The user formerly known as Radioactive afikomen
[edit] Email 1
Need your email and I'm too friggin' old to keep looking. There's only so much time. Could you send it to my blog email?
Thanks, T.
ThomasRowley (talk) 04:57, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
- Received and replied.
Radioactive Misanthrope 04:29, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
- Didn't want you to think I was a drive-by poster. A few days into Dec I learned that the SVR founder, Thomas Naylor, was doing poorly. He stroked out on Dec 9. I've been tied up on blog stuff and will be back shortly.
- T.
- ThomasRowley (talk) 05:30, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Moderator elections
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Thanks for the complinsult but let's try to avoid magical thinking. Do you want a moderator or do you want a politician? AD is great at wasting his time trying to talk sense into users who are committed to not listening to moderators, but he's unwilling to compromise his angelic image to pull a trigger when a trigger needs be pulled. We're not government officials; we don't need to worry about a "mandate." Vote for people who will do what you want moderators to do, not people who you think are politique or gosu or smart. People who are politique or gosu or smart can still talk it out if they don't have the usergroup and the specific authority of moderators.
Now, Stabby, I find your criticism of me in particular to be a little confusing. After all, I'm probably the most committed to discussion and procedure of anyone here. I'm proud of the fact that I've never issued a malicious block nor removed user rights in anger. I have a history of going easy on "trolls"; I was the original returner of MC's rights, I voted against his bans, I opposed unnecessary blockings and I frequently resysopped unpopular users like Brxbrx and Abd. When you say I don't play wikipolitics "smartly", I have to assume you mean I often go against mainstream opinion and insist on due process; I'm not sure about these "actions that have a mandate of nil behind them."
Liquid Blue 07:42, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- I've given up on the idea that Mods can accomplish anything. Let the community rot in its little hole while the mainspace editors and Foundation board do all the heavy lifting. (Mainspace editors make/improve the articles people come here for; Foundation board promotes them to the outside world while keeping the website afloat.)
- Your actions don't necessarily go against mainstream opinion (which is itself divided on any site action; there is no single "mainstream," really). Otherwise, you wouldn't so consistently be elected Moderator.
- However, you do a terrible job of picking your battles. You waste your time, and in the the process others' goodwill, fighting tiny battles. You know how I took every possible opportunity to bring the fight to Human back in 2008/2009? It sometimes feels like that's how you work — picking battles with no regard for whether "winning" will actually amount to effective change, or whether it's one of a dozen small battles that'll be repeated over and over. You also sometimes stick through a fight when it's clear you won't win; "principled defeats" do not accomplish anything on RationalWiki. People's memories are too fuzzy for that; all they remember is people fighting, with the most recurring names being associated negatively. Bow out, don't flare out. Skillful retreats minimize losses.
- Also, compromise. You often propose fully-formed policies and rules right out of the gate — so fully-formed, so "complete," in fact, that compromising on them is to utterly break them. But compromise is the nature of a wiki. Build some flexibility in to your proposals, allowing room for others to ruin them slightly without ruining them completely. That way, even after you've compromised all to shit, you've still managed a solid step forward.
Radioactive Misanthrope 08:23, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- I appreciate your reply. I disagree, of course. I think you're projecting your politics with Human onto me with regard to Ace/Human/Nutty Roux. I don't see "defeat" and "winning" as relevant concepts in wiki policy discussions that are mostly pointless, and even if they were, the only example I can even think of for me picking a pointless/hopeless battle is when I argued for edit filters on non-vandalism. And I honestly think you're completely wrong about the last point; can you point to some times when I put forth a proposal and never accepted compromise? If it happens "often," surely it wouldn't be too hard to point to a couple.
Liquid Blue 09:14, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
- You know, I had multiple tabs open, sorting through all of your 2011 edits, but then I realized... I don't feel like doing this. If you feel my advice doesn't apply to you, then ignore it. I don't have a ton of bookmarks tracking your efforts on site management, and I don't have the discussions you've partaken in over the years memorized. Before you play the "but if I really do what you say I do, then it'll be easy to find evidence" card, you know damn well how hard it is to build a case that anyone takes seriously. A half hour to an hour of browsing through old revisions, then another half hour carefully wording it for maximum effect. Then multiple hours of debating it, as we quibble endlessly over what I said.
- I'd rather completely stop editing this wiki then wade through shit like this again. Which is exactly what I did for a few days. So fuck my advice and fuck this thread. Unless it has to do with the Foundation proper, I'm not going to delve into any thread revolving around wikipolitics from now on.
Radioactive Misanthrope 00:33, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- I appreciate your reply. I disagree, of course. I think you're projecting your politics with Human onto me with regard to Ace/Human/Nutty Roux. I don't see "defeat" and "winning" as relevant concepts in wiki policy discussions that are mostly pointless, and even if they were, the only example I can even think of for me picking a pointless/hopeless battle is when I argued for edit filters on non-vandalism. And I honestly think you're completely wrong about the last point; can you point to some times when I put forth a proposal and never accepted compromise? If it happens "often," surely it wouldn't be too hard to point to a couple.
[edit] Paleocons
American Conservative is a hive of paleoconservatism, though they do have some legit anti-war commentary (Daniel Larison comes to mind). Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 02:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Takimag is another good one -- heavier on the xenophobia and racism. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 02:26, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Ooh, something else for me to read every week and get angry at.
- But seriously — holy shit, thanks! I've been intending to rewrite the paleoconservatism article, but was afraid of being forced to pad out the "high-quality" citations of VDARE and Chronicles with a bunch of Z-list blogs run by whiny cranks. So I appreciate more major paleocon gold mines.
Radioactive Misanthrope 03:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- If you're looking for VDARE-ish stuff (i.e., more racialism than general paleocon politics) that's a bit higher-brow, you want Mankind Quarterly and American Renaissance. That's where our "racial realist" pals (i.e., Rushton, Taylor, etc.) peddle their wares. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 04:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Omnomnominated
This is a courtesy call to let you know that someone (who shall remain nameless for their own protection) has nominated you for moderator. Please go here to accept or reject the nomination. Cheers.
Acer Blue 10:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Board nomination
You have been nominated. Humorless fascistsociopath 15:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome
Thanks! Such a hive of scum and villainy rational people and morbid humor is too great to be left alone. I'd offer a non-tangible eBeer, but noted you don't understand us unrepentant drunkards connoisseurs of alcoholic beverages. Tagaziel (talk) 10:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, but non-tangible beer is the best, because it doesn't have that awful alcohol flavor :-)
Radioactive Misanthrope 10:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Sterile for mod
[edit] Thanks
Thank you. 82.69.171.94 (talk) 19:17, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
- You're welcome! It was the least I could do for our best IP editor.
Radioactive Misanthrope 21:19, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Hey man you were right on the LW talk page
Check out lesswrong talk page, they been replacing "chip fabs" with tobacco plantations and researchers with tobacco executives for ages. On the suggestion of that guy Yvain. You were totally right, and worse than that. Dmytry (talk) 19:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hm, I didn't know that.
Radioactive Misanthrope 01:02, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hm, I didn't know that.
[edit] PC
I don't want to make an enemy out of you or anyone else, but what you wrote on her page is just beyond the pale. You might want to revisit that a little later on. --DamoHi 08:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
- What I'd like to clarify is that in my comment to you I wasn't calling you stupid but your hatred towards others is. Acei9 08:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] random word templates
You seem to be their biggest user, but do you really feel it's a good idea? I mean, to me, it'd just be confusing. Then again, I'm easily confused. Also, I could have sworn that this page was LQT--"Shut up, Brx." 22:18, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- It was LQT, but I changed back. It was too much of a pain to use on my phone.
- You raise a good point in that it's potentially confusing and off-putting to new users. The only reason I still use them is habit, which isn't an especially good reason.
Radioactive Misanthrope 22:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Email 2
Email
Liquid Blue 06:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Read and replied.
Radioactive Misanthrope 06:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Le mail de eeh.
Liquid Blue 05:41, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- R+R'd. By the way, you don't need to leave me on-wiki email alerts, because emails are pushed straight to my phone. (In fact, I managed to read yours before I got the talk page alert email.) Cheers!
Radioactive Misanthrope 06:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- R+R'd. By the way, you don't need to leave me on-wiki email alerts, because emails are pushed straight to my phone. (In fact, I managed to read yours before I got the talk page alert email.) Cheers!
- Le mail de eeh.
[edit] Why do you delete my contribution?
Why do you delete my contribution? — Unsigned, by: 94.254.2.145 / talk / contribs 18:15, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Because the articles you were creating were direct copy-pastes of Wikipedia articles, complete with WP-specific templates and links to articles RW doesn't and won't have. It'd be easier to write a new article from scratch than completely rework the existing Wikipedia article.
Radioactive Misanthrope 18:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Wow, just realized I used the word "article" five times in a single paragraph.
Radioactive Misanthrope 10:38, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
- Here's that same paragraph with repeated uses of the word 'article' replaced with synonyms from merriam-webster.com:
- Wow, just realized I used the word "article" five times in a single paragraph.
Because the articles you were creating were direct copy-pastes of Wikipedia causeries, complete with WP-specific templates and links to editorials RW doesn't and won't have. It'd be easier to write a new discourse from scratch than completely rework the existing Wikipedia prolegomenon.
- Nihilist 15:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] preferred e-mail
Can you please send me: ttoulouse@gmail.com your preferred e-mail address for contact about the board election? Tmtoulouse 2013-01-21T18:26:56
- Done.
Radioactive Misanthrope 23:14, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] About Reddit
Thanks for your comment about my Reddit overhaul. ShadowUltra (talk) 04:50, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Oh, for future reference, you should respond to comments on the same page they were posted. Otherwise it's hard to track conversations when they ping-pong across pages.
Radioactive Misanthrope 05:24, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Are you an alcoholic, unemployed atheist?
I think you added that part to the article, didn't you? [1] Peter Droid whisperer 03:08, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hahaha. Yes, that was me. Oh man, he really is watching his article.
Radioactive Misanthrope 03:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Free MarcusCicero you humdinger
Let liberty reign! Stop being an annoying flibbertigibbet! Lose your virginity! ProudTory (talk) 11:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
- No, let tyranny reign!--Token Conservative (talk) 18:09, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Authoritarian
Playing mantises devour your sol.
[edit] You silly person
(Context)
Singapore's not a country (and before you try to correct me, I operate on the assumption that a single city is not a country) Captain Swing (bringer of nachos) 05:28, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- In my search for another small country with good infrastructure, I have discovered that Liechtenstein has no airport.
Radioactive Misanthrope 05:39, 4 April 2013 (UTC)