Talk:185: Wikifriends

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I thought this was a reference to the WikiFriends group who defend WikiLeaks. I figured it was about intimidation. 184.66.160.91 02:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

That's impossible. The comic came out before Wikileaks even existed.120.148.234.14 22:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

So the group's name is a fork from this article title?Pacerier (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Actually, Wikileaks launched a month before the comic's publication date, if the above is accurate. Surely you guys remember them leaking the Bush administration's war crimes within the next year or so. โ€”Kazvorpal (talk) 20:20, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

I have a completely different understanding of this comic than what's in the explanation here. Wiki is a site where anyone can change content and it's instantly visible - I think Randall meant that wikifriends are wiki because anyone can change their opinion on movies because they instantly adapt what others say. 141.101.89.217 14:52, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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[…] anyone can change their opinion on movies because they instantly adapt what others say.
Isn't that exactly what the explanation on this page says?Pacerier (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

To me wikifriends were the kind of people that never start a edit war with you: Many scientists that add original research to Wikipedia immediately get followed by Wikipedia s that "have a different opinion here". Several of my friends stopped contributing to Wikipedia after such incidences and they say it is one of the factors that limits Wikipedia 's growth.--Gunterkoenigsmann (talk) 18:24, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Man, I thought I was the only one. I had no idea that other people experienced the same thing that I do; guess it's nice to see that I'm not alone in this boat. Thankfully, I've noticed the effect is reversible; I listened to a review of Demondice's discography in which the reviewer paused every 5 seconds to ridicule the music; in addition, my friend was nearby lambasting it all the time too. Naturally, I thought it was horrible. But when I gave it a chance on its own, with no friends around or a reviewer muttering obscenities in my ear, it really didn't sound as bad as they made it out to be. Pie Guy (talk) 08:23, 4 February 2024