Piperdown block review, ...very interesting & The Usual Suspects Chime In Options

[Piperdown]

Well, this has been a very interesting read. Check out the WP:AN board for the discussion that was started from my request here about my Overblocked scam pulled by Carpet Bombing Gerard on WP.

People I never heard of are actually using their brains and saying "WTF?" when reading the reasoning of my block.

Unlike the Usual Suspects declaring me odious, but for very vague reasons they cant quite explain, I haven't even sent one email, or one canvass, about any of this. Just a simple talk page post and a mention here.

Props to those who are analyzing the facts in the case. An obvious vested few of the following people should recuse themselves, but they just cant quite help themselves.

Thatcher - see my WR sig, lol
Slim - OMG. someone whip out the Pierre Salinger and Patrick Byrne archives. Black kettle city. Mark Devlin is spinning in his wikigrave too i'd bet. and all the others that slimmy banned before. Who walked in and out WP's door. Cue the Iglesias.

Sami - OMG. Gary, just STFU for once and stop embarrassing yourself, and your socks selves. How many times does your sock show have to be visited by backstage passes.

Guy - Yeah, when my dad dies, I hop right on the internet, claim it, and start arguing with strangers about trivial bullshit. Someone in his family needs to remind him what is important in life and someone at WP needs to give him an involuntary wikibreak. For good. I've had loved ones die, go crazy, get rich, get arrested, get famous, while I've edited WP, WR, and other bullshit medias. I don't mention personal tragedies to gain sympathty and excuses for transgressions. Bad form.

For those who are able to critically analyze things and present their reasoning for others to review (sounds like what WP should be, right?), I thank you for chiming in:

Alison - you rule. Yes, this is all as crooked as it looks. Your aim is still true.

Cla68 - funny guy, man. Yes, you've stuck your wikineck out 10 times as far and not been banned. You're right. Thanks for the mentions. There's going to be more, keep reading WR. You rock.

There's a few fresh fellas I've never wikiheard of chiming in. The wizard throwing out diffs is just breaking the surface. It gets much better, Wiz. Keep reading those piperdiffs.

And someone please ask, again and again, how my sub /1 page was any different than Mantansockmaster's /1 page. Please. Alison did, and isn't getting any answers. People don't like to answer when they're in the wrong. Emails to Gerard, Slim, Jayjg (polite ones all) received crickets last summer. Lol. Cold stone wrong. When those sort of people are removed from WP it might have a chance. The responses from NPOV contributors has been inspiring so far, keep it up, it all gets much more interesting the more you follow the diffs.

And Cla68, I started many articles, not just 1.

Sorry about the lack of links in this post, start from my talk page link on my WR profile to the right, and follow the links to the WP discussion as linked from there by cla68. If the WR moderator wants to merge this post with the thread I started on Bureaucracy about it, that would prolly help WR'ians follow this.

And again, I've never even been to Utah, never met Patrick Byrne (oh, but that would be cool. Man's got a spine and has certainly elicited some very interesting actions from professional journalists in all sorts of venues), Wordbomb (the most feared man in the history of WP, lol!), never had any vested interest in Overstock.com of any kind. Feel free to read my WP User Page (see my sig) for my disclosures. I'm an open book, except for my real name of course. The Columbia Review Journalist getting mobbed up has inspired me to keep piperingdown, and I am no one of any importance. I just read an article on Essjay one day, and later while editing WP, saw a Bloomberg piece on Patrick Byrne. If people from Overstock do want to send free foam pads, cash, juicy discoveries about the usual suspects, then I can't say I wouldn't accept them, like a boring old housewife devouring true crime. It's been entertaining that is fo' sho.

This post has been edited by Piperdown: Fri 25th January 2008, 1:47am

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