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by boredbird
Thu May 23, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"
Replies: 12
Views: 610

Re: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"

Does the model of WP as a Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game still apply? Yes. The rules have changed, but not significantly enough to make it a different game. Two of your three bullet points can be attributed to the growth of bureaucracy meant to regulate user in-game behavior, so if "rogu...
by boredbird
Wed May 22, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"
Replies: 12
Views: 610

Re: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"

...as for "calm and rational discussion"........numerous people have tried that, over and over, since 2004. Such things don't work with a "cultic network" like Wikipedia. They are too busy fighting stupid wars and knifing people in the back to seriously engage in "rational discussion". Baby steps, ...
by boredbird
Tue May 21, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: User:Tranarchist "civility concerns"
Replies: 3
Views: 159

Re: User:Tranarchist "civility concerns"

That-other-site darling User:Tranarchist, now User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist, has "civility concerns". Who could have possibly seen this coming? He looked so… totally normal … https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1224523230#...
by boredbird
Sat May 18, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: User:Tranarchist "civility concerns"
Replies: 3
Views: 159

User:Tranarchist "civility concerns"

That-other-site darling User:Tranarchist, now User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist, has "civility concerns". Who could have possibly seen this coming? He looked so… totally normal … https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1224523230#U...
by boredbird
Sat May 18, 2024 9:43 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
Replies: 125
Views: 2034

Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....

suckadmin wrote:
Sat May 18, 2024 7:51 pm
boredbird wrote:
Sat May 18, 2024 6:54 pm

preempt another sudden ban which it sounded might be imminent. Knock on wood.
Too late :flamingbanana:
Well damn.

We have two people sniping at one another but one is the site admin so it's like Bambi meets Godzilla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-rbzcEM8A
by boredbird
Sat May 18, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
Replies: 125
Views: 2034

Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....

And try as I might, with suckadmin sending me threats via intermediaries No one told me to write you. It was really me trying to preempt another sudden ban which it sounded might be imminent. Knock on wood. If your reaction is to withdraw your contributions, at least no bridges have been burned and...
by boredbird
Thu May 16, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"
Replies: 12
Views: 610

Re: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"

Oh dear, oh dear... Looks like Crow's posts are being deleted as they spawn. Why, oh why, could that be? Why don't you register here and ask? It's become a lot harder to register since that whole Jennsaurus "Wikipedia investigation" thing . Now registrants have to explain to the site admin why they...
by boredbird
Wed May 15, 2024 12:44 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Are you "queerphobic"?
Replies: 43
Views: 1706

Re: Are you "queerphobic"?

They are solving the gender gap Silicon Valley style.
by boredbird
Tue May 14, 2024 8:03 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Political bias and squabbling
Replies: 43
Views: 9847

Re: Political bias and squabbling

sashi wrote:
Tue May 14, 2024 7:52 am
Looks like MastCell : diff
The previous section title was

=== The question of whether Trump was inept rather than malevolent ===
by boredbird
Tue May 14, 2024 3:18 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Political bias and squabbling
Replies: 43
Views: 9847

Re: Political bias and squabbling

probably the most biased line ive seen in a while is in a section of the "Unite the Right rally" article : "Efforts by Trump and his supporters to rewrite the history of the rally" Why does such a section even exist? Just describe what did happen and leave it at that. Unless the goal is "This artic...