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User talk:BobJohnson

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cosmikdebris talk stalk 04:08, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Sysop

Because of your edits to and time on the wiki, wizard Sysop has been added to your user rights. Feel free to let your newfound POWER course through your veins. Once the high wears off, see RationalWiki:Sysop guide for more information. If you have questions, bleat ask away. Bongolian (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Tireless worker award

HardWork.jpg Tireless Worker Award
For excellence in new page creation and assorted edits

Bongolian (talk) 22:29, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! BobJohnson (talk) 02:48, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Board nomination

You've been nominated to the RationalMedia Foundation election. Please accept or decline here; if you accept, you may wish to campaign.

Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 21:17, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

You know

Paywalled studies, like the one you mentioned, can often be read using Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub entries shouldn't be directly used on citations (copyright reasons), or probably even linked on talk pages, but many people use the site to read such papers. Chillpilled (talk) 18:35, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Good information to know, thanks. BobJohnson (talk) 18:40, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Yes, Sci-Hub is blocked in some countries because of copyright lawsuits. Bongolian (talk) 20:09, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
It's sometimes blocked on the ISP level as well. I know some British ISPs do this. In such cases people use Tor, VPN/proxies, or bots on Telegram which retrieve papers. Chillpilled (talk) 20:38, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Misunderstandings

On second thought, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I do not in anyway condone the actions of Hamas. I misread your statement as being you don't empathize with the victims of Israeli, or that you empathize with the Israeli victims more. I took issue with that. My apologies. Carthage (talk) 06:40, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Mod nomination

You've been nominated in the upcoming moderator elections. See the nomination at RationalWiki:Moderator elections/Nominations. Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 17:00, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

What songs keep you grounded?

It helps sometime to ground ourselves. It's not ever final, but it's kinda on always on the mind You don't have to rank them and of course I will go first. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out; Harvey Danger - Jack the Lion; Mystikal - Mr Hood Critic; John Prine - Knockin' on Your Screen Door.Torrent (talk) 05:55, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

I kind of like to bounce around random songs so not sure. :) Currently I'm listening to Modest Mussogorsky's Boris Godounov, but today's playlist had artists ranging from Herbie Hancock ("Mimosa") to Crosby Stills Nash and Young ("Carry On") to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (their punked up cover of Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco"). BobJohnson (talk) 22:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
suggestions were good, but nothing grounding. Big distrust. https://youtu.be/qlc4uFqs7ao?feature=shared [User:Torrent|Torrent]] (talk) 02:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Johns is spreading rumors about me

I know you're not interested in the internet drama between Johns and I, but he's been baselessly spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about me being the owner of the original channel he's attacking with anecdotal evidence. Can you please tell him to stop? To disprove this, here's my actual channel DaRealPrinceZuko (talk) 03:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Simon Webb responded to his article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEoey2LFMk

Johnson! (At the end of this video...)

Nah, for realsies. What do I call you? Baby doll? Honey boo? Babe? - Rairyu75 (Talk) 21:17, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The name is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference actually, and of that list the name was chosen simply because I am *not* an ex-football player in a cheesy 1980s sci-fi movie. :)
But you can never have enough Bob (All hail slack!), so you can just call me that. BobJohnson (talk) 21:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Discord

Can we speak on Discord? If so, what's your Discord user tag?

2600:8800:8809:1C00:20E6:9466:E4DF:5EF0 (talk) 18:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not on Discord, sorry. BobJohnson (talk) 23:50, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, but where can we discuss in private? I don't want sickos seeing my planned discussion between us, because I don't want them causing harm to any innocent.

2600:8800:8809:1C00:A55D:1BAA:EE3E:CBCB (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Troll collapse

Why did you "troll collapse" part of the Wikipedia bias conversation at the Saloon bar?Brokenglass (talk) 23:30, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Mod nomination again

You've been nominated in the upcoming moderator elections. See the nomination at RationalWiki:Moderator elections/Nominations.


I neglected to put this here earlier. Bongolian (talk) 18:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello! I hope you’re doing well. Unfortunately I was unable to reply to you in the chicken coop, but I ultimately ended up seeing your comment and I just wanted to clear up a bit of confusion, because there were a couple of things you said there (mostly a few assumptions regarding both my intent and a bit of misunderstanding the content) that I’d like to clear up just so that we’re on the same page. Would you be free talk at some point soon? The other guy is not interested in having a discussion about this, and all of the issues regarding the Spengler article boils down to people not understanding what is meant by certain terms and context in the text. I think after talking with you, you’ll definitely be on my side, in the greater scheme of things. Hope you’re doing well, and happy new year. 2600:1003:B126:D618:9DF1:3D3C:78C7:A76B (talk) 12:04, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Delete?

Hello Mr. Johnson, I just saw that you were talking about deleting the Racialism article. By pasting it into the search bar, I was able to find many links to it made from solid articles like the Murray Rothbard one. Is this really necessary? Maybe we could rename it to "Scientific racism" and make it a bit more concise instead? Rothbard-Blackbeard (talk) 14:18, 12 March 2025 (UTC)