Gross #wikipedia

@pluralistic Wow.

What's #Wikipedia's attitude to such grifters?

@pluralistic I know someone with a successful business doing this for probably 20 years now

@pluralistic going to guess this breaks Wikipedia t&cs? Also for Wikipedia "consultants" they've clearly not done their research to end up contacting you!

@pluralistic Famous people problems.

@simon_brooke @pluralistic not really cool with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_truth_about_paid_Wikipedia_editing

@pluralistic tell me you haven’t read someone’s Wikipedia page without telling me you haven’t read someone’s Wikipedia page.

@pluralistic I'm guessing they didn't read your Wikipedia page before offering to enshittify it.

@pluralistic What the actual bot??!

@pluralistic Compliant? Get bent.

@pluralistic

Reading the first paragraph is enough for me to flag that template search optimization bullshit.

Undoubtably today it’s been AI generated

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic : AI;DR (was previously SEO;DR)

@manchicken @pluralistic : In 2006, I was contacted by an advertising firm wishing to make me write sponsorised blog posts on my blog.

I was broke, I accepted the discussion and had multiple exchange with a real human who didn’t want to tell me who the "big client" was. I only knew I would very proud to write about them.

When I eventually refused, the angry marketers told me I missed a unique opportunity to write about… Microsoft products.

My blog was dedicated to FLOSS and Linux!

@ploum @manchicken @pluralistic
"So, I know I normally this space is normally dedicated to open source software, but have you guys tried Windows?"

POOF, credibility evaporated!

@TheGreatLlama @manchicken @pluralistic : worst of all, it was war a ridicule amount (something between 70€ and 150€, depending of the number of posts).

I’m not against money. Everyone has a price. But I discovered that, at that level, it was more an insult than being paid.