I thought it was the cleanest way to go about it. I didn't want all the data, just some of it. What would you have done? I spent a long time trying to find the best way to convert a MySQL dump to PostgreSQL but ultimately decided upon going the CSV route.
It was definitely an ad[0]. But the Reddit subreddit ads I think are excluded from Adblock Plus if you have it set to allow "unobtrusive" ads (which is the default)
Not the button I'm talking about[0]. There must have been ads too, but there was a generic non-ad "Did you press the button" button on the front page in the days following Apr 1[1].
I'm sorry but I can't take the author's advice on speed seriously when he's using Comcast's charge-you-every-month modem which is known to get terrible speeds to begin with. Let alone someone who is running wifi between their router and their modem.
If you want the fastest speeds on Comcast, pick up a DOCSIS 3 Motorola Surfboard modem. I'm paying for 100/20. This is what I get with my surfboard http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4251868226
My 3 year old Mazda uses a key fob. As long as the key is on my person, the doors will unlock and the car will turn on without me needing to press any buttons on the keys themselves nor do I have to turn my key in the steering column. I have had to use rentals from time to time and the entire act of pulling my key from my picked is so inconvenient and annoying (I know, I know, FWP.)
On wikipedia, people write the initial articles and then watch them. Most authors are watching hundreds of articles that they "own" and usually swoop in to undo any bad changes. It has it's good sides but it also is like the feudal system where all of these writers are kings of their domain.
I added additional helpful information and photos to an article local to my area about a coal mine explosion that happened in the early 20th century. The original author came back and undid all of my changes because he was the "original author" which somehow gave him permission to do that. I had to appease his ego so that he would allow me to make the changes (that or I could have challenged him publicly, which I really didn't want to do.)
I can't speak for this author on Bitcoins... just my experience on Wikipedia.
On Wikipedia, unless an article has been locked in some way which changes things, anyone can watch an article, and anyone can revert any changes (and is encouraged to do so if the changes don't meet Wikipedia guidelines.) There is nothing special about being the original article creator. The original article creator is perhaps particularly likely to be especially interested in the subject and the article, but has no special authority or power.
> What makes him more authoritarian to what goes into the article, technically speaking?
Nothing, in theory. In practice, if you edit, they revert, you edit again, and they revert again, that is then an "edit war" and they can have the page locked for a while. It takes effort to make a change that even one person really doesn't want you to make - if they keep it up, you eventually have to go through the bureaucracy.
