tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post7973669059159931599..comments2024-02-09T18:00:54.419-08:00Comments on Wikipedia Sucks! (And So Do Its Critics.): As above, so below....Strelnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-71089251863162247202015-10-18T21:42:14.322-07:002015-10-18T21:42:14.322-07:00I've been poking through this blog, and answer...I've been poking through this blog, and answering a few questions. I won't address the list of banned people, except to note that the phpBB software has a list in the banning function, so I don't need to keep track.<br /><br />I do think it's petty to doxx banned people here when you're objecting to another board's behavior. That's collateral damage, not journalism.<br /><br />As far as why I ban anyone, very few are my sole decision. Any member banned who wasn't a raging asshole (posting child porn, gore, threatening members, etc.) could conceivably return.<br /><br />I am the predominant advocate for banned people being 'unbanned.' We don't put them through the 'grovel and confess' ordeal that Wikipedia does. Usually we just ask them to stay on topic, and try to be polite.Stanistanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980896874646276612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-40047854026116325082015-10-18T21:41:04.630-07:002015-10-18T21:41:04.630-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stanistanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980896874646276612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-12479501966674781112015-10-13T18:07:36.935-07:002015-10-13T18:07:36.935-07:00"Monty" Burns has behaved capriciously a..."Monty" Burns has behaved capriciously at times. If this is due to Wikipediocracy trustees' orders, that should be publicly clarified, and the trustees should reveal their behind-the-scenes roles in questionable decisions. Wikipediocracy's governance system is not sustainable. <br /><br />Former government employee James Somers appears to have been exposed as the Wikipediocracy trustee "Somey." "[G]et it on with dozens of virgin babes in the afterlife. Woo hoo! I can't wait! :)" Clearly, Mr. Somers is a classy fellow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-21773848216129503322015-03-04T17:17:27.644-08:002015-03-04T17:17:27.644-08:00Someone mentioned an essay I wrote on gender categ...Someone mentioned an essay I wrote on gender categories, so I posted a copy for reference. I was then immediately banned from Wikipediocracy. It's a perfectly innocuous essay. You can see it here: http://www.conservapedia.com/User:PeterKa/Filipacchi. Apparently, the long arm of Hachette Filipacchi Media tracked me down. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-36586846544506570742014-12-25T02:33:23.506-08:002014-12-25T02:33:23.506-08:00Finally, someone not afraid to tell it like it is....Finally, someone not afraid to tell it like it is. If there's anything we've learned from the Wikimedia Foundation, the fish rots from the head down. Wikipediocracy replicated Wikipedia's recipe for combining secrecy and power.<br /><br />As the official Wikipediocracy spokesman, Somey is protecting the brand. I look forward to Stierlitz exposing him. It's well past time. <br /><br />You have a few details wrong. More importantly, you are essentially correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-49381226242644233862014-12-14T22:10:59.365-08:002014-12-14T22:10:59.365-08:00Somey, he will track you down and expose you. That...Somey, he will track you down and expose you. That's the shitlist.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-70284340580625310082014-12-12T20:18:50.656-08:002014-12-12T20:18:50.656-08:00I dunno, "shitlist" - that sounds like a...I dunno, "shitlist" - that sounds like a potential fatwa to me...? I'd say he's quite religious indeed. Maybe I could be the first Wikipediocracy martyr and get it on with dozens of virgin babes in the afterlife. <i>Woo hoo!</i> I can't wait! :)Someyhttp://wikipediocracy.com/forum/memberlist.php%25253Fmode%25253Dviewprofile%252526u%25253D112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-13896714634419821382014-12-12T02:24:38.929-08:002014-12-12T02:24:38.929-08:00I've met Stierlitz; he is not religious. He is...I've met Stierlitz; he is not religious. He is interested in bizarro stuff, and he hates guys like James Randi because he thinks they are fundamentalists of a very narrow-minded materialism. Because you admitted that you threw him out and not Billy "Monty" Burns, you are now on his shitlist....which is a very bad place to be.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-80633131931038852212014-12-12T00:32:27.937-08:002014-12-12T00:32:27.937-08:00It wasn't an "awful idea," it was a ...It wasn't an "awful idea," it was a necessary evil. Religion (or the lack thereof) is just not our target area, unless for some reason it is. And I do recognize that banning people leads to new websites of a critical (or worse) nature - we all recognize that. But when you've already got the 800-lb. gorilla doing it to you pretty much all the time, you grow a thicker skin after a few years, I guess. It's the nature of the business.Someyhttp://wikipediocracy.com/forum/memberlist.php%253Fmode%253Dviewprofile%2526u%253D112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-35751667232922517652014-12-11T10:24:24.714-08:002014-12-11T10:24:24.714-08:00Everything in quotations in my last was from that ...Everything in quotations in my last was from that person, not me; he's having issues signing in.<br /><br />I am glad somebody recognizes that throwing out Stierlitz was an awful idea.....what Somey doesn't recognize is that throwing people out of a website opens the possibility that they (or their friends) will start criticism websites. And Wikipedia/Wikipediocracy are a huge conjoined target; only Reddit would be bigger.<br /><br />Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-23986041131108110482014-12-11T03:31:08.085-08:002014-12-11T03:31:08.085-08:00If you want to go down that route, please, from no...If you want to go down that route, please, from now on, address me as Pussy. Pussy Galore, the original fly girl. ;)<br /><br />For what it's worth, I thoroughly enjoyed Stierlitz's contributions to WO, and banning him was all kinds of stupid, imo. However, I am not sure how much of that was Bill Zoloft's doing. He may have been following orders from on high. Wouldn't have been the first time. Bill may not be perfect (who is?), but he is not the ogre you make him out to be. And that's me speaking as someone who was banned by him. <br /><br />There are people on WO who have turned petty and bureaucratic into a fine art, people who couldn't see the big picture if it went and took them for a drive in a mint green Corvair at the break of dawn, but Bill is not one of them (and neither is Somey). <br /><br />I am reasonably sure that if Stierlitz asked Bill to be let back in, Bill would be more than happy to oblige. He's quirky that way, and he's anything but narrow-minded. But would Stierlitz want that, given the way he was treated over there? Then again, grudges. What's the point? Life is short.<br /><br />Be well,<br />TippiTippinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-34844621503435506922014-12-11T02:36:47.280-08:002014-12-11T02:36:47.280-08:00My sometime contributor Doctor Why (who is not Sti...My sometime contributor Doctor Why (who is not Stierlitz) has this to say:<br /><br />"Oh look, once again Wikipedia's furious typing is spreading elsewhere <br />on the web. Accomplishes very little and looks very silly. Why is it <br />that a serious open discussion of Wikipedia's problems usually becomes <br />this "Secret Squirrel" crap? None of you are James Bond and I am not <br />impressed."Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-12496727295958382682014-12-10T17:29:49.133-08:002014-12-10T17:29:49.133-08:00I wouldn't be so quick to blame Mr. Zoloft spe...I wouldn't be so quick to blame Mr. Zoloft specifically; he's running the board because he's more willing than most (even myself) to implement the wishes of the group, and if he seems inconsistent, capricious, or petty, it's because the group is only as unified as a barely-cohesive bunch of die-hards who don't know each other in person can be, which is "not very." I don't agree with everything he does, and he's definitely quicker on the trigger than I ever was at WR, but again, that's essentially what the group wants.<br /><br />As for Mr. Stierlitz, he was actually a special case, and I myself was as responsible for that as anyone, maybe <i>more</i> than anyone. I'd say your opinion of the matter is actually justified, but anti-atheist content on Wikipediocracy is a hot-button issue for me and (IMO) a clear majority of the insider group, especially when atheism is conflated with pro-science skepticism - fairly or unfairly. We've usually been sort-of willing to grin & bear it when it's strictly Wikipedia-related, but as soon as it strays out of the wikisphere, it quickly starts to piss many of us off.<br /><br />So, assuming he's reading this, I do apologize for my (and our) lack of forbearance... but even in purely practical terms, we really don't like to make it easy for Wikipedians to pigeonhole us as "pseudoscience advocates" or anything else that smacks of an overarching agenda. I understand that it's technically a form of (non-official) censorship, but anti-atheists also should try to remember that religious people are the vast majority, and they have plenty of other places they can say that stuff. Atheists, OTOH, have relatively few places, even online, where they can feel relatively free from it. (And all that said, the situation is far from irreparable.)<br /><br />Last but not least, I should state somewhere that my memory of some of these events is by no means perfect, nor am I speaking for the group. I also shouldn't have mentioned Tippi and "The Wife" in the same sentence, above - while the reasons <i>were</i> similar, the situations were completely different, and the loss of Tippi is huge in many important ways... whereas suspending "The Wife" was hardly a loss at all (other than that she added to our advocacy-credibility on the child-protection issue).Someyhttp://wikipediocracy.com/forum/memberlist.php%3Fmode%3Dviewprofile%26u%3D112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-63788057194324739222014-12-10T17:01:42.327-08:002014-12-10T17:01:42.327-08:00You know, I could tell you a few things about the ...You know, I could tell you a few things about the "rules of journalism," but that would likely be entirely pointless. You seem consumed by your dislike for one of WO's admins, and that does not make for good journalism. You have that in common with another WP critic who shall remain nameless, but whose writing seems mostly motivated by his antipathy for one of the founders of WP. I did call that person out on a few things, and was subsequently ousted. The site still profits from the connections I've established, but they now have one less writer. Oh, and I am the writer who put them on the map with the Qworty story. So, please, do talk to me about journalism. Not.<br /><br />And Somey, I have the greatest respect for you, but please do not lump me in with "The Wife." That account was run by a troll. I believe I did a little bit more for you people. On the positive side, you still have plenty of officious WP admin-style types to pick up the slack.<br /><br />Peace out<br />TippiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-10393568540122805742014-12-10T16:01:58.688-08:002014-12-10T16:01:58.688-08:00Good to hear from one of the Masters.....
Somey, ...Good to hear from one of the Masters.....<br /><br />Somey, my beef is with the shit way Zoloft dealt with Stierlitz; Stierlitz was willing to walk away for two weeks when things got hot and heavy over the Michael Shermer nonsense AND ZOLOFT THREW HIM OUT ANYWAY WHEN HE RETURNED and at 2am TO BOOT! Stierlitz took screenshots and sent them to me; I've never seen a board operator act so petty, outside of the aforementioned SomethingAwful forums. The guy was thrown out for talking about non-Wikipedia material in the OFF TOPICS forums, which is pure insanity. I think he was curbstomped because he WASN'T a member of Wikipedia, so Stanistani didn't have to fear being screwed with in Jimboland.<br /><br />Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-66086393898012110142014-12-10T14:10:24.346-08:002014-12-10T14:10:24.346-08:00Just to answer a few of the issues raised above, y...Just to answer a few of the issues raised above, you're right that some of these suspensions were questionable and a few were unwarranted, but when Wikipediocracy was set up, a conscious decision was made to exclude people on the basis of "near-constant distraction" alone - even though this is similar to what Wikipedia does (they call it "disruption") and therefore difficult to swallow, at least in a philosophical sense. But the underlying idea is that all interpersonal disputes are considered petty and distracting unless they somehow serve to illustrate a larger Wikipedia-specific problem.<br /><br />As for specifics, Abd is still active on Quora, which clearly is far-better suited for him. Badmachine (aka "Hipcrime" on ED) was a "pre-emptive" suspension, as he'd apparently been active in GNAA, but that one was still dubious. Daniel Brandt's status is the trickiest of all - at the time, he was so relentless in his pursuit of Tarc's identity (and that of one or two others) that we felt he was hurting our credibility and scaring off other members, but still, he was probably justified in that pursuit. Anyway, when Tarc was suspended, we felt it was only fair to suspend Daniel as well - Daniel even agreed with us at the time, believe it or not.<br /><br />"Duke Olav III" was an alternate account of a perfectly likable member who, after we asked politely, agreed to stick to his "main" account, so that one's OK, I think (and yes, about half the accounts on the list were suspended for that same reason). Kiefer is back, and agreed to lose the avatar/sig that we all felt was needlessly provocative politically, but he's definitely confrontational (though in a mostly-likable way). Kumioko should not have been suspended, but you can't deny that he was a one-note member; WR would have given him a daily posting limit, but Wikipediocracy just doesn't do that.<br /><br />"The Wife" and Tippi were suspended for essentially the same reason(s); they weren't good reasons, but once you're in the "insider" group the rules change, and not always in a good way. That's true of most forums, I'm afraid. (Hopefully Tippi's situation can be revisited someday soon and corrected.) Finally, Triptych just got on everyone's nerves as he was completely uncompromising, but he could certainly return to the fold once bad blood on all sides has cooled down a bit.<br /><br />So, all in all, I'd say about 10 percent of these suspensions are unwarranted, but I could see how some might think it was closer to 20 percent, all told. A lot depends on things like ideology, history of interpersonal disputes, and resistance to personal insult in general. I don't expect the situation to change much, but we'll try to reconcile with some of the people on this list, sooner or later.Someyhttp://wikipediocracy.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-40924525976440334072014-12-10T12:42:35.625-08:002014-12-10T12:42:35.625-08:00You misconstrue; I have nothing against you, or yo...You misconstrue; I have nothing against you, or your husband. But I am playing by the rules of journalism, and one of the key points in journalism is you do not delete things. You do notify the readers of errors in the next issue or as a tag below the article. Are you asking me to say that the list was wrong, and that you are still a part of the Wikipediocracy messageboard?<br /><br />You have to understand that Wikipedia has been lying about its past from at least 2004, and that Wikipediocracy is following suit. I'm not gunning for you; it's Zoloft I want out. I've never seen a guy run a messageboard like him, outside of that hellscape at Something Awful forums; he is narrow-minded, controlling, and manipulative. He will sink the Wikipediocracy project in the long run, just as Mistress Selina Kyle sank Wikipedia Review.<br /><br />Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-50608596067054381122014-12-10T11:47:33.577-08:002014-12-10T11:47:33.577-08:00Actually, I have been reading this website. Your p...Actually, I have been reading this website. Your post about TGIF was excellent. The rest, not so much, but then again, I'm a rather demanding editor. So, by all means, keep my doxx, if you can live with that decision. My time over there was up anyway, and The Management made a couple of poor choices in the run-up to all this. <br /><br />Still, I wrote some posts on there that made an impact. To find my name on a list that contains some of the worst pests in WO and WP history hurts like hell. I could give you deets on some of the names on that list, but you don't seem all that friendly, and I do have a day job. <br /><br />For me, participating on WO was never about sides, but about people. WP has no right to hurt its BLP subjects the way it does, as far as I'm concerned. But then, as I found out at my expense, WO isn't that much better. It sure got its share of officious former WP bigwigs who couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag. But lord it over us writers they did. Oh well. All in the past.<br /><br />You take care, and good luck with whatever it is you're trying to achieve<br />TippiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-48877562255532710112014-12-10T11:28:09.141-08:002014-12-10T11:28:09.141-08:00No.
You haven't been reading this website, ha...No.<br /><br />You haven't been reading this website, have you? We are not playing by Wikipedia's "delete all the child porn before the Feds arrive!" rules....we don't have "nonpersons" or "nonarticles"; unless a comment is spambot gibberish, it stays.<br /><br />Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056329851028618436.post-6668127304900770562014-12-10T06:52:01.853-08:002014-12-10T06:52:01.853-08:00Hey sweetie,
Would you mind removing my doxx from...Hey sweetie,<br /><br />Would you mind removing my doxx from that list, for my husbeast's sake? I'm pretty sure some of the folks on WP would have him for breakfast if this got out, and, unfortunately, he still cares about the place and thinks it can be improved. Also, could you please delete this post once you've read it? GK may be a flaming misogynist in addition to being many other interesting things, but there are a number of good folks left on WO, and, as for now, it's the only game in town.<br /><br />TippiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com