Amazing Race starts tonight
Mar 7th, 2006 | 04:54 PM
#82
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Keith, sorry for being so short, I can see why you would have a really bad view of Wikipedia. Unfortunately, they're the only collection of rules there are and they're generally accepted to be accurate. Some of the former contestants are pretty active online and I think they would ensure that nothing incorrect is there, although they may not add to the list. There may be more that aren't there, who knows?
Mar 8th, 2006 | 12:55 AM
#83
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>>Wiki is one of my pet peeves - in part because I keep catching people uploading my pictures to the site. <<
I can see why you have a problem with those people posting, but that shouldn't mean you condemn the whole site.
Nothing on the internet can be taken as 100% fact - if there is such a thing.
As for the rules - the reason that football/baseball/etc. rules are published and available is because they're utilized by many different teams, playing many different games simultaneously, and many different referees. The Race isn't. There's one game going at a time, and only one "referee."
I've never seen any published rules for any game show (which is what this is). Have you?
Incidentally--the best place (IMO) to go for hard TAR info is www.tarflies.com
I can see why you have a problem with those people posting, but that shouldn't mean you condemn the whole site.
Nothing on the internet can be taken as 100% fact - if there is such a thing.
As for the rules - the reason that football/baseball/etc. rules are published and available is because they're utilized by many different teams, playing many different games simultaneously, and many different referees. The Race isn't. There's one game going at a time, and only one "referee."
I've never seen any published rules for any game show (which is what this is). Have you?
Incidentally--the best place (IMO) to go for hard TAR info is www.tarflies.com
Mar 8th, 2006 | 04:36 AM
#84
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"I can see why you have a problem with those people posting, but that shouldn't mean you condemn the whole site."
"Nothing on the internet can be taken as 100% fact - if there is such a thing."
That isn't the reason I condem the whole site. I condem the whole site for the reason I stated in the first post. Each entry is only as good as the last person to visit it before you.
At least on most other sites, I have an idea of the bias of the people building the site. At Wiki, we hav no idea who posted to it.
Keith
"Nothing on the internet can be taken as 100% fact - if there is such a thing."
That isn't the reason I condem the whole site. I condem the whole site for the reason I stated in the first post. Each entry is only as good as the last person to visit it before you.
At least on most other sites, I have an idea of the bias of the people building the site. At Wiki, we hav no idea who posted to it.
Keith
