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Gay rights, environmentalism, abortion, school prayer (or lack there of) are all commie plots. Don't you see?
—RobS[1]
Declassified photo of what allegedly may appear to be Rob Smith

Robert "Bobby" Smith,[2] formerly RobS, is a former editor and sysop at Conservapedia. During his time at CP, he served as the self-appointed [3] "Director of Internal Counterintelligence" for the website, due to an incurable state of permanent paranoia.

A prominent member of the old conservapedian "Gang of Four", Rob had been absent from his encyclopedian duties for nearly ten months because of his job as an airport bird shooter. On September 4, 2008, he threatened to come back,[4] and in the spring of 2009 he began to once again contribute regularly to the project.

Rob has basically admitted to being racist, suggesting that anyone who is resentful of Barack Obama (which he clearly is) must be a closet racist, as well as calling national pride "a form of racism", while admitting that there's nothing wrong with it.

After disputing with other CP sysops in the summer of 2011, most notably Ken, he was desysopped[5] by Andrew Schlafly, subsequently blocked for 1 month after violating the 90/10 rule[6] and extended to infinity by Karajou.[7] He is now frequently found here on RationalWiki.

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[edit] Arguing with Robby

Trying to engage in a rational discussion or argument with RobS is an exercise in futility. Rob may be the only human ever to fail a Turing test, in that after reading a couple of his replies you will be left believing you are actually arguing with a poorly designed computer program that takes keywords from what you posted and fashions pre-generated responses that have little to nothing to do with what you actually said to him. It can also be compared to arguing with a magic 8-ball containing an icosahedron in which every side mentions Communism. For example, if one were to say to Rob "the sky is blue and the grass is green," a standard reply might be "what makes you think grass turns the sky blue? Sounds like the typical Communist relativistic thinking that murdered 100 million people."

It is entirely possible that Rob's brain is wired wrong and doesn't handle simple logic very well. For example, given the statements "if p then q" and "if q then r", Rob, unlike a normal person, will not come to the conclusion that "if p then r" (the Chain Rule being one of the simplest and most widely understood logical principles) but rather "if p then x, j, w, 374, {\sqrt{-2}}, a turkey baster, and Obama is a communist." And he'll believe every word of it.

[edit] Personal interests

Kara Duhe (no relation to Karajou) is a twenty-year-old *ahem* "model." According to her website, Ms. Duhe is "funny, quirky, cute, silly, horny, that's me... everywhere... all the time..."[8] Ms. Duhe inadvertently became the object of widespread very localized and silly wiki-speculation about Rob's Internet habits when on January 23, 2010, Rob, after researching the question of pornography and violence against women, delirious from an epic wanking session, "accidentally", as a joke for the benefit of RW posted commie atrocity picture to Conservapedia with a file name that matched that of one of her pictures. [9] Later Rob blamed a 'cholo' who sold him a flash drive without deleting his files first. This is completely believable and put an end to the matter because, hey, it happens all the time.[10].

[edit] RobS is Bat-shit Insane

This is an original essay by Flippin.

[edit] The Brilliance of RobS

When a recent sock that I took was banned, RobS took it upon himself to revert EVERYTHING this sock ever did. It was hysterical. No, Rob, these vandals won't make you waste your time. Enjoy!

  • Check this AWESOME revert by RobS, while purging all memory of Flippin. [2] BTW, Rob, I had reverted vandalism in that instance.
  • Fucking crackerjack work, Robby [3]
  • Yep, too liberal for Rob [4]
  • See Rob revert facts--after all, CP doesn't smear [5]
  • WAY too fucking liberal, I suppose [6]
  • Stick it to those lib-ruls Rob! [7]
  • Reverting Votes [8]
  • Paranoia at its finest [9]

* 23:50, 8 June 2007 Aschlafly (Talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:RobS from sysop to (none) from here

What troubles me most about RobS is that he doesn't seem to make very logical connections. This could be because he is uneducated, or possibly his lack of fidelity to intellectual honesty. Either way, crossing him can have a variety of outcomes. As Flippion, I argued with him for this edit conflict [10] where he claimed Eminem was a form of torture commonly used against prisoners. If you read the entire entry, it becomes clear, he completely misunderstood the article he cited.

[edit] Saving the planet

In July 2011 Rob Smith began unblocking the planet and making the world safe for dementia.[11]

[edit] Going toe-to-toe with Ken

In July 2011, a truly remarkable event occurred on Conservapedia. Rob created the "Community Portal" declaring it to be "the place to discuss issues of interest to the Conservapedia community."[12]

This resulted in many complaints being levelled against sysop user:Conservative, most of them initially dealing with his locking and redirecting of talk-pages, and his habit of constantly deleting and recreating pages. Ken responded with his usual sarcastic non-sequiturs and eventually Rob took it upon himself to tackle Ken directly.

Initially this had some effect, as Ken did unlock the talk-pages. However, before long, he refused to speak to Rob, claiming in his usual "I'm getting my butt whipped" style that he would spend no longer than 5 minutes a month dealing with Rob, so precious was his time. At the same time, Ken began to openly attack Rob, calling him a pawn and a "useful idiot" of an atheist website,[13] and a whispering campaign behind the scenes to have Rob stripped of his rights. This resulted in vague claims that "up to four sysops" supported Ken in his efforts to have Rob stripped of his rights. Needless to say, not one of these sysops, except for maybe Karajou have come forward to add their name to Ken's claims, so it's likely these are as real as Operation Flying Fortress.[14] | This all culminated in a post to Andy's talk-page on July 31st, in which Rob vocalised what everybody had been saying - outside of the CP sysops, that is - for years:

The difference between RW & CP is, RW has a community, and CP sysops are hell bent on destroying any sort of collaborative cooperation. RW started from nothing but foul-mouthed trolls to an open, thriving, talented and successful wiki project, while anti-social elements such as yourself have recklessly abused willing volunteers who wanted to help. You've destroyed your own reputation, and the reputation of the Conservapedia project along with it. RW is a community, despite nasty differences between users, they can function. As long as mean-spirited dysfunctional outcasts such as yourself continue to wield sysop & oversight tools on this site, I pity any poor fool who comes across it and tries to get involved. They'd have a better chance -- with no talent -- surviving at Wikipedia. [15]

Predictably, this was met with spluttering outrage from Karajou, who saw red at the mention of RW on CP, and launched into a frothing-at-the-mouth rant, (complete with Gandalf impersonation) effectively signifying the end of Rob's involvement with CP.[16] After this, Karajou attempted to block Rob several times, obviously to no success.

Needless to say, any attempt to make Conservapedia a more friendly and welcoming place is the best way to incur the wrath of CP's last remaining sysops. As a result, Rob has been gradually losing his rights ever since he started on his quixotic quest and was finally desysopped in August 2011 and then blocked 1 month by Andrew Schlafly for asking why on his talk page (With a reason of 90/10)

[edit] Defrocked

Frustrated by years of mismanagement and the interal inertia of CP and its private discussion groups (which he had so far supported with only token dissent), Rob took to Conservapedia talk:WIGO to propose reforms, knowing full well that is all Karajou & Ken pay attention and respond to.

Rob was subsequently fired from his position as director of counter-intelligence at Conservapedia on the 12th of August 2011, after a protracted period of internecine strife with CP's other two remaining active sysops.

Rob now spends much of his time on Rationalwiki, complaining to all and sundry about his treatment on Conservapedia while trying to convince everyone he is merely moments away from having his rights restored and receiving a personal apology from Andrew Schlafly. This has caused laughter among some but also earned derision, particularly from Mikalos209, as he won't shut the hell up about it and injects it into nearly every conversation.

[edit] Awards

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This is to certify that

RobS

received the

"IN SOVIET RUSSIA, JESUS PRAYS TO YOU!" AWARD FOR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2008


JosephMcCarthyMilitaryUniform.jpg

This is to certify that

Rob Smith

received the

JOSEPH McCARTHY "I HAVE A LIST" AWARD FOR PARANOIA

From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2009

[edit] External links

[edit] Footnotes

  1. From here. Probably parody, but who can tell.
  2. JPatt calls him "Bobby."
  3. Rob's user page
  4. His talk page
  5. Rob Smith's Rights log
  6. Blocked after last comment on the right: hereimg
  7. [1]
  8. Google it. We can't really link to it. (obviously not safe for work)
  9. As WIGO'd here
  10. Rob blaming a mystery 'cholo'
  11. Rob's unblock log, July 2011.
  12. Sadly, Ken has burnt the page to the ground so often, that the original creation post is no longer available.
  13. Useful idiot of an atheist websiteimg
  14. 4 Sysops believe that RobS should lose his Admin rights - Another Sysop emailed meimg
  15. Rob's "community" speechimg
  16. Karajou loses itimg

[edit] See also

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