Earthy astringent banned on WPO

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Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by Kumioko » Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:11 am

I just noticed Wikipediocracy has banned Earthy Astringent, apparently for their history of socking on wikipedia. This is inline with my assertions that Zoloft has made it into a mouthpiece forum for Wikipedia rather than a criticism site.

Here is a link to the article there: https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewto ... =8&t=11458
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Re: Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:57 pm

Well.....I wrote up Little Green Rosetta for the book wiki. SEVEN YEARS AGO. And figured Earthy was the same guy.

About time Tarateenie noticed. Idiots.

The 2013 thread that Vig started:
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtop ... f=8&t=2260
Ah, the "good old days", when Wikipediocracy regularly uncovered Wiki scandals and ran with them. Those days are over.

From the book wiki
Little green rosetta, a sock of Fasttimes68, both accounts run by Mike Ross Forman. First picked up by Wikipediocracy after LGR tag teamed with Qworty, a revenge account run by Robert Clark Young.

Fastimes68, his original account, had a long history with Stephanie Adams. Adams was apparently paying editors to massage the article about her. FT68 wanted the article cut down or deleted. See his nomination for deletion here [1]. FT68 took the whole thing to the point of obsession, including at least one offsite attack. Having refused to back down, Arbcom banned him.

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Re: Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by boredbird » Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:38 am

Kumioko wrote:
Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:11 am
I just noticed Wikipediocracy has banned Earthy Astringent, apparently for their history of socking on wikipedia.
Not for socking they don't care about that.

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Re: Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by Kumioko » Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:29 pm

I don't know. Tarantino's comments sure indicate that was the reason. All I know is that they have banned or pushed out nearly all the real critics. Now the majority of the comments come from poetlister, vigilant and admins and acolytes of Wikipedia.
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Re: Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by boredbird » Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:33 am

Kumioko wrote:
Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:29 pm
Now the majority of the comments come from poetlister, vigilant and admins and acolytes of Wikipedia.
Last I heard Vigilant quit. Has he unquit yet?

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Re: Earthy astringent banned on WPO

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:39 am

boredbird wrote:
Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:33 am
Last I heard Vigilant quit. Has he unquit yet?
He's "quit and unquit" WPO at least three times by my casual count. Might be more I don't know of. (He's a "bit erratic". Lol. Sorta like Adolf Hitler in the last week of April 1945?)

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