[WikiEN-l] Re: Exercises in social engineering

[A. Nony Mouse]

Well how about that.
 Come into wikipedia IRC chat, get ambushed by NicholasT who's on his usual 
rampage, get sworn at and called names and challenged to "prove" this, then 
kickbanned before I can respond by jerks who scream "troll"?
 Aren't you people real nice pieces of work, huh?
 A. Nony Mouse
 who's in the right even if the overinflated egos won't admit it.

 On 8/10/05, A. Nony Mouse <mousyme at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Yes, I'll admit now. I'll own up. I violated [[WP:POINT]] in an amazing 
> way.
> 
> Amazing for one reason, that is.
> 
> You see, my little social experiment, which was originally created
> just to see how Wikipedia's elites actually behaved, bore more fruit
> than I can count.
> 
> A few months back, I created two accounts. One was named KaintheScion,
> a reference to a video game. Remember it?
> 
> The other was named ElKabong. Named after the alternate identity of
> "Quick-Draw" McGraw, and a pun on how hot-tempered the Wikipedia high
> cabal muckymucks are.
> 
> The experiment worked brilliantly. Unfortunately, it also created a
> bit of a monster named David Gerard and a whole lot of sub-Monsters
> who saw an opportunity.
> 
> You see, ElKabong and KaintheScion were designed to break rules.
> Quickly. Painfully. They got everyone's attention. So much so that the
> actual procedures for dispute resolution were ignored. Nobody
> attempted to contact them. They went straight from a backwards, tilted
> RFC into a quick RFAR.
> 
> And then of course there were no less than SIX innocent users who got
> drawn in. Yep, that's right. I didn't even DO anything with the
> situation, save for calling for leniency when it was obvious another
> user was caught up in it.
> 
> Count 'em out.
> 1. Enviroknot
> 2. Kurita77
> 3. Existentializer
> 4. Ni-ju-Ichi
> 5. Devilbat
> 6. Pukachu
> 
> SIX users caught up in the David Gerard witch hunt. And that doesn't
> even count his decision to Mod-by-default this user list while
> screaming "Enviroknot" as his excuse.
> 
> And you all just went along with it. Now the name "Enviroknot" is like
> screaming "witch" in Salem while standing next to the Cotton Mather.
> And what's REALLY funny is that Enviroknot wasn't even one I created,
> he or she was just an innocent user that certain individuals decided
> to throw into the RFAR on a lark in order to get rid of an opponent on
> Islam-based pages.
> 
> So yeah. I violated WP:POINT because this point needed making. And as
> luck would have it, Gerard was nice enough to abuse the hell out of
> his authority and make my point FOR me.
> 
> Congratulations.
> 
> P.S. I know damn well this message won't get through to the en-l list,
> because Gerard would never admit to being played like a sucker. So
> I've BCC'ed it to plenty of individuals as well. No point in it going
> to waste.
>