Greg Kohs has been WMF globally banned
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 7:44 am
Read it and weep: They name MyWikiBiz alongside his thekohser account.
All the people they have banned since 2016:
Liliana-60, since 22 April 2016
John F. Lewis , since 22 April 2016
WayneRay, since 22 April 2016
Ktr101, since 22 April 2016
Styron111, since 17 June 2016
Jake Christie of Southern California since 8 October 2016
Reguyla/Kumioko since 13 April 2017
MyWikiBiz / Thekohser since 19 April 2017
Graaf Statler since 19 April 2017
Comments from the other board:
WO and the Hoser appear to be taking his ban pretty badly. Since tarantino announced it there, that thread is being assiduously ignored and the Hoser is quiet. Do you think they moved discussion of this to a private area? Seems like overkill.
- Flip Flopped
It is my sad duty (rofl) to report the global bannination from all WMF sites and events, of that most stellar of Wikipedia users, Gregory the Hoser.
This is the infamous WMF Office variant of the global ban, so it is permanent and immutable. There can be no appeals, there will be no explanations. He can, most officially now, suck it, for all they care.
It will do nobody here any good speculating as to why he was banned, all we know for definite is that he is now considered in the same threat category as real life stalkers and pedophiles. Seriously, nobody here has anything to gain by trying to figure out if Greg is a pedophile, a stalker, or something else equally bad. So just stop it, OK?
Neither will it be worthwhile speculating if this ban has been placed now because the WMF's legal eagles have been encouraged by Trump's election to believe that Gregory's long pending Supreme Court case against them for violating his rights to free assembly, expression, and profit, as well as profit, is now doomed.
My own personal theory, and I base this on nothing but things I have seen and read over the years (call them observations on facts if you will, if you still ascribe to the old world order of empirical evidence), that they have simply decided he was no longer a threat, that he had so thoroughly discredited his positions with his hypocrisy and transparent motives, and so much time had passed and so many people had stopped caring about his personal sob story given how often it was given an airing, that they can safely do this, and nobody will really complain. If they even notice.
It cannot be a coincidence either, that it has come to pass only after he has completely demoralised and discredited the critic movement, hollowing out his own site, draining what little credibility it had built, and certainly no longer petrifying any of the bad actors inside the cult. By grimly clinging on to it, his precious domain, he merely ensured the scattering to the four winds all manner of capable and motivated critics.
His followers, disciples, sycophants, they always said the WMF were too scared to ban him, to go this final step, fearing what he might or could do in retaliation. I said about a year ago on the site that finally sprang up to offer an alternative to his rotten platform, the time was coming, he was a fading force, and that it had been clear for a long while before then. It has now come.
It is the supreme irony here, that while others on the list of globally banned offer a very real and credible threat to the continuing success of the cult, Gregory's position on it has been earned because he no longer does. And with the benefit of hindsight, their idea that he ever did, was merely an illusion. He was an annoyance, a troll, a self serving merchant of spin. In other words, nothing special at all; they are certainly no stranger to that being an ever present if unwanted aspect of their existence. Like lice on a rat.
So now, true critics, faithful adherents to the One True Doctrine, come, look upon this miserable wretch's fate with pity. Learn from it. He was indeed, a very false prophet. Or profit. Do not give anyone any reason to doubt your criticism comes from any place but the moral compass that exists in any right thinking human who still understands what an encyclopedia is and has capacity for concern for all of his fellow man. Hate the players and the game, for they are indivisible and unreformable. And never, ever, blame the victims.
- The Dark Knight
http://wikipediareview.proboards.com/th ... end-banned
All the people they have banned since 2016:
Liliana-60, since 22 April 2016
John F. Lewis , since 22 April 2016
WayneRay, since 22 April 2016
Ktr101, since 22 April 2016
Styron111, since 17 June 2016
Jake Christie of Southern California since 8 October 2016
Reguyla/Kumioko since 13 April 2017
MyWikiBiz / Thekohser since 19 April 2017
Graaf Statler since 19 April 2017
Comments from the other board:
WO and the Hoser appear to be taking his ban pretty badly. Since tarantino announced it there, that thread is being assiduously ignored and the Hoser is quiet. Do you think they moved discussion of this to a private area? Seems like overkill.
- Flip Flopped
It is my sad duty (rofl) to report the global bannination from all WMF sites and events, of that most stellar of Wikipedia users, Gregory the Hoser.
This is the infamous WMF Office variant of the global ban, so it is permanent and immutable. There can be no appeals, there will be no explanations. He can, most officially now, suck it, for all they care.
It will do nobody here any good speculating as to why he was banned, all we know for definite is that he is now considered in the same threat category as real life stalkers and pedophiles. Seriously, nobody here has anything to gain by trying to figure out if Greg is a pedophile, a stalker, or something else equally bad. So just stop it, OK?
Neither will it be worthwhile speculating if this ban has been placed now because the WMF's legal eagles have been encouraged by Trump's election to believe that Gregory's long pending Supreme Court case against them for violating his rights to free assembly, expression, and profit, as well as profit, is now doomed.
My own personal theory, and I base this on nothing but things I have seen and read over the years (call them observations on facts if you will, if you still ascribe to the old world order of empirical evidence), that they have simply decided he was no longer a threat, that he had so thoroughly discredited his positions with his hypocrisy and transparent motives, and so much time had passed and so many people had stopped caring about his personal sob story given how often it was given an airing, that they can safely do this, and nobody will really complain. If they even notice.
It cannot be a coincidence either, that it has come to pass only after he has completely demoralised and discredited the critic movement, hollowing out his own site, draining what little credibility it had built, and certainly no longer petrifying any of the bad actors inside the cult. By grimly clinging on to it, his precious domain, he merely ensured the scattering to the four winds all manner of capable and motivated critics.
His followers, disciples, sycophants, they always said the WMF were too scared to ban him, to go this final step, fearing what he might or could do in retaliation. I said about a year ago on the site that finally sprang up to offer an alternative to his rotten platform, the time was coming, he was a fading force, and that it had been clear for a long while before then. It has now come.
It is the supreme irony here, that while others on the list of globally banned offer a very real and credible threat to the continuing success of the cult, Gregory's position on it has been earned because he no longer does. And with the benefit of hindsight, their idea that he ever did, was merely an illusion. He was an annoyance, a troll, a self serving merchant of spin. In other words, nothing special at all; they are certainly no stranger to that being an ever present if unwanted aspect of their existence. Like lice on a rat.
So now, true critics, faithful adherents to the One True Doctrine, come, look upon this miserable wretch's fate with pity. Learn from it. He was indeed, a very false prophet. Or profit. Do not give anyone any reason to doubt your criticism comes from any place but the moral compass that exists in any right thinking human who still understands what an encyclopedia is and has capacity for concern for all of his fellow man. Hate the players and the game, for they are indivisible and unreformable. And never, ever, blame the victims.
- The Dark Knight
http://wikipediareview.proboards.com/th ... end-banned