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½[edit]

½? Why do we have a ½ archive? It won't show up in the auto-list. Sterilesig.svgtalk 12:11, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

It's an archive of the talk page rather than the Saloon Bar itself. Previous one is at RationalWiki:Saloon bar/Archive78½. I have no idea why this is happening. WeaseloidWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 12:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
In fact this guy is responsible both times. WèàšèìòìďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 12:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for archiving to the wrong place! Could someone (I don't think I should) move this to RationalWiki:Saloon bar/Archive1, and delete this as the conversations seem to have been moved back for some reason? Jc86035 (talk) 10:19, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Ethics In Journalism[edit]

how do I use this website[edit]

i want to log in but my account's password is a scramble and i don't have ym password database but also i want to contribute but like editing a wiki is kinda intimidating bc it feels like if i give out anythingthat isn't 100% right I'm spreading misinformation and bleh basically what I'm really asking is how do i get over wiki anxiety??? 24.120.253.250 (talk) 02:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

If you're unable to login, you should probably bring it up at RationalWiki:Technical support. In the meantime, you should go ahead and try making some smaller edits or creating some pages in the Draft namespace. As long as what you have is sourced and well-worded, you should be fine. Any misinformation can be corrected by other people, and I'm sure they'll be reasonable with you once you let them know you're new. However, you'll first want to get that account sorted. Or else I suppose you can try creating a new one. Pizza SLICE.gifChef Moosolini’s Ristorante ItalianoMake a Reservation 02:30, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
Well if you're not confident about dropping an edit, why not ask one of us if your edit is fine? How do you get over wiki anxiety? Well, be nice and honest to people. They'll be more than happy to guide the way. And you have to edit a lot. Everyone started as a newbie. Why not play around with the sandbox? --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 02:48, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
"And I'm sure they'll be reasonable with you once you let them know you're new." But also get prepared to be personally attacked and insulted as fuck. -Lankaster (talk) 22:51, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
i figured out how to use it. just stay on wigo and saloon bar talk pages and yell at randos 24.120.253.250 (talk) 22:36, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
im confused about the saloon and the back alley, because i dont know how to do the time and worried i may be banned about that, but no one really would do that right? i think its 4 squiggles kkpw (talk) 18:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, it's four squiggles. ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 14:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

i did it[edit]

hi its me 24.120.253.250 I finally made an account on this the genious brain hell site (not to be confused with other hell sites like bird hell ) Transbeeism (talk) 23:12, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations, you're only a few edits away from not having captchas anymore. (wait, is there some role I can give them to spare them that?) ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 19:29, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
@Ikanreed I gave it to them just now, but for future reference, autopatrolled is the manual version of autoconfirmed. —Dorianha Bogelund (talk) 04:49, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Appeal to memory[edit]

Appeal to memory - assuming that the ability to accurately remember something effects the credence of a claim. this is a logical fallacy because something being true or false is independent of the memory. The claim can still be true even if they misremembered something they used as proof for their argument. Also a claim can still be false even if they perfectly remembered something they used as proof for their argument. No matter how bad or good a person's memory is it is not evidence of proving or disproving a point presented.

Logical form examples:

Person 1 makes a point backing it up with evidence from an event Person 2 does not remember an event that occurs in premise Person 2 therefore person 1 point is faulty (The person's memory is faulty, the point itself has yet to find fault)

Person 1 makes a point backing it up with evidence using data from the internet they remembered incorrectly Person 2 points out that person 1 incorrectly remembered data Person 2 says person 1's point is invalid because of this (The data presented is invalid because it is not the real data from the source. However the point itself has yet to find fault)

Person 1 makes a point that is backed up with evidence from an event Person 2 demonstrates that person misremembered event Person 2 therefore person 1's point is faulty

(The evidence is faulty but the validity of the point has not actually been refuted)

Person 1 has poor memory this is demonstrated throughout the argument Person 2 points out person 1's poor memory and uses it as proof that his argument must be faulty because of it.

Person 1 has very good memory Person 1 uses this fact as proof for his point

(This is the absence of reason and also asserting their proof as memory is unfalsifiable)

Person 1 could not remember their initial point or misremembered it Person points this out and asserts that their argument is invalid because of this.

(Inability to remember their initial point does no affect the credence of the point.)

Person 1 and person 2 are in an argument Person 1 has bad memory Person 2 has very good memory Person 2 states that since their memory is better than person 1 their points are more valid. — Unsigned, by: 194.82.50.5 / talk / contribs

Talk:saloon_bar is usually reserved for super-meta discussion. Discussion about discussion kind of stuff. You wanted plain ol' rationalwiki:saloon bar. ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 19:34, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

The time has come[edit]

for a new poll. That old one has literally been up for months, someone replace it already. Oxyaena Harass 06:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I'd like to put a new poll up, but I don't know how. Pizza SLICE.gifDuceMoosoliniYour friendly RW dictator moderator 21:24, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Neither do I, time to call @D, RW's underpaid handyman. Oxyaena Harass 22:01, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Just put one on RationalWiki:To do list/Pointless polls. I think Kazitor used to be one of the main contributors to it. —RWRW (talk) 23:45, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I put up a new poll. Better poll ideas are welcome though. — Dysk (contribs) 19:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

How Do You Get to Post to The Different WIGO's?[edit]

I wanted to ask a question about whether an edit/creating a new article under Hinduism was justified but I can't post to the Saloon Bar. Isn't the Saloon Bar supposed to be for posting anything? I thought maybe there might be an article under the Help section but I couldn't find anything. So... is it just the Talk sections then that function as the 'post anything' part? Is the Saloon Bar then for special posts that get promoted from the (hic) posts? How do you get access to the WIGO posts? Do you need to perhaps prove yourself through quality edits and posts? Cumulus (talk) 06:46, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

I believe you need to have been here a bit and made some edits, and occasionally pages get locked once in a while for various reason. AMassiveGay (talk) 07:06, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Any idea on how many edits and how long? How often and how long are pages locked? What are the various reasons? Cumulus (talk) 08:23, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Harassment of Oxyaena[edit]

I've been seeing relentless harassment of Oxyaena in saloon, both from IP and named users. This is beyond childish, and there has been a severe absence of mod intervention. I don't care what bones users on the wiki have to pick with her, this is pissing me off. Minish (talk) 14:52, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I banned the latest BoN to try their luck, doubtless someone will either revert the ban or the BoN will simply change their IP, but nothing much else I can do about it. Lord knows I've tried. Oxyaena Harass 14:56, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
I've been reverting the harassment as I find it and blocking the offenders. There isn't much more we can do. ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 14:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Which I appreciate, I've noticed. Thanks. With this kind of format there's not much we can do, I mostly have taken to trying to ignore it now, not let it bother me as much, but it's still makes participating in this community less welcoming. Oxyaena Harass 15:04, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for doing what you can. I didn't realise that there isn't much that can be done in the long-term. Minish (talk) 15:09, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Morris takes every opportunity to cause problems tbh. EK (talk) 14:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Quick Question[edit]

Some of this place seems totally off the wall bat shit insane, and some of it seems serious and I can't tell what the intention is. So I'm asking if this wiki is ironic, or if some people use it as so and some people are serious, or if all of it's serious because I can't really figure it out. — Unsigned, by: 67.4.31.41 / talk

It's a bit of both. БaбyЛuigiOнФire🚓(T|C) 22:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
To answer your question: yes. ShabiDOO 22:58, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
This wiki isn't even insane compared to some of the thing ive see on Conservapedia ""helpmeimscared!"" (talk) 17:47, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
It's the internet, it has always been full of degenerates. GIFT and all. We try to get rid of the more toxic members, but, politics... SockPup (talk) 19:06, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Collapsing drama?[edit]

Hey, I wasn't sure if I am allowed to collapse drama threads. I am pretty sure a lot of users don't want to read about it in the saloon. If I did collapse it without being allowed to, let me know. — Godless Raven SDAPOe logo.svg talkstalkwalkbalk 🌹 Flag of Europe.svg 13:46, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

its normally encouraged to collapse obvious trolling. EK (talk) 14:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
well... not sure if the drama is quality-wise better than trolling tho — Godless Raven SDAPOe logo.svg talkstalkwalkbalk 🌹 Flag of Europe.svg 14:04, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
I collapse stuff a lot. Sometimes I get a bit carried away, to the point that HBC once scolded me for collapsing a few of those awful Oxy/Cory flame wars, if a bit harshly. (And of course, I collapsed some of GR's.) All this drama from HBC, GR, and Oxy has made this saloon bar that was supposed to be fun a toxic cesspool ruled by someone you can bait with a pointless poll that isn't even about her specifically- and her arch-nemeses' (also toxic) drama isn't helping either. Heck, I even invented the following new collapse:
--Goatspeed. Stalk meCircularREmail2.gifasoningSee my experiments 03:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Nice necropost bro. Pizza SLICE.gifChef Moosolini’s Ristorante ItalianoMake a Reservation 04:42, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Nice reply to a necropost --Goatspeed. Stalk meCircularREmail2.gifasoningSee my experiments 06:51, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Brazilian guy making a Indie Game[edit]

So I have started to make a indie game in RPG Maker. It is an African themed RPG set in a ficional world inahbited by humans, furries , talking animals and spiritual beings. I even launched a very flaming manifesto Wrong Points in the Game Industry and Possible Solutions, both in English and Portuguese, to help create buzz about it. Most people torpedoed most of what I put in said manifesto, but anyway, I put the question in the table. Now I have the most hard part of the work ahead, actually starting to work in the development of the game. Wish me luck! KemalOliver (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Ive been developing games off and on for about 7 years, and can tell you the hardest part is staying motivated. While I disagree with a lot of points in your manifesto (I meant to post a reply but forgot because of other things), more games is only a good thing as far as I see it. Remember to not burn yourself out too early and keep a road map of what you want in your project. Good luck, have fun, and may you sell a million copies. MirrorIrorriM (talk) 16:24, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

How to create topic on Saloon Bar[edit]

This sounds like a crazy question, but how can I create posts in the saloon bar? -- SixtyNine

New topics go at the bottom of Saloon Bar (so your question goes at the bottom of this page, not top). I also assume Saloon Bar is semi protected so you probably can't edit until you have at least autoconfirmed here. --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 04:41, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

What is this even used for[edit]

Why tf there a talk page for a talk page. lmao. 💜 ASELAនិយាយ 💜 02:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

I agree, it's a pointless page. It just calls to be vandalized because there are so few edits that vandals will have their name popping up in the fossil record. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 17:05, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
I assume it's used for that Ardbeg advertisement on top. Man, got to go buy me a bottle tomorrow. Knight CommanderIn ServiceTo HerGoatness 17:12, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Laphroaig FTW. Zontar (talk) 02:09, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

It's tempting to respond[edit]

But this person's end game is to spread views and disrupt Saloon bar. I still recommend ignore, revert, block. If you respond with a lengthy post, I appreciate the effort of some responses but just don't waste it on those wanting you to waste effort. Anyway that's my feeling. If a mod doesn't like my suggestion and think I'm overstepping, let me know. --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 17:09, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Is this directed at me? MirrorIrorriM (talk) 03:45, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
No, it's directed at Ken. He's been spamming the saloon for a while now...-Flandres (talk) 03:48, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi![edit]

This is my first time signing up for a wiki of any type, and have a few questions:


1: May I add a joke with my username under the RationalWiki section of the 'You have two cows' page?

2: Is there any way I could potentially be helpful? My main personal fixations is really anything relating to neurodiversity and/or LGBTQ+ (think Autism Speaks, Judge Rotenburg Center, etc etc)

I think that's it, as I'm going to look over the RationalWiki pages about- well, RationalWiki and learn what to do. (Hopefully I did this thing right, I have no clue)

(Also, this is in this part because I have no clue how to talk on the main saloon) — Unsigned, by: ThatOneGoblin / talk / contribs 00:24, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Maybe you could start out on Wikipedia itself, this place is a bit notorious for getting heated. Wikipedia can be great for getting tips too, places like Wikipedia:WP:TH are quite useful for answers within an hour. Remember, sign with four tildes ( ~~~~ ) to sign your posts on dedicated talk pages, only at the end of your post. 104.225.183.70 (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

A Humble Apology[edit]

Hello again, I am sorry for the arguement I caused in the main page, and now it seems I can no longer continue my proposition there. If I am no longer allowed to edit on the main page, then I am sorry for the offenses I committed.

I would like to re-orient the dialogue towards a more productive end, mainly a proposition for a conspiracy theory that I think is significant enough for a page all on it's own: the "Rothschild owned central banks conspiracy.

I apologise that I am being so repetitive, but I think this conspiracy theory is important due to it's frequency and place in the conspiracy theorist and all too often the anti-semitie's lexicon. As stated before I do not possess the personal ability to due this topic justice on my own, but I think this conspiracy must be totally critiqued for the aforementioned reasons. I hope this proposition goes somewhere.96.230.207.83 (talk) 20:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)An Advocate

Don't worry about the argument, it's not your fault. As for not being able to edit the page, I take full responsibility for locking it due to a troll. ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 20:41, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
More my fault than yours. Both of yours. Never feel guilty for the actions of others. I just hope we didn't scare you away... CorruptUser 20:46, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Don't worry, you didn't scare me away. I just want to help RationalWiki, and I think debunking this theory will help improve the site. If you do not consider it significant enough to merit it's own page, that is fine, but I believe it does.
Thank you for your apologies.96.230.207.83 (talk) 20:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)An Advocate
Feel free to make a user for yourself, so that as you contribute and it becomes clear you aren't completely insane, we can refer to you as something other than a Bunch'o'Numbers (BoN). CorruptUser 21:04, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
For the record I agree that the Rothschild conspiracy is big enough that we could probably improve what we have on it. Takes a good block of time, unfortunately, to do that, but I'll keep that in mind when I get a large enough chunk. PanGalacticGargleBlaster (talk) 21:14, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your time, PanGalacticGargleBlaster.96.230.207.83 (talk) 21:18, 14 July 2021 (UTC)An Advocate

Citation styles?[edit]

If I'm citing a peer-reviewed study or journal article or whatnot, is there a preferred citation style? I prefer APA, but sometimes MLA is the first thing presented to me if I hit "cite this article" and my laziness takes over. Quantumgeek333 (talk) 01:08, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

I don't think there is a preference. If there were, it would be here. 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒 talk 01:11, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
No preference. The citation is what counts. However, using a consistent citation style (in your article or whatever) is more aesthetically pleasing. LeucippusSalva veritate 01:22, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

The Boys from the County Hell![edit]

If there was ever a song worthy of this godforsaken bar—this would be it. “Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam,

My brother earned his medals at Mai Lei in Vietnam”—this song is about a mean bastard. In any event, this a great song for a pub crawl. LeucippusSapere aude 21:23, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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i saw the pogues on st patricks day one year with my flatmate and his mum. in shephards bush i thinkAMassiveGay (talk) 21:49, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Ohhh… I’m a tad bit envious. During their prime they put on one hell of a show. Shane MacGowan was, and is, a great story teller. LeucippusSapere aude 21:56, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Something to incorporate into the Saloon Bar’s welcome[edit]

I think this video, particularly from 0-0:49 seconds, captures the atmosphere of the joint:

There’s only so many times a straight man can walk past a bar, which has a sign that reads ‘beautiful naked women’, and then say “no not for me”. LeucippusSalva veritate 19:44, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Article votes[edit]

Hello, total newb here. What is the purpose of up or down-voting on various articles? Should we vote on relevance for rational readers, whether it's well written, or something else? TIA! — Unsigned, by: BenderRod / talk / contribs

It's not completely clear, but from my experience, up voting is probably a combination of interesting, relevant news, good quality news, and probably good news. I suppose irrelevant news or indifference is "neutral". Downvotes are sometimes used for terrible news, but I've seen it for poor summaries as well as clickbait. --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 23:34, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Oops[edit]

I accidentally marked https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&oldid=2403593 as patrolled. I was paging forward hitting "newer edit", "newer edit", etc, and the final revision brought "mark as patrolled" under my pointer and I clicked without reading. Is there a way to revoke the patrol, or does it trivially not matter? Dave Wise 2 (talk) 16:27, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Should be no bother. All patrolling is is flagging up unpatrolled edits for somewhat closer examination. If you accidentally patrolled something it's no big deal but a quick check to make sure it wasn't bad would be all the remedy needed. If you somehow found a way to unpatrol hundreds of edits, however... Queexchthonic murmurings 16:42, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

bar protected?[edit]

For how long? 138.207.198.74 (talk) 05:08, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

troll collapse issues[edit]

i tried to collapse a series of troll posts under the section about lepen, and then i accidentally collapsed the following section. i don't know how to fix it. can someone help me? G Man (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

never mind, i got it. G Man (talk) 15:45, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Where can I ask a mod what is and is'nt acceptable to post?[edit]

I understand the rules but just to be safe I like asking a mod just so that I don' have a backlash when posting where could I go to ask someone whether a post is appropriate or not.Theodor Hugs-a-lot (talk) 02:15, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Just post whatever you want; after reading this. Scream!! (talk) 10:08, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Where do I post music?[edit]

I want to post my personal favorite of Kourosh Yaghmaei's songs, but there's apparently an informal ban against posting videos on the Bar. Where would I post it? Vee (talk) 19:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Informal ban? Since when? Acei9 19:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Eh, there was a mention of it in response to Arcadium, or maybe I'm misinterpreting things. Vee (talk) 19:43, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
People have posted video in the bar since its inception. Acei9 19:48, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
But there was a request to not "embed" the video in the page. Cardinal Chang (talk) 20:39, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure people can handle the occasional embed. Because, you know, people have been doing it since the sites inception. Acei9 20:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
I'm sure they can handle the "occasional" embed, but the request came about after a particular, now departed, user would fill the Saloon with embedded video after embedded video.Cardinal Chang (talk) 20:43, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
And that user has now departed. So when someone starts doing it again we can tell them to knock it off. So what's the problem? Acei9 20:52, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
None, thought it was a standing rule. My bad. Cardinal Chang (talk) 20:59, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
I think the main issue in the past if I recall was that some Bar readers on perhaps older machines had resources issues with embedded videos, especially a lot of them. I don't know if this still applies to today's readers. Links are better from my experience anyways, the embedded Youtube player will double the page request size when loading the Bar and download God knows what advertising crapola from Google (my uBlock Origin install blocks nothing from the RW Bar on its own, but blocks multiple requests from a Bar with a Youtube embed). 35.140.177.2 (talk) 21:22, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Again - I don't think the odd embed is enough to kick up a problem about unless someone is doing it constantly. Sure links are better but no nee to get all worked up about someone doing it once. Acei9 21:46, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

http interwiki links[edit]

Currently every interwiki link at this site is http, example: w:Never Gonna Give You Up links to http://.

Could you change that to https? A small step towards more private Internet.

Full list: [1]

Open minded (talk) 20:41, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

I wonder when was the last time a tech went through the interwiki table. Most browsers (and good websites) should automatically redirect to HTTPS, but I'll try to go through it tomorrow and change the links. Rabbitseatcarrots (talk) 21:07, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm tempted to say Ken is the worst[edit]

Just in light of how much of a nuisance he is here, but all of the Conservapedia Crew are pretty awful. Vee (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

He does have some pretty awful opinions, that's for sure. --Luigifan18 (talk) 16:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
From what I have seen user:RobSmith is the worse by far. He is nothing more than a propaganda voice for Putin. He accuses all Ukrianians of being Nazis and anyone who shows support for Ukriane as "Nazisymphs" while creaming over the Wagner Group who litterally have Swastikas tattoed all over their bodies. He applauds the murder of civilians as ridding the world of Nazis and the mass removal of children to Russia because they will not grow up as Nazis. Conservative seems to have been relegated to Comrade Number 4 falling beneath LT in ranking. Where his superiors go on about how great triator Trump his, Nazis and more traditional conservative ideologies he posts about "Man boobs". To Godwin myself a little he is the Rudolph Hess of the hiearachy. Nominally important but in reality a laughing stock to insiders and outsiders alike.ITFC78 (talk) 23:53, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Warning icon orange.svg "Nominally important" Are you fucking kidding me?
RobSmith, Ken and their ilk are only important in their own minds. Their kookfarts on the internet today are about as relevant as a if a fly sat on Chloe Kardashain's ass tonight. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 02:06, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I am new here.[edit]

I am Comrade Jason. I stumbled upon this site and found it to be interesting. I think I will join this community and participate often!— Unsigned, by: ComradeJason / talk / contribs

An American Conversation Podcast[edit]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Draft:An_American_Conversation_Podcast

I'm new to RationalWiki.

An American Conversation Podcast is clearly worth a RationalWiki article. These muppets have had every TERF from here to Neptune on their show.

Wwned and co-hosted by social worker Rose Medina MSW / Rose Medina MSSW and Hollywood actor Leland Heflin, featuring regular appearances by Sandra Currie, Halona Shaw LCSW and Deborah Corday. The primary focus is interviewing TERFs and anti-transgender activists. They also plug Genspect's transphobic misinformation campaign in a 5-part series of videos titled "Parents Despair."

Previous guests of the show include notorious bigot Graham Linehan, Kara Dansky, Marian Rutigliano, Natasha Chart and Lierre Keith from the anti-trans group Women's Liberation Front, multiple members of anti-trans group LGB Alliance including Graham Linehan's sidekick Arty Morty, debunked transphobic sexologist Ray Blanchard, multiple members of the transphobic environmentalist group Deep Green Resistance, Reduxx co-founder Genevieve Gluck, transphobic "Giggle" developer Sall Grover, transphobic trans man grifter Buck Angel and TERF trans woman Debbie Hayton, transphobic journalist Lisa Selin Davis, "Keep Prisons Single Sex" campaigner Heather Mason, anti-trans sports campaigner Linda Blade, transphobic author Phyllis Chesler, transphobic author Simon Edge, Center for Bioethics and Culture founder and Reduxx author Kallie Fell, cryptoterf and anti-Islam activist Yasmine Mohammed, Graham Linehan follower Elaine Miller, Gender Dissent founder Felicia Rembrandt, Speak Up For Women founders Katrina Biggs and Suzanne Levy, transphobic activist Rosa Alvarez, transphobic writer Cherry Smiley, Women's Liberation Front supporter and transphobic author Eleanor Cowan, and transphobic biologist Colin Wright.

Worth noting - occasionally guests aren't visibly involved in anti-transgender activism.

My name is Darcy Rohan and An American Conversation Podcast slandered me on Youtube and attributed quotes to me that I didn't write. Please feel free to read my Medium article about this if you want to learn more. https://medium.com/@darcyrohan/meet-the-terfs-d8e534c3f593

I'd like An American Conversation Podcast to have a RationalWiki page. My previous draft was deleted. — Unsigned, by: Darohan85 / talk / contribs

On talk pages, please sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking on the sign button: SigButt.png on the toolbar above the edit panel. You can also indent successive talk page comments using one more colon (:) for each line. Thank you. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 22:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Are dual- or triple- contributions to WP, CP and RW permitted?[edit]

Can you make the same change on two or three of the wikis at once? Fja2021 (talk) 04:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

You could be a registered user on the 3 wikis at the same time, if that's what you mean. But as for making the same change to articles on the 3 wikis at exactly the same time, no that's not possible. And anyway, the articles on the 3 wikis are not the same. It's unlikely that you could make the same edit to Goat, GoatWikipedia and Goat. Spud (talk) 11:17, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
I have just read this. I agree with Spud that it would be difficult. Your edit here would be subject to our normal scrutiny with regard to our community policies, POV etc. These policies are not the same as the other wikis you mention, furthermore it would also be subject to revision/correction by any other editor here. How your edit would be handled by other wikis would be down to them. Though - in reality - CP might just delete it on principle if they knew the same edit were made on RW. So I would say that technically it might be possible, but practically it probably wouldn't work.Bob"Life is short and (insert adjective)" 20:26, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
You probably meant in the sense of it being socially "allowed". There are different standards but between RationalWiki and Wikipedia I think there are many instances where the same information could be inserted in much the same way (I doubt anyone will seriously give you a hard time about that). Obviously you can't insert jokes or that sort of thing into Wikipedia. I shouldn't even talk much about editing Conservapedia, why would one bother. But I suppose there are some slim crossover issues. One of recent memory is we both very much don't seem to like Ron DeSantis. Though for Trumpian conservatives it's more an issue of loyalty and whatever else they can throw at the wall than the sort of things we have tended to criticize him for. So even then I'm really straining for an example where you'd want to be dual-editing RW/CP. Chillpilled (talk) 05:49, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
@Fja2021, I found a multi-wiki-contribution of yours, but I don't know if you'd like attention pointed towards the specifics, given what you wrote on your user page elsewhere. Anyway, the article here on RW ended up fine. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 07:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
It would be possible to have several pages on different wikis in editing mode with the same info and 'click, click, click' so pasted in a span of a few seconds. For anything more than 'bare details' ('X's term of office ended [date]') - different wikis will have different requirements so probably not practical. And - if you have more than one username (for whatever reasons) you might be given a warning for copyvio-ing yourself and/or being rumbled (as no time difference between changes, unlike 'normal monitoring of the wikiverse'). Anna Livia (talk) 11:45, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Infernobot[edit]

Did It stop archiving the bar? GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 11:44, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

The bar was archived twice on the 28th. You can see the archive log here: User:Inferno Bot#Recent contributions. Bongolian (talk) 07:28, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I started that Sound of Freedom movie[edit]

It's got a LOT of fade cuts in the first third. I can't finish it tonight but I found it. Also I used more of the hottest sauce I have than I normally do. I shed a tear on the toilet. Also I picked a username, communist in spirit, skeptical in interpersonal relations Havana Longday (talk) 06:02, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

made a foolproof password, fooled too hard, but it was a good username. 2600:8804:500:FE90:A152:C12:7A09:242A (talk) 08:29, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
It was really bad as a movie. It is scary to say that, because what am I, then, a fan of child trafficking? I am a fan of movies, and I am confident saying this is not even as good as the generous negative reviews. It's a bad movie that hates child trafficking. I also hate child trafficking. Anybody who says it's got good cinematography is a coward. 2600:8804:500:FE90:B8BA:61C5:86EE:292D (talk) 02:51, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Patrolling[edit]

Why is it such a pain in the ass to patrol the Bar? Carthage (talk) 05:17, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Anything in particular bring this on? KarmaPolice (talk) 21:53, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Pointless Fluff: A Menu for the Saloon Bar[edit]

It always seems strange that the Bar, given its theming, doesn't have a menu to browse for food options to order.

This may seem a bit pointless, but by doing this out of fun, do you think the Saloon Bar can have its very own virtual and snarky "menu" of booze, food, and other beverages to "offer" to the patrons?

Something as simple as RationalWiki:Saloon bar/Menu could work. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 23:12, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Something to get drunk to? That would fit in thematically with all the constant virtual fist-fights that go on at the Bar, and to a lesser extent elsewhere. This is a very rowdy wiki. Carthage (talk) 23:30, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
So some ideas I have for the bar include many of its own signature and specialty brews and cocktails alongside the usual booze, an international menu of different bar food with unique specials, and a lot more content to order and pick up. But it's really the RationalWiki-style snark in the names and contents of the unique and signature menu items (booze, bar food, and non-alcoholic beverages alike) that would make this truly special. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 19:47, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Possible Low Blow[edit]

I think someone here in the bar evoked Godwin's gambit (a term I use for bringing up Nazism and the use of Godwin's Law) against me as well as making assumptions based on my username (which is judging a book by its cover). That's considered a low blow and a personal attack. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 20:58, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

You decided to start a debate on Indigenous science for no fucking reason and you decided to out-hitler hitler by declaring loudly that china has no culture. A somebody. (talk) 21:46, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
I am aware of other cranks out there who do this sort of thing to others to deflect debate. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
As always: Troll Carthage (talk) 21:01, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
OK. Let's keep it out of the coop. I'll remain respectfully silent on the bar fight going on. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:01, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
That's a straw man and a misunderstanding. What I meant to say was that China used to have culture before Mao Zedong gutted it in his attempt to mimic the USSR. Taiwan's culture remains intact and undamaged, so there. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:52, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
And look what China is doing to the Uyghurs and the Tibetans. I've seen a lot of the CCP's disinformation campaigns as well, to know that claims of me being a Nazi hold no water (The CCP plays the race card all the time when called out, and they've astroturfed a lot of fake institutions in the West). But again, I shouldn't feed the trolls... TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:54, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Now as for the Indigenous Science thing, I was talking about the battle against alternative medicine before it devolved into a bar fight I respectfully stayed out of, and your race card falls flat again. Just saying. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Let's just apologize and move on. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 21:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Menu Update: Everything Else.[edit]

As there is a annual bar meeting to bring booze to the bar for a taste test, how about the other stuff, namely the food and the non-alcoholic beverages. Perhaps this can help with building the dedicated menu for the bar itself. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 03:01, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

  • Dunno about non-alcoholic beverages, but i'm more than happy to mix some mojitos for everyone!
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Feel free to copy my signatureTheAlePower (talk) 13:02, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Here's the menu link. It's for booze, food, and more. TheEternalOutsider (talk) 01:15, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Sarah Haider's recent descent into neo-reactionary garbage...[edit]

Hey, since we all know and have pointed out Ayaan Hirsi Ali being a transphobe, a Donald Trump apologist and incredibly reactionary liar, why haven't we made an article for Sarah Haider doing more or less the same thing? (maybe except for the donald trump apologia, though Haider is literally claimed US immigration policies in the past used to be better and these past polices were "better" than multiculturalism.) Can we make an article on how much of reactionary fool she is?

I learned about a lot of reactionaries from rational wiki maybe we ought to inform others that haven't gotten attention and the ones rational wiki hasn't criticized yet, the same way as well.

https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1712981077969526980 https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1295217805143552004 — Unsigned, by: Doyouliketravel / talk / contribs