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Conservapedia talk:What is going on at CP?

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The results are in, Ken

So much for the wave of creationsim/christianity or whatever shit you spit. Tough break, my man. Once again I, and 51.6% of my fellow kiwis declare utter victory. Acei9 20:22, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Ah Ken, I can see you rushing around still trying to convince yourself that a religious revival in NZ is just around the corner but you've been saying that for nearly 10 years yet the situation has never deviated from NZ become more and more secular and religion becoming less and less important. You lose and I declare victory. Acei9 22:43, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Don't mean to compliment Rob but...

...this is a funny troll of Kenimg. Acei9 00:58, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

The godless potholes need to be smited from this Earth! Also "bathouse" = bat house, not bath house. Bongolian (talk) 04:04, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Tidying CP Pages

I've been reading back through the Conservapedia pages (may Jesus and all his little elves forgive me) and I've come across the occasional typo or broken link that could be fixed, or areas that could do with small updates, etc. Nothing too major, just a bit of wiki-gnoming. As CP is now deprecated, I thought I'd ask if there are any serious objections to me fixing these things as I find them? JumboWhales (talk) 02:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

No. Carthage (talk) 02:14, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Uh..Ken..

I'd be careful when making predictions. Remember your ongoing insistence that NZ was poised for a huge Christian revival only to be show again and again that Christianity is dramatically dying over here. Acei9 21:49, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Could you do archive.is versions of these, please? There's occasions where I like to read them on a coffee break [they do say laughter is good for your health and all that] but I so don't want to give them the pleasure of any hits. KarmaPolice (talk) 22:04, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Ken, you are absolutely pathetic. For the last 20 years religion, in particular Christianity has been dropping like a stone in NZ and you just push the dates out to the 2100? I mean, really? Are you so desperate as make predictions for a time neither one us are alive?! Wow, that is really scrapping the barrel man. I have been victorious over you time and time again over the last 20 years. I declare victory while your religion quickly dies - the world over but in NZ in particular. The number don't lie. In the 2023 census 32.3% of the population identified as Christian. That's a nearly 20% drop in 4 years! Ha Ha Ha...you fail. Massive fail. Ongoing fail. You lose. Acei9 20:41, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Sending the Socks Packing

I've noticed over the course of many months that socks of banned CP users continue to pop up again like weeds, coming back to the bar to derail topic after topic. They get blocked for ban evasion, but that does little to deter them from coming back to create more socks months later. How can we send those CP idiots packing for good? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 08:06, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

We can't stop them from making socks. What we can do is to block, revert, and ignore them. Not many people here are willing to do the last two parts though. Antares (talk) 08:18, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
The fundamental issue is this; the tighter the 'rules' you put in the more 'false positive' [thinking someone is a sock when they're not] cases shall rise. We could if we so wished block editing via any sort of VPN or using wifis/mobile devices but there is 'legitimate' reasons a user may use these [for example, someone in a fundie household using a VPN to get around a 'fundie block', an mod using their train home from work to quickly check/anti-troll patrol etc]. And the likes of KenBot - if they can be truly arsed - is vaguely competent in masquerading as another newbie to generate some interaction in the Bar. What's to be done about that? We can hardly attack any new person who pops up because we live in state of mild paranoia; similar to what CP did for a very long time [ie thinking anyone who was remotely critical/lack of sucking off Andy was 'an infiltrator from RW'] to the point they've effectively ''Blocking the planet'. These few sad-acts know that we have to be reasonably 'open' to encourage new blood to join and they exploit that in the hopes [I suspect] to a) suck out genuine users' time/energy and b) perhaps hoping we do enter a state of paranoia. KarmaPolice (talk) 12:35, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
The Saloon really isn't the core of Rationalwiki anyways, it's just the chitchat area. I actually think you could indef lock the Saloon to autoconfirmed only and not really loose anything if the trolls get too painful. The CP trolls tend to be weaksauce compared to what's out there in the wild; I don't consider them worth of any action. BobJohnson (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Now that I think about it, is it possible for a sysop-only VIP Bar to be created? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 20:10, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Vandalism

I've noticed yet another spate of vandals attacking RationalWiki, and it once again jogged my mind over my speculation over Cuntservapedia. This has been on my mind for months at this point, and I want to share my take. I wonder if Andrew Schlafly pays spammers to vandalize RationalWiki or if Schlafly forces his "pupils" in his bullshit homeschool program to vandalize RationalWiki for their "homework"? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:52, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

And is Assfly behind the black hat SEO accounts that keep popping up? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:58, 5 March 2025 (UTC)