Was Geo Swan set up by Drmies?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:35 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ol ... r:Geo_Swan
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... imissdisco
Since Eric Barbour is still shitting up this forum, I'll keep this one brief.
If you, dear reader, are a budding serious Wikipedia critic, you should be able to flesh out the bones of this potentially major scandal all on your own. And if not, well, you're probably wasting your time and mine.
In short, there are a few good reasons to suspect that in the above linked events, the reason nobody ever seems to have been able to verify whether or not the user called Imissdisco is the real life Dan Trotta, is perhaps because Imissdisco is a sock puppet created by Drmies to fuck with Geo Swan, presumably with the intention of engineering his permanent exile from Wikipedia (which is no bad thing, the point being, the evil means do not justify the pure ends).
It is well established that Wikipedia has a serious problem with not being able or even very willing to remove bad actors like Geo Swan. If not at all, then at least not before they have done serious damage over long periods of time. This is a systemic fault, and the answer to it should not come in the form of pieces of shit like Drmies abusing the trust others have unwisely placed in him. It should come in structural change, ideally the complete and total destruction of Wikipedia. HTD.
For context, Drmies is a highly placed and well respected Wikipedia Administrator, and former Arbitration Committee member. He is deeply committed to Wikipedia, his real identity is known (an unremarkable English professor). He has a long history of being a douchebag, all so far ignored by the Wikipedia community (except perhaps, by his failure to secure a second term on ArbCom). But it would be a step change indeed if it could be shown beyond reasonable doubt this theory checks out.
Even a reasonable doubt would be enough, since if it can be proven the real Dan Trotta has never edited Wikipedia, and if it can be shown Drmies had bad blood with Geo Swan, then it would be a fair bet that 2 plus 2 equals 4 here. If only on the very simple grounds that Drmies the Admin is usually a really lazy bastard who doesn't give a damn for strangers, so seeing him go the extra mile here for someone he presumably doesn't know, even going over to Commons to state his piece, was a real surprise.
It may not be the biggest scandal in Wikipedia history, all be it ArbCom alumni socking is a rarity, but it is certainly likely to interest the Alabama Chronicle, and maybe get him fired.
And more importantly for the mission of this forum, it could cause a real headache for Jake of Wikipediocracy, terrified as he would be of letting anyone step to Beeblebrox over there, if, as predicted, Beeblebrox then used the Wikipediocracy platform Jake grants him willingly to make the case that creating sock puppets to eliminate problem users is EXACTLY what a good Wikipedia Administrators should be doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... imissdisco
Since Eric Barbour is still shitting up this forum, I'll keep this one brief.
If you, dear reader, are a budding serious Wikipedia critic, you should be able to flesh out the bones of this potentially major scandal all on your own. And if not, well, you're probably wasting your time and mine.
In short, there are a few good reasons to suspect that in the above linked events, the reason nobody ever seems to have been able to verify whether or not the user called Imissdisco is the real life Dan Trotta, is perhaps because Imissdisco is a sock puppet created by Drmies to fuck with Geo Swan, presumably with the intention of engineering his permanent exile from Wikipedia (which is no bad thing, the point being, the evil means do not justify the pure ends).
It is well established that Wikipedia has a serious problem with not being able or even very willing to remove bad actors like Geo Swan. If not at all, then at least not before they have done serious damage over long periods of time. This is a systemic fault, and the answer to it should not come in the form of pieces of shit like Drmies abusing the trust others have unwisely placed in him. It should come in structural change, ideally the complete and total destruction of Wikipedia. HTD.
For context, Drmies is a highly placed and well respected Wikipedia Administrator, and former Arbitration Committee member. He is deeply committed to Wikipedia, his real identity is known (an unremarkable English professor). He has a long history of being a douchebag, all so far ignored by the Wikipedia community (except perhaps, by his failure to secure a second term on ArbCom). But it would be a step change indeed if it could be shown beyond reasonable doubt this theory checks out.
Even a reasonable doubt would be enough, since if it can be proven the real Dan Trotta has never edited Wikipedia, and if it can be shown Drmies had bad blood with Geo Swan, then it would be a fair bet that 2 plus 2 equals 4 here. If only on the very simple grounds that Drmies the Admin is usually a really lazy bastard who doesn't give a damn for strangers, so seeing him go the extra mile here for someone he presumably doesn't know, even going over to Commons to state his piece, was a real surprise.
It may not be the biggest scandal in Wikipedia history, all be it ArbCom alumni socking is a rarity, but it is certainly likely to interest the Alabama Chronicle, and maybe get him fired.
And more importantly for the mission of this forum, it could cause a real headache for Jake of Wikipediocracy, terrified as he would be of letting anyone step to Beeblebrox over there, if, as predicted, Beeblebrox then used the Wikipediocracy platform Jake grants him willingly to make the case that creating sock puppets to eliminate problem users is EXACTLY what a good Wikipedia Administrators should be doing.