Wikipediocracy

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"Extremely porous thoughts"

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Ugh, so many simpering posts on the mailing list. The guy only stepped down after immense pressure was put on him to do so, and not before making an asshole post that essentially said "screw you". Yet now people are falling over themselves to thank him for doing so. That's beyond pathetic. Totally....

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Kevin Gorman's firing on all cylinders You played a fundamental role in stealing $415,000,000 from your employees and the employees of three other companies. Even though you have a skillset that WMF needs, that is absolutely incompatible with the honorable duties of a trustee, out of line with the f...

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Vigilant wrote:The ogre speaks
Message from Arnnon Geshuri to the Wikimedia Community

TL;DR - Suck it. This board seat is mine.

Slightly longer tl;dr - I was only obeying orders. Thoughtfully.

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TungstenCarbide wrote: Wikipedia and the media in general don't explain how a nut like Bundy gained so much support.

I would have thought sunspots.

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Dennis Brown wrote: we all tend to think that Wikipedia, and our participation, are much more important than it really is.

Good slogan, for WP and/or WPO.

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Ah, Star Wars ...

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Wot larks.

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This morning the history channel explained the origin of the phrase, "balls to the wall". It has to do with ball-topped airplane control levers being pushed forward as far as they can go, i.e. going all-out. Questionable though - at least some controls would put you into a dive if pushed fully forw...

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I think she endorsed the majority of candidates, too.

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Randy from Boise wrote: This has everything for the making of a truly great ArbCom circus

Nah I think this may have run its course - surely he's had enough hints by now to drop it.

Hope not though.

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He's doing some research. Probably going to take a run at Giano as his next project.

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:offtopic: but She picked up a red pump, looked at it for a second or two and set it back down. She quickly turned to me and said, "Red shoes — no knickers." Hell of a funny line... I have heard that before, but in the North of England* "all fur coat and no knickers" is more common for something tha...

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Kumioko wrote: Illuminati?

There should be some sort of version of Godwin's law that covers the Illuminati.

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Not really, the drama would be no more than the drama we see from banning anyone else. I beg to differ; see all the admin's blockees show up and rehash why they were blocked but should not have been because shit admin. Community user bans/blocks shouldn't be a big deal - but sometimes they are. Com...

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I think RfA should be by secret ballot, with the existing questions section maintained. Effectively a mini Arb system. What the criteria for voting would be i'm not sure. It would cut the drama and probably encourage more ok candidates. Say five days for questions and 5 days for voting, in 2 descre...

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Bother a sufficiently entrenched gang of "content creators", and it's a slaughterhouse for old-timers as well. In your case, (x3? x4?) Kev, as I recall the content creators were the likes of A Nobody and Ikip/Okip who had some kind of "every sperm byte is sacred" attitude to articles covering episo...

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tarantino wrote:
Moral Hazard wrote:Does Kudpung (T-C-L) live on an island?
I believe his splits his time between the UK and Thailand.

Yes, he has that look about him.

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Bother a sufficiently entrenched gang of "content creators", and it's a slaughterhouse for old-timers as well. In your case, (x3? x4?) Kev, as I recall the content creators were the likes of A Nobody and Ikip/Okip who had some kind of "every sperm byte is sacred" attitude to articles covering episo...

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Oh Elen, good times. But wait what's that peeping round my synapses ... JClemens!

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Could have been (a lot) worse, could have been better. I was hoping for a non-admin, (Ent actually) but maybe one day ... Look! Flying piggies!

Also I'm not, ah, comfortable with the friendly space/PC∆ nomenclature, so if you could go ahead and, er, not do that, that'd be just ... great.

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Mason wrote:
The Joy wrote:From ROT13 (T-H-L) ...
I believe Dennis was being facetious.

Yep. Well that's the arse thoroughly kicked out of that joke then.

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Can an account here be the sock of an account on WP? nope. But kinda. If so, any account here that does not clearly identify with an account there must be regarded as a sock, which is absurd. Ah but accounts on WPO get abandoned, or banned too; sometimes they come back. I reckon there's at least on...

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Kingsindian wrote:This kind of reminds me of watching exit polls on TV.

Why can't people simply wait till the final results come in? Unless you are betting on the stock market or something. I doubt the stock market cares about Wikipedia ArbCom.

Yep. Troll or not (most likely a troll) it won't affect the result.

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A study/survey of blocked editors would be difficult to execute, particularly for permablocked anonymous editors.
I think that the attendant unblock-grovelling that is expected by some admins and the fact that block logs are used as a badge of shame are two things that are very wrong.

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slacker wrote:engage in long running feuds with other users just because they hold different views or have had a dispute with them in the past,

That seems to me to be a fair description of what you are doing, here.

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Peryglus wrote:(So what does PC∆ mean?)

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7105&p=164893#p164893

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Plus there's the whole throwing the Nazis into the mix thing.

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So Eric has been

behind at least ten good faith editors beating a path to an indef block

but you can't be mithered to tell us who even half of them are, so we will just have to take your word for it? Seems legit.

edit - grammar

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and yes.

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I suppose you could. You're giving Slacker an out there; I was reading it more as "driven away" but maybe that is what Slacker meant.

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Eric's advocates have exacted a heavy price on Wikipedia. I estimate he has been behind at least ten good faith editors beating a path to an indef block after getting on the wrong side of his gang, being subsequently hounded and gamed. +1 Could you please each name half of this "at least ten", and ...

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slacker wrote:a lot. Really, a lot.

Mate - run for Arbcom and sort it all out for us please.

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Randy from Boise wrote:
Dennis Brown wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote: I'd use other more powerful tools, myself...

RfB
We talking duct tape or catapult?
Little of this, little of that...

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Well as long as it's nothing drastic like ... oh I don't know ... throat punching or immolation. Those things are only OK on IRC.

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Dennis Brown wrote:... I just lost in on the talk workshop page ...

ftfy

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A quick dash through the last 24 hours worth of votes running them into the spreadsheet... As anticipated, the vote count is steadily declining. DAY 1 - 561 raw votes DAY 2 - 772 raw votes (impacted by mass notification) DAY 3 - 431 raw votes DAY 4 - 162 raw votes DAY 5 (first 6 hours) - 33 raw vot...

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An arb using an alternate account (legitimate or not) to post a voting guide (or something like it) on the Arbcom process is about as bad judgement as any arb has ever done in the history of Arbcom making bad decisions. Making a few edits or using it as a non admin test account is one thing, postin...

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Jim wrote:
Caligula
Support. Current emperor, likes horses. Family man.

+9,000 Internet Pointz™ for "family man".

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And is it US, Canadian, Australian or Eastern Caribbean dollars?

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... and now I'm not looking at this on mobile ...

Kingsindian wrote:can someone name one n00b has Eric Corbett or Giano bit so as to drive them away?

I have been wondering this for a while. Asked a couple of critics; no answer so far.

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Kingsindian wrote:
(Btw, first post here, hi all)

'sup.

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Our very own Anthonyhcole (T-C-L) is putting a lot of work into addressing this; currently working on getting a peer-review process for medical articles off the ground. Go Tone!

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Don't use quotation marks unless you are actually quoting.

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thekohser wrote:
Jimbo Jambo wrote: Re-focus your efforts and get to work.
Thanks, boss. We'll get right on that for you.

What sort of salaries are you offering, JJ?

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Black Kite being sneaky.....he added the following to the decision page, then promptly removed it a minute later. Probably reverted because rules: Under no circumstances may this page be edited by anyone other than members of the Arbitration Committee or the clerks But no, you're right; BK is on yo...

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How many?

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Momentary lapse.

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The member currently known as slacker wrote:Tell me your current user name

I'm kind of curious about yours, O One Who Is So Wise In The Ways Of Wikipedia.

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DHeyward wrote: is it your view that pro-gun/anti-feminist is a fringe position?

I can't see anything in Jake's post that implies that - can you?

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