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

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
jenstark101 said:
Yea RW is not gen X liberals. Fewer and fewer people there have a recollection of politics prior to 2017 (which is honestly horrible for a site with so much holdover from pre-2017 politics)

RationalWiki in 2022 is a combo of about 20 or so teenage redditors, manipulative and psychopathic drama-whores, intelligent right-wing liberals who prefer Democrats, and braindead left-anarchists. Any left leaning person with an IQ above 80 was pushed out of there over a year ago, and led to various wiki forks like socdem-wiki.

United in nothing but "support-the-current-thing" and hatred of the GOP, the site is also constantly warring internally. They recently pushed out most of their old guard. (Oxy etc) Having few original people still friendly with the wiki, the site has almost no one willing to even do basic tech support for the site.
Click to expand...
Just wondering, what do you mean by intelligent right-wing liberals? Classical liberals, fiscal conservatives?
 
Al Coholic said:
Just wondering, what do you mean by intelligent right-wing liberals? Classical liberals, fiscal conservatives?
Click to expand...
neoliberals who are near graduating or have graduated college and have above average IQ

it's a liberal wiki so it's always had right-liberals, it's just those are among the few intelligent content creators left after purging their old guard
 
Last edited:
Going through special:recentchanges, and boy is the wiki active... at sitting around doing nothing except dealing with their piss poor spam prevention and using wiki pages as a forum

they have over a dozen editors but manage to crank out about a paragraph of content a day, and usually just current events
 
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservative_correctness (Archive)
1648674198189.jpeg

I don't think I'ver seen a bigger example of deflection & whataboutism than this article.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
  • Lunacy
  • Informative
Reactions: Wünderkind, slickerthanyouraverage, Mexican_Wizard_711 and 10 others
Hồ Chí Minh said:
The problem with all of that is that it all got so tied up in the politics. This is when Trump insisted on calling it the "Kung Flu" or "China Virus", and Asian people were getting attacked on the street. I can understand the emotional hesitancy to give credence to all of that.
Click to expand...

Trump started saying "China virus" because the first reaction of the Tard Left was to declare that talking about the origin of the virus at all is "racist." In retrospect, given that the Wuhan lab was funded by USG money, this was probably to deflect attention from the responsible parties.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Annealing Crater, Aunt Marge, GethPrime and 8 others
Mr Metron666 said:
So does that mean it’ll soon disappear from the internet forever?:optimistic:
Click to expand...
Wikis of this size and traffic cost $5/month to host. Paying any more than that would be overkill as a <50k Alexa Mediawiki site can easily get by on just 512-1GB of RAM.

As long as someone exists willing to pay that measly amount, it'll probably exist for a long time

Also never underestimate the amount of control freaks who make a life hobby out of acquiring dying communities and treating them as real estate. A shit ton of them exist and it's sad.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Aunt Marge and Shaka Brah
jenstark101 said:
Wikis of this size and traffic cost $5/month to host. Paying any more than that would be overkill as a <50k Alexa Mediawiki site can easily get by on just 512-1GB of RAM.

As long as someone exists willing to pay that measly amount, it'll probably exist for a long time
Click to expand...
Pretty sure RatWiki asks for 4-figure sums like twice a year, and people gladly pay up since if you don't donate to them, then the creationists will win and destroy all Science and Logical Thought in America.
 
  • Like
Reactions: GethPrime, winderson_silva, Oats12345 and 1 other person
This user supports state atheism but would allow believers to practice their religion, build places of worship, etc.
Click to expand...

Kabuki Actor said:
What?
Click to expand...
What "what"? This is probably the only sane thing on the page (albeit stupidly expressed in every aspect, from "this user" to open-endedness of "practice their religion" and "etc", to trying to fit his views in the infobox, to putting his retarded views on display at all, to thinking his ideology would benefit from promoting it next to his baby luigi fetish). At the minimum, he doesn't want ceremonial deism. It can also mean treating religion like (other :neckbeard:) fiction: no appeal to religion in the public sphere, no "sincerely held religious beliefs", no religious charities, no chaplains in the military, but also no throwing people in jail for gathering in a decorated hall and having a read-aloud party.
 
What's amusing is that a company is allegedly set up to operate this wiki. And yet it appears to have no activity outside popping out of the woodwork for a day every 5 years. Only being on Mediawiki 1.27.7 is really something special lol. It only takes an hour at most to upgrade.

MediaWiki 1.27 is an obsolete long-term support release of MediaWiki. Consult the RELEASE NOTES file for the full list of changes. It was deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "1.27.0-wmf.NN" branches from 29 September 2015 to March 2016 (see details of each branch). The 1.27.0 stable release came out on 28 June 2016[1], and was a Long Term Support release (LTS) which was supported for three years until June 2019.
Click to expand...
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Informative
Reactions: Sparkling Yuzu and Shaka Brah
jenstark101 said:
What's amusing is that a company is allegedly set up to operate this wiki. And yet it appears to have no activity outside popping out of the woodwork for a day every 5 years. Only being on Mediawiki 1.27.7 is really something special lol. It only takes an hour at most to upgrade.
Click to expand...
When your version is that far out of date the automated updates don't work anymore and you need to do a lot of troubleshooting to keep things together. With MediaWiki is if you drop the ball for a year or two it quadruples the work you need to do to catch back up, so their inattention is biting them in the ass and they probably don't want to do it anymore.
 
  • Informative
  • Agree
Reactions: Sparkling Yuzu, SCSI and From The Uncanny Valley
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back