http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_of_Naruto:_Shippūden
“The plot of the second part of the manga and anime series Naruto”
Yes, that is one of the article on wikipedia, it is several pages long. You would think that just one article about one cartoon is good enough. Are you surprised that there is a seperate article about a “plot” that appeared in one of the cartoon.
And there are many many more similar articles about many cartoons, articles about each inidividual characters that appeared in those thousands if not millions cartoons. How valueable are those articles? zero. Who has time to read those articles, and why does anyone who has a normal social life even care to read about every little characters that ever appeared in a animation tv show?
Yet who are those people who wrote those articles? who else, bunch of nerdy teenagers. While other cool popular teeangers are busy having sex, socializing with other people, those nerdy teenagers stay at home, watch cartoons, then get on wikipedia spend their time writing articles about those cartoon characters, and start editing wars with other nerdy OCD administrators and teeangers.
Those teenagers already have no life by staying at home. Now wikipedia gives them a false sense of pride by calling them “editors” of an online “encyclopedia.” All of sudden, those nerds become someone important. If they are not able to have any social interactions in real life, at least, they can communicate with strangers all over the world on wikipedia. It makes them feel as if they are “contributing” for the good of the society.
oh, come on, who cares to read about what they wrote about millions of the cartoon characters?
It is a waste of their life. And it creates personality disorders if those teeangers stay on wikipedia for too long. No one who has a real social life can possibly spend hours and hours on that site writing articles.
Teenagers are the group that most likely to form internet addiction. Their brains are still developing. wikipedia creates addiction and OCD especially for teenagers who are lack of self-control.
Therefore, for your own teenagers’ good mental health, all parents should ban their teenagers editing wikipedia articles. It is ideal if all parents just simply block the wikipedia access for their own good. There are plenty real reference sites online that are free and free of errors.
March 5, 2007 at 1:16 am |
“And there are many many more similar articles about many cartoons, articles about each inidividual characters that appeared in those thousands if not millions cartoons. How valueable are those articles? zero. Who has time to read those articles, and why does anyone who has a normal social life even care to read about every little characters that ever appeared in a animation tv show?”
Fans of Naruto care about it. And there are many more of them than there are people who care about how little interest you have in it.
“Yet who are those people who wrote those articles? who else, bunch of nerdy teenagers. While other cool popular teeangers are busy having sex, socializing with other people, those nerdy teenagers stay at home, watch cartoons, then get on wikipedia spend their time writing articles about those cartoon characters, and start editing wars with other nerdy OCD administrators and teeangers.
Those teenagers already have no life by staying at home. ”
Say what you will, but staying at home and contributing to Wikipedia is alot more constructive than staying at home and griping about it. Some people enjoy contributing to wikipedia. Why does it bother you what people you’ve never met hundreds of miles away are doing with their free time?
March 9, 2007 at 9:25 am |
“fans of naruto”, how many of them exist in the planet of earth?
By editing that article, do they make this world a better place to live?
Some people don’t “enjoy” “contributing,” they just get the psychological satisifaction because they are a nobody in real life. No one cares if there is one article about naruto or 1 million articles, it is a total waste of time!
It doesn’t bother me, but there are wars, there are hungary people. If those idiots out there have the free time, why can’t they go out and volunteer, and actually do something constructive to the real society?
March 9, 2007 at 2:06 pm |
Like I said, there a lot of Naruto fans out there. Just run a google search for Naruto and see how many fansites there are.
A highly comprehensive free encyclopedia that can be accessed anywhere in the world is a waste of time? In poor countries I can see that being a blessing compared to a need to buy dozens of textbooks that aren’t nearly as complete.
March 11, 2007 at 7:46 pm |
The textbooks may not be as complete, but chances are the “editing” won’t be as erratic as Wikipedia’s.
In poor countries, just having a meal is a blessing. Computers are way down the list of priorities.
March 23, 2007 at 7:13 pm |
Are you Christian? What’s with the blessings?
What’s so wrong with intellectual exchange? Of course the site will be erratic with it’s editing issues, but that doesn’t change the fact that people who are using it have knowledge and interests that exceed those cannonized in the Brittanica. If people dig anime enough, let them debate for pages on the correct plot of a particular cartoon. It matters to them, so let them enjoy their dialogue.
“It doesn’t bother me, but there are wars, there are hungary people. If those idiots out there have the free time, why can’t they go out and volunteer, and actually do something constructive to the real society?”
Why don’t you? You’re posting on a blog. Go feed the hungry! Or at least learn how to spell…
March 24, 2007 at 1:34 am |
“Are you Christian?”
No. Everything doesn’t have to be taken so literally.
“What’s wrong with intellectual exchange?”
Wikipedia is referred to as a “free encyclopedia,” not a forum for intellectual exchange.
The main problem is the use of Wikipedia as source material, and those citing it not issuing disclaimers about its limitations. That’s irresponsible.
“…or at least learn how to spell…”
First of all, “…it’s editing issues…” shouldn’t have an apostrophe. This is one of the rare cases in which an apostrophe is not used to show possessive form.
“…those cannonized in the Brittanica…”
The proper spelling is “canonized.”
April 14, 2007 at 12:47 am |
Well, Wikipedia sucks anyway.
April 27, 2007 at 5:41 pm |
1) “And there are many many more similar articles about many cartoons, articles about each inidividual characters that appeared in those thousands if not millions cartoons. How valueable are those articles? zero. Who has time to read those articles, and why does anyone who has a normal social life even care to read about every little characters that ever appeared in a animation tv show?”
Ok, lets start off with this one shall we? First off, your so called “value” of these articals seems to be coming from within your own narrow scope of what “vaule” really is. Its all relative…these articals may be worth lets than a chewed up, dirty, used movie ticket to you. But for the people who write these things (and the millions…yes millions) who read them, they ARE worth something. If they admitted the fact that these things where worthless, they would’nt have written them in the first place. Trust me.
Also regarding who has time to read the many articals that these people make, the answer my freind?
Millions
I have a social life, I socalize (but in regards to your comment I don’t have sex…I’m saving my virginity for when I’m married) with my freinds and go to the movies, the shopping center, and over to their houses…I throw parties. But the fact that I do all this dosn’t mean that I still don’t have free time on the side. I visit wikipedia regulary. Its just something that I do and noone should be repremanded for visiting a site that you just so happen not to like. It dosn’t make them wrong, because in no way (on this subject at least) are you right.
2)”Yet who are those people who wrote those articles? who else, bunch of nerdy teenagers. While other cool popular teeangers are busy having sex, socializing with other people, those nerdy teenagers stay at home, watch cartoons, then get on wikipedia spend their time writing articles about those cartoon characters, and start editing wars with other nerdy OCD administrators and teeangers.”
Lets move on down the line…a bunch of nerdy teenagers? Please. Bro, your starting to sound like some of those orange-tanned preps in hight school that wear Holister and A&F and Rainbows… That comment is simply immature and childish. For your sakes I hope that your under the age of 21. So tell me, is your idea of having a life having sex (and taking the risk of contracting STDs), drinking (and possibly perishing from drunk driving or achohol poisoning) and things of that nature, having a life? Even if these nerds are wasting their lives away on the computer…which their not…at least their doing it free of any potential hazerdous health risks. And unless you can show me a case in which OCD caused more deaths than STDs and Drunk Driving in the age group of teenagers thoughout America, don’t count OCD.
3)”It doesn’t bother me, but there are wars, there are hungary people. If those idiots out there have the free time, why can’t they go out and volunteer, and actually do something constructive to the real society?”
Ah, here’s an easy one. I can solve this one in less than 30 (not including the parenthesis) words:
Don’t tell them to help society, when just about the same percent of the teenagers you described as actually having a life don’t do anything for the world either. (And for the teen group that’s a pretty low percentage).
4)”By editing that article, do they make this world a better place to live?”
Oh I’m gonna have some fun with this one folks. Lets see. By socializing and having sex…as you so eliquently defined the ideal teenage “life” above in your original article, are those two things making this world a better place to live? Let me answer my own question: No. The kids who go out to their friends house and then go to the mall together and get a tan are benifiting the world no more than the kid who gets a hot pocket out of the microwave and scoots in his room to edit a Wikipedia artical. Don’t be a pot that calls the kettle black. Unless these kids are actually hurting society (and I don’t see how that’s the case if their posting anime arcitals for pete’s sake) then you have no right to degrade the way they life. I could just as easily create a blog just a long as yours if not longer, ragging on teens that life the lifestyle that you described above.
All I’m asking is that you realize that these kids are not the bane of society. The way you wrote your article seemed to attack them more than Wikipedia. They do not deserve to be called nerds, more-so than any other group deserves to be called preps, goths, jocks, pot-heads (or druggies), or airheads. Lables are ugly. They degrade people more than the articles these kids write. Just be more considerate and less condecending.
Thank you
May 2, 2007 at 10:48 pm |
toxictoothpick, yea, that is your user name. how nerdy is that? do you think that crazy people all realize that they are crazy? how many nerds admit that they are nerdy?
you think that a football jock, a hot cheerlearder will have the time and energy to sit down and write about tons of cartoon characters on wikipedia?
and do you see hollywood making any TV shows and movies about nerds who are editing wikipedia articles? it will never happen.
in order to write those nerdy cartoon articles on wikipedia, those nerds first have to watch them, then they probably have to watch them again in order to write down the names, places, etc. then they have write the articles, and they have proofread, do the spelling check.
my suggestion to all the nerds is to get a real job, get a real social life, stop wasting your life away. losers.
May 10, 2007 at 6:51 pm |
Lets tackle the next set, shall we?
1) “toxictoothpick, yea, that is your username. how nerdy is that?”
Dude, to repeat what I had said in my first post…for your sake I REALLY, hope that your under the age of 21…and now that I even think about it…18…anyone over those ages is too much of a grown adult to be using childish name calling such as that. It does nothing but make you sound like a kid. And , yes, brilliant deduction, that IS indeed my username…I would have never guessed you would have looked at the website that I had voluntarily entered, to see what my page looked like and what my “real” username actually was…genius. I should hire you as a private eye, the next time that coke in the back of the fridge goes missing. That username is based off of an inside joke that me and the numerous freinds that I SOCALIZE with on a regular basis have.
But more to the point…lets continue on…
2) “you think that a football jock, (or) a hot cheerleader will have the time and energy to sit down and write about tons of cartoon characters on wikipedia?”
I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect question. To answer you question.
Yes.
Do you know why? Because number one: I know 3 people that do exactly what you just described. Two “hot” cheerleaders, and a “jock”…he plays tight-end on varsity. And number 2…I’m the 8th fastest person in my state in the 800m, and as you read above I go on wikipedia. The fact of the matter is that YOU many not know anyone who does who fit the constraints of a “hot” girl who’s a cheerleader, or a studly “jock” who plays football, yet visits this site you so obviously hate, so it may be difficult for you to understand, that on the contrary there are people that DO.
On a side note, however, I love the fact that the socialites that you mentioned not only had to be cheerleaders but also “hot” cheerleaders. And not only athletes (that could have been from any other sport) but football athletes…the ultimate popular sport eh? “jocks” you called them. Those cool dudes and those hot-hot cheerleaders where a match made in heaven wern’t they? (I’m gettin a kick outta this)
I’m going off on a tangent again…onward to the next one…
3) “and do you see hollywood making any TV shows and movies about nerds who are editing wikipedia articles? it will never happen.”
Jesus…they just get better and better don’t they?! Show time!!!
Ok, while I’m sure that if you gathered the right cast, had an engaging enough storyline, and great director and producer…you really COULD create a movie based on wikipedia users (or “nerds” as you love to describe them as) and the articles they edit. I am, by no means saying that it would be a box office smash, I’m saying, that it could be done. But of course, I’ll give you one thing…your right…Hollywood WON’T make a movie or TV show or moive based on this sort of thing because that’s not what the people like you (who comprise a vast majority of the U.S population) want to see. The fact that they coninually turn out movies with: intense sex scenes, blatant drug use and promotion, exessive violence (and sometimes even gore), and language dripping with filth, is the fact that people like you lap it up every time it opens in a ‘theater near you’. Its all about what sells. And as long as people like you comprise a large portion of the U.S market, Hollywood will always be what it is now…
4) “in order to write those nerdy cartoon articles on wikipedia, those nerds first have to watch them, then they probably have to watch them again in order to write down the names, places, etc. then they have write the articles, and they have proofread, do the spelling check.”
Gold…pure gold…I’m telling ya…
Lets just start of by simply saying, that there are probably plently of them who watch this stuff only ONCE, and retain roughtly 90% of the information before they decide to post this stuff down on wikipedia. Now that that is out of the way we’re left with those who do fit into your description of watching the episode again to write down the information they want onto the web. Nothing wrong with this…not anymore than when they write the article itself, can’t blame anyone for trying to get the facts right? I mean come on dude, proofreading and spelling check is something I would hope ANYONE would do on ANY wiki-article if they didn’t want to add fuel to the fire of: ‘wikipedia is poorly written and contains false material’ we all know its true…there are plenty of people out there who say that. Its also the reason why so many schools and collages ban wiki.
5) “my suggestion to all the nerds is to get a real job, get a real social life, stop wasting your life away. losers.”
And here it is…the big finale!!! Are you ready?
I’ll lay this down sweet, simple, and as short as I possibly can. I’ll throw out the estimate that 50% of nerds are “wasting their lives away” (that’s funny stuff there man). Heck…I’ll even bump that variable up to 60%. So now…what makes you think that on the other hand, at the very LEAST 50% to 70% of your “cool” group of teenagers arn’t wasting their lives. Let alone wasting them in a way that could cut YEARS off their life span (i.e: smoking, having unprotected {and yes, even protected} sex, doing drugs, getting drunk, and getting into deadly fights or confronations {gangs}).
All I can say…is that even if 100% of the nerd population where “wasting there lives away”, at least they were doing it in a way that wouldn’t and COULD’NT possibly kill them at any point in time…
So since there are probably just as many “cool” kids, wasting their time as “uncool” kids (an even if their not…whatever amount of them exist non-the-less). Let me close with this statment, quite similar to yours.
My suggestion to all preps, jocks, cool kids, partiers, “hotties”, cheerleaders, skaters, (and every other faction of teenagers that encompases the “cool” sector, as dictated by Wikipedia generated OCD) is to get a real job, get a REAL social life, and stop wasting your life away. Losers.
August 4, 2007 at 12:19 am |
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