Early May Grab Bag

Here are some things that can't be made into an entire post.

Runtshit addendum

It was brought up on the Wikipedia Sucks! board that Steven Plaut himself might have been Runtshit alongside his more fanatically Zionist student(s), using the account as group project a la Wifione. I was given a link here as proof. If Plaut is/was involved, it could damage his academic standing both in Haifa, Israel and in Budapest, Hungary where he is a visiting associate professor at the Central European University. Yes, the locations fit with Runtshit's career, but I have no smoking gun that Plaut is that person.

Reddit news

When we brought up Reddit last summer, we didn't deal with the lesser jerks like "jcm267" of the "nolibs" crew (aka "the Crew.") This group ticked off enough Redditors that they made a NolibsWatch to look at these people, their numerous sockpuppets, and the subreddits (forums) they managed. "Nolibs" himself was anti-Libertarian, part of some far-Right faction who loathed Ron Paul.....which is ridiculous because (American) Libertarianism is a Right-wing ideology. Really it boiled down to those who were pro-Global War on Terrorism (the Crew) and those who were opposed (the NolibsWatchers), but really it was about trolling Libertarians and using politics as a weapon.This war started on Digg in the Bush II administration and then moved over to Reddit once that site supplanted the other. The news in all of this is that the aforementioned "jcm267" has been chased off Reddit in the last month, ending an eight year stretch as a self-described "model Redditor." And he was chased - a now-banned account named "marriedmygun" claims here that it was a "scorched-earth campaign" to chase him off. Why? Because of "The_Donald", the first unofficial Donald Trump for President subreddit (at the time of writing, ten months old.) He didn't create that subreddit, but he was one of the top moderators. Then he gave/sold the subreddit to "CisWhiteMaelstrom", who later quit for reasons I don't know - which is common to true Reddit drama; most of the real rage-spewing/teeth grinding nonsense happens in private messages, emails, and possibly in IRC channels. "NYPD-32", who was involved with "conspiratard" and minor member of the Crew, claimed here that "jcm267" and "CisWhiteMaelstrom" were stacking the deck of mods on "The_Donald" with sockpuppets, which makes sense because the 30-40 moderators of that subreddit all vanished and were replaced over the last fortnight. And now "GhostofDusty" (the creator of "NolibsWatch") is claiming that "jcm267" was "nolibs" (either from the beginning or later on) alongside a massive fleet of sockpuppets. It's all deserving of a book, but I have a feeling everybody involved will be too embarrassed in five years.

Insane Wikipedia Sucks! forum troll(s)

Below is what happens when you run a forum and people the Wikipedians and RationalWiki types don't like show up to be members. In this case it's Rome Viharo (wwhp) who was badmouthed by a number of guest posters whom michaedsuarez claimed was Anglo Pyramidologist (aka Atlantid on Metapedia, the Nazi Wikipedia) who was also Onion hotdog on Wikipedia. The posts I saved (there were a lot more):

Manul Guest

Post by on 4 hours ago Guys, calm down. It is a few internet posts about Wikipedia, nothing breaking laws. There is no need to delete anything. As I have said if Rome Viharo removes the false lies [on Viharo's site "Wikipedia We Have a Problem"] about me, Goblin Face, Tim Farley, Jon Donnis and other skeptics I know, there should be no future problems. Take care. As for Strelnikov he has his own POV, he is a credulous paranormal believer who has a grudge against Farley and anyone associated with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. It's funny how agenda and people teaming up with people works. You will defend Viharo just because he is an anti-skeptic and anti-Wikipedia, but you don't bother to check out his claims. This is very biased. Mikemikev who is actually a pervert racist (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Mikemikev) signed up to this forum, yet because he is anti-Wikipedia he is welcomed. There is no evidence this forum will ever be taken seriously. You are all a bunch of kooks with weird beliefs, just angry because you all got banned from a successful website Wikipedia. lol. ACTUALLY look at Viharo's website in depth and cross-examine his claims, they are mostly false, just set-up to slander skeptics because his sock puppets got banned. Remember this is the guy who believes google itself is conscious rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo is this the sort of irrational person you want representing your forum? Funny stuff. This is dark side of the internet, it's a sunny day outside yet none of you have jobs just sit on here posting nonsense. It's hilarious. It's sometimes funny to read nonsense but all of Rome's nonsense is made up of lies. But you do realise that one day all humans will be dead right? Wikipedia will go down probably sooner than later - probably not in any of our lifetimes but one day. So why so obsessed about a virtual website? Thanks for the laughs.

Dr Malcolm Lewis Guest	Post by on 2 hours ago 4 hours ago Manul said: Guys, calm down. It is a few internet posts about Wikipedia, nothing breaking laws. There is no need to delete anything. As I have said if Rome Viharo removes the false lies about me, Goblin Face, Tim Farley, Jon Donnis and other skeptics I know, there should be no future problems. Take care. As for Strelnikov he has his own POV, he is a credulous paranormal believer who has a grudge against Farley and anyone associated with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. It's funny how agenda and people teaming up with people works. You will defend Viharo just because he is an anti-skeptic and anti-Wikipedia, but you don't bother to check out his claims. This is very biased. Mikemikev who is actually a pervert racist (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Mikemikev) signed up to this forum, yet because he is anti-Wikipedia he is welcomed. There is no evidence this forum will ever be taken seriously. You are all a bunch of kooks with weird beliefs, just angry because you all got banned from a successful website Wikipedia. lol. ACTUALLY look at Viharo's website in depth and cross-examine his claims, they are mostly false, just set-up to slander skeptics because his sock puppets got banned. Remember this is the guy who believes google itself is conscious rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo is this the sort of irrational person you want representing your forum? Funny stuff. This is dark side of the internet, it's a sunny day outside yet none of you have jobs just sit on here posting nonsense. It's hilarious. It's sometimes funny to read nonsense but all of Rome's nonsense is made up of lies. But you do realise that one day all humans will be dead right? Wikipedia will go down probably sooner than later - probably not in any of our lifetimes but one day. So why so obsessed about a virtual website? Thanks for the laughs. Hi, I left a comment to R. Viharo on Skeptico. My concern was his drug use. encyclopediadramatica.se/Talk:Rome_Viharo I don't think he's safe to be around children, it is disturbing he has a young son yet posts pictures of himself doing drugs. Rome viharo has PMED me on Skeptico that he suffers from paranoia, because he takes drugs. I believe he needs help for this issue rather than goblin face creating a blog about his drug habits. wikipediawedonthaveaproblem.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/rome-viharo-is-a-paranoid-drug-user/
Stonehenge Guest yesterday at 2:56pm Post by on yesterday at 2:56pm yesterday at 2:09pm Stan Lih said: Recent SPI shows possible joe job of User:Mikemikev en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Mikemikev/Archive#18_April_2016 You're right but nearly all the others were shown to be his sockpuppets with a check user or duck test; Wikipedia admin aren't perfect and make occasional mistakes. Anyway, I judge Wikipedia editors by their contributions. Mikemikev hasn't created a single page entry (excluding a stub of 3 lines) or added anything worthwhile to a page in the 6+ years of socking on Wikipedia. He just vandalizes talk pages. His behaviour is very similar to Rome Viharo (user: wwhp, above). Rome Viharo has no page creations or constructive edits to his name. He trolled talk-pages looking for drama. It's real daft these sort of people (Rome Viharo, Mikemikev) then complain about Wikipedia when they were/are only there to cause trouble.
Stonehenge Guest Post by on 23 hours ago Rome Viharo's (wwhp)'s socks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Tumbleman/Archive Not a single Wikipedia article ever created on any of his banned socks, no content ever added to articles. Nothing, zilch. Just arguing with users on talk-pages. Rome also worked for pseudoscience advocates such as Deepak Chopra but was found out and banned: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo encyclopediadramatica.se/Rome_Viharo Rome Viharo also has a history of pretending to be females online: As exposed by Manul: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Manul/Tumbleman_sockpuppetry Tumbleman claimed that his sock KateGompert was "professional" he hired to make edits for him, but this is not what the editing patterns show. It was Viharo himself pretending to be a female. On his website, Wikipedia We Have a Problem, Viharo does not mention these facts and he is silent about his account KateGompert. He is obviously embarrassed about pretending to be a female. Viharo has also lectured claiming Google itself is conscious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGF9NbPFfRo "In this talk, Social Media strategists and developers Rome Viharo and Maf Lewis reveal the likelihood that Google's search algorithm may already be sentient", yet after Viharo was described as embracing pseudoscience. He shifted gears and claimed his lecture was only a 'meme' and not to be taken seriously. His lecture tells us otherwise. This man has told many lies and has not corrected any of the false information on his website, yet likes to claim on that innocent people such as Manul and Tim Farley ganged up on him.
michaeldsuarez New Member Posts: 22 7 hours ago Flip Flopped likes this. Post by michaeldsuarez on 7 hours ago "Stonehenge" is Wikipedia sockpuppeteer Anglo-Pyramidologist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Anglo_Pyramidologist He was also "Atlantid" at Metapedia: en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Atlantid He also operated the "Onion Hotdog" account at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Onion_hotdog His first known victim was Dougweller. He created attack articles on Weller at Encyclopedia Dramatica and RationalWiki, and both articles were deleted, although the talk page for the deleted Dougweller article still exists: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Douglas_Weller Notice the various anti-Weller accounts on that talk page. They're all the same person. That's Anglo-Pyramidologist's MO: pretending to be multiple persons, even misappropriating (impersonating) the identities of other people. I've witnessed his acitivities at ED and RationalWiki. Anglo-Pyramidologist is extremely obsessive, and I've never witnessed Anglo-Pyramidologist try to move on. His obsessions last for years, perhaps never-ending. He's currently obsessed with Mikemikev, Rome Viharo, and Dougweller. Listen to what WikipediaWeHaveAProblem says about Anglo-Pyramidologist: wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2016/02/what-will-wikipedia-editor-goblin-faceatlantid-do-next/ We should disable guest posting until Anglo-Pyramidologist loses interest in this site. Last Edit: 6 hours ago by michaeldsuarez
Knights of the Temple Guest 4 hours ago Post by on 4 hours ago 7 hours ago michaeldsuarez said: "Stonehenge" is Wikipedia sockpuppeteer Anglo-Pyramidologist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Anglo_Pyramidologist He was also "Atlantid" at Metapedia: en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Atlantid He also operated the "Onion Hotdog" account at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Onion_hotdog His first known victim was Dougweller. He created attack articles on Weller at Encyclopedia Dramatica and RationalWiki, and both articles were deleted, although the talk page for the deleted Dougweller article still exists: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Douglas_Weller Notice the various anti-Weller accounts on that talk page. They're all the same person. That's Anglo-Pyramidologist's MO: pretending to be multiple persons, even misappropriating (impersonating) the identities of other people. I've witnessed his acitivities at ED and RationalWiki. Anglo-Pyramidologist is extremely obsessive, and I've never witnessed Anglo-Pyramidologist try to move on. His obsessions last for years, perhaps never-ending. He's currently obsessed with Mikemikev, Rome Viharo, and Dougweller. Listen to what WikipediaWeHaveAProblem says about Anglo-Pyramidologist: wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2016/02/what-will-wikipedia-editor-goblin-faceatlantid-do-next/ We should disable guest posting until Anglo-Pyramidologist loses interest in this site. All these accounts are owned by different people. I've explained that to Rome Viharo. I'm not a single individual with multiple personas; different people own those accounts. If you actually look at those sockpuppet archives and the Rationalwiki talk page you can see there is more than one person; the edits are very different. This is why Viharo's obsession with Goblin face aka Dan Skeptic is amusing to me, I'm not him. Anglo_P/Atlantid/Goblin face are three separate persons with different interests and I have little clue about this "Wikipedia scepticism" business, I was never involved in it. However I will defend Goblin face because Rome Viharo has been posting false claims on his site which have implicated me (he also confuses the identity of Tim Farley with Manul, but these are two different people). If Rome Viharo gets taken to court (I've recently been told Tim Farley is doing this), I can easily verify all those accounts are different people. That's why Viharo is wrong when he says one individual is behind his Encylopedia Dramatica, and Rationalwiki entry.
Stonehenge Guest Post by on 4 hours ago "Stonehenge" is Wikipedia sockpuppeteer Anglo-Pyramidologist", No, this is false. I have defended Dan Skeptic, Manul and Tim Farley from libellous claims of Rome Viharo and Mikemikev. I have never edited Wikipedia. Just because I may know someone does not make me someone. "I've witnessed his acitivities at ED and RationalWiki. Anglo-Pyramidologist is extremely obsessive" I don't know who pyramidologist is, but if you look at his sock puppets. Dan Skeptic who was banned on Wikipedia was obviously Goblin Face or later "Quack Hunter" a friend of the Wikipedia user QuackGuru, but not the others, you can easily see that three or more people are operating probably under the IP. One is a extremely skeptical the other is a crank. Dan Skeptic was debunking things like pyramidology. Douglas Weller even admitted this in two of his posts. Sounds like a bunch of university students living together. Even Logos picked up on this: "Apart from that, I think there is a false-positive about goblinface" Logos (talk) 17:16, 25 December 2014 (UTC) he questioned how a skeptic on one account would be defending pseudoscience on another. Douglas Weller later admitted Dan Skeptic was a valuable contributor but due to all the sock puppets it is impossible who to tell who is who. Rome Viharo doesn't spend time to look at the evidence, all he does is claim "it is all" one person. Yet Rome Viharo is the man who pretends to be females on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Tumbleman/Archive i.e. KateGompert. Yet when confronted with this pretended he has employed this "female" to work for him. "We should disable guest posting until Anglo-Pyramidologist loses interest in this site." I have not heard of you before. But you appear to be a prolific troll with no outside life, your game seems to be attacking people on the internet or trying to stir wars between people: www.reddit.com/user/michaeldsuarez www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JuniusThaddeus juniusthaddeus.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page You also created MikeMikev's Ed entry and you are a moderator on ED: encyclopediadramatica.se/Mikemikev "He's currently obsessed with Mikemikev, Rome Viharo, and Dougweller." There is no evidence for these claims. You seem to have a history of slandering people on the web but not presenting much evidence. "We should disable guest posting until Anglo-Pyramidologist loses interest in this site." What interest? I have done a handful of posts. There is no reason I am going to stick around here posting. All I request is that Rome Viharo removes the false information about Goblin Face, Manul and Tim Farley and other skeptics from his website.
Knights of the Temple Guest Post by on 4 hours ago Note the above person/reply isn't me.
Templar Guest Post by on 4 hours ago 4 hours ago Stonehenge said: Just to let you know Michaeldsuarez  was also banned for trolling Rationalwiki. He claims to be an "online prankster", a buffoon in other words. He's got nothing to do but follow people around and pokes his nose into online-feuds between people, he then (poorly) documents it all on Encyclopaedia Dramatica "for the lolz". rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Chicken_coop/Archive43#Michaeldsuarez_.28JuniusThaddeus.29
michaeldsuarez New Member Posts: 22 Post by michaeldsuarez on 2 hours ago 4 hours ago Stonehenge said: I have not heard of you before. But you appear to be a prolific troll with no outside life, your game seems to be attacking people on the internet or trying to stir wars between people: [...] www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JuniusThaddeus juniusthaddeus.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page As I've stated on reddit, that wiki-site.com site is defamatory misinformation created by one of my many enemies. 4 hours ago Stonehenge said: You also created MikeMikev's Ed entry and you are a moderator on ED: encyclopediadramatica.se/Mikemikev After I created the page, Anglo-Pyramidologist / Atlantid (using various accounts) completely rewrote the page. He's basically the page's principle author now.