User talk:Stabby the Misanthrope/Archive9

Are you back?
Huh? PFoster 19:44, 19 December 2008 (EST)
 * I don't know.  01:52, 20 December 2008 (EST)
 * Well, either way, nice to see you around again. I hope all is well with you.  What's Hebrew for "hugs 'n' kisses"?  ħ uman  03:33, 20 December 2008 (EST)
 * "Shalom" is close to what you mean.  07:25, 20 December 2008 (EST)
 * Ah, very well, then. Shalom!  ħ uman  14:47, 20 December 2008 (EST)

A very important e-mail...
You know the drill....PFoster 16:48, 27 December 2008 (EST)

Nazism/Fascism...
I assume that when you're done splitting the cats they'll become blue links again, and the old cat will go bye-bye?  ħ uman  23:17, 3 January 2009 (EST)
 * Correct. Care to help me?   23:19, 3 January 2009 (EST)
 * Ah, nevermind, I'm done.  23:31, 3 January 2009 (EST)
 * I figured you'd "complete" the task you set for yourself, I guess I was just checking. I'd help, but, as you pointed out, you're done.  You're pretty efficient when you get going, and it wasn't a huge task (hehe, I remember you racing against the "footnotes" bot, I think you either tied or won a small victory on the race from A to M vs. Z to M?)  ħ uman  00:08, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * I think it was a tie. : )  And thank you.   00:12, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * Hehe... yah, probably. Very close, either way.  And you're welcome.  New project ;)  Alphabetize the categories on every article!  Isn't it time we did that? Food for thought = brain worms?  ħ uman  00:16, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * Alphabetize the categories? * shudders*  That's crazy talk.  00:23, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * I was about to explain how I intended to continue arranging categories using my logical yet highly arbitrary rubric, but now that I think about it, alphabetizing them makes much more sense.  00:23, 4 January 2009 (EST)

Kindly Demote Me
I know that this will get people bickering. I have hit upon the key. And yes, I'm serious. --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistor " 17:55, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * What a coincidence—I was planning to demote you today anyways! : D   17:57, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * Why thank you. --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistor " 17:58, 4 January 2009 (EST)
 * It's done—check your talk page.  18:00, 4 January 2009 (EST)

Best random quote from your sig.
Hiya, Netharian! Welcome to the international pussy of icicles!--Netharian 19:15, 5 January 2009 (EST)
 * : D  19:16, 5 January 2009 (EST)

Mathematics Articles
I see you've taken notice of my work. I recently uploaded some images and used them in a few articles, but for some reason I cannot upload any more images. Do you know what could be causing this? thescaryworker 21:12, 5 January 2009 (EST)
 * New users have the number of images they can upload limited, in order to head off vandalism. You can either wait until tomorrow, or... I can make you a sysop.  (Seeing all the hard work you're doing, I will do so if you ask.)   21:41, 5 January 2009 (EST)
 * Thanks, that would be great. Currently I'm coming over from Conservapedia's moronic work environment and bringing my articles with me. I'm working in conjunction with a few people who recently left CP's diminishing ranks of mathematics editors. thescaryworker 21:50, 5 January 2009 (EST)
 * Actually the uploads are shut down because I am in proccess of moving the site to a new server. Everything will be back to normal as soon as we are moved. tmtoulouse 21:53, 5 January 2009 (EST)
 * * shrugs* Oh well.  But regardless, Scaryworker, you've been "demoted"—check your talk page.   21:57, 5 January 2009 (EST)

Um...You Doing Alright Over Here???
Heavens to betsy. I felt obligated to log on just to talk you down. Everything's going to be okay, man. Keep your eyes on the prize. (Or something.) A Writer of Vaudevilles 23:54, 6 January 2009 (EST)
 * Oh, thank you for talking to me. It was getting so lonely here.   00:11, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Aloha, hello, holla, and shalom.  ħ uman  00:54, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Hi Huw!  00:55, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Hi J.! Can I use your full first name, or that still "private"?  ħ uman  01:16, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Feel free to call me Jacob. (No "Jake", though—only my parents get to call me that.)   01:23, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Thanks. And, yes, whenever there is a potential nickname issue I always ask first what a person prefers to be called, and then respect it.   ħ uman  01:26, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Thanks, Huw. That's very considerate of you.   01:30, 7 January 2009 (EST)

The hell? THE HELL>>>??>?>??/
You really don’t remember me, do you, Lieutenant? Lance Corporal John V. Dempski? You don’t remember the tarantulas? That warehouse on Mt. Kilamanjaro? You fucking S.O.B. You set me up and you killed my wife and you broke my spine and you DON’T REMEMBER MY NAME?!? THE FUCKING SPIDERS, MAN! REMEMBER THE FUCKING SPIDERS???The electrocutioner 04:43, 8 January 2009 (EST)

I ...
... have ditched that facebook account. I'd forgotten it was there until they emailed me that you'd "written on my wall".I don't really think it's my thing. Toast 22:19, 8 January 2009 (EST)
 * Aw, poo.  23:20, 8 January 2009 (EST)

Side-by-side-by-side
I did one for Conservapedia:Quantifying Mental Strength. - User   02:00, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * I saw that, but I'd never actually processed that it used three columns instead of two. I probably would've been easier if I'd just copied that instead of trying to splice a third column into the two-column version on my own.   02:04, 11 January 2009 (EST)

Old server
Jeeves has stolen your account on the old server; I would advise you to change your password.  Phantom Hoover  07:47, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * Oy vey! I don't know your password! It is impossible for me to know your password! --JeevesMkII 08:02, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * Yeah, paranoia on my part. I was panicking somewhat.  Phantom Hoover  12:41, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * Yes you have. I would like my password and my email returned to what they were.  I would also like an apology.  It doesn't matter that you did it on the old RationalWiki—what you did was a gross violation of privacy.   17:43, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * I hope you liked my little present to you and other post RW1ers.  ħ uman  23:42, 11 January 2009 (EST)
 * The password is foobar.  Phantom Hoover  13:07, 12 January 2009 (EST)

Standards thing
I meant to write this earlier, but now will do. Thanks for going to all the effort of restructuring the new version of the community standards. Maybe it's just me, but I like the see the "old" next to the "new" so I can "think" about it. I appreciate your efforts, and I hope other users don't take the sparks that flew along the way as personal. Well, at least, I don't, and I hope you don't. Shalom (I don't mean to abuse the word) - or at, at least, thank you.  ħ uman  23:24, 13 January 2009 (EST)
 * Aw, shucks, Huw...  00:46, 14 January 2009 (EST)
 * Hugs, Jacob. We're on the same side, after all.  ħ uman  01:01, 14 January 2009 (EST)

Emails
I apologize for filling your inbox with duplicate emails.  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  16:58, 14 January 2009 (EST)
 * Eh? What emails?   14:53, 15 January 2009 (EST)
 * I used the send email form many times, because the page wasn't loading and I wasn't sure if they had gone through. If there were no emails, then the above post never happened.  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  14:58, 15 January 2009 (EST)
 * This message will self-destruct in 5... 4... 3...  15:08, 15 January 2009 (EST)

Help (other than psychological)
Hi,

I still prefer that you kill the redirects to this page in your userspace, though—double redirects don't work.

I'm new to this janitor job and I don't know how to find the double redirects to stamp them out. Would you mind walking me through it? Thanks.

--UnicornTapestry 04:55, 24 January 2009 (EST)


 * Of course I don't mind. ^_^ It's easy: just go to Special:DoubleRedirects, and you'll find every double redirect listed there.  Of the handful we have, most are there on purpose (like the "Circular reasoning" one).  The page I was prompting you to delete is listed there:  .  Another page you should clear out is —it's not a double redirect (and hence not listed with the others), but it is a redirect no one will ever use.   05:08, 24 January 2009 (EST)


 * Thanks! Easy once you've shown me how. --UnicornTapestry 05:35, 24 January 2009 (EST)
 * Just a reminder, Unicorn: you're not supposed to delete talk pages with content in them.  Ever.  Just so you know, I already resurrected it.   05:48, 24 January 2009 (EST)


 * Thanks for the save, there. I realized I'd made a mistake after I'd done it. --UnicornTapestry 05:50, 24 January 2009 (EST)
 * No harm done in the end : )   05:53, 24 January 2009 (EST)

Recatting
Could you please make yourself a bot while recatting things - you're cluttering up recent changes.  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  05:37, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * Is that a serious request?  05:37, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * A little Uncle Ed their on the girl recat. - User   05:39, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * If I were Ed Poor I would've recatted them as "" : )   05:44, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * Yes. Why wouldn't it be?  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  05:45, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * It just struck me as a silly request. Could you tell me how it makes things difficult for you?   05:52, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * It makes it harder to find interesting edits and is a general nuisance.  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  05:54, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * I understand, Phantom. So I'm sorry to say that I am not willing to change myself into a bot whenever I feel like mass recatting.  I do not feel I am out of line to ask you to just bear with it.   06:00, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * Turning human editors into bots is pretty dubious. Are you sure we should be doing it?   16:18, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * As long as they get turned back before they need to eat (or drink) again, the lasting effects are negligible. <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  19:11, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * Phantom Hoover (as he requested, and I granted) or anyone else is free to bot themselves when making repetitive edits. I view it as a matter of personal preference, and I will not do so myself.   19:18, 25 January 2009 (EST)

RA, do you think you could pause your recatting efforts for a while? I really think there's some serious problems developing in this catting saga, and it's just getting worse as you go. Let's talk about it first. <font color="#00F0A20">DogP  00:45, 6 February 2009 (EST)
 * Alright. Sorry for doing that doing the discussion—it's a well-ingrained habit in me to "fix" (what to me are) poorly-categorized articles when I see them.  I'll hold off until we can reach some sort of agreement.   00:52, 6 February 2009 (EST)
 * No, it's a habit for you to do whatever you feel like, without ever asking for "community" input. Notice that I was not the one to complain first here, you are fudging up the wiki with your own preconceived notion of how it should be organized. DogP, is this being discussed in one central location, at least? <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  02:47, 6 February 2009 (EST)
 * I think your accusation of "fudging up the wiki" is uselessly subjective. To me, my actions are helpful, and to you, my actions are "fudging up the wiki".  Until the discussion regarding categories has been concluded, neither of us can claim to be right about which catting policy is and is not most useful to the site.  Hence, why I stopped recatting and have engaged in the discussion, so we can work out the best course of action.   03:20, 6 February 2009 (EST)
 * I have apologized and stopped recategorizing, as Doggedpersistence asked of me. Now, Human, did you have any constructive criticism to share with me, or did you just want to pile some shit on?   03:20, 6 February 2009 (EST)

"Last one for the night"
It's quarter to twelve in the morning for me.  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  06:43, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * It was 3:23 in the morning for me.  16:03, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * My goat. Are you a vampire?  <font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover  16:09, 25 January 2009 (EST)

OMG censorship!

 * Nah, he's has no resemblence to anything otherkin in the least- if he was a vampire, I'd know. --" 18:04, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * No, just unemployed. : )   18:34, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * Told you. --" 18:34, 25 January 2009 (EST)
 * So you're an unemployed vampire? 12:38, 26 January 2009 (EST)
 * Kind of. Except without the "vampire" part.   20:47, 27 January 2009 (EST)

CUR
CUR is currently being dragged across RationalWiki:Administrative Abuse‎ as you seem largely disinterested and around now could you make the final decision? - User   22:21, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * Alright.  22:22, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * Good call, PI. Thanks. TheoryOfPractice 22:26, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * What exactly do you want me to decide upon? I'm willing to supervise any probation placed on CUR, though I currently don't see much agreement regarding the terms of probation.   22:31, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * Aaah; Query "disinterested" as RA was the one who Sysoped CUR Love² 22:58, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * I think they mean "disinterested" in the sense that I haven't lobbied for any side in the discussion about CUR, and have stayed out of the various related furry/therian/otherkin discussions.  23:05, 27 January 2009 (EST)

WHO sysopped CUR is irrelevant--everyone gets sysopped after a while, it's SOP. TheoryOfPractice 23:08, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * Not necessarily. Some 'crats sysop new users faster than others.  I think it's highly relevant. For instance, I never would have sysopped CUR. He has always been too much of a clumsy idiot to be trusted with a lousy mop and broom. RA sysopped him when he was not necessarily "mostly harmless" - CUR has been edit warring and making a jerk out of himself since day one. <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  01:17, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Thanks
Haha, thanks for the welcome! My name is a ficticious one made up so very long ago. I hope to have fun with this site! Thanks Bobamnertiopsis 23:59, 27 January 2009 (EST)
 * You're welcome! I always find the origins of people's username's interesting.   00:17, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Bork
You borked your edit to fun:poutine. What are the odds you mucked up any of your other 700 recatting edits? Can you re-check them for functionality in your copious spare time? I'd like to think I don't have to check your recatting work for competence, since I prefer to trust you... <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  01:24, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * I stand by all my work as being done to the best of my ability. I am, of course, only human, so naturally I will make mistakes.


 * As for the mistake rate on my "700 recatting edits", I would like to think it shares the same rate as your your 10,000+ mainspace edits. I look forward to continuing our mutual trust in each other's editing abilities.


 * Additionally, I am putting renewed effort into obtaining employment, and will generally only be available on weekday evenings and all day on weekends, so my free time is unfortunately not as abundant as it once was.  13:55, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Vandal group
The vandal group on the bureaucrats user menu doesn't work. I have been editing like this for nearly a day. - User   20:13, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * Hilarious. Of course, tmt's been a vandal for quite a while now. Noticed it way back when. --" 20:13, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * (edit conflict) Between yours, Phantom Hoover's, and my attempts, I'd say we have data to call it a definite trend : )   20:15, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * So what's the point? You can't be a vandal and a sysop or 'crat? Or does the vandal bin not work at all? If it doesn't, then action may be required on our part. --" 20:22, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * I think the vandal group is separate from the vandal bin. - User   20:26, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * I'm not sure it is. When you look at the user list, under group, all of FD's socks are in the vandal group. --" 20:30, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * That's just because of double handling. Take "A long way to Tipperary" as an example.  He was put in the Vandal group (as a user rights change) by TheoryOfPractice on 7th Jan.  In fact the vandal bin records show he'd already been binned on 4th Jan.  If the vandal group doesn't work & it's just causing confusion & double handling, we should probably get it removed from the user rights screen.   21:11, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * There's a good chance that the 'cratable "vandal" group predates the bin, and was created as a joke. Considering the possible confusion it creates, I suppose someone should whine to Trent if we can't remove it ourselves. <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  21:55, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * I suspect the 'crat group was Trent's original idea but like the hide/show of edits decided that in the interest of fairness it should be available to all sysops rather than just 'crates. - User   21:57, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * It's also sort of useless if sysops can't use it... <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  22:00, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * You would need a 'crat on nearly around the clock to implement the change group system, where as I don't think more than 10 or 15 minutes would pass without one of our legion of sysops being on. - User   22:02, 28 January 2009 (EST)
 * Can I also be part of the banana slug group? --" 18:20, 29 January 2009 (EST)
 * We do have 'crats on almost round the clock. 04:31, 1 February 2009 (EST)

Think I preferred you as a bot.

 * Yah, but if I bot myself, Human won't see which edits to come and bitch at me about. : )   21:45, 30 January 2009 (EST)
 * Oh, he will. he makes it a priority to police all your edits. When you were a bot, I just switched "show bots" on every 5 or so refreshes - just to see what your particular brand of sanity was making you do. [[Image:Toast s.png|25px]] (Toast) <font color="Maroon">and marmalade  21:50, 30 January 2009 (EST)
 * There's just no getting away with anything here, is there? : )   21:53, 30 January 2009 (EST)
 * Much botter better. [[Image:Toast s.png|25px]] (Toast) <font color="Maroon">and marmalade 22:11, 30 January 2009 (EST)
 * Damned if you do, damned if you don't! Actually, I think the only user I ever put on "patrol every fucking edit" was Proxima, because no matter how good her edits were, the writing itself was usually awful, and it embarrasses me, for some unknown reason, to see poor writing on this site.  Anyway, I don't have "hide bots" turned on on my watchlist.  If RA does a hundred edits as a bot, I can always look at one or two our of curiosity, and "hide" bot edits to see the recent history without them.  Ironically, of course, this round of edits resulted from a discussion Jacob and I had regarding subcats to politics... well, at least the one I checked ;) 00:05, 31 January 2009 (EST)

Enbottening
What are you planning to do? 16:51, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Oh, horrible things, which innocent eyes such as your own are not ready to see : )   16:53, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * But I can see them. 16:54, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * You fool... you know not the significance of what you are witnessing. What you are seeing is the dawn of a new world order!  Buwahahahahahaha!   16:58, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * I always thought that it would involve more than recatting some spoof cards, for some reason. 17:02, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Mind if I put an end to this bottening? I can stop the formation of the NWO right now! I will fight you, every step of the way, RA! --" 17:03, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Then my work here is done...  17:04, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Huh? --" 17:04, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Your mere sysop powers are nothing against our 'cratship! 17:06, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Yes. Bow before the mighty paper-pushers!   17:07, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * That's what you think. . . I am also known as Human! I am also known as Tmt! I am RationalWiki, and you cannot battle me! I never back down, and I never surrender! --" 17:08, 31 January 2009 (EST)
 * Don't be so silly. Human and Trent would never lower themselves enough to impersonate you. 04:33, 1 February 2009 (EST)

(unident) That's what you think. . . &mdash; Unsigned, by: ConservapediaUndergroundResistor / talk / contribs

Present
for you (Toast) <font color="Maroon">and marmalade  21:37, 1 February 2009 (EST)
 * Thank you, Toast—I always wanted my own courtroom! : D   22:40, 1 February 2009 (EST)

Vandal
I note you were one of several who dealt with THC LOADEE. Fortunately there was more than one of you. On Dec 10th last year I dealt with a vandal attack single handed. That’s a thankless task. If you get it right the chances are no one notices. If you block the wrong person under pressure or seem to block the wrong person under pressure you’re accused of sysop abuse. If you ever find yourself the lone defender against a persistent vandal look for other active sysops in recent changes and ask them in their talk pages to help. Proxima Centauri 13:14, 2 February 2009 (EST)

User:THC LOADE has just turned up. For the reason given above I’m not dealing with this single handed. Proxima Centauri 14:05, 2 February 2009 (EST)

Thanks
For getting the Community Standards revamp started & all the work you did on various drafts of it. I tried to send an intercom message earlier in response to yours, but instead I accidentally broke the site for a while. Anyway, I've now linked to all the various revamp pages at the top of RationalWiki talk: Community Standards, and marked them as archived discussions. Any more discussions about changes should be at the CS talk page rather than keeping any of those other ones going. 20:44, 3 February 2009 (EST)
 * * Purrrrrrrrrr* Oh, it was nothing  : )  And I thank you, for putting so much effort into seeing the final product through.  I truly enjoyed working with you.   20:58, 3 February 2009 (EST)
 * I suspected the breakage had something to do with the intercom when I saw the message blanked.  20:58, 3 February 2009 (EST)
 * Why are you purring? I thought I was the only one who purred around here. (please don't bring up the subject again, its a joke) --" 21:30, 3 February 2009 (EST)
 * Many, many editors here purr. We just don't attribute "deeper meaning" to it.  We purr.  It means we're happy. <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  00:07, 4 February 2009 (EST)

Wow!
It's funny that constructive editing got me a sysopship here, while getting me banned...elsewhere. I'll try to live up to this. Czolgolz 10:40, 4 February 2009 (EST)
 * That's CP for ya. --" 13:59, 4 February 2009 (EST)
 * No matter how many times I hear it, I am always struck by the contrast between our sysopping policies. Here's to hoping you live up to it  ; )   18:05, 4 February 2009 (EST)
 * I don't know of any other wiki that has a sysopping policy like ours. Works though. Totnesmartin 18:13, 8 February 2009 (EST)

Cascade protection
Is there a reason your userpage is cascade protected? -- Nx  talk 07:37, 5 February 2009 (EST)
 * Yes: to keep vandals from fiddling with the personal templates displayed on it.  It's more efficient than locking them individually.   22:42, 5 February 2009 (EST)
 * Paranoid :) <font color="#DD00DD" face="comic sans ms"> ħ uman  23:32, 5 February 2009 (EST)
 * It also protects the public templates used on it (which is how I noticed it), and I thought we were against that sort of thing. -- Nx  talk 18:02, 6 February 2009 (EST)

Random hello
Hello! :D Refugee  talk page  17:43, 6 February 2009 (EST)

Castle
'sOK. Totnesmartin 18:11, 8 February 2009 (EST)
 * That's good to here. I dreaded having to FIGHT TO THE DEATH with you over it.  : )   18:12, 8 February 2009 (EST)
 * Fighting to the death is actually very bad for my stress levels. I've had to stop wiki-ing for weeks sometimes. It's the main reason I disappear from here, the other being computer problems. Totnesmartin 18:17, 8 February 2009 (EST)

Please stop it

 * Well, I was bored and no one was paying any attention to me. And it's not my fault you took so long to respond.

Now do something interesting. Mei 19:24, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * * sniffs indignantly* I am always interesting.  : )   19:53, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * Sing me a song. &mdash; Unsigned, by: Mei / talk / contribs 20:20, 9 February 2009
 * I don't sing.  20:38, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * Dance me a dance.
 * I can't sing, I can't dance.  20:54, 9 February 2009 (EST)