Currently, there are not one but two recent incidents involving him still on the AN/I board......
* Incident 1 was a case of TRM characteristically having an issue with someone else's editing, but choosing not to actually explain what it is they were doing was wrong, in a rather transparent attempt to get them angry. Which they did.
* Incident 2 is a case of The Rambling Man choosing an extremely disruptive way of showing his continuing displeasure with the fact that allowing users to upload non-free images using an upload wizard necessarily creates a conflict between the need to produce hand written fair use rationales and the need for a wizard to do what a wizard is meant to do.
Naturally, neither of these incidents should have become an issue for Admin attention, and thence a platform for TRM to engage in his patented griefing of anyone and everyone who gets involved, and both did only because TRM is such a massive dick, someone singularly incapable of conducting themselves the way an editor is supposed to.
As usual, the incidents petered out without TRM being warned or blocked, rather he was given advice that he will of course, ignore, as he has always done.
If that wasn't bad enough, and in a sign 5hat he really doesn't fear being blocked, he has gone on to commit what, for any ordinary user, would he a grave crime. Something almost guaranteed to earnt them a block.
He has issued an unevidenced accusation of harassment, and by an Administrator no less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... gin_flight
Marvel at the sheer dribbly bitey awkward insanity of it all.......
Serious issues is serious, and not for nothing does Wikipedia have clear and firm rules in this area. If someone issues an unevidenced claim of harassment, they need to either back that shit up, and in the correct forum, or retract it. But for TRM, it seems like he commits a conduct violation this bad whenever he opens his gob, and suffers no consequences. Indeed, somehow he even makes it seem like he is the victim.Oppose space is now just a journey, and while I watched this particular trip with excitement, it was just a tourist and advertising moment. If we don't post Branson, we don't advertise Amazon. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 01:05, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
If space travel is just a journey, please show me your ticket stub. 331dot (talk) 01:09, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
I think it would be better for you stop badgering everything I say here at ITNC. If I had $500K I could "go to space". I don't want to go to space. Or "space". Now pack it in with your harassment. As an admin you should know much better. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 01:13, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
I am not harassing anyone and resent the accusation. I am responding to a comment with a legitimate criticism of your argument. However, if you don't wish me to communicate with you ever again, I won't. 331dot (talk) 01:20, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
"a legitimate criticism" = " show me your ticket stub"?? Get a grip. And yeah, best you leave me alone forever. What a shame, I thought you had something, but clearly being an admin is too much. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 01:27, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
It's called hyperbole, but okay. I'm not sure what the rest of your comment even means, but sure, I'll do my best to avoid communicating with you. 331dot (talk) 01:38, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
Why would anyone ever want to engage with a website that just let's this shit slide? That acts like it's a normal thing, just the everyday background noise of Wikipedia's famed toxicity.
It's definitely got something to do with the Vested Contributor problem. That admin he is accusing of harassment there, the one that bizarrely just backs down rather than calling his colleague's attention to the clear and obvious wikicrime, he isn't exactly known for being shy about using or even abusing his powers normally.
Clearly there is something stopping Wikipedia Administrators from doing something about the long term problem that is the very well named user, The Rambling Man. I'm gonna say it's because they don't relish the prospect of spending a few days with a very angry man rambling and drooling and biting all over them, simply for doing their job.
For most if not all of the time, it seems like TRM does these things simply because he is looking for a fight, and like those two incidents at AN/I, he has become accustomed to being allowed to have fights on Wikipedia, little bitchy fights, without ever suffering any consequences.
Once he has wrung out every last drop of drama, he can go on his way, unmolested by the Administrators. Other people even make jokes about it, as seen at the end of that first incident, apparently enjoying the fact that TRM has seen off yet another editor, someone who has decided Wikipedia just isn't worth the hassle.
If that seems lame, if that makes it seem like all Wikipedia Administrators are utter cowards who lack the spine and indeed the integrity to be able to see when they need to just roll their sleeves up and get dirty in the name of protecting Wikipedia from threats, foreign and domestic, well, you're not wrong.
On Wikipedia, there is no honour. There is no integrity. There is only angry white middle aged men with deep seated psychological issues.
The Rambling Man is just the worst of the bunch.