Conservapedia:Fab Five

The Fab Five is a secondary Google Group for Conservapedia administrators. It was created by Ed Poor on January 8, 2009. The contents of the group were leaked on February 9, 2011.

The original members were Ed Poor, TK, Andrew Schlafly, DeanS and Geo.plrd. Ed described the site as "quiet place with no rancor where we can discuss security and personnel matters." In the same post, Ed goes on to say, The members of this group were chosen by TK. Since early December, he has been sending dozens of messages to Andy, Dean, Geo and me.

I just thought it would be more convenient to use Google to keep track of them all. For one thing, it gives each of us the option of having each post emailed to us, or collected in a digest, or just viewed through this interface.

This would seem to imply that TK was already dictating policy on Conservapedia, long before he was re-appointed an administrator. It would also appear to make Andy's request for new sysops an even bigger sham, but it does explain why he ignored all objections to TK's promotion.

Since its creation, the Fab Five has expanded to include Karajou and TerryH, leaving Conservative and RobSmith as the only "senior' administrators not allowed to play with the big boys.

Andy Schlafly
Andy on why CP is suddenly a nice place to work:

TK
Talking about 🇰🇪's weird edits :

TK sends an email about Hispanic leaders in Victoria, Texas boycotting Caucasian shop owners and how this had the knock-on effect of reducing shoplifting by 77%. TerryH sends him a Snopes link explaining this is not true. TK (using up a year's supply of commas) replies:

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

Karajou
Karajou was seeing an increase in spam in his inbox, including foreign bride sites, which in his mind is clearly the work of RationalWiki. Call the FBI!

Is your IP / username blocked at Conservapedia? Well Karajou has the answer:

Not content with calling the FBI, Karajou deduced that a recently blocked editor was stationed at a US military base. He proceeded to fire off a rambling letter to the Officer Commanding, in which he refers to himself as a "retired Navy man" (but strangely gives no rank) and concludes his letter with the following:

Karajou isn't a fan of twitter :

Terry Chuckarse
TerryH openly admits to burying posts on Digg.

He's also aware that what he is doing is wrong, because he concludes: