Not sure if this is so obvious it's not worth mentioning, but given the geo-aware capabilities of smart phone, Google looks poised to bring advertisements to your phone, where you are. 'Sponsored Links' for your augmented reality browser.

What I find most revealing in your comment, which I think other posters should think more carefully about, is:

When a person resists the expectations of our culture's gender socialization, we consider that person unconventional, non-conformist, deviant, or something of the sort.

However, when a person adopts those gender expectations, we call that "natural."

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It's simple, folks. Instead of figuring out how to consume their garbage for free, let's ignore them entirely.
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when you look at the long-term contribution trends http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=B02

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You make a good point about "starter Windows users" unintentionally running a lot of idle programs in the background. But why isn't the solution to design the OS to intelligently save and suspend those processes to free up resources? It seems like the paradigm of users being responsible for opening and closing programs is broken and outdated.

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I can only speak for myself, but the immediacy of seeing my contributions go live, so to speak, is very seductive and entices me to contribute more to the project. If the current model has been successful, it is because it attracts new members who may ultimately become wikiholics. Any new barriers to participation (even social-psychological ones, like I mentioned) might lower recruitment rates, making the community harder to sustain. At least that is my hypothesis.

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What about vandalism that's not so easy to spot? Like a subtle change to an article that (presumably) is not on a lot of people's watchlist? How would the FlaggedRev system handle these types of edits? Would it create tacit approval for these changes? Would it be difficult to revert them at a later time, since at that point the rv would itself look like vandalism? Just a thought.

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Thanks for the insight. I am willing to see how the trial goes.

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Or maybe some type of highlighting for unreviewed edits?

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Agreed - can someone who has followed this more closely clarify what counts as a trusted user? Also, what subset of pages would be subject to the FlaggedRev system?

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