QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Wed 29th April 2009, 6:21pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 29th April 2009, 11:15pm)
QUOTE(The Wales Hunter @ Wed 29th April 2009, 4:47am)
Incidentally, Simple English Wikipedia want a checkuser on Greg as they think he is Jonas Rand (IMG:
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Is there a public link where I can see my privacy being violated as such?
EDIT: Nevermind, I got it.
simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser&oldid=1508578#Thekohser and Jonas D RandI'm more taken by "Gut instinct. Looks suspiciously like a sock" as a reason for checkusering, a couple below you.
I've heard of "gutchecking" before — but it takes Wikipediots to make a bureaucracy of it.
Nevertheless, I think it would give our critical faculties a bit of beneficial exercise to stop and look at what's going on here.
When you really think about, the behavior of these Wikipediots Simpletons is actually quite rational here, after a faschion, of course — even if their overall conduct is not.
I probably ought to mention that I follow some schools of philosophy and humanistic psychology that draw a distinction between "behavior" and "conduct". Behavior is anything you do, while Conduct is deliberate, value-guided behavior.
That said, let's ask ourselves — What are the rationalizations, however implicit or tacit, that underlie this type of behavior?
If we try to articulate the Underlying Rationale, I think it would sound a bit like this:
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Forget all that PAP about Privacy And Pseudonyms that we feed the suckers, whenever there's a Problem — meaning anything that bugs one of our preferred members, that is, one of our More Equal Than Others (WP:METOs) — we arrogate the right to investigate the identities of any and all accounts indited by said METOs as being behind the Problem.
Like I said, aside from certain peculiar features, this is actually about as close as Wikipediots get to behaving rationally. It is more or less what normal folks do whenever they spy a problem somewhere. They seek to identify the cause, the source of the problem.
Some of the more irrational add-ons are, of course:
- Wikipediots live in total denial that doing this stuff violates their loudly vaunted principles.
- Wikipediots indignantly deny to anyone else the justice of doing what they themselves do.
Jon Awbrey