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Attention trolls: Don't bother me here. I am busy impersonating Rob Smith on Gab.

BoN block

Unless things have changed, is it not frowned on to infinitely block BoNs? ☭Comrade GC☭Ministry of Praise 01:40, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that was a mistake. I've fixed the block length now. Bongolian (talk) 02:33, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Just signed up but can't talk

I signed up recently but can't talk or add anything, is this just for new people or is something happening with the site?Yokaiwatch (talk) 16:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Unless a page is specifically protected, there are no restrictions on new editors. Page protections are almost always temporary. What is the page(s) that you wanted to edit? Bongolian (talk) 16:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
I guess it’s more the saloon bar. There is nothing at the top that lets me do it but I can do it here.Yokaiwatch (talk) 18:21, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, the Saloon Bar's protected for another four days or so. Lots of vandalism.
Regards, Avarice 19:06, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
I see. I got the message about being able to edit but I’m still unable to do so still. Guess I have to wait?Yokaiwatch (talk) 16:48, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
I copied this conversation over to RationalWiki:Technical support#Unable to Register, where you might get a better answer from someone. I'm not sure what's going on. Bongolian (talk) 16:59, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
I'm sorry to say this after you just moved it to there but I'm also not able to edit the post on the technical support page. I can't use Saloon Bar or tech support but for some reason I'm only able to edit the talk page of mods. I'm keeping you appraised of what's up.Yokaiwatch (talk) 17:33, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Is it ok if I make a discordleaks article?

I tried to make an discordleaks article on Uncyclopedia, but it is currently getting on the red (delete) site for VfD. This means that it will probably be deleted. So, do I have permission to make an DiscordLeaks article for RW instead? It will have less humor since RW is a mostly (not counting the "fun" articles) serious site. ResurrectingDeadLinks (talk) 22:51, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

You could try starting with a draftspace article. I'm not sure how the article would be missional though. Bongolian (talk) 01:37, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Message

Hi, you just left me a message on my talk page with the site guide - have I done something wrong? I'm on the site quite a lot reading articles, but I rarely log in - I'm not really sure how wikis (or forums / social media / whatever) really work, so if it was a welcome message then thank you, but if I've done something wrong please let me know.

Thanks Roleybob (talk) 21:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

That's normal. It's customary to welcome new users (heightens engagement and all that). The Community Standards are just there as a resource, should you wish to use it.
Regards, Avarice Not Bongolian 22:02, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
That's correct. Bongolian (talk) 22:05, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Acknowledged - please feel free to delete this topic Roleybob (talk) 22:09, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Discord

I just left you an urgent message on Discord. Please look at it ASAP. Thanks DuceMoosolini (talk) 18:55, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

About Tech

Shouldn't someone place the "retired" template on her page? Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 18:16, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Did she announce her retirement somewhere? If not, I wouldn't place it there. Some people leave for extended periods and then come back.Bongolian (talk) 19:39, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

I should get a thank for my holocaust denial link fixing.

It took a very long amount of time. It is like the Kent Hovind article, but with more people and (obviously) more (Hovind did sell protocols of Zion) antisemitism. ResurrectingDeadLinks (talk) 04:42, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

You have now been oficiallly thanked. Bongolian (talk) 04:49, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey Bongolian

Just wanted to stop by and say hi, how’s things been since we last chatted? Trump face.pngWe need brain! Give us brain! 15:56, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

In answer to your email question

The answer is no. Please remove any instances of that name you see.

I'd also like to say that, for legal reasons, I'm not happy about somebody's use of the word "blackmail" on ATIM.Spud (talk) 03:21, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

OK, done. Bongolian (talk) 03:59, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
And in naswer to your latest email, it's probably best to get rid of those red links too. Spud (talk) 12:08, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

You missed the point with associating George Zimmerman with the Jason Aldean song

I wasn't laughing with him, I was laughing at him. Might have been in a city, but it's still that vigilante mindset from the song. 71.1.227.139 (talk)

Email?

I got a message here, 40 minutes ago, that you sent me an email. I still haven't received an email. Pinkerite (talk) 16:32, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

The page in question was deleted as part of the settlement. I don't know the details about the settlement or the reason for the recent revisions. Bongolian (talk) 16:38, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
If you don't know the reason for the recent revisions, why are you making those revisions? And if you don't know, who does? Pinkerite (talk) 17:09, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
Out of court settlements frequently have a secrecy clause that restricts details of the settlement to the signatory parties and their lawyers. I am neither, so I don't know. Two of our current Board members are signatories (Spud and Cosmik) must know, and are unlikely to breach the secrecy clause. Bongolian (talk) 17:34, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
I am too busy right now to kick up much of a stink on this but I will say this now. I'm not happy with this situation in general, I do not believe that *nothing* can be done and I am frankly not impressed that none of my fellow mods seem at all bothered about it either. KarmaPolice (talk) 18:39, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Rational Dude and categories again

User:Rational Dude keeps on reverting changes I removed because there were unsourced categories here and a lot of their categories they add are based on vibes and not sourced in the page source. They seem to add a lot of vibes-based categories and they’ve been reprimanded before on adding unsourced categories. Hope this gets fixed soon. 2607:FB90:390B:8B90:2551:6266:60F3:6588 (talk) 00:11, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

In this case Netanyahu was accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the body of the article, and a citation was included. That is currently sufficient for RationalWiki's standard of who is a criminal (Category:Criminals). Bongolian (talk) 00:26, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for clearing this up. I found a source on Netanyahu’s anti-Christian sentiment in that case. 2607:FB90:390B:8B90:2551:6266:60F3:6588 (talk) 00:34, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
THanks for adding that. Bongolian (talk) 01:19, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
User: 2607:FB90:390B:8B90:2551:6266:60F3:6588 I don’t add vibes based categories, there’s references and evidence in the article for these categories to be added. Trump face.pngWe need brain! Give us brain! 15:44, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Problematic edits

This section: RationalWiki_talk:RationalMedia_Foundation has resulted in unsubstantiated, false, and potentially libellous claims about a plaintiff who reached a settlement with the RMF as well as other misleading litigation claims and unsourced evidence-free speculation about a journalist writing an article on the lawsuits, plus a lot of other nonsense. Is there any chance you can remove these problematic edits? 86.107.21.86 (talk) 23:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bongolian @KarmaPolice, there's a group of us who has been monitoring the individual who was recently Cooped and we have compiled extensive evidence of both on-site and off-site harassment (I noted Bongolian yesterday even redacted some of their edits for being inappropriate likely in response to above). Is there an email we could send this to? Is rationalmedia@rationalmedia.org acceptable? I believe this evidence is relevant to the Coop. 185.244.212.165 (talk) 11:09, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey, how are you?

Been a bit, but I just wanted to stop by and ask how you’re doing. Btw, can I call you bongo as a nickname or nah? Trump face.pngWe need brain! Give us brain! 21:08, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm doing OK. I'm quite busy IRL. Bongo is fine. Bongolian (talk) 03:43, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
You’re welcome, and glad you’re alright. Thanks Bongo. Trump face.pngWe need brain! Give us brain! 12:44, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Header...

You are aware it now links to pages which are now on the verboten list (Rome Viharo today) right? Might want to review the master list for It or something. KarmaPolice (talk) 10:37, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Viharo is not verboten as per below. Bongolian (talk) 15:27, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
That page is still deleted though. PLMMJ Feed the troll eater. Or don't. 15:35, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Regarding your email

I don't remember him being one of the 28. But he might have been. I've brought it up in the Discord group. Spud (talk) 02:57, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Spud, It looks like I was reinvited to Discord. Is there still a mod channel there? I don't see it on my list of channels. https://discord.com/channels/797031608933810197/ Bongolian (talk) 03:25, 28 September 2025 (UTC) I'm unable to validate my cell phone number on Discord; maybe that has something to do with it? Bongolian (talk) 03:32, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
He's not named on the two settlement agreements that Stabby the Misanthrope has. But there are other settlement documents that weren't forwarded to new RMF accounts. Spud (talk) 03:54, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
So the upshot is redact or not? His page remains deleted or not? Bongolian (talk) 04:12, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
For now, redact and leave the page deleted to be on the safe side. Spud (talk) 05:32, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello again. I forgot about whatsisname and his legal threats. I'm really glad to see the back of that sockpuppeting arsehole, and all the crap Mikemikev posted here because of him. I don't think we should do anything that might encourage him to come back here ever again, let alone threaten the RMF. However, the name Rome Viharo definitely is not forbidden. Go ahead and put his name back wherever you want.

Christ! Why does my spellchecker recognize Mikemikev as a real word? Is he that famous? Spud (talk) 10:53, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

OK, will do. Mikemikev is not recognized in my browser. It's is likely local to your browser, to which one can add or delete words. Bongolian (talk) 15:26, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
Sorry for the intrusion, but you probably just added it to your local dictionary and forgot about it, like I do sometimes. PLMMJ Feed the troll eater. Or don't. 15:33, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
As per my conversation with Spud (which is only partial here), it can be recreated from scratch but not restored to its original text. Bongolian (talk) 15:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
@Spud, for what its worth, the original pseudonymous creator's contribution (6,593 bytes) bears no resemblance to the final deleted Rome Viharo page (50,236 bytes). It was rewritten by User:Millennium Scallion starting on the same day as the last contribution by the creator. The page could be recreated from the last edit with the initial logs of the creator suppressed to the public, and there would be no public evidence that that person had anything to do with it. This may be the case for a lot of the pages that fell into this category. As I recall, that person tended to do drive-by page creations. Bongolian (talk) 16:20, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
@Spud If you're referring to who I think, I wouldn't be confident he isn't coming back. That's almost certainly who was impersonating Cancel Watch earlier today. That account definitely does not belong to any of the actual Cancel Watch people, because what it posted mentions a detail that there's no possible way any of them could have known. (I can't give more detail in public, so please email me if you want to know exactly what I mean.)
@Bongolian Would it also be permitted to recreate the Philip Snow article, as long as none of the original text is used? That article and the Rome Viharo article appear to have been deleted for the same reason, and I'm fairly sure we're still allowed to mention Philip Snow, so a similar set of rules should apply. I'm asking because Philip Snow is a young-earth creationist who's known for writing about the origin of birds, so I'd potentially be interested in recreating the article about him at some point, if that's allowed. Tetrapteryx (talk) 19:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
Yes, it fits into that category based on the information that I was provided, but you should get approval from a Board member before recreating it. Bongolian (talk) 00:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Why did you revoke my rights