I
thought that might bring you out of hiding,
Gary Dudley! Welcome back!
I'll admit, you have an good point - the folks who administered this forum back in July 2006, for the roughly ten minutes per week they were available to administer it, probably
were blinded by their dislike of WP to want to do much of anything at all to stop Wordbomb, much less go to the trouble of denying him the privilege of posting offsite images. However, this so-called "spyware" has now been removed (and to be fair, it
could have just been an innocent little .GIF - do you still have a copy?)... Maybe we'll even ban him for it one of these days, not that I suspect he'll care at this point. What's more, I'm also accepting your assertions about who Wordbomb is, though I suspect there's a slightly greater chance of him being misidentified than, say, Mantanmoreland or SlimVirgin.
The real problem is that
you're both telling the truth about each other, aren't you?
Both of you are dirty-pool players, using and abusing otherwise well-meaning public websites like ours
and Wikipedia in the pursuit of your personal, financial, and business agendas. After all, other people's interests are of no importance -
there's money involved! And as far as Wikipedia is concerned,
you won, and he lost. You got there first, made the right friends, and emerged victorious. YAY!
So why would anyone remain on his side, you ask. Fair question... I'll admit the Mormon thing is troubling, just like the Jeb Bush thing, but we're only supposed to be concerned with issues in the context of Wikipedia here, as much as that probably disappoints you... So, maybe it's because
he wasn't trying to smear a major religious figure with the ham-fisted WP "undue emphasis tactic," just to get in good with Slimmy and the so-called "cabal"?
That's not to mention the whole question of... wait for it...
why go after Martin Luther in the first place? Would you call me a "loony conspiracy nut" if I suggested to you that, given the timing of the whole business, it might be at least partially because of
this?
And you folks wonder why so many of us are pissed off!
Still, if you'd like to help us answer some of
these vexing questions for the nice people, rather than just the ones that help you in your ongoing crusade against Overstock.com, then I'm all ears. (Or eyeballs, as the case may be.)
Nevertheless,
Gary Dudley, you're still a member of our forum, and to the extent that you've been psychologically or emotionally hurt by all of his accusations and suchlike here during that period, I apologize on behalf of the site's (current) administration. (However, please note that for legal purposes, we're a service provider, not a publisher.) Of course, that's
far more than anyone here at WR will ever get from the likes of SlimVirgin, Jayjg, FeloniousMonk, Will Beback, or any number of other "black hats" who seem all too willing to let people push their culturally-damaging personal agendas on WP, driving away a lot of decent, talented editors in the process -
and for what? For an extra couple of "reverts" in some stupid-ass
edit war?Long story short, if any of this results in fewer edits like
this one, just two days ago, being made, then maybe all of this silliness is worth it... By the way, it really is high time they banned Hitler from WP. What a
troll that guy is!