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Being a sysop or Administrator[1] at Conservapedia is not a task one should undertake lightly. Sysops on CP serve as a group of henchmen, or goon squad, run by Andrew Schlafly. As anyone who's watched more than three Bond films knows, henchmen rarely reach the end of the film unscathed. If someone attacks your boss, your job is to take the bullet. If a big boulder is rolling down a hill at the boss, shove him out of the way. Usually, henchmen wear tight-fitting red jumpsuits without undergarments, and this is how CP sysops are typically dressed as they revert your trolling comments from their multi-screen 3D supercomputers in their glass corner office.
Blocking[edit]
Not all who have blocking power at Conservapedia are called sysops. It's quite complicated, because Schlafly has created a series of smaller "user rights" packages, including making "upload file" and "editing between 0:31 and 7:01 (EST)" special rights. But mostly what gets a non-sysop added to this list are the coveted and dreaded "blocking" rights. In fact, blocking abilities are often given before editing or uploading rights.
Theoretically, those editors who are given blocking rights, but not promoted to Administrator status, are expected to use their blocking powers only to protect the site from vandalism. Over time this rule has been relaxed, and some of these individuals clearly regard themselves as sysops in all but name, blocking lesser users for numerous trivial transgressions.
Conservapedia sysops[edit]
A full list of sysops can be found here. At first, the list seems quite quite large for such a small project, but not everyone is able to maintain the level of ignorance, hypocrisy, tyranny and self-righteousness required at Conservapedia. Only a few sysops of the highest caliber have the mental fortitude to continue contributing on a regular or semi-regular basis. As such, the list of currently active sysops has shrunk to just a handful. None of those who remain make any attempt at producing an encyclopedia in anything like a recognizable sense anymore, but rather bicker with each other, or use the front page as their personal twitter stream.
- Aschlafly* (Bureaucrat, Siteadmin, Sysop)
- Conservative (Sysop)
- DavidB4 (Sysop)
- Ed Poor* (Siteadmin, Sysop) - Only sporadic activity since January 2014.
- Jpatt (Siteadmin, Sysop) -
Got bored and wandered off March 2013.Sporadic activity. - Karajou* (Siteadmin, Sysop) - On and off retirement, but sporadic activity.
RobSRenamed RobSmith* (Sysop)- TerryH* (Siteadmin, Sysop) - The link whore specialist. Inactive since 2022.
* Also have SiteAdmin rights to turn on/off the database.
Inactive current sysops[edit]
- 1990'sguy (Siteadmin, Sysop) - Inactive since June 2022.
- AddisonDM * - One of Andy's unfortunate students. Inactive since June 2011.
- Admin (Bureaucrat, Sysop) - Inactive since March 2007.[2]
- BenjaminS (Sysop) - Inactive since May 2010.
- BethanyS* (Siteadmin, Sysop) - Inactive since June 2009.
- CPWebmaster* (Bureaucrat, checkuser, Siteadmin, Sysop) - Inactive since November 2010.
- CPanel (Sysop) - Undoubtedly either a sock or meatpuppet of ASchlafly. Inactive since June 2007.
- Chippeterson* (Sysop, Siteadmin) - Master of wanted pages, and creator of myriad incoherent cut-and-pasted stub articles. Inactive since April 2011.
- ChrisS (Sysop) - Inactive since November 2008.
- CollegeRepublican - Schlafly Jr.[3]
- David R (Sysop) - Inactive since April 2008.
- DouglasA (Sysop) - Inventor of a new Conservapedia game: How much content can I delete from the site before its no longer an encyclopedia? [4] Deleted everything worthwhile. Inactive since May 2011.
- DuncanB - Inactive since May 2010.
- EdBot - Unplugged since December 2008.
- Freedom777 (Sysop) - Inactive since July 2008. [5]
- Joaquín Martínez (Sysop) - Inactive as of June 2015.
- PhilipB: (Sysop) - Inactive since February 2009.
- PhyllisS (Sysop) - Keeping it in the family. (That's Andy's daughter, not his mom) - Largely inactive since August 2010.
- RSchlafly (Sysop) - Largely inactive since November 2009. Pops up now and then, but usually disappears after being reminded how insane CP actually is.
- Will N. (Sysop) - Inactive since November 2007.
- Ymmotrojam (Sysop) - Inactive since July 2008.
* Also have SiteAdmin rights to turn on/off the database.
Sysop "lite" rights[edit]
- Benp. (Block). Promoted in May 2008. Inactive since February 2011. Came back. Then he quit after Ken's BestialityaPalooza.
- BertSchlossberg. (Block, Edit, Upload). KAL 007 conspiracy theorist.
Inactive since November 2010Came back.Inactive since May 2013. - BHathorn (Block, edit). Apparently Billy Hathorn. Copypastes his articles on Republican Texan politicians from WP.
- CPalmer (Block). After over three years, he got his banhammer!. Inactive since April 2013.
- Danq (Block, edit). Quit in October 2013.
- DeniseM. (Block, Edit, Upload). Promoted very rapidly for biblical insights. Inactive since March 2009.
- DerekE. (Block, Edit). Inactive since May 2013.
- DMorris. (Block, Edit, Upload, Checkuser). Promoted April 2011.
- Double Edge. (Block, Edit, Upload). Inactive since June 2010.
- Jinxmchue. (Block). Ole Jinxypoo may be gone, but his rights remain. Retired June 2010.
- MaxFletcher. (Block). Promoted after only 4 days of editing on 17 March 2011. Inactive since November 2011.
- MBack. (Block, Edit). Enthusiastic contributor to the Conservative Bible Project. Inactive since April 2010.
- MarkGB. (Block, Edit, Upload). Inactive since May 2010.
- PaulBurnett. (Block, Edit). Insufficiently deferential to Jpatt resulting in being blocked on January 19, 2011.
- StevenM. (Block, Edit). Inactive since December 2009.
- SharonW. (Block, Edit). Promoted to Block after counterwandal activities and then Edit for no apparent reason. Also blocked Bootmii. ("Boot me? Really?"). Inactive since December 2012. Made one edit in April 2017.
- Toadaron. (Block, edit),
- WesleyS. (block),
Ex-rights holders[edit]
- Bohdan (Sysop)
R E T I R E D September 11, 2007Reinstated Feb 29, 2008 [2] RENAMED: HenryS - inactive since December 2008, stripped of rights in June 2009. - Brenden (Block, edit) F I R E D by Andy on 21 February 2014.
- BrianCo: a long-time editor
(Block, edit, Upload), generally far too non-controversial to actually make sysop.Banned for nothing in particular. - Bugler: not quite a sysop (Block, edit, Upload), but a total wazzock (
almostcertainly a parodist) Admitted to being a parodist. - ColinR (Sysop) F I R E D May, 2007.
- CPAdmin1 (Siteadmin, Sysop) RETIRED AS OF December 31, 2008.
- DanH (Siteadmin, Sysop) RESIGNED IN PROTEST June 19, 2008.
- DVergne (Block, edit) F I R E D by Joaquín and Schlafly for calling Qaddafi a dictator.
- Crocoite (Sysop) RENAMED: DeanS*
RESIGNED IN PROTEST June 22, 2008He's back blocking. Appears to have retired after the death of his wife. Rights removed on 8 August 2010. - Deborah: not a sysop, but has a lot of power - almost as much power as her
redirectedit count F I R E D (05-Dec-08) for "inactivity; also wrong edit to Kosher entry re: fish)". - Elamdri (Sysop) F I R E D for "inactivity".
- Fox (Sysop) F I R E D for "inactivity" (Back Again, 12/2007) F I R E D for adding liberal lulz. He came back and started blocking again; eventually, got tired of CP's antisemites and quit on November 25, 2008. F I R E D for good on 7-Dec-08 (for inactivity). In January 2009, Teacake banhammered him with the reason "Liberal parodist", yet somehow failed to revert any of his alleged "liberal parody" edits... Fox doesn't really care though - he actually socked up when he knew he was on the way out and used plenty of deep cover IDs to insert some absolutely outrageous material into otherwise innocuous articles.
- Foxtrot: as Bungler (
upload, edit, block) - seems genuine - noncontroversial generally (although deeply homophobic) PROVISIONALLY DEMOTED for inactivity. (21 Apr 2010). - Geo.plrd* (Siteadmin, Sysop) -
Largely inactive since January 2009.[6] F I R E D for inactivity. - GFitz/RonaldB (Block, rollback) apparently an account originally used by the late George Fitzgerald, founder of Ameriwiki. Blocked by DMorris in 2017 when account was used by someone claiming to be George's friend Ronald. Rights have yet to be removed, and the account was blocked for allegedly being a sockpuppet account of James Wilson.
- HelpJazz: (Block). F I R E D for "inactivity". Disempowered by Andy in preparation for the Great Promotions of 2009.
- Hojimachong (Sysop) F I R E D for "inactivity", the actual reason was being an RW janitor.
- Iduan: (Block). Promoted 17 March 2011. F I R E D by Andy on 21 February 2014.
- JacobB (Sysop): parodist, F I R E D after he came out.
- JamesWilson (Block, edit, rollback) promoted after his Elvis spree, blocked himself in 2012. Unblocked himself in 2014, and was soon demoted for his claim that fornication included non-procreative sex within marriage. He blocked himself before the demotion, so he's unable to edit.
- JessicaT
(Siteadmin, Sysop).F I R E D forrepeated edit conflicts with other administratorsnot kissing TK's ring. Went silent and subsequently resigned for good some time after the rights were stripped. - Jinxmchue: the jerk rehabilitation project's finest work! Didn't believe the surgeon general's warning that taking on TK can be hazardous for your health.
- KhalidM (Block) F I R E D.
- Learn together* (Siteadmin, Sysop) - Inactive since January 2009. F I R E D for "inactivity" 22 June 2009.
- Markman (Block, edit) F I R E D by Ken and Schlafly on 19 August 2013.
- MikeSalter: (Block) A sock of Bugler who managed to earn block rights within 8 days of creating his account.
- Niandra* (Siteadmin, Sysop) (Note:23:37, 6 August 2007 Aschlafly renamed the user "Niandra" (and moved edits) to "Jallen") Since Andy calls her "Justine", her real name might be Justine Allen.
Inactive since July 2009F I R E D for "inactivity" 1 Aug 2011. - NKeaton (Block) F I R E D by Aschlafly on 24 July 2013. The day afterwards he was banished by the assfly for two years.
- PeterKa (Block) Active in October 2015...
- Philip J. Rayment* (Siteadmin,
Sysop, Block, Edit, Upload) Resigned from sysop Inactive since March 2009. Wrote a lengthy essay regarding why he left, amazinglypettydetailed[3] and surprisingly accurate regarding the site and how it is run. - PetyrB (Block, Skipcaptcha) Joined Conservapedia on 24 June 2014. Promoted on 29 June 2014 after sucking up to Andy. On 7 July 2014 he was discovered to be a sock of Markman through the use of checkuser. PetyrB went MexMax in response, and shortly afterwards was blocked and his user rights removed by Andy.
- RJJensen:(Sysop). Q U I T after Andy Schlafly deleted his cp:American Jews without discussion in January 2010. Last edit April 2010. Formally desysoped August 2011.
- RodWeathers. (Block, edit & upload) F I R E D 31 Dec 2008, because Andy couldn't confirm his name. Later came out as a parodist.
- Sarah B (Sysop) F I R E D for "inactivity".
- SeanS: (Block) Promoted after undoing vandalism sprees. Mikalos on RW. Eventually went MexMax on Conservative and Markman while repeatedly committing wikicide and subsequently reviving himself. After his fifth wikicide he was demoted for good.[7]
- SharonS*
(Bureaucrat, Siteadmin, Sysop)-Inactive since March 09Back during May 20-27 2009- Lost rights July 2014. - Taj (blocking power).
Largely inactive since February 2009.Returned in May 2009, additional rights bestowed in January 2010.[8]RETIRED AS OF 12 May 2010. Returned for a short time; Resigned as of July 8, 2012.[4] - Tash (Block, Edit, Upload) F I R E D for inactivity.
- TK
(Siteadmin, Sysop) F I R E D 11/2007 for being RW agent, "insignificant" contribs to CP, and general douchebaggery. He's back editing CP, pushing his weight around and blocking. He probably wants his Admin job back.Back in action as of 1/1/2009Died in harness, December 2010. Rights removedimg post mortem on Feb 6, 2011. - Tmtoulouse: Lasted about 45 minutes. F I R E D
- Tzoran: (Block, Edit). Stripped of rights by Andy on 7 Jan 11, after user retired from CP. Blocked by the Assfly on 11 March 2011.
- Willminator: (Block, Edit).
F I R E D by Conservative on 14 Dec 2010 Unblocked himself on 31 Dec 2010.F I R E D by Andy and JPatt on 14 Feb 2011 for asking whether TK is really dead.
How to become a CP sysop[edit]
Just how do you become a sysop at CP? Like BethanyS it's by making a lot of edits, being well groomed and educating Andy Schlafly, as well as "being there" during a vandal attack, that's how. But lets have a look in detail at those edits. I have taken some figures (16:04, 5 June 2007 EST) and broken down her contributions since 8 December 2006. This is her complete edit history!
- Dec 8 : 31 edits (6 articles, 1 term, 24 user/talk/images)
- Jan 26: 19 edits (4 articles + 2 minor corrections to own edits, 13 user/talk/images)
- Mar 9 : 4 edits (1 article, 3 terms)
- Mar 16: 1 edit (1 user talk)
- Mar 30: 14 edits (3 articles + 1 minor correction, 3 terms, 7 user/talk/images)
- May 12: 2 edits (2 user talk)
- May 14: 3 edits (3 user talk)
- May 16: 8 edits (1 articles + 1 minor correction, 2 terms, 4 user/talk/images)
- May 18: 3 edits (3 user talk)
- May 19: 3 edits (3 user talk)
- May 22 - BethanyS nominates herself for sysop
- May 22: 14 edits (2 articles, 5 terms, 4 user/talk/images, 3 sysop contest)
- May 23: 52 edits (9 articles + 2 minor corrections, 38 terms, 3 user/talk)
- May 24: 21 edits (3 articles + 1 minor correction, 13 terms, 3 user/talk/image, 1 sysop contest)
- May 25: 8 edits (3 articles + 1 minor correction, 3 terms, 1 user/talk/image)
- May 26: 4 edits (2 articles, 2 terms)
- May 28: 8 edits (2 articles + 1 minor correction, 3 terms, 2 debate)
- May 29: 5 edits (3 articles, 1 user/talk/image, 1 sysop contest)
- May 30: 4 edits (1 articles + 1 minor correction, 1 user/talk/image, 1 sysop contest)
- May 31: 12 edits (1 articles + 1 minor correction, 4 terms, 5 user/talk/image, 1 sysop contest)
- Jun 2: 19 edits (8 articles + 4 minor correction, 2 terms, 2 user/talk/image, 3 sysop contest)
- Jun 3: 20 edits (4 articles, 7 terms, 6 user/talk/image, 2 sysop contest, 1 redirect)
- Jun 4: BethanyS is a sysop!
- Jun 4: 26 edits (2 articles + 1 minor correction, 1 term, 14 user/talk/image, 8 sysops contest)
- Jun 5: 13 edits (2 articles, 11 user/talk/image)
So out of 289 edits:
- 24 User talk (11 own talk)
- 62 Own user page
- 17 Images uploaded
- 78 American History terms (list of links to other pages)
- 9 History terms (list of links to other pages)
- 19 Sysop contest contributions
- 14 Fantasy related articles (elves, dwarves, orcs, Eragon etc.)
- 38 Short articles
- 0 Vandalism reverts
And of those short articles:
- Head : plagiarized from www.DidYouKnow.com (no citation)
- Lemuel Haynes: plagiarized from www.whitehouse.gov (no citation)
- Robert H Goddard: plagiarized from www.siarchives.si.edu (no citation) [9][10]
Note that big sister SharonS often has to help out by improving the articles afterwards.
Criteria for sysopship include: two pieces of ID, a personal reference from a teacher, lawyer or clergyman, a notarised written personal guarantee and a sample of DNA.
Sysop contest timeline[edit]
Because CP was at one time "growing rapidly," it became necessary to promote more editors to the exalted rank of sysop. This was presented as a sort of competition based on the number of edits and new articles created by users, which encouraged editors to slave away on Andy's delusion-blog for him. In reality, leaks from the super-secret discussion groups show that Andy tended to arbitrarily pick who he wanted and the so-called merit-based competition was mostly just a sham.
Here's the contest timeline from 2007:
Date | Event |
---|---|
9 May 2007 | Thresholds of 9700 and 10000 new articles set for next promotions |
16 May 2007 | Bohdan promoted |
16 May 2007 | Joaquin Martinez promoted |
22 May 2007 | Will N. promoted |
24 May 2007 | Threshold 10500 |
31 May 2007 | Crocoite promoted |
31 May 2007 | Threshold 11000 |
4 June 2007 | BethanyS promoted |
4 June 2007 | Threshold 12000 |
22 June 2007 | DeborahB promoted |
22 June 2007 | Threshold 13000 |
4 July 2007 | Fox promoted |
4 July 2007 | Threshold 14000 (revised 2 minutes later "because of strong growth" - why?) |
4 July 2007 | Threshold 15000 |
27 July 2007 | Threshold 17000 |
7 September 2007 | Threshold 18000 |
12 December 2007 | Conservapedia will soon promote one or more Sysops, for the first time in months (Main page notice) |
16 December 2007 | Conservapedia surpasses 21000 articles (allegedly) |
20 December 2007 | New user CollegeRepublican promoted - son of Andrew Schlafly. Promoted before even editing. |
List of editors with sysoplike rights[edit]
(at 07:05, 12 August 2010 (UTC))
special rights: Block (12), bot (1), bureaucrat (4), checkuser (16), edit (28), oversight (12), Siteadmin (22), SkipCaptcha (3), sysop (35) and Upload (19).
user | Blo | bot | bur | che | edi | ove | Sit | Ski | sys | Upl | all edits | recent edits | verdict |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AddisonDM | × | × | × | 5955 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
Additioner | × | 2356 | 73 | Semi-active | |||||||||
Admin | × | × | 145 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Ambers | × | × | 242 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Aquacadet | × | × | 54 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Aschlafly | × | × | × | × | × | 38109 | 1830 | Hyperactive | |||||
Ashleys | × | × | 45 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
BenjaminS | × | 1422 | 64 | Semi-active | |||||||||
Benp | × | × | 750 | 40 | Semi-active | ||||||||
BertSchlossberg | × | × | × | 2331 | 76 | Semi-active | |||||||
BethanyS | × | × | × | 2222 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
Chippeterson | × | × | × | 4015 | 166 | Active | |||||||
ChrisS | × | 296 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
CollegeRepublican | × | 1 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
Conservative | × | × | × | × | 23069 | 2896 | Übermensch | ||||||
CPanel | × | 9 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
CPWebmaster | × | × | × | × | × | 902 | 0 | Dead | |||||
DanielPulido | × | × | × | 1527 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
David R | × | 1044 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
DeanS | × | × | × | × | 9289 | 0 | Dead | ||||||
DeborahB. | × | × | × | 2427 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
DeniseM | × | × | × | 183 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
DerekE | × | × | 1230 | 247 | Active | ||||||||
Double Edge | × | × | × | 204 | 21 | Comatose | |||||||
DouglasA | × | × | × | × | 1690 | 130 | Active | ||||||
DuncanB | × | × | 950 | 2 | Dead | ||||||||
EdBot | × | × | 3445 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Ed Poor | × | × | × | × | 22704 | 317 | Very active | ||||||
FOIA | × | 4582 | 573 | Very active | |||||||||
Freedom777 | × | × | 66 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Geo.plrd | × | × | × | × | 2729 | 5 | Dead | ||||||
× | 0 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||||
Hsmom | × | 1586 | 59 | Semi-active | |||||||||
JacobB | × | 3154 | 285 | Very active | |||||||||
Jallen | × | × | × | × | 6564 | 0 | Dead | ||||||
JCL91 | × | × | 1 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Jinxmchue | × | 1583 | 112 | Active | |||||||||
JMR10 | × | 1172 | 42 | Semi-active | |||||||||
Joaquín Martínez | × | 7216 | 270 | Active | |||||||||
Joe B | × | × | 54 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Jpatt | × | × | × | × | 9303 | 783 | Very active | ||||||
Karajou | × | × | × | × | 13307 | 630 | Very active | ||||||
Katieb | × | × | 150 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Katja N | × | × | 77 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Kevin51292 | × | × | 61 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Lnowik | × | 0 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
MarkGB | × | × | × | 30 | 14 | Comatose | |||||||
MBack | × | × | 398 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Mer | × | × | 119 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
PhilipB | × | 902 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
PhyllisS | × | 433 | 123 | Active | |||||||||
× | 1807 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||||
RJJensen | × | × | 18071 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
RobSmith | × | × | × | 17840 | 826 | Very active | |||||||
RSchlafly | × | 1568 | 8 | Dead | |||||||||
× | 192 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||||
Seth9000 | × | 15 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
SharonS | × | × | × | × | 5422 | 0 | Dead | ||||||
StevenM | × | × | × | 946 | 0 | Dead | |||||||
TerryH | × | × | × | 6077 | 117 | Active | |||||||
TestAccountbyAschlafly | × | 0 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
TestAschlafly | × | 0 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
× | × | × | 1440 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
TK | × | × | × | × | 16461 | 0 | Active | ||||||
Tzoran | × | × | 904 | 0 | Dead | ||||||||
Willminator | × | × | 217 | 217 | Active | ||||||||
Will N. | × | 1012 | 0 | Dead | |||||||||
Ymmotrojam | × | 987 | 0 | Dead |
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Sysop is a post that no longer exists at Conservapedia; all former sysops are now Administrators.
- ↑ Appears to also be CPWebmaster
- ↑ CollegeRepublican, famously, was promoted to sysop before ever editing, and to date, only ever made two short edits to "breaking news". However, for some unknown reason, he/she/it is still on the "power list". Two edits. Wow, nice "meritocracy" you have on your blog, Andy!
- ↑ Holy crap! http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&limit=500&type=delete&user=DouglasA&month=&year=
- ↑ Also known as the guy who made two mainspace edits and spent the other... 550 or so edits on his Intelligent Design userpage project.
- ↑ (54 edits from February - August, inactive since August 2009)
- ↑ http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=SeanS
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Siarchives page on Goddard, see 8th paragraph
- ↑ BethanyS' contribution, see section "The First Rocket