QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 2nd June 2010, 6:59pm)
Shadowjams abruptly turned up in January 2009 and the person's
very first edit was to self-identify as a recent changes patroller. The first day edits included
templating vandals and
removing that how-to guide given to newbies.
Clearly, this was not a newbie. Yet unless I am mistaken, this person has not publicly identified as being a previous account. Considering that this person has escaped the notice of the pathetic few who abuse their checkuser privileges for fishing purposes, it appears this sock is special.
I don't have any special knowledge of SJ's identity, but his article creations are mostly obscure random subjects,
for which he makes a miserable stub--exactly what a sock of an experienced user often does, to inflate
the new account's edit statistics. Plus hours and hours of Huggling every day. He's used virtually all of the
available scripts for vandalism reversion.
If I had to take a wild guess, he might be an attorney from Chicago, just based on his
top-edited history. But I won't stand behind it--he's a very sneaky dude.
More interesting is one of his creations: the "
Subtle Vandalism Taskforce". What a joke.
They don't even have a coherent process or description of "subtle vandalism".
Typical vague, useless WP "policy writing".
I suspect he was known in the past as a famous troublemaker, and was banned. This is his attempt to
play up a fresh good record, with RFA as the goal. Consummate RPG-player.
Betcha that
Silver serenÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
knows who he is......
(Whoever he is, this is a massive waste of human potential. But then, one could say the same thing
about a long list of admins. Isn't that right, Horse?.......
)