Moderators too busy sniffing underwear drawers to moderate, Beeblebrox calling someone an asshole, Vigilant begging Jake to HOLD HIM BACK from the designated outsider, thread absolutely unreadable even to experts in Wikipedia.
They call that a Tuesday over there.
Fucking dickwads.
The best of it all, as far as I remember, SFR is a member there. So why isn't it bringing them any benefit, having this direct line to the horse's
ass mouth?
I would certainly like to know why SFR has all of a sudden decided that Wikipedia tolerating openly assholish editors like Nableezy is a problem.
Wikipedia has always had the policies to deal with these people for years, they just went unenforced. What's changed?
I mean, Jesus Christ, ask anyone. This has been the hallmark of Wikipedia for years (from Nableezy talk).....
SFR wrote:Editors who's views align with one side or the other rush to back up allies. Then we start seeing a real battleground. Discussions almost immediately break along those lines, and there is even less chance of constructive discussion and compromise. Due to the huge, hostile discussions that arise the likelihood of anyone uninvolved taking part shrinks and you're left with the same editors having the same unproductive discussions. Since tensions are already needlessly high editors that try to join the topic area, especially those who don't have a strong emotional investment or POV, aren't likely to stay around because it's not worth the stress and bullshit.
It has ALWAYS been the case that you can tell who the assholes are by reading the whole nine yards, and they always get off by wikilawyering, or worse, Wikipedia Administrators who are on their team just give them a pass.
So what's changed? What is giving SFR the confidence to think he can pull this off?
And if he feels this strongly, if it does all come to nothing, is he just gonna take it lying down? Or will he stand his ground and file an Arb Case, or even resign his tools in protest. Because why have a hammer if you're not allowed to use it? Why be a Federal Agent if the government doesn't have your back?
As always, Wikipediocracy could give a tiny rat's ass about the view from fifty thousand feet.
They want to be down there, with the wikishits. Nableezy and all the other assholes who have cross pollinated the Wikipedia-Wikipediocracy ecosystem.
If Wikipedioceacy was a true critic's forum, SFR might benefit from a bit of Wikipedia history and learn that the only reason it is this complicated and bureaucratic to deal with asshole editors, such that he has to feel like he's putting his balls on the chopping block just to enforce a bit of decorum, is because Administrators like Black Kite took the absolute fucking piss and abused their authority to protect notorious asholes, as part of the general war against civility.
The history of Wikipedia is the history of Administrators abusing their authority in ways that would have horrified Jimmy Wales and generally saw decent people get treated poorly and assholes get rewarded. Jimmy delegated his authority to ArbCom, and they have consistently failed to use it. Sheer cowardice. No wonder, when scumbags like Beeblebrox genuinely seem to think they're better men than Jimmy, and the community was already so toxic they happily elected them.
You don't see that history debated on Wikipediocracy, because people like Black Kite consider that place to be a second home, and to them, Jimmy is the devil incarnate. And Vigilant gives them such good head when they're there. Being so old and worn out your teeth have fallen out has its advantages!