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- Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:56 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Is the administrator decline reversing?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1104
Re: Is the adminitrator decline reversing?
I think it's an outlier. So many admins have been leaving and so few joining that the Wikipedia admin procedure had collapsed. It was so low, that it was really only a matter of time until this happened. Unless it happens for a few months in a row though, it doesn't really mean anything. But this m...
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Is the administrator decline reversing?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1104
Is the administrator decline reversing?
This months it seems more administrators were approved/re-syspossed than the number of those de-sysopped. Any thoughts on where this is going to lead?
Has the decline hit the rock bottom?
Has the decline hit the rock bottom?
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: How to be a sockpuppeteer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6886
Re: Anti-innovative
If a user started making legitimatepy good contributions, where is the point in keeping him blocked? Because it's content that some other bum doesn't like, even if it's 100% reliably sourced. From then on, the user can subjugate content to the democratic system and distort it by distorting the poli...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:48 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: How to be a sockpuppeteer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6886
Re: How to be a sockpuppeteer
Just to clarify I didn't make that comment, but what is true is IP is only the first step if the investigation is inconclusive. There's a number of aspects besides IP and behavioral evidence they use to identify a potential sock. Serial sock-puppeteers I know and from my own experience with this pr...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Beeblebrox is a CU again, but some CU's don't trust him
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1720
Re: Beeblebrox is a CU again, but some CU's don't trust him
Why would they trust him? He lacks judgement as an administrator so how would he make a trustable CU?
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: How to be a sockpuppeteer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6886
Re: How to be a sockpuppeteer
Wikipedia primarily tracks socks using cookies now. That's FALSE. WP does not track socks with cookies, only block evasion. Tracking socks - correctly: alternative accounts, unless abused for voting and consensus manipulation - with cookies would be a preemptive measure to prevent socking by non-pr...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: How to be a sockpuppeteer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6886
Re: How to be a sockpuppeteer
This advice is out of date. Wikipedia primarily tracks socks using cookies now. So clear 'em. I seriously doubt they ever really used IP addresses as the primary identifier. It's always been User Agent strings and behavioral cues. Partially correct. Range also counts in. They also have access to ot...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1268
Re: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
JuiceBeetle wrote:Interesting reference to Robert McClenon on SilkTork's ArbCom nomination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2018/Candidates/SilkTork/Questions#Questions_from_Collect
Where's he mentioned? Which paragraph?
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1268
Re: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
JuiceBeetle wrote:I am interested to see the hooligan comments of Robert. Haven't seen those yet.
Perhaps I should have written troll, but trolling online can be considered cyber hooliganism, no?
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:52 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1268
Re: ANI/AN hooligan Robert McClenon
How do you miss the most hilarious thing about him? Too bad you don't value real critics who don't have to look this shit up in a desperate attempt to convince people there's any point posting on this shit-hole. I wonder what Kumioko, Anyone or Abd know about the fellow. I AM ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT...