, then chances are, you're only going on there for high-traffic pages, anyway. These pages do NOT get messed with. If they do, you can best bet you won't see it for long.

If you got a problem with something you find on the page, then go look for the sources they cite instead, or just, oh, I don't know...GO TO ANOTHER WEBSITE. It's the INTERNET for crying out loud. You really think that, good or bad, Wikipedia is the ONLY way to find information online? Go to a little place called "Google". It's this magical little world that'll find anything you're looking for. Look up (or "query") some popular streets, and go play and traffic, so I never have to hear you again. Ever.