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by CrowsNest » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:34 pm
The reactivity is an issue, but it's not the issue, in terms of what would need to be addressed, if changing Kumioko is the goal here.
The issue is the guy really does love simply defining himself as a victim, and acting accordingly. While I doubt the goal is to actually get banned (since it obviously serves some need he has to keep on telling his story to be able to stay in a venue as long as possible), the act of being banned/shunned serves his deep need to be a victim, so he'll never really commit to doing anything that avoids that, if, and his is crucial, doing so stops his ability to keep telling his tales of woe, over and over and over.
To put it another way, this is his basic programming...
1. Fill a forum with his tales of woe and half-assed "criticism"
2. If you can't do 1., get banned/shunned
3. Find another venue
4. Goto 1.
He does have the ability to temporarily focus on half-assed criticism and markedly reduce the tales of woe if he thinks there will be a temporary tactical benefit (delaying the move to step 2.), but this is only ever a temporary change.
It is clear from all the past cycles we have seen, first at Wikipedia, then at a succession of critic forums, that he doesn't have the ability to make this change permanently. Whack the box and he sharp resumes the full programme, and that's all I did, whack the box. It would require him to be decompliled and reprogrammed to ensure a permanent change, and I am quite certain there's nobody here with the required skills to do that.
This is what people really, genuinely, need to understand - nothing he has said about me in recent weeks, is either original, or exclusive to me. He has been doing this for years, often word for word, as if he really is just copy-pasting it from his previous endeavours. His approach to his critics is formulaic, programmatic.
For no other reason than I made it clear I do not believe his claims and theories (with evidence and reasons behind me) and stated that his endless repetition of them regardless grinds my biscuits, he has classified me as an enemy. This is all you need to do to earn this classification, as many have found out over the years, be they innocent bystanders who only briefly interacted with him, and those who took a deeper interest in him, with a view to fixing him, or at least reducing the harm he causes.
The only way you avoid this classification, is if you do not interrupt step 1. in any way. Sure, you can get away with a few polite attempts to query it, but you soon find out that the words are wasted. If you even get a reply, what follows is never really an intelligent discussion on the specific topic, and after a perfunctory statement that appears to address your post, you can see he just ends up circling back to step 1.
So, what does his basic programming tell him about how to react to enemies?
1. Tell them he doesn't care what they think (ignorance)
2. Engage in childish repetition of their criticisms of him back at them (mirroring)
3. Tell them they can't stop him doing what he wants (obstinance)
4. Tell them they can't bully/intimidate him (defiance)
5. Send countless private messages to anyone he thinks can help him eliminate this enemy (noise making)
6. Accuse them of being part of the conspiracy against him (conspiracy theorising)
Note how all of those behaviours are marked by their simplicity, things a very basic program would be able to produce. None are dependent on processing the input on any complex fashion, and indeed as we can see, the outputs are delivered randomly. As behavioural scientists know, it is often the case people mistake random but simplistic behaviour, for evidence of intelligent life, capable of adapting, learning, and then waste hours, months, even years, on fruitless attempts to communicate, before finally realising their study subject was a simple single-celled organism after all.
Worth noting is that in addition to those basic programming steps, as a slightly more intelligent but in another way equally simplistic behaviour, he'll often deploy any measure he thinks will exploit whatever defensive measure the organism he is infecting at any one time, deploys. Hence why he has changed his declared strategy from ignoring me, to stating he is going to reply to every post I make.
He would never have said that if it hadn't been announced that the staff were going to try rate limiting. It seeks to blame me for his inability/refusal to comply with even a simple direction with a clear and obvious benefit to someone claiming to be a serious critic here for the right reasons, when the real blame lies with his programming, which is designed for anything but. Because why else is there this the non-compliance? There basic inherent conflict with step 1, which requires him to progress to step 2. So it is written in the punch cards, it will come to pass.
You can see the simplicity of the programming by realizing that he never did actually ignore me, he only said he would, to try and solicit sympathy, and it even briefly worked, albeit probably not wholly because everyone here is aiming to fix Kumioko. You also see the simplicity in how he continues with this defective strategy of yapping away, even though he has already received a short block for it. A series of short blocks are what he wants, if a ban is out of reach, because we are already on Step 2 of his programming.
Sure, he doesn't usually gratuitously insult his active enemies in the field of current battle, nor descend to the more disgusting accusations he has made recently, but that really is only because he understands that these are things that will always prematurely advance him from step 1. to step 2. before he is ready. Again, not a complex thing, just something a simple organism trying to obey its basic programme, would do.
He only started doing it to me, because he knows (because I've told him many times), I got his number years ago, I reverse engineered his dumb ass, and so he resorts to this out of sheer frustration. It's probably been a surprise to him that he hasn't been banned for this conduct here, because of our buccaneering spirit.
I imagine he's probably quite confused as to what to do next, hence these rather ridiculous claims he has a real life, to explain his absences. In reality, he's simply trying to get to grips with not having the lines of code needed to deal an unexpected scenario. His program wasn't written for this situation. He was written for environments where there would always be some means he can follow the steps. So I guess in some way we should be pleased he now seems to be defective, take it as a success, since our goal is not to be like Wikipedia or Wikipediocracy.
The combination of my dogged insistence that I will simply not repeat the same mistakes made by a hundred previous people on quite a few different platforms, namely of simply accepting the fact that if Kumioko gets dumped in your lap you just have to accept him trying to execute his programme and therefore accept all the effects of his programming, is why we now might be making progress, in producing this temporary failure mode. Because make no mistake, being unable to execute Step 1., but also being unable to progress to Step 2., is an Unhandled Exception Error for the Kumioko unit.
He may have hung. He may have shut down and issued an error message for The Creator. Most likely he in simply rebooting, and we'll see him return in good time, back at Step 1. But I would frankly fall off my chair with amazememt if this temporary interruption of service somehow, by some miracle, results in a Kumioko that doesn't follow his programming on his return.
It is indeed an interesting question why he is like this. As in, is it learned behaviour? Has it really ever worked for him, such that he might have decided it was a good strategy? Not that I am aware of. It only makes sense if his strategy really is to die alone, with everyone he has ever met, friends and enemies, hating his guts. A situation that to him is unimportant, desired even, because he will be content in the sweet isolation of death, still convinced his fantasies are the reality, and everyone else was just an unbeliever, who has surely gone to hell for the sin of not accepting his words as scripture. Is he religious? Does he imagine an afterlife where he is Risen, and the Church of Kumioko has its Origin Story. Makes as much sense as anything else, because the bloke is clearly fucking in-sane.
I say he came like this out of the factory. Sometimes the thing is just broken right out of the box. Can we get a refund? Not with a product this old, this worn out. Me kicking a few dents in his casing probably won't help our chances either. Can we get a replacement? No.
The factory only made one of this particular item, before a mysterious accident destroyed all the tooling. Others out there are like him, cheap knock offs usually, but this one is unique, special, Original. There was a rumour a rogue spark from the first unit was responsible for the accident, but alas the CCTV evidence was lost. Maybe more were made but maybe they're all at the bottom of a lake or in a landfill, their first owners having quickly realized the unit was defective and the suppliers were to blame.
As we all know, this particular unit's first owner, doesn't have a great reputation for responsibly disposing of their defective property. No, all too often, one of the corrupt employees ends up selling it via the back door to some mug punter. After many subsequent exchanges, with less and less money changing hands, he finally ended up here. We managed to loan him back to Wikipediocracy one last time, but of course they soon realized they no longer needed his shiny lights and noise making ability to attract attention, so they returned him.
As much as I want to secure a permanent trade to Team Discord where he is apparently doing a fine line in side-whinging, perhaps in exchange for some magic beans, I really do think the best way forward for everyone is to just slap a defective label on him, and stick him in the back of the cupboard. Who knows. Maybe a Psychiatrist will join this forum at some point and we can ask if he is interested in a little side project, fixing a piece of really old junk we are just too sentimental to throw away. Discord will maybe even claim they have the original anyway, perhaps for the same reasons Wikipediocracy wanted him around, but we'll know the truth. We have the warranty, and the original discs.
You are expected to NOT respond to each others' comments, at least for a week (until revoked).
