What wonders me all the time is the Drmies worship, and the much attention he gets, both here and on WO. I have explained before Drmies is not a famous Dutchman who made a carrier in America like for instance Jaap van Zweden, no our Drmies should be in Holland some unimportant teacher or should have a simple job in a warehouse. Because it is very hard to find a position in his fielt in Holland. Tot become a professor you simple need other qualifications. (and relations)
But what worries me the most is Drmies has about almost everything a opinion. About woman matters, about racism, about everything. But Drmies is a professor English who is grown up in Holland. So it is impossible he knows the American culture good enough to judge about this matters, because I hope I made clear in the past years Europe and Holland are not small America or a state of America.
I myself have found out the differences in culture, civics, how the state/Europe is build up, the mentality, the legal system between Europe and America is as big as between America and China. Perhaps because of the European roots of many Americans it looks a bit the same on the surface, but that it all. If you a bit dig deeper you find a complete different state.
In Holland Drmies had been a nothing and now he is a big star with a lot of influential about almost everything on the wiki stage. But basically, he does not know where he is talking about. For the simple reason he doesn't know the American society well enough because he is a expat out of a other culture.
What makes this man so important in the Wiki mouvement, because thát is what am wondering.
Why did WMF send him as a oracle to the Dutch wikipedia, because that is what happend and what was the base of the Statler drama and the beginning of my international wiki career. Aaahhhhhhhiiiii!
Why should anyone vote for him as a arb? It is a big nothing, it is a compete wikifool just like the rest. What is the magic of the myhtical Drmies?
The mythical Drmies
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Re: The mythical Drmies
It's simple, he's risen higher and is trusted more than any other user who has done what he does, excepting people like JzG, who can do and have done worse, but only by virtue of specifically who they are. Drmies is the single best example of what Wikipedia lets you get away with, if only you have the capacity for being so immoral, while claiming to be so moral.
He is Gamaliel, without the sound of laughter behind their back. He is JzG, but without the old skool rep. that can take you to astounding heights, as seen by his essay on politics. He is Bishonen, but without her rock star history, and she never has and never will make it to ArbCom. He is Beeblebrox, Floquenbeam and Boing!, but unlike those fools, he is not stupid enough to say what he is doing and thus make it obvious he deserves criticism for being a rogue asset.
He is what Ritchie wants to be, if he had the brains he was born with. He is Bbb23, without the hassle of actually having to understand CU or be thought of in the way Bbb23 is. Why become like Bbb23, when you can just exploit your friendship with him? He is Iridescent, without having become known to the WMF as a laughable example of the sort of Administrator Wikipedia doesn't need and should not have. He is virtually at NewYorkBrad levels of influence, despite having put in 1% of the effort to get there.
The worst Drmies has admitted to doing, and only because he was forced to by those pesky ArbCom questions, is saying fuck off, but supposedly only to people harassing his family or who hold abhorrent views. And Wikipedians for some reason happily believe that garbage, because of this mythology that surrounds Drmies, which he either acquired through dumb luck, or is carefully crafting. Most likely a mixture of the two.
If not all of the Wikipedians buy into it, then they do so in sufficient numbers that he doesn't feel constrained in any way, he just keeps doing what he does, standing for ArbCom whenever he feels like it, standing down when he feels like it too. Kingsindian doesn't buy into it, but when the time came for him to stand up to Drmies, he happily bent over and let him fuck him up the ass, treating him like a little bitch, right out in the open, where everyone could see. Drmies did that as an Arbitrator, confident nobody could or would say anything, not inside Wikipedia. Kinsindian is so scared of him, he wouldn't even say anything about that outside of Wikipedia that might be construed as a criticism of Drmies.
That's Drmies.
He is all that, AND he managed to advance his personal career off the back of merely fucking around on Wikipedia articles like any moron can, while continuing to be able to pretend he is just an anonymous schmuck with no conflicts of interest at all. That's not a defining trait of Drmies, you could name fifty Administrators who have done that, but he has done it while doing all the other shit too. That is the point.
This is why he is and deserves to be the poster boy for HTD Inc.
I've asked people before, try and find me someone who is a better fit for being held up as an example by critics, and I will happily focus on them instead.
Hopefully Gender Desk is focussing on him now because she finally understands I know of what I speak. She is helpfully pointing out he is no friend to women, and a dubious friend of liberals, as all he really does is give extremists a reason to come to Wikipedia to fight their obvious bias, all under the cover of his distasteful sense of humour and pathetic outrage. The exact opposite of how an Administrator is supposed to act. I've been saying this for years.
He has undoubtedly created many of the long term abuse cases, and yet they act like he is an Awesome Wikipedian. They're stupid like that, and yet Drmies probably is not. He likely knows he could and should be doing things differently, and if he did he would be saving his fellow editors a bucket load of grief. He chooses not to. Because there is no reason for him not to, and he likes being a dick.
She sadly doesn't know more than that, and if she had not treated me like a fool, she might be able to tell her readers exactly what happened in those deletion discussions and why, because I documented it all.
You will not find much discussion of Drmies on Wikipediocracy, and that shows they do not know of what they speak (or claim to be investigating), and they aren't all that interested in Wikipedia criticism, because he is a perfect study, whether you believe he acts that way because that is his innate personality (correct), or because the Wikipedia environment made him like that (wrong).
He is Gamaliel, without the sound of laughter behind their back. He is JzG, but without the old skool rep. that can take you to astounding heights, as seen by his essay on politics. He is Bishonen, but without her rock star history, and she never has and never will make it to ArbCom. He is Beeblebrox, Floquenbeam and Boing!, but unlike those fools, he is not stupid enough to say what he is doing and thus make it obvious he deserves criticism for being a rogue asset.
He is what Ritchie wants to be, if he had the brains he was born with. He is Bbb23, without the hassle of actually having to understand CU or be thought of in the way Bbb23 is. Why become like Bbb23, when you can just exploit your friendship with him? He is Iridescent, without having become known to the WMF as a laughable example of the sort of Administrator Wikipedia doesn't need and should not have. He is virtually at NewYorkBrad levels of influence, despite having put in 1% of the effort to get there.
The worst Drmies has admitted to doing, and only because he was forced to by those pesky ArbCom questions, is saying fuck off, but supposedly only to people harassing his family or who hold abhorrent views. And Wikipedians for some reason happily believe that garbage, because of this mythology that surrounds Drmies, which he either acquired through dumb luck, or is carefully crafting. Most likely a mixture of the two.
If not all of the Wikipedians buy into it, then they do so in sufficient numbers that he doesn't feel constrained in any way, he just keeps doing what he does, standing for ArbCom whenever he feels like it, standing down when he feels like it too. Kingsindian doesn't buy into it, but when the time came for him to stand up to Drmies, he happily bent over and let him fuck him up the ass, treating him like a little bitch, right out in the open, where everyone could see. Drmies did that as an Arbitrator, confident nobody could or would say anything, not inside Wikipedia. Kinsindian is so scared of him, he wouldn't even say anything about that outside of Wikipedia that might be construed as a criticism of Drmies.
That's Drmies.
He is all that, AND he managed to advance his personal career off the back of merely fucking around on Wikipedia articles like any moron can, while continuing to be able to pretend he is just an anonymous schmuck with no conflicts of interest at all. That's not a defining trait of Drmies, you could name fifty Administrators who have done that, but he has done it while doing all the other shit too. That is the point.
This is why he is and deserves to be the poster boy for HTD Inc.
I've asked people before, try and find me someone who is a better fit for being held up as an example by critics, and I will happily focus on them instead.
Hopefully Gender Desk is focussing on him now because she finally understands I know of what I speak. She is helpfully pointing out he is no friend to women, and a dubious friend of liberals, as all he really does is give extremists a reason to come to Wikipedia to fight their obvious bias, all under the cover of his distasteful sense of humour and pathetic outrage. The exact opposite of how an Administrator is supposed to act. I've been saying this for years.
He has undoubtedly created many of the long term abuse cases, and yet they act like he is an Awesome Wikipedian. They're stupid like that, and yet Drmies probably is not. He likely knows he could and should be doing things differently, and if he did he would be saving his fellow editors a bucket load of grief. He chooses not to. Because there is no reason for him not to, and he likes being a dick.
She sadly doesn't know more than that, and if she had not treated me like a fool, she might be able to tell her readers exactly what happened in those deletion discussions and why, because I documented it all.
You will not find much discussion of Drmies on Wikipediocracy, and that shows they do not know of what they speak (or claim to be investigating), and they aren't all that interested in Wikipedia criticism, because he is a perfect study, whether you believe he acts that way because that is his innate personality (correct), or because the Wikipedia environment made him like that (wrong).
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Re: The mythical Drmies
The only thing I am not sure of is if Drmies want to be a dick. This sounds to me a better explanation:
WhoReallyCares wrote:Drmies gained tenure by telling his employers some ridiculous twaddle about Wikipedia's so-called peer review processes. I assume he discussed FA and perhaps GA.
WhoReallyCares wrote:He's actually even more useless than most people realize.
WhoReallyCares wrote:Final points. I joined Wikipedia after learning about Featured Articles. I thought they were an excellent idea. My plan was to write five from scratch. After getting a couple of FAs / TFAs I basically gave up. I realized the site is little more than an online mental hospital; I saw too that Wikipedia's lame attempt at academia is worthless.