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Ever experienced a "wiki binge"?
2008-01-24, 9:16 PM #1
You know, those moments where you would go on wikipedia.org or any other such wiki and find yourself clicking on link after link, absorbing loads of information about anything from something useful (like biology) or something trivial (like the history of an anime show), only to discover that 2 or so hours have past since you started?

Hehe, I've had some days when that happens to me, usually as a result of looking at one article in particular and just finding myself branching off from one topic to another, almost like having one of those "chain thoughts" you would have when you're monologuing to yourself. Just curious if anyone else does this as well or maybe I'm just a geek with too much time to kill :P
The cake is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
2008-01-24, 9:20 PM #2
It happens to me quite often.

Afterwards, I look at the page I started from and the one I ended up at, and it's amazing how far off track I can get just by following links.
2008-01-24, 9:25 PM #3
Every single time i go on wiki.
Especially wookieepedia.
(Also- You let Space Solders die you *******!)
2008-01-24, 9:27 PM #4
Ahem.
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2008-01-24, 9:28 PM #5
Oh man, yes. I have that reaction to any website that just allows you to click link after link after link. I do the same on myspace and bmezine.com.
"Art is a lie that makes us to realize the truth."
- Pablo Picasso

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2008-01-24, 9:30 PM #6
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
It happens to me quite often.

Afterwards, I look at the page I started from and the one I ended up at, and it's amazing how far off track I can get just by following links.


this.... Sometimes after I realize that I've gotten off track, I would also realize that I had forgotten what I originally went on for. :psyduck:
I can't wait for the day schools get the money they need, and the military has to hold bake sales to afford bombs.
2008-01-24, 9:32 PM #7
bowel movement ezine?

and when did zine become an "in" term again. i thought it was stupid 8 years ago, and i still think its stupid.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2008-01-24, 9:42 PM #8
If you say "no", you're lying.
Pissed Off?
2008-01-24, 9:45 PM #9
Yeah, this should be a public poll so we can see who the soulless ones are.
2008-01-24, 9:46 PM #10
It happens nearly every time I use it, and for far longer than just 2 hours. I'll end up with a whole tab window of Wiki. When I KNOW I have to leave or can't stay awake any longer, I'll use the "bookmark all tabs." There's always at least 50 in that bookmark folder.
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2008-01-24, 10:00 PM #11
wookiepedia does it to me the most
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2008-01-24, 10:05 PM #12
At least once a week.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2008-01-24, 10:06 PM #13
Originally posted by genk:
wookiepedia does it to me the most


Me too.

I waste so many hours on that site.
2008-01-24, 10:11 PM #14
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
At least once a week.


And usually during class.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2008-01-24, 10:16 PM #15
never.
serious.

I guess I just.. don't care about stuff.
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2008-01-24, 10:41 PM #16
Yeah the other day I had to look up something about Hong Kong and somehow got all the way to "Solar Flares"; it was something like:

Hong Kong -> List of Countries by Population Density -> Canada -> Canadian Culture -> Fictional Canadians -> Rodney McKay -> Astrophysics -> Star -> Sun -> Solar Flare

Read every single article there too.
Stuff
2008-01-24, 10:52 PM #17
There's a reason I try not to go to wikipedia, or any other wiki for that matter. Every time I do, I get sucked in for much longer than I had time for... and it's usually when I'm trying to get some work done.
Sam: "Sir we can't call it 'The Enterprise'"
Jack: "Why not!"
2008-01-24, 11:12 PM #18
It's not fair, the only yes option says "all the time" and I don't do it all the time only sometimes

THIS POLL SUX BUTTES
2008-01-24, 11:36 PM #19
Yeah. Not on Wikipedia anymore but when I discover a new fancy wiki like TVTropes, yeah, I'll get stuck for hours. :|
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2008-01-25, 12:37 AM #20
You posted that link with cruel intent. :suicide:
2008-01-25, 12:50 AM #21
I like to do wikiraces with my friends via MSN.

Once I bet my friend that I could get from Pussy to Bulgaria in less clicks than him. I was pretty surprised at the result. Pussy->German Language->Bulgaria.

>_>

o.0
2008-01-25, 2:39 AM #22
Originally posted by Ford:
bowel movement ezine?


Body Mofication.



I advice against visiting. If you think I'm a douche... well atleast I'm not some fat guy taking pictures of his DIY castration in his bathroom and then posting it everywhere.
2008-01-25, 3:34 AM #23
To be fair, they section that kind of body mod away from the rest...
omnia mea mecum porto
2008-01-25, 4:00 AM #24
MB knows all about my wiki hunting exploits. Data is a drug.
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2008-01-25, 4:36 AM #25
Oh cripes. Happens to me nearly on a daylie basis. Especially as of late, work is so slow I'm left staring at a computer screen without doing anything.

I've been enjoying wikipedia and wowwiki's lore section.
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2008-01-25, 5:19 AM #26
I get lost in Goonfleet's wiki (Eve players unite!) and in Wikipedia a LOT. Especially if I'm looking up something to use on my server, and there's other software mentioned. "Ooh, list of SMTP servers? Woh, this one looks nice! What, written in D? What the hell is D? Woh, this language is whack!" etc...
2008-01-25, 5:54 AM #27
"Eve players unite" more like "Eve players spend 15 hours a day mining heavy water only stopping once a month to log in their cyno alt and change skills" am I right?
2008-01-25, 7:39 AM #28
@ thread title: um, no
@ jon: yes
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2008-01-25, 7:53 AM #29
Originally posted by Jon`C:
"Eve players unite" more like "Eve players spend 15 hours a day mining heavy water only stopping once a month to log in their cyno alt and change skills" am I right?


Sadly this does sound like the average EVE player.
Stuff
2008-01-25, 8:36 AM #30
i have a couple of times but i quickly realize i've gone off track and stop.
2008-01-25, 9:53 AM #31
Of playing EVE that way or looking at Wikipedia?
2008-01-25, 10:59 AM #32
Originally posted by Jon`C:
"Eve players unite" more like "Eve players spend 15 hours a day mining heavy water only stopping once a month to log in their cyno alt and change skills" am I right?



Good God I'd never mine if my life depended on it. Ratting is far more entertaining.
2008-01-25, 3:05 PM #33
Originally posted by Roach:
To be fair, they section that kind of body mod away from the rest...


But links people send you don't always tell you what you're going to be seeing.
2008-01-25, 4:11 PM #34
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
I get lost in Goonfleet's wiki (Eve players unite!) and in Wikipedia a LOT. Especially if I'm looking up something to use on my server, and there's other software mentioned. "Ooh, list of SMTP servers? Woh, this one looks nice! What, written in D? What the hell is D? Woh, this language is whack!" etc...


It's me, I'm the goon that gets lost in Goonfleet's wiki. I spend so much time on that thing that I can recite you an optimal fitting for nearly every capital ship, every battleship, and recite you the entire Goonfleet history. I actually get pissed when an article doesn't nearly have enough information, this mostly happens only with history articles about EVE.

I am a nerd :awesomelon:
2008-01-25, 4:41 PM #35
whats the ideal loadout for a rorqual
2008-01-25, 5:04 PM #36
Jon, for someone who hates the game so much, you sure know a lot about it.
Stuff
2008-01-25, 5:14 PM #37
Well I thought Wikipedia had an article on "wikipedia addiction" and something else came up as 100% relevant.

[http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l157/fubura/wikipeia.jpg]
Back again
2008-01-25, 6:12 PM #38
Originally posted by SavageX378:
Ever experienced a "wiki binge"?

Every day. Sometimes more than once.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2008-01-25, 6:25 PM #39
Is it wrong that i thought of something else when i saw the two last posts?
2008-01-25, 6:46 PM #40
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Is it wrong that i thought of something else when i saw the two last posts?

The first step to recovery is acceptance. ;)
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
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