I think much of the worry about Red Faction is fairly justified,
especially considering that their membership is a virtual who's who of
problem users, as well as their tendency to try to swarm on various
issues. It should also be noted that User:Editing Saddam Hussein
(Better known to the world as Lir) did his work under the red faction
banner.
That's not to say that I think RF poses any sort of meaningful "threat"
- simply put, they're kind of too scrawny to be worth worrying about.
But I think that they make a pretty good bellweather. That is, if you
don't have time to form a full opinion on an issue, you could do worse
than looking at RF's opinion and voting exactly opposite them.
-Snowspinner
On Jun 12, 2004, at 6:58 PM, N.T. Riche wrote:
Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
What the hell is up with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plato/red_faction
Wikipedia breaking up into factions is a very, very bad idea.
Also, comments from IndigoGenius like:
"Father of the Fifth World movement, thinks Jimbo is brain dead and
deserves
the death penalty; not a job editing (I mean deleting) the ideas that
will
change and save our world! God made a mistake when he made Jimbo!!"
are not at all acceptable and should be deleted on sight and the user
who wrote
them blocked from editing.
JRR's mention and link to [[meta:Regime change]] (a page mostly
written by
banned user 142.177) along with many other 142-written meta pages
elesewhere
(such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JRR_Trollkien/Troll )
indicates that
JRR and 142.177 are one in the same.
This type of crap should not be tolerated - and yet it is. I am
fearful that
our open and trusting nature is making us a haven for tr olls.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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You really shouldn't worry about it. I allow anyone (pretty much) to
edit my red faction page. Even though you might worry about the
communist overtones, it is not a wiki-communist organization. It was
created for those users who need wiki-love and they don't get it. Now
I never knew that 142 wrote that page which provides a rather
interesting insight into who Jrr is but it is still not enough proof
to convince me.
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