QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 1:20pm)
I'll take a pass on your "end justifies the means" comment. I disagree but I don't expect to convince you that you are wrong.
Disagreeing with someone does not make them wrong, Shalom. You've got no one on your side. I think it's pretty obvious that people who have that mentality feel that Iridescent's actions were justified. Regardless, what really matters here is that you've got no one on your side.
QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 1:20pm)
Going back to my original point, the one IP address I deliberately did not bother to track down for the purpose of my RFA [...]
The deal with the opposers in your RFA is that they couldn't trust you. Clearly that lack of trust was justified, and it is blatantly obvious that you are not fit to be an administrator. What's shocking is not that you've done more vandalism that originally admitted to (I think most people assumed as much), but that you refuse to let this go, as if it matters.
QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 1:20pm)
The wikisuicide has begun, folks.
It began within your first handful of edits. Hopefully it's ending now.
QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 3:49pm)
[...] Part of the appeal of wiki vandalism is knowing that it can be repaired easily. Putting graffiti on a wall raises serious ethical issues. Putting graffiti on a paper sign posted on a bulletin board for an event that has already occurred, or putting graffiti on the blackboard knowing that someone will erase it, don't raise the same level of ethical issues.
It's still shit that other people have to spend their time cleaning up. If you're really into vandalism that goes light on ethical issues, check out
Knitta.
QUOTE(Shalom @ Fri 27th March 2009, 3:49pm)
Last Friday in my office I was so upset with things that I started throwing books around. It was a closed room and nobody else was there. By the time the fellow who works in the next room came over to calm me down, I had thoroughly destroyed a notebook I don't use anyway by throwing it against a wall six times. That's vandalism on Wikipedia. Just an act of frustration, needing to destroy something but not knowing what. I've sometimes torn leaves off a tree and torn them up for unleashing angst. Same idea.
Anger management, Shalom. And it's not the same idea. Who had to clean up your office? Did you leave it for the janitor, did your co-worker clean it up, or your boss maybe? I think what would have been the best for all involved is if your boss cleaned it up after firing you and having security toss your ass out the front door. But hey, that's just me.
You release your anger like a child. Were you one of those kids that took a magnifying glass to the sidewalk and lit up ant hills? Took your slingshot to the woods to play target practice with the squirrels and birds? Or were you one of the kids that scribbled hate into a notebook, lit matches into piles of hay, or other similar acts of rage that didn't inflict pain on living creatures?
Find a hobby that you don't hate, Shalom... or, at least, a hobby that doesn't hate you. And stop caring about shit so much. I've come to realize that life is a lot easier if you just don't give a fuck (DGAF). People don't like you? DGAF. Someone said something that offended you? DGAF. Some other junk you have no control over pissing you off? Just DGAF. It's all much easier when you just choose not to care.
All that said, as an off-topic aside, Bottled Spider is my favorite poster. The Comedy Central of WR. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) Love it.