On 5/31/07, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
As am I. Granted that the original author of the essay/rejected policy was a relative newbie (a very knowledgeable one, who had attracted enough attention to rate his own Wikipedia Review thread), the earliest editors to the page included several longtime editors with considerable experience recognizing trolls and disingenuous editing. I have a hard time imagining that neither Slim Virgin nor MONGO would have sussed him out; both of them seem to have a genuine talent for identifying problem editors, often well in advance of others.
I did to begin with. My first thought was that he was a strawman sockpuppet and I e-mailed someone to that effect. I stayed away from the [[Wikipedia:Attack sites]] proposal to begin with for that very reason. He created it on April 6 and asked me for advice about it on April 7; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASlimVirgin&diff=12... and I didn't respond because I was suspicious. Then I told myself I was being silly and he was probably legit, so I made a few edits to the page for one day on April 10-11. A few days later I found out the shortcut was BADSITES, a provocative title that reeks of censorship and omits the crucial word "attack." And that's when I began to wonder again about the creator.