LA Times Wikitorial gets the goatse

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― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

At 4am the paper's managing editor got a call from the office. Explicit images known as "goatses" had appeared on the wikitorial page. The experiment was terminated.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh Lord

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe next time they can build their own content management system

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

That's right, let the big boys manage public opinion. After all, they've done such a fantastic job of it so far. Christ, the LA Times is smug as fuck.

― Bob Amal (bobnope), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Some smart commentary on this:

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/06/of_wikitorials.html#001252

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

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