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:::If you want to curb your RW usage and realize it is a hindrance in your life, then switch to Wikipedia for a while. Then taper down your Wikipedia usage where you do less and less Wikipedia editing each day. Like set a limit on how much Wikipedia editing you do each day and make it less and less each day until it's gone.

:::If you want to curb your RW usage and realize it is a hindrance in your life, then switch to Wikipedia for a while. Then taper down your Wikipedia usage where you do less and less Wikipedia editing each day. Like set a limit on how much Wikipedia editing you do each day and make it less and less each day until it's gone.

:::Also, speaking as a person who knows something about web marketing, RationalWiki is currently bleeding inbound links at a fast clip and it also lost some search engine traffic in December (see: [[RationalWiki and web traffic]]). Both of these developments may be a sign of future web traffic loss. RationalWiki has 7,000 pages of web content, but not enough editors to keep the content updated. RationalWiki is in a downward spiral that is more concerned with the ideological purity of its editors rather than the quality of its editors. So the future of that wiki is grim. On top of this, the politically left-of-center faction of USA politics in the USA is going to suffer some bruising defeats in 2022 so that might be a demotivator in terms of volunteers. So if you are looking for people to actually read your content in the future, RationalWiki is not a good place to post content.  

:::Also, speaking as a person who knows something about web marketing, RationalWiki is currently bleeding inbound links at a fast clip and it also lost some search engine traffic in December (see: [[RationalWiki and web traffic]]). Both of these developments may be a sign of future web traffic loss. RationalWiki has 7,000 pages of web content, but not enough editors to keep the content updated. RationalWiki is in a downward spiral that is more concerned with the ideological purity of its editors rather than the quality of its editors. So the future of that wiki is grim. On top of this, the politically left-of-center faction of USA politics in the USA is probably going to suffer some bruising defeats in 2022 so that might be a demotivator in terms of volunteers. So if you are looking for people to actually read your content in the future, RationalWiki is not a good place to post content.  

:::As far as RW's online forum (The Saloon bar), according to the book ''Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action'', "Peter Kollock and Marc Smith, editors of ''Communities in Cyberspace'',  online chat groups tend to be anarchistic or a dictatorship, depending on how well moderated they are."(''Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action'', page 5, by Steve Davis, Larry Elin and Grant Reheer, Westview Press, 2002). The talk pages and "Saloon Bar" discussion areas of RationalWiki fall on the dictatorship part of the moderation spectrum. The problem with this approach is that it is not a viable way to bring in new editors.

:::As far as RW's online forum (The Saloon bar), according to the book ''Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action'', "Peter Kollock and Marc Smith, editors of ''Communities in Cyberspace'',  online chat groups tend to be anarchistic or a dictatorship, depending on how well moderated they are."(''Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action'', page 5, by Steve Davis, Larry Elin and Grant Reheer, Westview Press, 2002). The talk pages and "Saloon Bar" discussion areas of RationalWiki fall on the dictatorship part of the moderation spectrum. The problem with this approach is that it is not a viable way to bring in new editors.