Recently muted by Zoloft, I am here to report my experience. Unsurprisingly, few will detect any real change in how the place works, even though Greg can hardly be blamed now, since he has been on his holidays somewhere during this entire incursion. Zoloft initially muted me at the same time as Graaf, as a result of this thread apparently.....
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtop ... f=8&t=9063
He said nothing except a perfunctory "enough of the both of you", no explanatory email or PM, just that piece of characteristically arrogant and dismissive crap. Considering I'd done fuck all except post a couple of times in there, naturally I felt pissed, but I waited an appropriate time to see if the weasel would grow a conscience. He did not.
So I pressed, initially asking him to notify the board of something he had apparently overlooked - muted people can't answer PMs, and I had been sent one from the wandering island hopper known as Sashi, who mysteriously still persists with treating those jokers as if they know anything or were not born in barns. Zoloft of course then duly posted a snarky thread, sticking the boot in.
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtop ... =13&t=9086
In an email reply, he also tried to offer this up as a reason for the muting.....
He of course pointed to no specific posts where I had done this, and even if he had, it would have been hypocritical, since in that very same thread I had been insulted by no less than three users, Anroth, Ming and AndyTheGrumpAs has been stated, telling people they are stupid, or have limited reading ability, or getting combative when disagreed with, are bad forum habits.
The latter only jumping in because of his enduring butthurt at losing an argument with me months ago, where he proved he doesn't have the coding skills of a child. The other two had similarly recently suffered embarrassment, and having failed in their attempts to have me ejected before, had begun resorting to this sort of nonsense, all apparently acceptable to Zoloft and his ideas of good behaviour. So you can see how applying those standards only to me in that thread, would stick in the throat.
After making those points, and still politely, in a reply, the prick just left me hanging. Only after prodding a second time for a decent explanation, did he further embarass himself, critically so. Despite trying to refer back to his first email as if it was still somehow the reason, he finally admitted what is most likely the truth.....
So, Wikipediocracy's well earned reputation as nothing but a clique for oversensitive snowflakes who can't handle being disagreed with and will eventually run to mommy for assitance, is alive and well.I gave you an explanation. To expand upon it, when one or two people were complaining about you, I felt that was not enough to mute you. When that increased to half a dozen, and people I respect, who have made significant contributions to the site said they were leaving, and named your copious posts and poor attitude towards others as a cause, I muted you.
They have continually lied to me, pretended like I'd never have to suffer this sort of indignity if I just didn't engage in said bad behaviours. And as anyone can see, I did not, and had not for a long while, heeding prior warnings. Ultimately this wasn't out of any respect for the locals or the slimy mudsucker in charge, it was idle curiosity, a wondering ify just how long it would take for him to crumble in the face of the whining and tantrums of the people who were increasingly being embarassed by my superior knowledge and rhetorical skills.
And that really isn't hard to do when you're dealing with people who are still Wikipedians and/or who treat Wikipedia criticism as some kind of hobby. Unreconstructed Wikipediot JCM was naturally the first to put me on ignore, as he tediously reminded everyone of every other day, like a proper little bitch. Similar whining soon followed from others, the staff never told them to shut the fuck up on the grounds it was clearly their choice to ignore me and if they were serious, they'd never take the slightest interest in what I was saying ever again.
But Zoloft is apparently too scared of losing the combined contributions of those stellar posters, which frankly doesn't amount to much, to really stand by the idea the forum isn't just a sad little clubhouse of wikidouche friends, virtually all of whom are pretty damn devoted to Wikipedia, if not in whole, then in significant part.
Since Zoloft wants to protect these snivelling little cowards in their safe space, I invite them over here, to neutral ground, to see what it would have really been like for them, had I been truly allowed to say what I think of their ill-thought out views and analyses.
We all know from past experience that none of them dare venture outside the woodshed, except Kingsindian, and he can fuck off, I've had my fill of him acting like he can pick and choose when he's going to chime in to criticize someone, and when he can leave, declaring he isn't obligated to respond, like he really is literally a King.
The cowards of Wikipediocracy are all known as the ever present old guard from years gone by - they of course aren't able to attract any decent new posters with a management as cravenly corrupt as that. What ties them all together, was this snivelling attitude of it being acceptable to hide behind the ignore function when they were hearing things they didn't like, but can't or won't offer a rebuttal to.
All told, nothing has changed. Albeit without Greg, there is less grammar douchery, but also less respect for for management basics, like good titles and merging/splitting.