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Calandrino said:
It's not the sort of thing you'd think about unless you show your asshole to a lot of people. For such an individual it's at least something to consider.
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i mean it is a more intimate part of the body. the only people who'd know is them, a lover, and possibly their doctor. i know i wouldn't get something like that. sounds painful. like the idea of getting a dick piercing
 
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Flexo said:
Mentis pretty much sums up the thread.
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Speaking of the "GamerGate" article, of course the English Wikipedia calls it a "harassment campaign" in the title. But the Japanese article also goes right off the bat parroting the Western "woke" narrative (and also the first 4 sources used are Western ones BTW).

Japanese Wikipedia on GamerGate said:
ゲーマーゲート集団嫌がらせ事件（ゲーマーゲートしゅうだんいやがらせじけん、Gamergate harassment campaign）は、女性嫌悪的なオンラインハラスメント運動であり、ゲーム内でのフェミニズムや多様性、進歩主義に対する右翼の反発である[3][4]。ゲーマーゲート論争・ゲーマーゲート騒動（ゲーマーゲートろんそう、ゲーマーゲートそうどう）とも呼ぶ。
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Google Translate of that said:
The Gamergate harassment campaign is a misogynistic online harassment movement and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in games.[3] [Four]. It is also called the Gamergate controversy or the Gamergate uproar.
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In other words, it starts off rather not neutral.

Interestingly, the Chinese Wikipedia article starts off on a more neutral tone. And it's much shorter than the English or Japanese.

Chinese Wikipedia on GamerGate said:
玩家門爭議（GamerGate controversy）源自於主要使用#GamerGate主題標籤指揮的一場論戰。爭議被主流媒體定位為電子遊戲文化中性別歧視和進步主義間的問題，玩家門的擁護者則稱其為對抗主流媒體控制網路輿論的社會運動。玩家門一詞用於概括爭議、論戰和參與者的行動。

從2014年八月，以遊戲開發者兼作家的佐·奎恩、遊戲開發者兼政客的布里安娜·吳，和女性主義者媒體評論人的阿妮塔·薩克伊西恩等人為核心的論戰開始了。在奎恩的前男友Eron Gjoni寫了一篇指控她和至少5個男人偷情的部落格文章之後，#GamerGate主題標籤的使用者控訴奎恩和遊戲媒體的業內人士上床，目的是為她自己開發的獨立遊戲Depression Quest進行輿論鋪路。

玩家門支持者表示新聞媒體和女權主義者、進步主義者與社會評論家之間不正當地勾結在一起，在事件爆發後透過各種手段壓制網路輿論，封鎖所有對柔伊(Zoe Quinn)不利的發言，並利用媒體曝光率醜化玩家社群的性別歧視問題。

玩家門爭議被描述成橫跨電子遊戲中的文化多樣化、藝術認知、社會評論，與玩家社會認同的一次文化戰爭。
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Google Translate of that said:
The GamerGate controversy grew out of a debate dominated by the hashtag #GamerGate. The controversy was framed by mainstream media as an issue between sexism and progressivism in video game culture, while Gamergate advocates called it a social movement against mainstream media's control of online public opinion. The term Gamergate is used to summarize the controversies, debates, and actions of those involved.

Since August 2014, it has centered on game developer and writer Zoe Quinn, game developer and politician Brianna Wu, and feminist media critic Anita Sakhisian. The debate began. After Quinn's ex-boyfriend Eron Gjoni wrote a blog post accusing her of having affairs with at least five men, users of the #GamerGate hashtag accused Quinn of sleeping with industry insiders in the gaming media in order to develop her own The independent game Depression Quest is paving the way for public opinion.

Gamergate supporters said there was an improper collusion between the news media and feminists, progressives and social commentators to use various means to suppress online public opinion after the incident broke out, blocking all comments on Zoe Quinn Speaking unfavorably and using media exposure to vilify sexism in the player community. The Gamergate controversy has been described as a culture war spanning cultural diversity, artistic perception, social commentary, and the social identity of gamers in video games.
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The different biases of the language versions for the Gamergate article probably depend on when it was translated. These articles were likely simply copied over from the English version with direct translation. This is the case for a lot of foreign-language articles because the English Wikipedia is by far the most extensive. Early on (2014/2015) the Gamergate article was less one-sided, so if it was copied then, it would not be so bad. The English language version has gotten worse (more extreme, less accurate) with each passing year, following the trend of Wikipedia as a whole.

It may also be that a handful of editors continue to work directly on the (say) Chinese article to keep it from becoming absurdly biased, but given that few care about Gamergate anymore, and even fewer ever did outside the English-speaking world, I think this is less of a factor than the time of translation.
 
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lolcow yoghurt said:
Another very notable thing to have an article on!
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I'm more surprised how long they spent sperging about “health hazards,” with all the usual theatrics of people claiming that something as innocuous as the smell of a fresh car is going to kill people because fucking China's cars may be dangerous. The article itself isn't unusual, since New Car Smell is a very real and well-known scent.
 
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I'm more surprised how long they spent sperging about “health hazards,” with all the usual theatrics of people claiming that something as innocuous as the smell of a fresh car is going to kill people because fucking China's cars may be dangerous. The article itself isn't unusual, since New Car Smell is a very real and well-known scent.
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New car smell does make me nauseous but I wouldn't call it a major health hazard. Otherwise people would be having major health problems every time they get a brand-new car.
 
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I love seeing images like this on Wikipedia:
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The photo was taken in October 2004, almost 20 years ago.

 
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Parishes are cool, they're an ancient system of administrative division and have a clear place in the hierarchy of titles from God and the Monarchy at the top all the way down to the vicar, it's a nice little cornerstone to how everything was organized before the Industrial Revolution and its consequences. A true relic of a time when you could walk into a chapel house to find a fat book and read some tithe records to tell you more about the locals circa 1200AD than Tencent could ever say about their stand-ins today.
What's a little excessive however is how every single one of them has a page, I'm talking about every single rural wapentake population 40 most relevant event being that one time Skopliefter nicked a seax from Coenahskoppe pre 1066. Nearly every single fucking one.
>https://archive.is/Dd9J2
Many of them are filled with obscure anecdotes about the aforementioned local happenings too which is nice.
A true monument to notarism, the administratum would be proud.
 
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Some polish genderspecial has an english wikipedia article for some reason (while not having one in polish).

My favourite part :|
She described her stage persona as a pedophile which in turn spurred a media storm of accusations of actual acts of child sexual abuse. Perfekcyjność vehemently denied ever abusing a minor.
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First reference links to some obscure polish right-wing website (I guess this is supposed to be 'media storm'). The fragment talking about pedophilia citing the individual's in question blog
I, for example, am a trans and a pedophile. And fine, living with that is pretty cool. And that I discovered and said plainly: I am a pedophile and a transgender. I am. And I don't care, who likes it or who thinks this is a lie and my creation for attention.
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The other references links to an interview with the guy, here he states:
[Interviewer] Then what they wrote about you, Sir - that you admitted to being a pedophile yourself - it's untrue?
[Troon] For quite some time I was explaining, that some people have a problem with telling apart reality from what is happening in discourse including that on my blog. Issue, that was mentioned, is not only a question of misunderstanding my message. Part of what was supposed to be a quotation from my blog and was supposed to show my pedophile tendencies, was invented, and this is the whole thing. I'm not a pedophile.
[Interviewer] You say that so clearly, without any artistic means of expression, Sir.
[Troon] Yes. Because there appeared people, who completely hadn't understood that my 'confessions' are a reference to Chantall's Mouffe theory, which says that ever more common in modern liberal democracies 'banning of speech', saying certain words and claims (in US you can't say the 'N-word': nigger) leads to totalitarianism, because the amount of not-banned topics will eventually approach value of one. Besides, on my blog, one can find information that, for example, Michael Jackson was sleeping over at my place. Is this also supposed to be treated literally? Madness!
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Not going to bother and verify more about this, but the explanation is pretty funny - I didn't really say it but I was also just being edgy, because free speech and also nigger.

And also he didn't 'vehemently denied ever abusing a minor'. He just said he wasn't really a pedophile (like yeah that's implied but he actually didn't say that, at least not in the reference you are citing).
 
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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...y-on-wikipedia?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us This popped up in my feed today and I felt secondhand embarrassment reading it. How much of a no life loser do you have to be to have that many edits? The way these people defer to Wikipedia policies makes me feel like I'm in church. Judging by her profile she seems insufferable enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K.e.coffman

Interesting she seems to dismiss Afrocentric as seeming to not exist while complaining evil white supremacists are drawn to their own articles.

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Doesn't care about race interests huh.
 
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Ashley said:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...y-on-wikipedia?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us This popped up in my feed today and I felt secondhand embarrassment reading it. How much of a no life loser do you have to be to have that many edits? The way these people defer to Wikipedia policies makes me feel like I'm in church. Judging by her profile she seems insufferable enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K.e.coffman
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The linked article is from 2021, and K.e.coffman has been a frequent topic of discussion in this thread ever since.

It was first posted on the Kiwi Farms here:

And then made an appearance in this thread here:
 
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I remember a page that was on Wikipedia a couple of months ago that was the most batshit blatant political grandstanding on the site.
It was a page for a hypothetical 2nd American civil war where the whole page was basically leftist saying we didndu nuffin and it's all the right's fault that this war that hasn't happened yet could happen. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?
 
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Teghern said:
Parishes are cool, they're an ancient system of administrative division and have a clear place in the hierarchy of titles from God and the Monarchy at the top all the way down to the vicar, it's a nice little cornerstone to how everything was organized before the Industrial Revolution and its consequences.
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One of the most charming things about Louisiana is that they use a parish system rather than a county system. It's functionally the same, though.
 
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