“Colbert Alert”
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! This is from a New York Times article (TimesSelect subscription required) on Wikipedia:
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
By JONATHAN DEE
Published: July 1, 2007. . .
Messing with a Wikipedia page requires no hacking skills whatsoever; thus vandalism is pandemic there. Though the admins are loath to give vandals special attention in any form, the fact is that there are some who earn their grudging admiration, if only for their sense of humor. Stephen Colbert, in his fake-newsman persona at least, has been a regular tormentor of the site, urging his viewers to change a given fact en masse; when the words “Colbert Alert” appear on the admins’ chat forum, 20 or more of them will rush to the ramparts of a targeted page.
Stephen has his own *alert* — that’s hilarious!
Shout out to Orion7 on the TWoP boards for the tip.
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9 Comments
June 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
HAHAHAHAH
I like that 20 or more people will rush to fix the damage. :D Chaos is fun.
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June 27th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Batten down the hatches!
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June 27th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Ahaha, I feel so proud.
Yet envious, at the same time… xD
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I felt very proud at being banned bythe wikinazis, and the reason stated in the banning notice was for being a “Colbert Troll”. I s#!t thee not” (
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
hmm… half of my comment seems to have disappeared. After the ‘(‘, I said that ‘I s#!t thee not’ is a phrase I’ve used for years and I nearly died when Stephen said it the other night… very odd…
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
(Don’t mind me, just your friendly neighborhood moderator here, coming through to edit comments for “family friendliness”.)
That’s weird about your disappearing post segment, TraceyUK; I have no idea what caused that. Glad you were able to finish your thought, though!
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June 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Ah yes, sorry about that Ms I… didn’t think about it before posting… won’t happen again :)
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December 30th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
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