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Jimmy Wales
Personal blog · jimmywales.compoliticsculture
Jimmy Wales's personal blog at jimmywales.com covers politics and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger being blocked from editing. The comment summarises the canvassing and meatpuppetry reasons given for the ban and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Free knowledge for free minds
What Hacker News says?
Larry Sanger was banned mainly because he was found "guilty" of: 1- Canvassing: the act of notifying/recruiting people in a biased, selective, mass, or off-wiki way to sway a discussion. 2- Meatpuppetry: the problem created when recruited real people show up and function as extra votes/support for the recruiter’s side. because he promoted his project "WikiProject Intellectual Diversity" [1] and posted it on X to ove…
Comment linking /about-jimmy/
on “Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia”Submitted Wikipedia Founder: Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Note on Bravery as a story · 3 points
HN discussion