Infected RationalWiki - Whiny hugbox for spergs and a clusterfuck of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website.

There are actually plenty of decent RW articles, although most of them predate its current sad state. It's sort of like TV Tropes in that respect, or even the real Wikipedia. If you paid no attention to the autistic drama and shitstorms constantly going on behind the scenes, the content is hardly uniformly terrible.

Nail on the head, right there. Many of the older RW articles which focus on debunking and explaining fallacies are actually really good. That those have been swamped by the more recent SJW ranting is actually quite sad. But hey, where's the entertainment in well-written, balanced articles?
 
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Someone finally got up to upgrading the whole mess... And fucked up, of course:
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Someone finally got up to upgrading the whole mess... And fucked up, of course:
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Looks like they needed to rebuild the localisation cache because it's either corrupt or the attempt to upgrade farbled the data somehow.

If so, fuck it, here's the instructions if they can't figure it out for themselves:

"php rebuildlocalisationcache.php"
 
Looks like they needed to rebuild the localisation cache because it's either corrupt or the attempt to upgrade farbled the data somehow.

If so, fuck it, here's the instructions if they can't figure it out for themselves:

"php rebuildlocalisationcache.php"
They probably won't and they won't listen to you just because you're one of those dang dirty Kiwi Gator trolls to them.
 
Looks like they needed to rebuild the localisation cache because it's either corrupt or the attempt to upgrade farbled the data somehow.

If so, fuck it, here's the instructions if they can't figure it out for themselves:

"php rebuildlocalisationcache.php"

Pretty sure this isn't the fix. The error is: "Unknown table engine 'InnoDB'". This sounds deeper than some inconsistent cache rows...

I suspect this is related to some innodb_* setting such as innodb_buffer_pool_size, innodb_log_file_size, or some such, and the RW database outgrowing it. MySQL isn't very good at dealing with these sort of situations...
 
When there have been these highly suspicious user account failures, the site kept working, so that's most likely not it.
Gerards razor: If something can be explained by technical ineptitude or sneaky banning, assume both...

Sorte Slyngel got http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Log/vandal binned and http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Log/rights sysoprevoked for - essentially - http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Hard_green&curid=11639&diff=1636078&oldid=1636051 a single word. His attempts http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hard_green&diff=1636048&oldid=1510349 to justify http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Weaseloid&diff=1636073&oldid=1636005 himself fall on deaf ears...
 
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http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Weaseloid&diff=prev&oldid=1636050

OK, I would want you to explain your side of the Sea Shepherd issue
Before you revert or undo take the time to think about what illegal means. Sea Shepherd doesn't make any distinction based on legality. You should ponder before you undo again. Of course I'll lose a protracted battle over this, but I would like to see your point of view. What's legal in this case? A lot is legal. Sea Shepherd is against all of it, legal or not. Don't let your personal tendencies spill over. My edit stands for itself, although I will probably in the minority of just a few. No matter, I'm used to that. But what is your conclusion having brushed up on the law? Cheers Sorte Slyngel (talk) 01:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
I've responded on the talk page where it's appropriate. Thanks for the patronising lecture though. ЩєазєюіδMethinks it is a Weasel 01:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hard_green&diff=prev&oldid=1636048

To Weaseloid
Why did you revert? „Captain“ Watson defines the law according to his own understanding of legality, which is that he's right, no matter what. I'll revert your reversion for now. I don't want to get involved in an edit war, but moderator or not, please state your reasons. Antipathy or sympathy aside, every case should be judged by it's own merits. Cheers Sorte Slyngel (talk) 00:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

OK, undone as promised. Could you explain how Sea Shepherd's understanding of the law makes things legal. There is, for instance not a total ban on whaling, and Sea Shepherders themselves are on record for saying precisely that their „understanding“ trumps everything. Keep this in mind, please, before you undo me blindly. Cheers Sorte Slyngel (talk) 00:52, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
The article text in that paragraph states "Sea Shepherd claims they are acting under the color of international law". Sea Shepherd's website states "Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas". Your assertion that "Legality has nothing to do with the case" is untenable. WēāŝēīōīďMethinks it is a Weasel 01:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Please remember that you have been told not to edit war & that you should seek consensus on the talk page in cases where you are reverted. This is the last warning you will receive from me about this. WėąṣėḷőįďMethinks it is a Weasel 01:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 
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