User talk:Dougk
Now you are not even allowing me to request the deletion of my own account, and you are vandalizing my own homepages. Clearly you are harrassing me and preventing a resolution to this situation. I will ask you politely once and only once to allow me to put back the request for account deletion on MY OWN PAGE. The contents are below. I will keep them here for you so you know what I was trying to say which is my right.
The user DougHolton has requested the deletion of this account, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username#DougHolton_-.3E_delete_or_any_random_jibberish
Control over editing this userpage and the talk page for this user has been taken away from the user. Thus any content on this page cannot be trusted, may be inaccurate or even defamatory, thus bringing up the possibility of legal ramifications.
Please use the rationale parameter to explain why this user talk page should be deleted. (E.g., {{db-u1|rationale= }}.) Thanks!
Per the User page guidelines, user talk pages are generally not deleted, barring legal threats or other grievous violations that have to be removed for legal reasons. In addition, nonpublic personal information and potentially libellous information posted to your talk page may be removed by making a request for oversight.
Users who have left Wikipedia may be added to Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians.
Weblog on researching and developing educational technology called EdTechDev
Netwhoring refers to when a person or group from popular cultural media, such as TV or movie celebrities or musical bands, uncharacteristically reach out to popular Internet culture or make overt references to such culture in an attempt to gain more popularity.
Netwhoring as a label may connotate a slightly pejorative meaning, yet most fans appear overall to appreciate these gestures towards Internet culture.
Examples
Some recent examples include:
- Of course many political figures in the U.S. and other countries have been using the Internet to gain more votes. Most famously, Howard Dean during his 2004 U.S. presidential campaign gave rise to a large grassroots movement via websites, email lists, discussion boards and weblogs.
- The creators of the animated South Park series aired an episode in October, 2006 entitled Make Love, Not Warcraft, in which the main characters were in a plot involving the popular MMORPG game World of Warcraft.
- Also in October 2006, Duran Duran created virtual avatars for each member of the band in the 3D multiuser online world Second Life and performed virtual online concerts. They are calling themselves the first band to become citizens of Second Life. [1]
- The musical satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic released online the video for a single entitled "White And Nerdy" on September 26th, 2006, that makes numerous references to web and programming culture, including Wikipedia itself. The video was actually leaked on Myspace and Youtube earlier than Weird Al had planned, but it became a very popular net phenomenon. This is an example of netwhoring that is likely not considered pejoratively by anyone, given Weird Al's previous history and references to related "geeky" and "nerdy" things in culture.
- Stephen Colbert in 2006 has made overt references to the Internet such as with his coinage of the neologism Wikiality, in addition to informing viewers to sites where they could vote to name things such as bridges or team mascots after himself.
Popular Vehicles for Netwhoring
Celebrities are releasing videos on Youtube and doing interviews or concerts in Second Life, for example. Other vehicles for such netwhoring include:
References
- ^ Lars Brandle (2006-10-10). "Duran Duran finds new "Life" in reality game". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)
Related Terminology and Phenomena
- Karma whoring on websites such as Slashdot. This is not done by celebrities but rather regular users of the site.
- The expression "ratings whore" is sometimes applied to the producers behind the uncharacteristic or otherwise attention grabbing things seen on television shows and networks, especially during months when Nielsen Ratings are being taken.
- Some celebrities whose popularity has faded have appeared on recent TV reality shows such as The Surreal Life, partly as an effort to reinvigorate their careers.