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

[Jonny Cache]

Well, this is all very fascinating stuff, and of course I never believe anything I read on the Internet anymore, but it does give me clues to follow up one day on my own. I wouldn't want Wikipedia Review to slide down the slippery slope of becoming nothing more than SlimVirgin Review, but that particular anonymph was a major convulsant in the ASOTAC that ended my Brief Life at Wikipedia. And the hill on which I died was the hill of Factual Reporting And Responsible Scholarship (FRARS), which the ASOTAC is still attacking with all its might, with no quarter given to anybody who gets in the way of their WikiPutsch to decimate the accountability of Wikepedia articles, even in such far-flung and seemingly de"tetched" houses as the Mansion of Philosophy. So the question that is really important to me here is this: Why Is That ? Any hints will be duly considered, with the usual quantum of saliciousness.

Jonny

This post has been edited by Jonny Cache: Sun 1st October 2006, 2:30am

[TabulaRasa]

I wouldn't want Wikipedia Review to slide down the slippery slope of becoming nothing more than SlimVirgin Review...

I have a comment on your point about becoming overly Slim-centric, and and then an observation that might make my first point moot.

1- There will always be more to discuss here than SlimVirgin, but that we examine her in particular depth seems appropriate, given her status as the embodiment of all that's wrong with wikipedia in toto, and that directly observing or being directly affected by her excesses is one thing almost all of us have in common.

2- That said, I have this nagging feeling that SlimVirgin has morphed into something much bigger than we know. Her 27 hour edit-a-thon earlier this month, which (without first showing any loss of momentum) ended abruptly only when Bhouston pointed it out publicly, forces me to wonder whether "she" even really exists any more.

Remember Wordbomb's chart showing how email he sent SlimVirgin was opened by Gary Weiss? Wordbomb seems to believe that SV sent the email to Gary and he opened it. Mr. Ockham (you may know him by his Razor) might suggest that the simplest explanation is that Gary Weiss IS SlimVirgin, at least part of the time.

And ultimately, that might not matter, because be she an army of editors or just an army of one, Wikipedia will not change until she does.

This post has been edited by TabulaRasa: Sun 1st October 2006, 2:40am