Unread postby Giraffe Stapler » Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:06 am
Are you tired of volunteering and getting nothing in return?
Having a tip jar on user pages
Any thoughts on whether as a community we would allow adding a 'tip jar' to a user page?
Though I've had some support and the odd donation over the years towards hardware, the vast majority of my projects have had nil funding and ongoing costs of bandwidth, some software, and wear and tear (on memory and drives) have never been factored in. It would not count as spam, so I think this would be allowable under the WMF terms of use (happy to be corrected) and I could declare any donations via this route if folx wanted transparency and if there were any to declare! Maybe if we do allow it, we might want to define in what circumstances/projects/types of users where it would be valid. --Fæ (talk) 17:26, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
It's a pretty good crowd for a saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say man what are you doin' here?
For the 'Hasten The Day' adherents here, creating a fund to expand Fae's work is probably a great idea.
Given Fae's innate tendency to sow chaos, confusion, and disorder in the WMF's projects, it would be an investment with a staggeringly high return on money spent.
For the 'Hasten The Day' adherents here, creating a fund to expand Fae's work is probably a great idea.
Given Fae's innate tendency to sow chaos, confusion, and disorder in the WMF's projects, it would be an investment with a staggeringly high return on money spent.
Unread postby Silent Editor » Sat Aug 28, 2021 1:26 am
Ashley wrote:
...(happy to be corrected)...
I doubt that very much - given history, if you do correct him, he’ll argue with you, demand diffs and links to policy to support your correction, until you tire of trying to correct him.
I don't think Fae is expecting anything from the WMF; he wants suckers other editors to make donations. Hm, is that such a novel idea?
I think the novel part is Fae expecting there are enough people out there who want to support him that he could derive any meaningful amount from such a "tip jar" system.
Unread postby Beeblebrox » Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:13 am
In their mind they are the most beloved user Commons ever had, after all they have made so very many contributions! I forget who told me about that, again and again and again.
The fact that they can't get elected as an admin or get on the volunteer response team is only because of homophobia, it can't possibly because nobody trusts them.
information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom
Unread postby Beeblebrox » Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:37 am
Aaaand now Fae has decided to make a new thread complaining about this thread and claiming they are frightened of me. Apparently my comments, which he clearly reads regularly, are super scary and commons should somehow get me fired from the oversight team on en.wp. Good luck with that Fae, enjoy your continued lurking here. Just so we're clear, we all already know you lurk here, you've made that exceedingly obvious many times, so this isn't the "gotcha" you imagine it is.
information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom
You should not be allowed on this project. Bullying other Wikimedians by using off-wiki sites as a weapon, and gaming the system to evade any responsibility for your actions, should be abhorrent for every good faith contributor.
Let's be clear:
I stated I am frighted of your hostile campaign and how it might cause me harm
Knowing that, you made this post off-wiki
You know what you are doing, your actions here are deliberate, deeply worrying. --Fæ (talk) 08:57, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Ashley, the drama queen, rides again, "I have stated the 'magic words' and you must now bow to my whims...."
You'd think that if he was really 'frighted' and fearing death threats against himself and his family, he'd simply stop reading WO so religiously.
What he absolutely cannot stand is that we've been the one place that calls him out on his bullying and shitheel behavior and he cannot figure out how to make us stop doing that.
Perhaps if he stopped being a greasy little turd all the time, the interest in him might subside.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
Phil Nash aka Rodhullandemu, another ARBCOM blocked dipshit, opines on 'the unfairness of it all'.
05:09, 25 March 2011 Roger Davies talk contribs changed block settings for Rodhullandemu talk contribs with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Turn off Wikipedia email for now. Refer queries to Arbitration Committee)
I'm amazed than an Admin on any Wiki project is allowed to get away with this. To my mind, its not a matter for Commons. But it is a matter for WMF Trust and Safety, who take a very dim view of off-wiki harassment, whoever is the target. Rodhullandemu (talk) 09:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Maybe Qworty can ride by and offer his condolences too...
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
If I were the judge, I'd condemn Brer Bbb to read 5 (five) posts aloud from his subforum over at Sucks, and post the resultant .ogg files on commons.
I agree with the panda: if the anonymous Alaskan beadle wishes to pointedly push back a Commoner's coffee-cup, there's no pressing need to rush in and jump up and down on the supplicant at the village pump. (Geez.)
Apparently my comments, which he clearly reads regularly, are super scary and commons should somehow get me fired from the oversight team on en.wp.
Good luck with that Fae, enjoy your continued lurking here.
It's not personal, Beeblebrox, but you know I am hoping that Commons blocks you. A sitting Arb being blocked on Commons because of Fae (and Rodhullandemu) is just too delicious. I will obviously be voting to block you. I look forward to this spilling over to Wikipedia, where brilliant "OnlyFae" joke can be enjoyed by a wider audience.
On a more serious note, I see that Fae is resorting to his usual slippery use of language to make people associate this site with threats of harm that he receives. This time, however, he has also explicitly stated it:
They have for years been posting in public discussions about me off-wiki where they know that there are people taking part on that site that have run long-term abusive accounts and have made threats against my life and my family.
I have no reason to doubt that Fae has received threats and harassment as a result of his work on Wikipedia and Commons. I'm sure many people have. I do not condone these types of threats. I do not believe that the management of this site condones these types of threats. I would like to think that no one from here would do that, but this is an open forum and some of the people who have visited in the past have shown themselves to be quite horrible people.
Unread postby Moral Hazard » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:09 pm
Our long-term visitor Fae is certainly a horribly pathetic person.
Kiefer.Wolfowitz(T-C-L)
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.” Neal Stephenson(T-H-L)Cryptonomicon
Our long-term visitor Fae is certainly a horribly pathetic person.
And speaking of horribly pathetic persons, someone has shown up on Commons arguing that Beeblebrox should be blocked. That account, Celtic Minded(T-C-F-L) has themselves been blocked. Fae, foolishly believing that any enemy of his enemy is his friend, is agitating for them to be unblocked. Fae, if you don't like what we say about you over here, you probably don't want to read what they say about you over there.
Unread postby DanMurphy » Sun Aug 29, 2021 6:39 pm
Ashley often used false claims of being afraid for his and his family's physical safety to try to win Wikipedia arguments back before his other account, User:Ash, was banned over there. That was over 10 years ago. Gotta admire the commitment.
I was thinking about who might challenge Ashley for the wiki-crown of 'longest, hardest, funniest, most public fall from grace' and couldn't think of anyone who even holds a candle to him.
From being deep in the wikirati as a bigwig in the WMUK to:
* Having his hilarious self uploaded bondage pictures found on commons
* Having his sockpuppet army found out
* Claiming to be a software expert and seeing his 'resume' filled with garbage buzzword bingo terms
* Registering his last name as a website and not using a privacy registrar
* Being the subject of a hilarious news article
* Getting forced out of WMUK
* Getting caught trying to suborn a WMF employee to stop the ARBCOM case
* Getting indef blocked by ARBCOM
* Getting desysoped on en.wp
* Failing an RfA on commons of all places
* Begging for spare change on commons and being denied
I know I'm forgetting a bunch of comedy gold in there, but even that short list is mortally painful on the cringe meter.
Ashley van Haeften is the living embodiment of the LULZ god.
He is self-crucifying for our sins.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
It's a good thing the Wikipedia registration requirements have gotten significantly more reasonable since then. These days, you don't even have to wear the blindfold!
Indef blocked notorious dipshit tries to get Turds and Shits to go after a sitting ARB on behalf of a different notorious dipshit, both of whom were indef'd by previous ARBCOMs and who are now whinging on commons, the septic tank project of the WMF constellation, over comments not made on any wiki sites.
That sure sounds like THE hornet's nest that Toads and Skunks would want to stick their collective dick into...
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
I'm just telling you how it will be. Perhaps if you'd set the example that an Arbitrator should, this thread would not be here. I didn't even realise you were an Arb, but I checked the list, and my God, there's some dead wood in there. The Augean Stables need cleansing. No threats, just some karma perhaps. Rodhullandemu (talk) 21:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
... I didn't even realise you were an Arb, but I checked the list ... Rodhullandemu, 29th August 2021
Big thunk
My government-supported infiltration of some newsgroups and IRC channels actually resulted in more convictions prior to Operation Ore than they could ever have hoped for. If there was any fault, it was that nobody told the Manchester Police of my operational status, and that is a major failure of the system. Phil Nash, 28th March 2011
Unread postby Vigilant » Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:42 pm
Is the Wikimedia Commons admin community really content that this open bullying is "normal" for Wikimedia? I've set my house alarm tonight, I'm frightened that someone might throw a brick through a window or shove a firework through my letterbox. --Fæ (talk) 22:13, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Because the people who read/post at WO are likely to figure out where he lives, fly to England on the spur of the moment and then engage in petty vandalism of his house because of some mildly funny comments on wikipedia?
LMAO!
The 'Hysterical' article acquires a new spokesturd.
The worst thing that happens to Ashley van Haeften is that he gets roundly mocked or ignored.
This thread delivers.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
Unread postby Vigilant » Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:50 pm
Beeblebrox's response here is deeply worrying. No apology for deliberately comparing me to a sex worker.
I found this line absolutely hilarious.
Given the chat logs that I have where Ashley van Haeften brags about just how many cocks he sucked on a weekend at a gay bath house, he is a sex worker who just doesn't get paid for it.
Or the coin he takes is in ritual humiliation.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
Given the chat logs that I have where Ashley van Haeften brags about just how many cocks he sucked on a weekend at a gay bath house, he is a sex worker who just doesn't get paid for it.
I've also seen those logs and you really shouldn't bash him for it.
It's kinkshaming, for one thing.
Secondly, blowing 237 dudes in 48 hours is doing more public good than anything anyone has ever done on a wiki.
Ashley van Haeften's biggest advocates are a convicted pedophile who pretends to be a spy, and the guy who's harassed a young female scientist for two years because she once put a citation in the wrong place.
Ashley van Haeften's biggest advocates are a convicted pedophile who pretends to be a spy, and the guy who's harassed a young female scientist for two years because she once put a citation in the wrong place.
Support unblock, per COM:ANU discussion, this block was out of process and is controversial. Also, could the blocking sysop please repair the template as a courtesy? --Fæ (talk) 18:15, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Here's a tasty bit for Ashley van Haeften's inevitable 8th RfA attempt.
Advocating for a brand new account whose very first edits were in the middle of a political firestorm and who ends up being globally locked almost immediately.
Excellent judgement there, Ashley.
Hello, John. John, hello. You're the one soul I would come up here to collect myself.
His full name is associated with the Fae account on the official WMF blog, and his address (up to 2015 at least) is listed on several gov.uk websites.
Nonetheless, I think we'd prefer that no one post that information on this site, just so we can't be accused of causing a drop in property values when prospective home-buyers with impressionable children find it on Google while doing real estate searches in his neighborhood.
So... he's hanging the "Information on how to find my home address" hat on you having written "Registering his last name as a website and not using a privacy registrar".
Beeblebrox's response here is deeply worrying. No apology for deliberately comparing me to a sex worker.
Given the chat logs that I have where Ashley van Haeften brags about just how many cocks he sucked on a weekend at a gay bath house, he is a sex worker who just doesn't get paid for it.
I've also seen those logs and you really shouldn't bash him for it.
It's kinkshaming, for one thing. Secondly, blowing 237 dudes in 48 hours probably brings more joy to the public than anything anyone has ever done on a wiki.
The amateur's integrity was championed by Schopenhauer.
Ashley must have been confused by the 37 scene from Kevin Smith's Clerks(T-H-L).
Kiefer.Wolfowitz(T-C-L)
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.” Neal Stephenson(T-H-L)Cryptonomicon
Ashley van Haeften wrote:Beeblebrox is weaponizing trolls off-wiki to doxx his chosen "enemies". That's not normal, it's targeted personal abuse and deeply disturbing harassment.
Chuckling about your bizarre fetish for public self-abasement is not abuse, silly moo.
Repeatedly libeling someone, on the other hand, is definitely harassment.
Meanwhile, a confirmed pedophile is questioning someone else's moral compass...
Phil Nash wrote:Twee fouten maken een goed? Waar is hier het morele kompas?
Here's a tasty bit for Ashley van Haeften's inevitable 8th RfA attempt.
I see what you all did there.
Maybe the title of the thread could be changed to something less orally fixated?
Kiefer.Wolfowitz(T-C-L)
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.” Neal Stephenson(T-H-L)Cryptonomicon