Durova Offers "Mentoring" Services Options

[Pwok]

posted by mistake

This post has been edited by Pwok: Thu 20th December 2007, 8:41am

[Proabivouac]

Loathe as I am to defend Ms. Dunin, I'm afraid this version, to which your link refers…

http://www.kimtragedy.info/wikipedia/

is one of the most palpably biased hit pieces I've ever seen.

[Selina]

Durova in a position to teach other people how to act? That's just funny given that practically everyone associated with Wikipedia knows what she is like due to all the news...

[Pwok]

posted by mistake

This post has been edited by Pwok: Thu 20th December 2007, 6:26pm

[LamontStormstar]

That's not as hypocritical as Britney Spears is going to write a book teaching people how to be a good parent. After that Jamie Lynn Spears (Britney's recently pregnant 16 year old sister) is going to write her own book on parenting, too.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Br...on+parenting%22

Hopefully that URL didn't have as s, col or, etc. in it

This post has been edited by LamontStormstar: Thu 20th December 2007, 8:14am

[The Joy]

That's not as hypocritical as Britney Spears is going to write a book teaching people how to be a good parent. After that Jamie Lynn Spears (Britney's recently pregnant 16 year old sister) is going to write her own book on parenting, too.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Br...on+parenting%22

Hopefully that URL didn't have as s, col or, etc. in it

Correction: Britney Spears's mother.

[LamontStormstar]

That's not as hypocritical as Britney Spears is going to write a book teaching people how to be a good parent. After that Jamie Lynn Spears (Britney's recently pregnant 16 year old sister) is going to write her own book on parenting, too.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Br...on+parenting%22

Hopefully that URL didn't have as s, col or, etc. in it

Correction: Britney Spears's mother.

Hmm I heard rumors of the kids, too.

Well anyway, google says the mother put the book on hold after her 16 year old daughter got pregnant and decided to keep the baby. If you're 16 and pregnant, you can sweep it under a rug with an abortion and your mother will still look like she did a good job, but instead of you decide to have it then your mother looks like she did a terrible job.

Hmmm... some cultures say abortion is bad because it kills and other cultures say it's much worse to dishonor your parents.

[Pwok]

Posted by mistake

This post has been edited by Pwok: Thu 20th December 2007, 6:27pm

[LamontStormstar]

Um, are you guys trying to hijack the thread? If I'm going to post about Wikipedia and have it turn into a conversation on Britney f'in Spears and her abortion, what the hell's the point? I'll just go get a g'dam National Enquirer. Sheesh.

Well, it was about analogies to the Durova thing.

[Somey]

We're lucky she didn't use the word "training" instead... (That's Durova, I mean, not Britney Spears or her mom.)

[LamontStormstar]

Yeah, right. I don't know why I even bothered. Bye-bye.

Well your point is pretty obvious Durova shouldn't mediate. The next step is to figure out exactly how bad it'll turn out.

Maybe like when SlimVirgin/Crum375/Jayjg makes an article to them "NPOV" ?

This post has been edited by LamontStormstar: Thu 20th December 2007, 8:43am

[Moulton]

Looks like Pwok picked up his marbles and went home.

[Amarkov]

You've clearly deeply offended Pwok by not acting as he wishes. Refactor please.

[AB]

Pwok, if it is really upsetting to you when people move
off from your point, then be aware that the moderators
of this board have the ability to move off posts into
different threads. You could ask them to do this.

Also, please understand that 'off-topic' doesn't have
much meaning to some of us... well, it doesn't have
much meaning to me, at least. If any two things are
no more than six degrees of separation apart, then
is there really such a thing as 'off-topic'?

So live with it and just ask the moderators to move
the posts. Or do what Jonny does and start a new
thread, quoting the posts from the old one which are
'on-topic' by your definition.

[Pwok]

I'm climbing off the ceiling. Sorry. They pissed me off when they turned this into a conversation about Britney Spears. It's bad enough to have to see that kind of crap on CNN. But I probably overreacted.

[AB]

I'm climbing off the ceiling. Sorry. They pissed me off when they turned this into a conversation about Britney Spears. It's bad enough to have to see that kind of crap on CNN. But I probably overreacted.

That's okay, we love you anyway. {{{Pwok}}}

Anyway, if this sort of thing really bothers you, you could
just ask the moderators to move the Britney Spears posts
over to the lounge. Alternatively, you could start a new
thread entitled 'Durova offers "mentoring" services, the
non-celebrity discussion', quoting whatever you want to
keep from this thread.

Both of these are probably easier than trying to explain
to people like me why you think Britney Spears is
off-topic.

[Moulton]

Have a yuk on me, Pwok.

Durova proposed to mentor me after a recent Kafkaesque purge and pogrom. Mercury thought that would be a good idea.

The Pogrom Managers did not agree.

[AB]

Durova proposed to mentor me after a recent Kafkaesque purge and pogrom. Mercury thought that would be a good idea.

The Pogrom Managers did not agree.

You are probably lucky, Moulton. Getting mentored by Durova would probably
be worse than being banned. Durova is the sort of person who will get a kid
kicked out of school, ruining his career dreams, and accuse you of harassment
and threaten to throw you in jail if you peaceably and privately protest to her
about it.

If you want a mentor, try Tony Sidaway or Daniel. SlimVirgin even. Much nicer
people.

(I know SlimVirgin is controversial, but I actually do think she might be a good
mentor for some. Anyway, I like her, at least.)


This post has been edited by AB: Fri 21st December 2007, 12:53am

[Moulton]

Actually, the idea of having a mentor at all (let alone Durova) struck me as rather odd for an enterprise that had as its goal to write a respectable encyclopedia.

But having a mentor makes perfectly good sense if one views Wikipedia as an MMPORG.

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

[AB]

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

Oh, she's fantastic at gaming the system. She can harass a person
and get them blocked for harassment. Absolutely brilliant!

But is that really what you want to learn from a mentor?

No, me neither.