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by sparkzilla 4241 days ago
It's only a problem on an encyclopedia because it's not relevant to its mission. As primarily a news archive we don't care as much about PR (Almost all company news is PR anyway), and if it became a problem we would flag it so it could be seen by those who are interested in it (There's value in having a PR archive too), and hidden by those who don't want to see it. The user should be in control. One man's PR is another man's news.