Steven Pruitt admin abuse

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Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by suleeabc1 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:26 am

Hey, I've got to tell you about Steven Pruitt. He's the man who started editing Wikipedia since 2004, but now he became the worst administrator ever to reach 4,380,500 edits for 17 years.

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Re: Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:07 am

ok but for what it's worth, there is an older thread about him

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1745

And to prove what a bizarre universe we live in, this happened near where I live.....

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/n ... clearlake/

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Re: Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by suleeabc1 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:14 am

Oh yeah, I heard that a man got arrested following a fatal crash near Clear Lake. Is that right?

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Re: Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:33 pm

suleeabc1 wrote:
Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:14 am
Oh yeah, I heard that a man got arrested following a fatal crash near Clear Lake. Is that right?
Just a weird coincidence. People die on that road all the time because it's narrow and has very tight curves and idiots speed on it.

So what have you got about "Ser Amontillado de Fatassico" or whatever the hell he calls himself? He owes his "high status" to two major things: editing bots, and the previous top editor Justin Knapp was b&. How convenient for Pruitt. Whose ass did he kiss to make that happen, one wonders.

Knapp's article is STILL THERE. How fucking pathetic is that? Especially with the photo of him with Orange Mike....behold the "cream" of Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Knapp
Knapp has had several jobs, including delivering pizzas for the Indianapolis pizzeria Just Pizza,[20] working at a grocery store, and a crisis hotline.[21][13]
Oh, right, he was fighting with some other petty edit-addict over the Elliot Page awards article. Who went and got another petty admin to block him. Prominent trans people get "speshul treatment" now. Haven't looked at it closely and would not surprise me if Knapp was correct and the rules for sourcing were being abused here. But he still came off as an angry incel-boy. Which one expects from "Wikipedians".
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... ember_2020

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Re: Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:59 pm

And here's that now-forgotten chart of Wikipedians in real life from 2008. The demographic has NOT changed very much since then. Both Knapp AND Pruitt fit this profile very well when they started grinding.
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Re: Steven Pruitt admin abuse

Post by Strelnikov » Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:04 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Knapp

Leonard Nimoy voice: Was this man actually eaten by a bear during the California Gold Rush, and not Wikipedia editor Justin Knapp?
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.

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