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

[One]

Odd. I replied a few times to the thread this morning. And I could have sworn there was no purple archiving box around it, though now I look, I see it in the history.

Amusing, though not improper in itself, that who else should revert all post archive comments, but Mantanmoreland.

Nice to see he fails miserably at AGF, and instead goes with "When they say closed, they mean it."

Heh. It's sour grapes. He wanted to start an inquisition about misuse of the "retired" template. If he's not going to get the last word, he sure as hell doesn't want you to get it.

[Nathan]

This is a reasonable offer. If WP did not block sadistically,
but for the protection of their 'encyclopaedia', they would
take you up on it.

Blocking / banning someone who is willing to leave, or who
has already left, of his or her own free will is pure sadism.

I agree, speaking from experience.

[WordBomb]

By the way, folks, I now have proof positive that Samiharris = Gary Weiss. I'm open to suggestions on the best way to present the evidence.

A ha! This is perfect...Weiss apparently read my earlier post (noting that I had proof that he's Samiharris), likely retraced his steps and realized how I did it, quickly squatted out a blog post denying it, but is now back to using Mantanmoreland, anyway.

Sorry to go OT on y'all. I just love watching Weiss get all frantic and silly like this.

Out with it already, word! You're driving us all wacky in anticipation. Give me closure on the sockshow that ran me off WP, and closure for all WP'ians who have long wondered how some people are more equal than others when it comes to gross violations of everything WP is supposed to stand for.

Out with it! WR is apparently the best place for WP truth-telling, even WP agrees.

OK. It'll be soon. Very, very soon.

[WordBomb]

Thinking about this, the reason they fought so hard against allowing Piperdown back under his original name is that he would be the one person on Wikipedia opposed to Gary Weiss with the benefit of acquired immunity from the threat of being banned as a WordBomb sock.

If even Cla68 was at risk, who isn't?

[Proabivouac]

"…with the exception of the very brief participation of a likely Slim Sock (Irishpunktom)…"

Having interacted with Irishpunktom on a number of occasions, I can pretty much guarantee that Irishpunktom is not a sock of Slim Virgin, or of anyone else that I'm familiar with.

[jorge]

Play it again Sami....

[WordBomb]

"…with the exception of the very brief participation of a likely Slim Sock (Irishpunktom)…"

Having interacted with Irishpunktom on a number of occasions, I can pretty much guarantee that Irishpunktom is not a sock of Slim Virgin, or of anyone else that I'm familiar with.

You're correct...I intended to write Iron Duke. Not Irishpunktom. I think Weiss sock Tomstoner dazed and confused me.

[AB]

This is a reasonable offer. If WP did not block sadistically,
but for the protection of their 'encyclopaedia', they would
take you up on it.

Blocking / banning someone who is willing to leave, or who
has already left, of his or her own free will is pure sadism.

I agree, speaking from experience.

{{{Nathan}}}

[Piperdown]

Thatcher appears to taunt Bstone for not being an administrator (am I reading this correctly?):

Thatcher:

"Tell you what, as soon as Piperdown agrees to stay off the topic, you can personally unblock him, as long as you are willing to be responsible for his edits. Oh wait..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=186655318

When I was banned out of the blue, I hadn't edited any stock/overstock/etc related articles in over a month.
You can look it up.

And when I was editing those, I was the best NPOV thing to happen to them since before Gary decided to pump and dump his own book all over WP.

Fuck Thatcher and the lies he rode in on. Total scum-bag.

This post has been edited by Piperdown: Wed 13th February 2008, 6:43pm

[Piperdown]

Still blocked as a "Overstock Meatpuppet", and still here. I've got all my life, WP. Remove the block and I scramble the login. Win-win.

Who cares what Gary and his socks argued on my block review, I think you all see now what was going on there.