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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Randy from Boise » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:03 pm

rhindle wrote:To avoid off topic discussion in the Fram thread, Wnt is requesting to be unblocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =904030342
What a doofus.

He needs to shut the fuck up, that's my prescription.

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Re: Wnt

Unread post by mendaliv » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:10 pm

And declined as TL:DR, which was probably the right move. Realistically, Wnt mostly needs to acknowledge what he did was wrong, show an understanding of why it was wrong, and promise not to do it again. That's all. Take ownership, show improvement, apologize. It's not rocket science.
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Moral Hazard » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:31 pm

DanMurphy wrote:Really, the mouthbreathing stupidity of this one, coupled with with high self-regard, is really special:
To modern eyes, one of the more mysterious parts of the story involves the question about whether Ya'fur desires females. The modern comic response, of course, is to see him as a gay donkey, but I doubt this is period authentic - I even doubt that people in ancient times even perceived homo- and heterosexuals as mutually exclusive castes. I also find it hard to believe that it was a reference to a celibate lifestyle, because if Muhammad himself had wives and concubines why would a donkey be monkish? And he did come from 60 generations, after all. I don't know if they had stud farms at that time, whether it was an offered boon that the donkey could go off and live in one in pleasant conditions but not serve the prophet... or maybe the donkey's lack of interest in reproduction reflects Muhammad's status as "Seal of the Prophets"? ... bottom line, I have no idea ... does anyone? Wnt (talk) 16:32, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Unread post by Moral Hazard » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:32 pm

DanMurphy wrote:It's worth remembering that this guy is one of the most active "editors" providing advice and guidance on their so-called "Science reference desk." But of course:
We shouldn't dismiss astrology entirely without thinking about it. Sure, it's based on absurd theories, but suppose, say, the women in some village got a hankering for tea made with fresh veratrum flowers. (Hippocrates was a great believer in the stuff, but I think he administered it all times of year) Well, because of the critical periods of development, there might be one or two Zodiacal signs that specifically direct the birth of baby Cyclopes. Who knows - it is possible that somewhat less obvious characteristics have, at certain times and places, followed a rough astrological calendar in this way. Wnt (talk) 18:56, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Moral Hazard » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:33 pm

Vigilant wrote:What a ridiculous caricature of a human being.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =555234840
What you're calling "adulthood" is the acceptance of a specific set of cultural taboos that only certain people believe in. If for some people you know it is correlated with increasing age, that is only because your taboos are in conflict with the state of nature. If people were entirely free from such mad ideology, they would have the right to stroll through the gates of Eden, and (among other things) they would do so naked.

The cost of your proposal, however, would be high - despite claims above, there really isn't any difference between showing a penis to illustrate the anatomy and showing it exhibitionistically; it still looks the same. If we begin concealing articles about sexual topics from children, the inevitable cost will be unwanted pregnancies and lethal disease. Pornography infects no one. We cannot accept your agenda without agreeing to make a blood sacrifice. [[User:Wnt|Wnt]] 16:56, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
So, not hosting child porn is the opening salvo onto the slippery slope to death by disease.

If I'd gotten stinking, sloppy drunk and tried to parody you while vomiting Tequila through my nose, I could not have done as fine a job.
Well done, Wnt.
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by mendaliv » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:34 pm

Another unblock request is up. It isn't much better, though it's only two paragraphs long this time.
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Moral Hazard » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:38 pm

Smiley wrote:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation (T-H-L)here's Wnt, who, needless to say, opposes...
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:25 am

This is definitely the affair that keeps giving, with endless ramifications. :popcorn:
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by mendaliv » Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:29 am

I always thought Wikipedia was a series of tubes.
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Vigilant » Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:04 pm

mendaliv wrote:I always thought Wikipedia was a series of trubes.
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mendaliv wrote:I always thought Wikipedia was a series of tubes.
If only things were that simple!
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Smiley » Wed Jul 24, 2019 12:47 am

I think Wnt has learned his lesson,
so the block no longer serves a useful purpose.
I have unblocked you.

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DONT PANIC.

In just a couple of months
he's gonna get shredded into
a pile of meaty chunks by
automated machine-gun fire
along with all the other
"differently witted" dingbats
taking part in the Great
Area 51 Boomer Self-Holocaust.

:alien: :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien:

Edit:
My simultaneous unbolck request
hasn't gone quite so swimmingly.

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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Smiley » Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:23 am

ohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohplease.....
Welcome back

I don't know what the fuck you were thinking, but it's water under the bridge. Go and sin no more, as the Jesus dude said. You might think about coming up with an off-wiki venting mechanism, it might save you from some grief. Wikipediocracy is there if you need it, but you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week, be advised. Anyway, all's well that ends eventually.

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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Vigilant » Wed Jul 24, 2019 3:18 am

Smiley wrote:ohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohpleasegodohplease.....
Welcome back

I don't know what the fuck you were thinking, but it's water under the bridge. Go and sin no more, as the Jesus dude said. You might think about coming up with an off-wiki venting mechanism, it might save you from some grief. Wikipediocracy is there if you need it, but you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week, be advised. Anyway, all's well that ends eventually.

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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Wed Jul 24, 2019 3:49 am

Carrite wrote:...Wikipediocracy is there if you need it, but you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week, be advised. Anyway, all's well that ends eventually.
Why would he say that? If someone whose behavior is as appalling and amoral as that of User:Wnt (T-C-L) were allowed to get past our registration process, that would be tantamount to administrative malpractice on my part. If anything, he should be prevented from using the entire internet by a legal restraining order.

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Re: Wnt

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Midsize Jake wrote:
Carrite wrote:...Wikipediocracy is there if you need it, but you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week, be advised. Anyway, all's well that ends eventually.
Why would he say that? If someone whose behavior is as appalling and amoral as that of User:Wnt (T-C-L) were allowed to get past our registration process, that would be tantamount to administrative malpractice on my part. If anything, he should be prevented from using the entire internet by a legal restraining order.
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Re: Wnt

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Midsize Jake wrote:
Carrite wrote:...Wikipediocracy is there if you need it, but you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week, be advised. Anyway, all's well that ends eventually.
Why would he say that? If someone whose behavior is as appalling and amoral as that of User:Wnt (T-C-L) were allowed to get past our registration process, that would be tantamount to administrative malpractice on my part. If anything, he should be prevented from using the entire internet by a legal restraining order.
You do not understand the dude. I barely do. He's no more "appalling" and "amoral" than a contributor to Breitbart, for example.

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Re: Wnt

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Randy from Boise wrote:You do not understand the dude. I barely do. He's no more "appalling" and "amoral" than a contributor to Breitbart, for example.
Well, I'm sure he'd seem nice enough if I were to meet him in person, assuming of course that he's wearing a straitjacket and I'm wearing a full radiation suit.

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Randy from Boise wrote:You do not understand the dude. I barely do. He's no more "appalling" and "amoral" than a contributor to Breitbart, for example.
Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly? I think that it is not a good idea to invite controversial people here without consulting a senior figure such as Zoloft or of course Mr Midsize.
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Re: Wnt

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Poetlister wrote:Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly?

The pay's shocking.
Most of us work for Russia Today today.

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Re: Wnt

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Smiley wrote:
Poetlister wrote:Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly?

The pay's shocking.
Most of us work for Russia Today today.
Money?

Leafy greeny spendy money?!

Cashy money?!

GIMME!
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mendaliv wrote:Money?

Leafy greeny spendy money?!

Cashy money?!

GIMME!
:facepalm: Lawyers!
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Re: Wnt

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Poetlister wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:You do not understand the dude. I barely do. He's no more "appalling" and "amoral" than a contributor to Breitbart, for example.
Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly? I think that it is not a good idea to invite controversial people here without consulting a senior figure such as Zoloft or of course Mr Midsize.
I had no idea that this was an invitation-only affair.

Silly me, I thought it was a message board with participants who range the full spectrum of views about most any topic. One that, if someone severely misbehaves on it or trolls on it, shows the perpetrator the door...

I would hope that a steady stream of "controversial people" make their way here...

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P.S. As I mentioned to him, I haven't the slightest doubt that if he did post here (unlikely) that he would get bootstomped for about a week.

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Re: Wnt

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Randy from Boise wrote:
Poetlister wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:You do not understand the dude. I barely do. He's no more "appalling" and "amoral" than a contributor to Breitbart, for example.
Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly? I think that it is not a good idea to invite controversial people here without consulting a senior figure such as Zoloft or of course Mr Midsize.
I had no idea that this was an invitation-only affair.

Silly me, I thought it was a message board with participants who range the full spectrum of views about most any topic. One that, if someone severely misbehaves on it or trolls on it, shows the perpetrator the door...

I would hope that a steady stream of "controversial people" make their way here...

Anders Breivik, please pick up the white courtesy phone!


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Re: Wnt

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Smiley wrote: Anders Breivik, please pick up the white courtesy phone!

ps. History buffs will know that the flowering of the Hundred_Schools_of_Thought (T-H-L)
was swiftly followed by the Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars (T-H-L)
Last I checked, Wnt is not a mass murderer.

Did he make a completely fucking retarded decision about video linking on wiki? Absolutely.

I'm really not following how the stifling of varied intellectual discourse in China is a rationale for preemptive exclusion in this format. Wnt would seem to be the very opposite of a bookburner.

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[At] Wikipediocracy [...] you will get the shit kicked out of you the first week.

tim //// Carrite (T-C-L) 02:20, 24 July 2019
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Re: Wnt

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Randy from Boise wrote:Last I checked, Wnt is not a mass murderer.
Did you actually check though? He has some of the hallmarks.

Randy from Boise wrote:Did he make a completely fucking retarded decision about video linking on wiki? Absolutely.
Yay! More retards! Just what this site needs!

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Re: Wnt

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Wnt's a creepy gore-addict. He finds animal abuse funny as well as mass shootings and is a total nitwit. I'd rather not have him commenting here.

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Midsize Jake wrote:If someone whose behavior is as appalling and amoral as that of User:Wnt (T-C-L) were allowed to get past our registration process, that would be tantamount to administrative malpractice on my part.

If anything, he should be prevented from using the entire internet by a legal restraining order.
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Re: Wnt

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Randy, the Hooters live thataway >>>>>


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Re: Wnt

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mendaliv wrote:
Smiley wrote:
Poetlister wrote:Do many contributors to Breitbart post here regularly?

The pay's shocking.
Most of us work for Russia Today today.
Money?

Leafy greeny spendy money?!

Cashy money?!

GIMME!
Third rate Russian spy pussy is the currency of choice of GOP hacks, I'm told.
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Unread post by Moral Hazard » Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:10 pm

This guy should crawl under a rock.
Smiley wrote:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation (T-H-L)
Here's Wnt (T-C-L), who, needless to say, opposes...
Wnt wrote:It does not in any way alarm me to see an occasional piece of complete junk floating around.
They're the flies in the cistern water that remind you not to drink the rest without further treatment.

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There I should be able to find your daughter if I want and a dead cat if I want.
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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:05 pm

Randy from Boise wrote:Silly me, I thought it was a message board with participants who range the full spectrum of views about most any topic. One that, if someone severely misbehaves on it or trolls on it, shows the perpetrator the door...

I would hope that a steady stream of "controversial people" make their way here...
Admittedly, I was in kind of a bad mood last night, and what's more I had only recently read this thread from the beginning to familiarize myself with what we were talking about. So, when you see the kind of absurd-libertarian mentality Mr. Wnt takes such joy in flaunting on WP, in addition to all the lies, distortions, and made-up BS he's posted on WP about various people, including us and other WP critics... well, it's pretty striking. My concern is that he might post a really damaging falsehood or libelous allegation about someone or something, and (given that we only have three admins) it might take a bit too long for us to get rid of it. Maybe those concerns are exaggerated, but I (for one) didn't have them with Eric Corbett, for example, despite his reputation for divisive PvP and what-not.

Frankly, I doubt Mr. Wnt is at all interested in participating here anyway. That said, I suppose we could enable polling for this question; we almost never do that, but the feature does exist. At the very least though, he would have to explicitly promise to restrain himself in a fairly big way compared to his M.O. on Wikipedia, and that alone might well be a deal-breaker for him even if he did want to register an account.

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Re: Wnt

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Moral Hazard wrote:This guy should crawl under a rock.
Smiley wrote:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation (T-H-L)
Here's Wnt (T-C-L), who, needless to say, opposes...
Wnt wrote:It does not in any way alarm me to see an occasional piece of complete junk floating around.
They're the flies in the cistern water that remind you not to drink the rest without further treatment.

Wikipedia is fundamentally a kind of web search.
There I should be able to find your daughter if I want and a dead cat if I want.
How about a bit fewer GIANT HYSTERICAPS and a little more context — this was a nonsensical answer to a nonsensical retort to a more or less serious point in a thread related to an Articles for Creation proposal...
Oppose. I can't deny that ending the trial is a big pain in the ass for a lot of people. Nor do I actually do NPP/AfC patrolling. Nonetheless, for all its visible benefits, I still fear this restriction has a hidden cost -- I think that new editors who might otherwise have gotten involved, either in the aforementioned editathons or on a more informal basis, are being pushed away. Additionally, I'll add that the reason why I don't do that patrolling is that people there are being asked to do far too many things and to be far too demanding against article creators. Junk articles fail really obvious criteria that anybody can spot if they look at them, and if nobody looks at them, they don't matter! (According to the Turing test they literally are already deleted articles in that case) And my gut feeling is that if Wikipedia tries to put on too many airs of being genuinely true, genuinely "vetted" (God I hate that concept) it starts to despise its user-generated user-editable origin, so it does not in any way alarm me to see an occasional piece of complete junk floating around. They're the flies in the cistern water that remind you not to drink the rest without further treatment. Wnt (talk) 3:51 am, 21 March 2018, Wednesday (1 year, 4 months, 4 days ago) (UTC−7)

: So essentially... "Oppose because it would solve a huge problem and improve the quality of the encyclopedia." Yep. Those are... those are words someone typed... and in that order... apparently on purpose. That's a thing that happened. GMGtalk 4:18 am, 21 March 2018, Wednesday (1 year, 4 months, 4 days ago) (UTC−7)

::Well, fossil fuels solve a big problem and improve quality of life, and yet, there's that greenhouse thing. Sometimes an immediate fix comes with lingering consequences, and that means the fix, however desirable it may seem, has to be kept within limits. Wnt (talk) 4:31 am, 21 March 2018, Wednesday (1 year, 4 months, 4 days ago) (UTC−7)

:::I am... struggling to find words to express how little this rationale makes any sense whatsoever. The closest thing I can come up with on only one cup of coffee is probably something along the lines of "I really love my daughter's baby photos. We posed her next to half a dead cat, and it really brings out the life in her eyes by comparison. The photographer complained that bringing the half-cat into the studio would be a health hazard, but I reassured him that according to the Turing test, if we ignore the flesh eating bacteria, it doesn't really exist. He tried to respond with something about the Turing test being about artificial intelligence, and not the existential reality of rotted meat, but by that point I had stopped listening, because public health is really so very complicated, and I can't be bothered with it, what with my busy schedule and all." GMGtalk 4:56 am, 21 March 2018, Wednesday (1 year, 4 months, 4 days ago) (UTC−7)

::::That makes sense for a photo posted to your refrigerator, but it doesn't make sense for a web search -- and Wikipedia is fundamentally a kind of web search. There I should be able to find your daughter if I want and a dead cat if I want. Wnt (talk) 4:42 am, 22 March 2018, Thursday (1 year, 4 months, 3 days ago) (UTC−7)
OH NOES, WAIT, Wnt is IN FAVOR OF CONTAMINATING THE WATER SUPPLY!!!

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Wnt is one of the worst on en.wp, exacerbated by Jimbo's indulgence of him on JimboStalk.
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Vigilant wrote:Wnt is one of the worst on en.wp, exacerbated by Jimbo's indulgence of him on JimboStalk.
I really wish that page would get marked historical. Of all the lame fora on enwiki, that one takes the cake.
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mendaliv wrote:
Vigilant wrote:Wnt is one of the worst on en.wp, exacerbated by Jimbo's indulgence of him on JimboStalk.
I really wish that page would get marked historical. Of all the lame fora on enwiki, that one takes the cake.
Why would Jimbo ever do that?

You might as well ask the Vatican to close The Papal Basilica of St. Peter.
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Smiley wrote:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation (T-H-L)
Here's Wnt (T-C-L), who, needless to say, opposes...
Wnt wrote:It does not in any way alarm me to see an occasional piece of complete junk floating around.
They're the flies in the cistern water that remind you not to drink the rest without further treatment.

Wikipedia is fundamentally a kind of web search.
There I should be able to find your daughter if I want and a dead cat if I want.
This was a nonsensical answer.
Yes, but he probably meant it.

Any more flaming nutjobs that you wish to foist upon us?
How about User:Raquel Baranow (T-H-L)???

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This site is not invitation only. However, nor is it "anyone can edit" in the way that Wikipedia is supposed to be. Having lots of disruptive editors ruins things for everyone else.
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Unread post by Smiley » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:39 pm

Poetlister wrote:This site is not invitation only.
However, nor is it "anyone can edit" in the way that Wikipedia is supposed to be.
Having lots of disruptive editors ruins things for everyone else.
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Unread post by Smiley » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:43 pm

And there was me thinking that choosing the next "Juicer of the Week" was gonna be a tough call...

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Wouldn't this site be boring if everyone was consistent? :B'

Anyway, as Randy's good friend Jeremy Corbyn says, some people don't understand English irony.
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There's an interesting discussion from several years ago at meta:Talk:Child_protection where Wnt, Tyciol, Dcoetzee and several commons loons are trying to define the child protection policy to their liking. Because pedos and weirdos should be setting policy for hundreds of thousands of people.

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tarantino wrote:There's an interesting discussion from several years ago at meta:Talk:Child_protection where Wnt, Tyciol, Dcoetzee and several commons loons are trying to define the child protection policy to their liking. Because pedos and weirdos should be setting policy for hundreds of thousands of people.
That's the Wiki way: those with a POV are most active in trying to frame the rules to match their POV. Most of these hundreds of thousands of people are probably unaware of most of the rules, or even the existence of the Meta site.
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tarantino wrote:There's an interesting discussion from several years ago at meta:Talk:Child_protection where Wnt, Tyciol, Dcoetzee and several commons loons are trying to define the child protection policy to their liking. Because pedos and weirdos should be setting policy for hundreds of thousands of people.
Change the definition of child, so you don’t have to protect anybody anymore.

Or... change the definition of child so you can “protect” everybody.
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tarantino wrote:There's an interesting discussion from several years ago at meta:Talk:Child_protection where Wnt, Tyciol, Dcoetzee and several commons loons are trying to define the child protection policy to their liking. Because pedos and weirdos should be setting policy for hundreds of thousands of people.
I'm reminded of the time Commons argued and dithered about banning Beta M(T-C-F-L), linked here: linkhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comm ... nst_Beta_M[/link]. The only good thing that can be said about Wnt there was that he realised that Beta M, who lied about not being Vladimir Mozhenkov, a paedophile with the same interests, usernames, and RL name as Beta M, was in fact the person in question and agreed that Beta M should be banned.

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Unread post by Smiley » Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:09 am

Wnt frequents Encyclopedia Dramatica but his account's only piped up once in the last 18 months:

Feb 2019:
Youtube's Pedophilia Problem/YoutubeWakeUP

Apparently YouTube has gotten right on the "problem". Shrek was reportedly caught raping a cartoon boy; I have to take The Mirror's word for it [helpful link deleted because who the fuck wants to log in their ED account with Google God Of The World to link to fake news? Teacher is Claire Thompson, look it up yourself] because the ED article links to some "famous YouTube video" that looks like every other YouTube video anybody ever posted, three dots that turns into a black screen if you try playing it. Seriously, have you considered just posting a YouTube video of black screen with three dots for a preview, and linking everything to it? It would save so much time! If whatever you are saying is not Xi Jinping Thought, you are not saying it, and nobody will ever prove otherwise. Wnt, 19 February 2019
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Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

"Mr Boyle faced eight assault charges, two sexual assault charges, two unlawful confinement charges, one count of misleading police, uttering death threats and causing someone to take a noxious substance." [BBC][Star] (I'm not sure yet what he did, but it sounds worthy of an article)

Hehe, didn't know the half of it. [http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/10/27/th ... hua-boyle/ TOW editor], with a lot of commendable work to his credit.

(I may cite this link, but any soulless TOW bureaucrat or rather wannabe TOW bureaucrat with a belief in "editorial judgment" (his, naturally) ranks right there beside the Taliban in my book) Wnt, 5 January 2018
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[[Rape|Sexual majority]]

Serbia is a nation blessedly free from the hang-ups of [[Americunts]] who want to "make love not war". Serbians know that they can make love and war at the same time, and profit! After long years of pointless rivalry with Bosnia, they hit upon a great plan for a merger: take over the country, take over the women!
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Unread post by Randy from Boise » Thu Jul 25, 2019 2:14 am

Poetlister wrote:Wouldn't this site be boring if everyone was consistent? :B'

Anyway, as Randy's good friend Jeremy Corbyn says, some people don't understand English irony.
On the other hand, your friend Boris doesn't understand anything...

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Re: Wnt

Unread post by Smiley » Thu Jul 25, 2019 2:19 am

Randy from Boise wrote:
Poetlister wrote:Wouldn't this site be boring if everyone was consistent? :B'

Anyway, as Randy's good friend Jeremy Corbyn says, some people don't understand English irony.
On the other hand, your friend Boris doesn't understand anything...

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Unread post by Poetlister » Thu Jul 25, 2019 3:18 pm

Randy from Boise wrote:
Poetlister wrote:Wouldn't this site be boring if everyone was consistent? :B'

Anyway, as Randy's good friend Jeremy Corbyn says, some people don't understand English irony.
On the other hand, your friend Boris doesn't understand anything...

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