A SlimVirgin Close Encounter, ...of the first kind Options

[TabulaRasa]

If you followed a link on O-Smear to get here, please be sure to read this topic for some more recent commentary on this whole situation. Thanks!

UPDATE: We'd also like to apologize for the fact that the topic referenced earlier was the wrong one, and was, indeed, a dead link until just recently. The topics are referenced by number, and the admin adding this note (who has since been severely punished) originally typed "8623" instead of "8263." (The link was dead until the new number came up and was taken by an RSS-fed media topic.) OOPS! Normally we're more careful than that... sorry! Anyway, the purpose of linking to the other topic was simply to help keep people up-to-date on what we're discussing, and the gist of that was that Wordbomb is not "Joey," at least not according to our IP data, analysis of posting patterns, writing style, attitude, known history on Wikipedia, and just-plain common sense. Sorry about that too, but it's our story and we're sticking to it.

Also, putting notes like this in threads that are linked to by other sites is hardly "unprecedented." Half the time we delete such threads completely, just to piss people off... we're just like that! In this case, we simply want to make it clear that while Wordbomb is generally well-tolerated here, and Gary Weiss is generally disliked, that doesn't mean we have any real desire to get in the middle of their little feud, or whatever it is. Most of us are only concerned with how it plays out on Wikipedia, not elsewhere. That's our "purview," you see. (The site is actually called "Wikipedia Review," not "The Gary and Judd Review"...)

Anyway, thanks! We hope you enjoy the site!

The Management, Apr. 17, 2007

Antisocialmedia.net has found the actual person who might be partly responsible for Linda Mack's slow descent into SlimVirginity. If the story weren't so unbelieveable I'd discount it, but trust me: you can't make this stuff up.

The first half of the post is mostly a rehash of things we've read here, but the second half is where Slim comes in and that's what you really need to read. If it's all true, then SlimVirgin mythology has just taken a huge step forward. It's at http://www.antisocialmedia.net

[Daniel Brandt]

This points us toward a theory of personality that could help understand the dynamics of why people seek power and control of others through the Wikimedia Foundation's social networks.

Excellent post, Joey, and thanks again, Patrick. This recent information has confirmed for me that Wikipedia has no business doing anything at all that affects the lives of real people against their wishes.

This Web 2.0 social network stuff may be amusing and harmless in the context of discussing video games or quaint British train stations. But when it comes to important political and social issues and biographies of innocent living persons, combined with Google rankings that go through the roof, it has no right to exist. Anonymity by Wikipedia editors, with secret cabals on top of this, have no place in serious civil society. As long as there are anonymous Wikipedians who insist that it is their right to create and protect biographies of living persons against the subject's wishes, what we should conclude from this is that Wikipedia must be dismantled.

"Neutral Point of View" (NPOV) in the context of a SlimVirgin has no meaning whatsoever. Look at how much effort was required by us just to get this far in our understanding of what's going on with her. And look at how much we still don't know.

Jimmy Wales has created a monster.