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by CrowsNest » Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:07 pm
He may have actually retired. No edits since those rants on the 19th. I can't see Grandad's funeral taking more than a day, and I can't imagine TRM would be busy over Christmas visiting his non-dead relatives. As if you couldn't have guessed, for comparison, last year TRM edited every day in the festive period, making over a thousand edits from 22 December to 4 January, including Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
I'm liking the fact only I seem to have noticed he has gone, presumed retired. The same thing happened with Eric Corbett. Almost like, when it comes down to it, when a filthy rat finally leaves the building, people aren't actually sad. They just keep really quiet, hoping not to give the rat any reason to think he is still wanted.
Hopefully it is permanent. As always, it doesn't pay to assume until at least three months have passed.
And just as a reminder, TRM was adamant, he does not sock, nor edit logged out. This is his one and only account, so if it looks to be abandoned, it's owner falling out of love with Wikipedia, that is what we are meant to assume has happened. And blame all his enemies for causing this tragedy on Wikipedia, obviously.
Anyway, for those interested in factual evidence of The Rambling Dickhead's supposed vital worth to Wikipedia, all told it has been four and a half days since he did any work on Main Page quality control patrol, and Wikipedia has seemingly not become a laughing stock. Either he wasn't catching the sort of errors anyone else gives a shit about, or he was simply duplicating the effort that has continued on the official page for the purpose quite happily without his toxic presence (it has not seen seemingly seen an obvious increase in workload in these last few days), as it has done since he was forced into exile.
Potentially far worse for everyone concerned, it could mean that the Administrators who were using his tantrum page to guide their efforts, have perhaps in his absence got off their lazy asses and started looking for those same errors themselves, rather than waiting for him to catch them. Hard to imagine that is the case, but if it was, well, it proves The Rambling Dickhead was replaceable, and that his enablers and supporters were quite happy for him to be a toxic piece of shit simply because it made their lives easier, and anyone who he was negatively impacting, they really could go fuck themselves as far as those Administrators were concerned.
Hopefully his apparent inability to conceive of a way he could help Wikipedia without being seen to question other people's competence, is finally a signal of the real reason he was there in the first place. If he did care about the things he really does claim to care about, he would have either found a way to work with the new restriction, or he would have willingly become a martyr under its ridiculousness, and hope the ensuing wheel warring and general drama would come down in his favour. It wouldn't, and not because nobody else doesn't give a crap about the quality of Wikipedia, hence why he seems to have taken this decision to simply walk away.
To be fair, he was trying to martyr himself, albeit in a rather pathetic and dubious way. He made about a dozen posts that he claimed were now blockable under the new restriction. Turns out they weren't. it was most likely not a genuine attempt. He made plenty of block-worthy posts in that same time that weren't acted upon, but these were by no means deliberate acts, all were well within what he has become used to getting away with.
If he was hoping that simply coming a mysterious disappearing act, hinting he may have retired without actually outright saying it, that would be enough to achieve the same effect as martyrdom, well, he need only have looked to the example of Eric Corbett to see that it does not. The people of Wikipedia are dumb, no doubt, but not so dumb they can't spot when someone who so firmly stood by certain principles, when push comes to shove, chooses to run, not fight. The crazies of Wikipedia happily rally to anyone's crazy cause, but cowardice, that isn't a cause. It's a defect.
Not explicitly abounding his retirement is perhaps one way he might have learned from the ferret fucker's example. Repeatedly retiring on principle and then meekly returning with your tail between your legs when it doesn't achieve the desired effect, does rather reduce the impact of later retirements, until finally, when you do go, nobody gives much of a shit, not even your most loyal lieutenants.
TRM won't want that for his future. Hence why this is probably not the end. He wants a grand exit, he wants his departure to be seen as forced and a great tragedy. He wants mourners and flowers.
Due to years of much bullshit, of which this was just a latest tedious example, he may have already blown his chances at a glorious finale, and his only future now is a site ban or a meek voluntary departure, neither of which generates much fuss. It's what his imaginary dead Grandad would have predicted was his future, if he really did know him like a son, and really did know what he gets up to on Wikipedia. Which he didn't, and doesn't. Because he would have disowned him.
