MZM back on RFA, voters already handing him his ass Options

[MZMcBride]

It's been suggested that people would have been less upset had I vandalized the biographies myself. I find it all a bit mind-boggling.

There we go again with that "vandalism" word. So a few mistaken namesake attributions and a bunch of Cirt-style additions of factual information to BLPs is "vandalism" these days?

Apologies. I probably should have used "edited" there.

[Anonymous editor]

It's more a measure of how much more important to them it is that "banned means banned" than it is to ensure that Wikipedia isn't used as a defamation engine. Only a subset of Wikipedians are in favor of using Wikipedia as a defamation engine; most of the rest simply don't care.

It's been suggested that people would have been less upset had I vandalized the biographies myself. I find it all a bit mind-boggling.

I don't, actually.

I would not "trust" them anywhere near my lower regions.

There are very few people I would trust near my lower regions.

[Moulton]

I would not "trust" them anywhere near my lower regions.

There are very few people I would trust near my lower regions.

Dese goys need to loin a ting or two.

[Kelly Martin]

It's more a measure of how much more important to them it is that "banned means banned" than it is to ensure that Wikipedia isn't used as a defamation engine. Only a subset of Wikipedians are in favor of using Wikipedia as a defamation engine; most of the rest simply don't care.

It's been suggested that people would have been less upset had I vandalized the biographies myself. I find it all a bit mind-boggling.

Why? Vandalism is a minor offense in the Wikiworld, and in fact many, if not most, of Wikipedia's current admins have a history of vandalism themselves. No, no, your offense has nothing to do with vandalism; your crime is being seen to consort with banned users. That's treason against the High Jimbo, for which punishment must be swift, severe, and certain.

Don't ever forget that Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia; it's a social networking service (and an MMORPG) disguised as an encyclopedia. When viewed in that context, it's little surprise that crimes against the social order carry much greater weight than crimes against the (relatively unimportant) encyclopedia.

[Moulton]

Your offense has nothing to do with vandalism; your crime is being seen to consort with banned users. That's treason against the High Jimbo, for which punishment must be swift, severe, and certain.

One of the curious things about the "vandalism" label is that it's routinely applied to any and all edits by an editor whom Jimbo has declared persona non grata, no matter how constructive or beneficial such edits might be.

[Anonymous editor]

Why? Vandalism is a minor offense in the Wikiworld, and in fact many, if not most, of Wikipedia's current admins have a history of vandalism themselves.

not under their current account. It's rare for someone with a history of vandalism to pass an RfA. Of course, if they did it using IPs or other accounts, it'd be hard to know.

[Ottava]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

[carbuncle]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

I am guessing that the answer to your question is probably yes.

[A Horse With No Name]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

Really? What are his other admin accounts?

[Doc glasgow]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

Really? What are his other admin accounts?

This one?

[Anonymous editor]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

Really? What are his other admin accounts?

Ottava knows about as much about it as you do. He just invented some idea that a lot of admins have other admin accounts. Don't ask him to name the accounts, because he can't.

[thekohser]

Am I the only one wondering why McBride cares about RfA when he probably has at least two other admin accounts right now?

Really? What are his other admin accounts?

Cool4 and Cool5?

[BelovedFox]

In this case, it is clear that the electorate is not trusting McBride to not make absolute and total fools of them. Once again.

You make it sound like "the electorate" is a homogenous mixture of people invested in "The Power Structure".

The ArbCom gets put through the ringer by internal groups regularly, outside press every so often--and it doesn't matter one ounce to many (I hesitate to say most) users.

The Wiki is simply too large to be involved in or address every issue. The overlap between the RfA crowds and BLP editors, for example, is likely very small (excepting certain RfAs like this one that brings lots of other people to the flame.)

More to the point: I don't trust McBride, necessarily, beyond the fact that having met him he doesn't seem like a bad guy. But whoever McBride made "absolute and total fools of", I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. (Either way I haven't voted in the RfA.)

This post has been edited by BelovedFox: Sun 29th August 2010, 10:40pm

[Ottava]

More to the point: I don't trust McBride, necessarily, beyond the fact that having met him he doesn't seem like a bad guy. But whoever McBride made "absolute and total fools of", I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. (Either way I haven't voted in the RfA.)

Drinking with him is fine. However, once he is online he is a total douche. I have to say, so am I.


Weeeeeeeeee!

[SB_Johnny]

Drinking with him is fine. However, once he is online he is a total douche. I have to say, so am I.


Weeeeeeeeee!

Try not to spill your drink on the keyboard.

Oh, wait... nevermind.

[A Horse With No Name]

Drinking with him is fine. However, once he is online he is a total douche.

I can't imagine MZM falling-down drunk. What's he like when he's plastered?

[CharlotteWebb]

I can't imagine MZM falling-down drunk. What's he like when he's plastered?

I dunno, stiff?

[A Horse With No Name]

Final (56/124/21); ended 07:32, 31 August 2010 (UTC) – closed as f**king disastrous.

[SarekOfVulcan]

A community that can, at random times of the day, include blithering AN/I-trolling nitwits like
Cyclopia (T-C-L-K-R-D) , Baseball_Bugs (T-C-L-K-R-D) , Rodhullandemu (T-C-L-K-R-D) ,
SarekOfVulcan (T-C-L-K-R-D) , and Sandstein (T-C-L-K-R-D) ??

I would not pay any of these freaks to wipe my anus properly.
I would not "trust" them anywhere near my lower regions.

Fair enough: you could not pay me enough to be anywhere near your lower regions, so that works out. :-)

[EricBarbour]

I would not pay any of these freaks to wipe my anus properly.
I would not "trust" them anywhere near my lower regions.

Fair enough: you could not pay me enough to be anywhere near your lower regions, so that works out. :-)

You certainly spend a remarkable amount of time fighting with Ottava and Domer48,
stabbing TungstenCarbide in the back, giving up your admin bit and subsequently
begging for its return, squabbling like a possessed madman over Ireland-related articles,
generating other pointless AN/I dramah, and kissing the miserable ass of Sandstein.

SarekOfVulcan he looks like a sweet guy. But I've known him a bunch on wiki. He is a worse wiki stalker than will beback. SarekOfVulcan doesn't even tell you or complain. No, he sees one edit he disagrees with and he goes through your entire edit list... thousands, removing your content, putting your pictures up for deletion, etc. SarekOfVulcan is the worst of them from my little experience!

Not to mention your tendency to use your OpenDNS membership to vote down DNS tags that might
embarrass the Sainted Wiki-Pee-Dia, Which Contains Much Porn But Is Not Pornographic, Oh Noooo.

And besides, I'm still a bit curious as to why you were banned "for life" from the Visual FoxPro Wiki.

Most people might look at all that, and say, "Hm. He's a remarkably vindictive little nerd."

So I was a bit worried that, still being a dick, you might try for my tender bits.

(besides, you're obviously a Freemasonry fanboi, and I think Freemasonry is a joke.)