User talk:Marty

What is going on? World Blogs Clogs Elections The Bar (talk) (talk) (talk) (talk) (hic) Welcome to RationalWiki, Marty! Check out our guide for newcomers and our community standards! Tell us how you found RationalWiki here! If you are interested in contributing: Read what our articles are intended to be Check out the to-do list See our help page and Wikipedia's formatting cheatsheet If writing a new article, consider writing up a draft And most importantly: Pull up a goat and have some fun!

Would care for some goat? Or perhaps some unholy Fig Newtons? Thunderkatz^Ho! 12:42, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

I don't know what the deal is with goats around here, but I'll take that Fig Newton before I hit the highway. Marty 12:51, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

Hi. And welcome.At some point in the past we adopted the goat as our mascot. Some other special usages may be found here: here :-) --Bob^{bing up} 13:01, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

In my day, we let users founder about in the site until they left in frustration : ) Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 04:43, 13 July 2008 (EDT)

Haha, you said "users founder" like everyone restarts the site! Welcome to the Dollhouse, Marty! ħuman 23:19, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

I did no such thing. : P Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 19:31, 13 September 2008 (EDT)

Conservapedia OpenSearch plugin for Firefox

Hi Marty. It looks like a thing of some beauty. I know what a Firefox search plugin is (or I think I do - it adds itself to the search engines in the top right?) but how do I make this work?--Bob^{bing up} 13:16, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

On Firefox 3 on Linux, you can just copy the XML ("edit" the page, copy-and-paste everything out of the edit box) into a file called conservapedia.xml in the directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/hsomething.default/searchplugins/. I'm not sure where it needs to go on Windows, but I would guess that the path has "searchplugins" in it.

If you click the drop-down in Firefox while browsing Conservapedia [or RW], you'll see "Add Conservapedia [or RW] (English)" as one of the options. (This is something MediaWiki provides by default.) Clicking that will put a file called conservapedia-english.xml in the proper location, and then you can go find it and replace its contents with my version.

Warning: Conservapedia's default "Add Conservapedia (English)" will give you a slightly malformed plugin. The <os:Image> tag is supposed to contain a base64-encoded PNG file, but Conservapedia's actually contains a base64-encoded HTML page! This seems to heartily confuse Firefox's "Manage Search Engines..." dialog. But my version contains a proper PNG icon, so it's fine. Marty 22:49, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

Ahhh Cool. Thanks for that.--Bob^{bing up} 02:34, 28 June 2008 (EDT)

99 RationalWiki sysops on the wall, 99 RationalWiki sysops...

You are demoted to sysop. Here is your mop, here is your robe don't lose it we are not made of money. $\approx$$\pi$ _Mowse 06:16, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

American History Results

When combining the honours and dummies grades you had better not use the Z-transform method, I have a reliable authority who says that the method is flawed. - User $\approx$$\pi$_{For best results lather, rinse and repeat} 21:39, 9 October 2008 (EDT)

Moar homosexuality debate!

Thanks for resurrecting the debate page. Corry^{Then there's me. The joker. The goofball. The magician.} 17:09, 29 October 2008 (EDT)

Heh. Do you guys want to continue the debate over here? :) Or do you think it would be more elegant to spam copies of the debate, under different titles, all over Conservapedia? --Marty 17:13, 29 October 2008 (EDT)

I felt tempted to go place delete tags on every debate and essay, but I didn't. This was clearly a double reverse rearguard. Corry^{Then there's me. The joker. The goofball. The magician.} 17:16, 29 October 2008 (EDT)

I have protected User:Marty/Debate:Do we put enough emphasis on homosexuality and made a copy at Conservapedia:Debate:Do we put enough emphasis on homosexuality in hopes that it will draw conservative moths to the flame that is Rat ionalWiki. :) --Marty