RationalWiki:How I found RationalWiki/2007

2007

December 2007

• Found Conservapedia through Lewis Black on the Daily Show, Trolled around for a while and found the (LA Times?) Article that mentioned RW... Looked in, liked the crowd. SirChuckB^{Call the FBI} 16:09, 10 December 2007 (EST)

• I found Conservapedia from a post on Slashdot joking about the origins of Kangaroos. I've played some in their sandbox, but I'm happy that I found RW, where rational thought prevails. ALL HAIL THE RELIGION OF REASON! *laugh* I bet they'll have a field day with that... --Eira 02:00, 11 December 2007 (EST)

• Found Conservapedia from Andrew Sullivan's blog, actually. Couldn't find it again later, googled it, and found this. Been here since. Researcher 19:54, 17 December 2007 (EST)

• I came here via the Jon Swift blog post and the ensuing fallout. Kirkburn 13:57, 21 December 2007 (EST)

• From the cp column. How I found that, I have no idea.-- Offeep 22:08, 29 December 2007 (EST)

• Andy told me this was a very evil place full of wicked secular humanists promoting liberal deceit, and if I visited he would give me a spanking before his homeschooling class on Satanism and Intelligent Design. That's how I found it. Secret Squirrel 22:09, 29 December 2007 (EST)

• I found it on Wikipedia. Where else? assume a=a 22:00, 29 December 2007 (EST)

July 2007

• Someone named SumsUp (PalMD?) gave me a seekrit heads-up on my CP talk page while I was socking as Wumps, in mid-July 2007. DogP 17:03, 8 July 2008 (EDT)

• Probably the Wikipedia article, which I looked at because of Lewis Black's Daily Show rant. Came for the goat, stayed for the... well, for the goat. Which we need more of. Thunderkatz^Ho! 06:58, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Root

Some of these comments refer to RW1; a potted RW history can be found here.

• I help founded it...so maybe you could say...RationalWiki found me. tmtoulouse ^plague 16:13, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Trent (Tmtoulouse) invited me to RW 1.0 while I was frustrated over at Conservapedia and a few of us thought we were starting a little "sane people's club". It turns out there already was one here. human 16:14, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• I found it through Liberapedia. I could say that Bob M lead me here. --Signed by Elassint the Great ^Hi! 16:16, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Read about it in a New Zealand blog which I have never been able to find again. Susan^{... miaow ...} 16:23, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• By complete chance looking for random wikis-Shangrala 16:30, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Tmtoulouse invited my friend Helios to RW 1.0 who then told me about the site. - Icewedge 16:38, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• I don't remember. I may have been drinking. Actually, I wish i had kept some notes about that. I know it was pretty damn early. If anyone remember who sent me this way... I remember having a lot of fun creating mocking articles at RW 1.0.--PalMD^{-If it looks like a donut, eat it} 18:57, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Was invited to RW 1.0 by some cabalist (Ames?) soon after the Night of the Blunt Knives. Totally denied my knowledge of the site to Andy, and stayed at CP for four months. --Ζωροάστρης 19:02, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Got invited to RW1 by tmtoulouse himself just after it was founded, if I recall correctly. I'd have to check my old mails, but I'm pretty sure it was him. --Sid 19:15, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Was invited by a sock of AmesG after handing Andy his ass on the Main Talk page, resulting in it being briefly shutdown. See the complete text on my user page. Stile4aly 20:09, 23 November 2007 (EST)

• Invitation at RW1 inception from TM.--Bob^{bing up} 04:43, 24 November 2007 (EST)

• I think it was ColinR that invited me to RW1.0 April or May 2007. CЯacke®

• After being labelled the first "terrorist" at CP, TK told me to "Go and join your friends at rationalwiki". So I did, but that was the first I'd heard of it. Genghis Khant 06:30, 24 November 2007 (EST)

• I've lived through it all ~ I was there when Ken joined, and when he was sysopped. I remember TK's first brown-nosing edits. I remember Trent's brief reign as sysop, and my own hilarious yet ultimately failed (although much-supported... thanks guys!) run for sysop. I remember letting my invitation to RW1 languish in my inbox for a while, but I was there when we were "reported to the FBI." And I've been here ever since....-αmεσ (decider)

• Found some "site that must not be named" talk at CP and used Google somehow.--Bayes^update 04:42, 25 November 2007 (EST)

• Flippin, then tmt, invited me to RW1.0. VirileSterile^yawn! 14:49, 25 November 2007 (EST)

• Was invited to RW1.0 by Trent, before the Night of the Blunt Knives. airdish 15:11, 25 November 2007 (EST)
• I was welcomeded at CP by Leopeo, who was then banned (I think he's back on now)- he recommended RW while I was blocked for "breaking" the 90/10 rule (by, er, contributing to the debate pages. Go figure). At roughly the same time I was invited by SusanG on my Wikipedia talk page. not sure which came first. Totnesmartin 16:23, 25 November 2007 (EST)

• I (somehow) sailed straight through the Night of the Blunt Knives, and then found cpcolumn, and then things were just groovy. -- מְתֻרְגְּמָן וִיקִי ^{שְׁלֹום!}

• I emailed human through CP email, asking what the Cabal (there is no cabal) was, and he had Trent invite me to RW 1.0. ΓδλεσςΛιβεραλ 17:47, 25 November 2007 (EST)

• I honestly don't remember how I found it. But I'm glad I did. -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 08:49, 18 February 2008 (EST)

• By googling Elassint. -_- Ryan T. / gggg?

• Don't know why I never posted on this page ... I was booted by TK in May '07, as part of the Night of Blunt Knives, because I enjoyed pointing out his lack of wiki-knowledge and general retardation. Jrssr5 09:51, 1 April 2008 (EDT)

• (September) I found it on Wikipedia's article on Conservapedia (or its talk page, can't remember.) NightFlare 19:35, 23 December 2007 (EST)

• One day hanging out in #conservapedia, a RationalWiki recruiter had a table set up with cookies. I like cookies. --Interiot 00:14, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

• I was invited to RW 1.0 by Trent, under my CP username Favor. ɧєɭıסş^{-get sunburn!} 22:28, 14 January 2009 (EST)

• Can't say as I really remember, but I'm in this timeframe. I think I was reading various articles on Wikipedia about right-wing this-or-thats and somehow got here. --Edgerunner⁷⁶_{...and a hotplate!}

• Colin and Trent sold their souls to me for a server. Phallus of Satan 22:48, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

• I started watching CP back during the initial blogrush started spreading around Andy's early crazy, and got hooked. I never did sign up for an account or sock, but I kinda got to be a fan of the antics of the actually intelligent people who bedevilled the site and generally argued rings around Andy, Ken and company. So in March '07 I sent a couple of messages just to say how much I appreciated the entertainment, and ended up invited to the original RW 1.0...two days before it was trashed in favour of RW 2.0. So I guess I was the last person to join before the whole thing went bye-bye. Still haven't made an account on CP, though, although TK occasionally seems to think I have. --Kels (talk) 14:22, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

• I first heard the name Rationalwiki from Karajou on Conservapedia's private mailing list (5/15/07). We previously refered to Rationalwiki 1.0 on the SDG as the "Icewedge cabal" (appears about 5/1/07). However, it was at Wikien-1 that I heard about the massive vandal attacks and Conservapedia from User:David Gerard. Rationalwiki was so effective even then at limiting Conservapedia's user base, registration was shut off and I could not create an account. So I contacted Roger Schlafly privately, whom I tag-teamed with earlier in Wikipedia, to request an account. Having just come from Wikipedia and experiencing Will Beback, SlimVirgin, Chip Berlet, and wp:User:Ruy Lopez's sockpuppets & meatpuppets, and watching what happened to my good friend Mongo (whom I secured the votes necessary to get him sysoped), and sharing my experiences with Danial Brandt at WikipediaReview, I thought Ratwikians (as we came to call them) were somewhat amatuerish and old school. Highly technically minded, but hopelessly simple & partisan in ideological outlook. nobs^{Viva la Revolución!} 02:45, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

• A friend asked me to come help him with some info on an article AllonY (talk) 22:38, 25 December 2011 (UTC)