"I will edit anything anywhere I want to and make you look at what I want you to" is the
spam brand ethic. It is total disregard of any attempt to scope page
?s for usefulness, respect
terms of use or anything else
we, the Living Platform users may require. It is the worst form of
wiki vandalism and is actually genuine vandalism
? in the sense of generating senseless
page history that does not even track human reactions to page.
A theory of
link ethics must deal explicitly with spam as the
administrator guidelines of
LivingPlatform.CA itself. Any theory which does not make spam the very lowest form of page edit
?, or tied with genuine insert-error vandalism
? is wrong by definition.
Some
wiki spam has already begun to appear on pages. The
senior editor guidelines of
openpolitics.ca itself permit a
senior editor to
delete versions
only for the purpose of removing all record of spam in the
page history. The use of
rollback is also recommended only for this particularly noxious form of vandalism
?.