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> How to become an administrator in one easy step, Bash a critic
blissyu2
post Tue 25th April 2006, 2:00pm
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Note that the 3 abusive users who attacked me when I first used Wikipedia all became administrators afterwards with 0 oppose votes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...inship/Longhair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...nship/Thebainer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...inship/AYArktos

"3 out of 3 people who abused me got made administrator with 100% support votes".

Good odds, huh? But a rather small sample size.

However, let's look at some other patterns.

Antaeus Feldspar - abusive user, abusive editor, POV pusher, stalker, but his one saving grace is that he occasionally also bashes critics. He bashed Daniel Brandt and Andrew Orlowski and then went after anyone who supported them. Henceforth, he is a "respected editor" and will soon be an administrator.

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters - owns lots of articles, aggressive POV pusher, and uses Wikipedia to further his career, but his own saving grace is that he occasionally also bashes critics. He went for adminship, and only barely failed. Next time he is sure to get in.

Grace Note - was about to be permabanned from Wikipedia, but then bashed this forum. Is now suddenly pals and best mates with Slim Virgin, Raul654 and lots of others. Will surely soon become an administrator.

Malber - abusive editor, with discriminatory practises as noted by his abuse of "autism" and insistence that "people with Asperger's syndrome should not be allowed to edit Wikipedia" and that they were all faking it, but was saved by bashing this forum, all in the name of bashing critics. Will surely soon become an administrator.

Zordrac - I got in to a bit of trouble earlier, then I said, publicly at least, that Daniel Brandt had betrayed me. Suddenly I'm getting Ta Bu Shi Da Yu, Slim Virgin and Linuxbeak all pally with me, and all of the admins that were having a go at me earlier suddenly love me, I'm nominated for adminship and everyone loves me. But of course I ruined all of that by supporting a banned user, Poetlister. But even still, if I wasn't a "sock puppet" of me, well, I still was in the good books with most people there. Why? Because I was a good editor? No. It was because I bashed Daniel Brandt.

So of course there are lots of ways to become an administrator. There's a set way to do it. Quite simply you can just suck up with everyone, go along with everything, offer absolutely no independent thought, not argue anything at all, don't revert anyone except when reverting vandalism, and be a boring sack of shit - oh and then cap it off by voting "support" on lots of Request for Adminship and "delete" on lots of Articles for Deletion. Simple enough to do. And then, as soon as you become an administrator, then start showing independent thought.

But if you use the "bash a critic" method, then its a lot easier. First of all, they'll then excuse you any indiscretions. You'll get unopposed support on a Request for Adminship, no matter how abusive you've been. After all, the only people who would oppose you are critics, and they've all been banned, or else are scared of being banned and won't oppose you. But its also a lot simpler. It only takes one step, rather than a whole heap.

And of course, taking the logical extension, if we, Wikipedia Review, want Wikipedia to get off our back, then we are going to have to bash a critic too. The obvious answer is to tell the names and identities of the people over at Wikitruth. We already basically know, and can figure out the last little gaps on this forum if we want to. But, as I said elsewhere, we shouldn't.

Just like how you shouldn't bash a critic to get yourself quickly up to administrator.

However, in saying that, it'll work every time.
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