@bbb23 sucks: I agree with your general premise that the overpopulation threat has been wildly overblown. Earth can support over 10 million people without problem for the practically foreseeable future. However, the other dude has a point about the fentanyl deaths. The combined tally of suicide, dru...

Rather than a particular one, there are multiple independent and mostly unrelated cabals. There are South Asian cabals, Russian cabals, Greek cabals, Palestinian cabals, Christian cabals, etc. South Asian entertainment articles are hilariously flowery and puffy. So are articles about South Asian pol...

Vandals can induce "technical errors":

https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip ... roxy_links

If this works today it probably would have worked 20 years ago. The offending edits were probably erased.

For American boomers, 60 is the new 90.

Extended confirmed: ~$500-2500 depending on the account's permanent record (minimum effort accounts and banned/controversial users are next to worthless) Autopatroller/pending changes: $2500-5000 ($50,000-500,000 if on track to adminship) Admin: $1,000,000 (over $10,000,000 if legacy editor) Clerk: ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing Almost every picture in the article is a painting of a fat, Neanderthaloid white woman. Talk page comment from 2018: "Just discovered this article and was drawn to the illustrations, almost all of which show women bathing. Is this imbalance due to a deliberate c...

Is the effort required to get ECP high? Imo, no. It's only 500 edits. Just make 25 edits a day, and have your extended confirmed account in 1 month. Not every edit has to be constructive and sourced. 25 edits a day is nothing really. Don't sandbox edits, talk page discussions, and noticeboard/propos...

I've been on the internet and a member of online communities for a very long time. I have witnessed several attempts to establish "alternative" forums to bigger, more popular ones. Every single one of them was a failure. I have also seen attempts to re-create dead communities. Again, failure. See al...

https://www.quora.com/Is-New-World-Ency ... =316895557

I'm surprised we don't have more discussion about this around here...

Well, you were right again. It's honestly hilarious how difficult it is to become an admin on Wikipedia, compared to how easy it is to become a destroyer. Why is it that every other website (Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, etc) requires a cell phone number to join, making life much harder for an...