http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...ogen_Monoxide_3

Seems to me that the odium SV and Crum are now held in means that when the dynamic duo come out against an Admin candidate the net effect is to motivate people to vote "support".

I think most people who say they're supporting to spite the opposers would have supported anyway. I like MastCell's comment on support number 200.



Amen!

...or it could be that content writers will naturally draw more support? Giggy has like a zillion high-quality articles he's written. Who has more, MONGO and Blyngun, Worldtraveller?

Well I hope it attracts more support. The usual gang have turned up to oppose, and they are steadily rising. It's still early days really though, so anything could happen really. I do like the responses to Crum375 - pot/kettle/black etc.

Oh dear, SlimVirgin decides to bait Lar on his talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=216044650

Or, to translate it from Slimspeak, means "Please say something that I can try to get you into trouble over."

Good on Lar for not taking the bait, though.

It means carry on like that and Crum375 will get added to the Mother of All ArbComs.

"What does this comment mean?" says Lar, whistling, looking at the sky innocently.

Yes, indeed, it means "Come over and say anything on MY talk page, that I can use later to accuse you of stalking and harrassment for."

Sorry, Slimmy, we've seen this trick. Nobody's buying it. But go with Wub

Was that an intrusive, overly familiar comment towards a female editor I just saw?

Or ... umm ... something else altogether

Ewwww. No, that was just satyrically riffing on the way Jimbo flicks people off, when a nice "get lost!" would be so much more honest. And the symbol there is made by putting "wub" between colons. *I* didn't HTML code it!

Heh. I see ....

Does this work? --->

Edit: Oooh - it does

Lol. WP:WBFAN. I wish. (note to self; don't be arrogant about the number of FAs you've written (note to others; not being sarcastic))

Looks like you're going to prevail by shear numbers, Mr. Codeword. And notwithstanding SV's Clear Blue Water, I doubt very much you could have talked yourself out of it, if you'd called yourself user:Whitewater.

"Your honor, I was drawing attention to Bill and Hillary's Arkansas investment problems."

Still, anybody who gets opposed with use of an EasterEgg piped-link like this, automatically deserves 20 extra support votes in my book, just for the sake of Godwin. Hot damn, bro.

Who the hell does she think she is? What a loser. so sad. so bad. What a waste of a life SV has. She needs medication or therapy. Srsly. Wikipedia is toxic, ten times worse than heroin, or anyother addictive, mind altering drug. Give her relief, and send her to Wiki-Hazleton for pete's sake. Oh, the humanity. or lack there of.

The top of that list, Lord Emsworth, hasn't even been on WP since dec 2006.

I'm sorry to say I don't get the joke.

From the RfAr/DHMO...

Ouch. That turned pretty nasty.

If the consequences of that nasty RFA are anything like the consequences of Cla68's torpedoed RFA last year, then Wikipedia has got an all out personality war in store for the future.

At one point, Giggy(DHMO) was accused of being corrupt by pot/kettle exponent Crum375, and then there were inferences that he was a white supremacist! Based on no evidence whatsoever. The whole thing turned into a shambles.

Still, he got nearly 300 supports which is a lot.

For those fans of the vintage Slim / Crum 1-2 maneuver, Crum's oppose came in an hour after Slim's. So they've still got some of that old Fred and Ginger magic.

It's one thing to play light-hearted Games of Narcissistic Wounding by mutual consent.

But it's quite another thing to escalate light-hearted kidding into mean-spirited character assassination.

That was the biggest mess of an RFA I've witnessed. And I've seen a few jacked RFAs, including my own. This one, however, was by far the worst. These people are losing it. I thought I was crazy, but these people are batshit insane. And they're getting away with every false accusation they make against whoever they feel like.

So how did that turn out, what with the Odium of the Masses and all?

Jon

300 supports in an RfA is easily a record, and I don't think the number of opposes was a record (though it would presumably have been higher had the RfA run to completion).

Guy (or anyone else, for that matter), do you have an analysis of what went haywire in DHMO's RfA process?

Ooh, ooh, I do!


Yes, respect to Lar. Me after seeing Crum get a reality check:

Nothing went haywire. An immensely popular editor was doing very well, when a determined group of people decided to oppose. Things got increasingly acrimonious until the poor editor couldn't stand the strain.

I hope you're doing alright DHMO. I hope your RfA is the straw that breaks the camel's back for some significant administrative reform in the project.

That's a pretty good summation of what happened all right.

Giggy, hope you're doing okay & know that you've got my support

It appears that introductions are once again in order:

Wishes, Beggars.
Beggars, Wishes.

Jon

But sadly, that's what's happening to Wikipedia, a bunch of trollers are running/ruining the establishment. It will either explode or shut slowly down to a permanent lifeless entropy. The monkeys are in fact running the zoo, and even Jimbo Wales is praying that a "sane" member is elected to the board. How long can this madness go on?
Present for admins.

Get I get a non-admin straw-hopefully-to-break-camel's-back-version of that shirt? Please?

Here's a much nicer one, that the admins don't get!

Something of curiosity. When SlimVirgin and RfA are discussed, It's always on Cla, and now Giggy.

Would this RfA fall under the SV cabal as well? seeing as how it's the usual suspects holding off until the last day or so. Or maybe I'm misreading it.

There are a few "third rails" in Wikipedia which appear to have serious consequences if you touch them. Wikidudeman apparently touched one of those rails. Was it fair that it was taken out on him that way?

Perfect case of the ID cabal at work.


Now, how to make that my avatar?

Giggy, what you really need after your particular WP experience, is a Hazmat symbol:

By the way, I get the feeling some regulars here would have plenty to add to this proposed RfC.