got dat wmd posted:

Maybe not, but at the time I was angry and it expressed my opinion quite ably. Bearing in mind that due to my autism I have next to no impulse control, nor was I gifted with that little filter that usually exists between brain and output device. Accordingly I use the word I find most appropriate, the level of profanity doesn't come into it. My measure is one of relevance, not one of societal appropriateness. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 21:01, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

got dat wmd posted:

quite ably

Sweevo posted:

CaptainMeatpants posted:

never forget

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

lmao

my favorite was the one where some user's homemade anime drawing made it to like #13 of images voted for best wikipedia image of the year or something like that

don't have the link handy but it was a lol

Hammerite posted:

i believe you are referring to this (anime about halfway down)

Hammerite posted:

i believe you are referring to this (anime about halfway down)

The Image's Metadata posted:

Author “Niabot, because wikimedia commons lost his roots”

TheRagamuffin posted:

Niabot strikes again.

edit: Oh my loving god. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Hentai_-_yuuree-redraw-no-halo.jpg

TheRagamuffin posted:

Niabot strikes again.

edit: Oh my loving god. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Hentai_-_yuuree-redraw-no-halo.jpg

Carthag posted:

No he banned himself for some reason (whats the anime equivalent of fursecution), that stuff on his userpage is all his own doing.

quote:

A userbox, {{User pedophile}}, was created by Paroxysm that said "This user is a pedophile." It was first used by Joeyramoney. The template was deleted and Joeyramoney was blocked even though he has been known to put false and humorous userboxes on his userpage. The fact that most people (including myself) do not find a joke about "a user being a pedophile" funny in the least, however, does not mean that an admin, a user, or anyone else has the right to say what is and is not funny. There is no established consensus on Wikipedia about what the community will or will not tolerate in terms of humor.

About a week after the original userbox was deleted, SPUI created a parody template, {{User paedo}} in protest of this whole situation that read "OMG!!! This user has been attracted to underage females while not underage himself! This user should be banned." Admins proceeded to blank and protect his userpage and revert and protect his talk page. Eventually the whole case went to ArbCom and SPUI, an editor with tens of thousands of productive, good faith edits was banned for ten days for "fueling the fire".

As I have known SPUI personally for many years, I, out of support for him, proceeded to put SPUI's parody pedo box on my userpage 64 times. It was removed and I was threatened with a one-week block by Sam Korn for what he perceived as trolling and my "fanning the flames".

This whole situation borders on a ridiculous moral panic and is unacceptible in my eyes because, as offensive as a userbox stating attraction to underage females may be, I find the way that SPUI was treated by ArbCom to be equally as offensive.

Abandon posted:

This image was selected as a picture of the day for 13 July 2009. It was captioned as follows:
English: Drawing of a revealing figure Sythatia with typical elements from manga and anime to illustrate the term ecchi.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

you don't speak english? maybe if i say it again

Carthag posted:

No he banned himself for some reason (whats the anime equivalent of fursecution), that stuff on his userpage is all his own doing.

ymgve posted:

sorry, back on topic, here's a lovely wiki article
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohomology

quote:

I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your
continued status as "Founder flagged"-- you have not been asked to cut
back on your privileges, you are being ordered to relinquish your
founder flag.

I'm happy that you're beginning to question your earlier actions, but
your founder status is not for you to decide. Currently it's 3-to-1
against you continuing in this role. If that doesn't change, you
need to abide by it.

Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:

ugh

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

reminder that jimbo wales is an objectivist libertian

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

what expression is that

Nevergirls posted:

is he really

edit: welp "While moderating an online discussion group devoted to the philosophy of Objectivism in the early 1990s, Wales had"

the guy in charge of the most popular reference web site in the god drat world is a forums mod for an objectivism forum.

quote:

Lamb: Another thing I read about you is that you are a follower or have been at some point a follower of Ayn Rand?

Wales: That's right, yes.

Lamb: Who was she and do you still follow her and what is it about it that you like?

Wales: Yes. So Ayn Rand is the — she wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, as is viewed by many as, you know, something of the founder of the libertarian strain of thought in the U.S. She would have rejected quite rightly, I think, the libertarian label. But I think for me one of the core things that is very applicable to my life today is the virtue of independence — is the vision, you know, if you know the idea of Howard Roark who is the architect in The Fountainhead who has a vision for what he wants to accomplish and, you know, there's some time in the book when he is frustrated in his career because people don't want to build the type of buildings he wants to build. And he's given a choice, a difficult choice, to compromise his integrity or to essentially go out of business. And he has to go and take a job working in a quarry. And for me that model has a lot of — a lot of resonance for me. You know when I think about what I'm doing — what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

Lamont Cranston posted:

i thought wikipedia had a pretty explicit rule that "wikipedia is not a democracy"

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

This is a depiction of hentai. A well known genre of comics, animations, games and artwork. It is also a big part of Japanese history and culture. I try to be civil, but your words are an insult to everyone that has some basic knowledge about this topic or Japanese culture. -- ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ 苦情処理係 08:51, 11 July 2011 (UTC)