The whitespace vandal

[CrowsNest]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =834105343

The Wikipediots, specifically Beeblebrox, are having a hard time figuring out what motivates someone to use proxies just to hit random Wikipedia articles with pointless edits that don't actually change, much less break anything, and keeps doing it no matter how many times he is blocked, for years now.

I know they're thick, but it all seems pretty simple, no? This guy is making a point - he evidently finds pleasure in screwing with Wikipedia, wasting the time of vandal patrollers and the less smart administrators (precious GoodDay is so mad he wants quite drastic action taken), without actually damaging the content.

At least not directly, obviously some douche might claim it takes editor's time away from writing/maintaining content, but even that isn't really the case here. The people obsessing about this guy aren't really the writers/maintainers, and the edits are so simple and so spread across the project, it likely doesn't divert serious content editors for more than a few minutes in a month.

It seems obvious this guy used to be an editor, got fucked over by someone exactly like Beeblebrox or the dweeb patrollers, and so has decided he wants revenge, and indeed gets quite the kick out of doing it, so much so it becomes part of his more enjoyable daily routines, like walking the dog. He may even have written a bot for the task.

It's not complicated Beeblebrox. The reason is always you and your kind. Always. Nobody just wakes up one day and decides to fuck with Wikipedia just for the hell of it, not for years anyways, and not in this particular fashion.

When you fuck people over in that way you and your kind so often do, and when they cannot ever get restitution in the way Wikipedia so often denies, then they will of course develop the strength of feelings needed to do someting like this. It's a perfectly normal human reaction, people not being half as rational as is generally assumed.

You calling them mental and their activity silly probably simply added another year onto your torment. There's no prospect of boredom in it for this guy, clearly. Surely you can see that now? Only pleasure. At your expense.

He probably quite enjoys the fact none of you know who your tormenter is or why he torments you so, but that you, as always, seem to still be up for the "fight" regardless. Even though it is pointless since there is no possible victory, only embarassing impotence as you play "whack-a-mole" with someone who so clearly wants you to whack his moles. It puts the power back in their hands, and is entertaining to watch.

Your only face-saving move is to ignore him in the vain hope that dampens his interest. But you can't, since that would mean recognising that in the end, you are the powerless losers who are a bit sad or even mental to be doing what you do for years on end.

[ericbarbour]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=834105343

The Wikipediots, specifically Beeblebrox, are having a hard time figuring out what motivates someone to use proxies just to hit random Wikipedia articles with pointless edits that don't actually change, much less break anything, and keeps doing it no matter how many times he is blocked, for years now.

I know they're thick, but it all seems pretty simple, no? This guy is making a point - he evidently finds pleasure in screwing with Wikipedia, wasting the time of vandal patrollers and the less smart administrators (precious GoodDay is so mad he wants quite drastic action taken), without actually damaging the content.

This has happened before. And obviously this new generation of idiot patrollers cannot help repeating history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Will ... els~enwiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... xleArtemis

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I thought "Revert, Block, Ignore" was the standard operating procedure in these cases? They're giving the vandal what he/she want: attention. Vandal wins.