Zoe vs. NIU, Was: Jimbo approves of vandalism! Options

[CrazyGameOfPoker]

Well someone thinks so.

It all seemed so simple. I mean, why not try to get a man in trouble with his employer?

Well then again maybe not.

[gomi]

Reading the ANI discussion (non-perma-link) on this is a barrel of laughs. If anyone ever wanted evidence that the upper echelons of Wikipedia are populated by a bunch of bone-headed, argumentative, self-important morons, this is it. These people are wetting themselves over the bizarre belief that they are editing an encyclopedia, rather than participating in a social club wrapped around a set of random misinformation.

The admin in question has deleted her emails to the professor, but amusing quotes include: "Lets just range-block the school for a week if it happens again" (User:J.smith), "he's suggesting ... the online equivalent of his asking his [students] to pick a random store, throw a brick through the front window and see how long it takes the cops to arrive" (User:HalfShadow), and ... this academic's conduct sickens me. The wanton destruction of knowledge - free knowledge, yet - violates just about every single academic principle I can think of by the ever-idiotic User:Moreschi. The understatement award, in response to the question "what are we trying to do here? get a guy sacked? " goes to this: If he refuses to respond to emails. This is a bit harsh, but ignoring Zoe's emails is no good either."

But the best of all has to be by the instigator, User:Zoe -- destruction of a privately-owned website is a federal offense Sorry, I have to go now and change my pants because I wet myself laughing when reading that. After that I'm going to go vandalize Wikipedia a little, maybe.

[Jonny Cache]

Reading the ANI discussion (non-perma-link) on this is a barrel of laughs. If anyone ever wanted evidence that the upper echelons of Wikipedia are populated by a bunch of bone-headed, argumentative, self-important morons, this is it. These people are wetting themselves over the bizarre belief that they are editing an encyclopedia, rather than participating in a social club wrapped around a set of random misinformation.

The admin in question has deleted her emails to the professor, but amusing quotes include: "Lets just range-block the school for a week if it happens again" (User:J.smith), "he's suggesting ... the online equivalent of his asking his [students] to pick a random store, throw a brick through the front window and see how long it takes the cops to arrive" (User:HalfShadow), and ... this academic's conduct sickens me. The wanton destruction of knowledge -- free knowledge, yet -- violates just about every single academic principle I can think of by the ever-idiotic User:Moreschi. The understatement award, in response to the question "what are we trying to do here? get a guy sacked?" goes to this: If he refuses to respond to emails. This is a bit harsh, but ignoring Zoe's emails is no good either".

But the best of all has to be by the instigator, User:Zoe -- destruction of a privately-owned website is a federal offense Sorry, I have to go now and change my pants because I wet myself laughing when reading that. After that I'm going to go vandalize Wikipedia a little, maybe.

Yes, I predict that this page will become the locus loco classic-ass for future generations of courses in The Rise And Fall Of Information Illiteracy (TRAFOII 101).

The only ½way sane comments come from Cap'n Ahab himself. Like the wise wikipusher who knows better than to smoke (too much of) his own dope, he knows that Wikipedia is just an Oversized Blog that e-scaped from its Usenet Litter Box over an unguarded LAN Bridge. Indeed, his entire claim to immunity from prosecution depends on the Real World continuing to treat Wikipedia as a Blog Of No Consequence (BONC).

The trouble with the dopes who do smoke his dope is that they want the legal immunity of a private phone converstaion, all the while demanding the legal protections of the British Museum or the Library of Congress.

What a joke !!!

Jonny (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/cool.gif)

[Lir]

This is a bit harsh, but ignoring Zoe's emails is no good either. 128.118.60.168 23:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, because ignoring Zoe is a federal offense?

Zoe is really pathetic; she describes herself as a professional editor, and then edits Wikipedia -- is she having trouble finding a job? I remember when I first started editing Wikipedia, I noted that Christopher Columbus had previously worked as a slave-trader, and then he took Amerindians as slaves when he reached 'the Americas' -- there was subsequently a huge edit war over this issue, with Zoe, because she insisted that my information was vandalism. Within a month I was banned.

I saw Zoe's deleted email subpage. She had emailed Pierce, his supervisor, the PR department, and finally the legal or ethics board.

Yah, they went after my university in the same way; I got photocopies of all the emailing, and it was pretty ridiculous -- the annoying thing was that the allegations weren't even true, and it was sort of ridiculous to explain to a dean that people go to Wikipedia to vandalize their article about the clitoris, and then Raul attributes that to me as if it were a concrete fact. Eventually, I told the dean and the tech person that Wikipedia is sort of like the Scientology cult; they agreed, laughed, and nothing further happened.

Remember that time someone called the cops on Snowspinner for his online diary about murdering homeless people? Lol, that was funny; not me though.