WWHP wrote:They've been here, I have no idea where to find the threads. By trouble, I mean targeting me, for example.
Look, I don't know why you would suggest something like this, but you're completely mistaken.
This simply never happened. Maybe you were thinking of some other website? I read every post in every thread, the other admins do too, and I can assure you that nobody with the Smiths' agenda, persona(s), or interaction patterns has ever posted here, nor would they last long here if they did. (There's a better chance that Morrissey or Johnny Marr have posted here than them, and that's even taking Morrissey's bizarro vegan-fascist ideology into account.)
Also, anyone can do a topic search on the word "Viharo"; it's easy-peasy - I just did, and I can vouch for every member who posted to those threads. They're all regulars, or at least known quantities. It's true that not all of them are unfailingly polite and supportive, and they have certainly criticized you, but just because someone criticizes you does not automatically mean that the someone in question is Oliver/Darryl Smith, or anyone else in particular. It might be nice to think so, but the fact is, lots and lots and lots of people object to pseudoscience of any kind - with varying degrees of vehemence - and since you have a reputation as an "anti-skeptic," they probably object to you too, by association.
You shouldn't even take it personally, as that just encourages them and inevitably makes things harder for the mods.
Oliver and Darryl Smith targeted me on Wikipedia in 2013, chances are the majority of the perceptions of me here were formed by them and their group of editors they collaborate with.
Again, no, and hopefully you're just confusing us with some other website. We first encountered you when you registered here as "560wasbullied" and started
this thread. Most, and probably all, of us had never heard of you at all before you started that thread. It's true that we'd already had two
earlier threads about the Sheldrake BLP situation, in response to the coverage it got in SFGate and the New Republic, but I see no practical reason why anyone here would have been interested in it before then. It would have been just another of the millions of terrible articles and/or silly disputes that happen every day on Wikipedia.
Admittedly, most of us would have heard of Deepak Chopra, but probably not enough to have checked out the history of his BLP - and in any event, his BLP wasn't where the dispute was taking place at that time.
Is this going to be another one of those Wikipediocracy discussions where I come here in good faith and have to deal with a bunch of misinformed bullshit and snark from rude disgruntled asshat Wikipedia and rationalwiki editors?
I apologize for that, and it would certainly be better if everyone behaved in a more genteel fashion. But in addition to the points already made, you've had unrealistic expectations regarding this whole situation pretty much from Day One, and that can be a little frustrating for the rest of us.