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Mona came back and chimped out.

http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=prev&oldid=1738963

I have absolutely zero intention of returning here, especially after reading this crap in this coop of endless drama and crap. Having been happily departed, I was appraoched via email by another concerning this vote. I'm not voting. But I want to to address what I'm offended and disgusted to see from Rev above, to wit: "it's not for you to haphazardly enact — in order to intimidate and harass — like Mona or Ryulong would." (I'd been toying with updating the Targeted Individuals article Rev and I both worked on. No. He and the rest of you can go to hell.)
I have never, not once, de-mopped anyone to intimidate or harass, and seeing myself compared to Ryolong by a party I'd thought to have been friendly is a reminder as to why this place is a cesspool and I'm so glad to be gone. I de-mopped Typhoon last June because the woman had some dozen times blocked me and Pb3, and after repeated warnings she must stop it, SHE DID IT AGAIN. The split second a mod showed up (Weaseloid) I told him to give her back her mop and tell her to knock it off; he did both. We moved on.
Or so I thought. A few weeks later I discover I cannot participate in friendly block conversations because David Gerard has de-mopped me, for my having de-mopped Typhoon under the above circumstances for an hour or two. Not one person objected to this including Owlman who is now making a similar defense of her own actions. (Owlman is generally reasonable, and if she felt a de-mopping was necessary to briefly bring someone under control, it likely was. This place suffers from a dearth of rules that protect reasonable and good writers, with the result of chaos and constant drama in this coop.)
No one could tell me what one is supposed to do when another editor keeps blocking them A DOZEN TIMES and no mod is around. No one could tell me how my de-mopping -- for having to stop a pernicious blocker -- was just. And Coop cases are either popularity contests or the metrics used to decide things are absurd -- that is, The Holy Mop is treated as something sacred, taking from another being a mortal sin. It should be seen as a tool that shouldn't be given to just anyone because then they can, e.g., do what Typhoon did to me and Pb3.
I've discovered in the wider Internet that few take RW seriously anyway. Do you really think that, say, The Intercept, gives a shit if this place decided they're "too biased" to use as a source? As young as they are, they are picking up journalism and documentarian awards all over the place; their three co-founding editors have: led a reporting team to a Pulitzer, won an Oscar for best documentary, and been nominated for best documentary. They are cited by prominent media, internationally. What a shrinking pond like RW decides about them, in any given melee, is as irrelevant as anything could be.
I continue to cite this place for only one article and that's the one I joined to write, the one on Targeted Individuals.I hadn't realized how political the place is when I joined until I looked around, and saw what a god-awful mess was anything touching on Israel-Palestine, and effected some necessary changes. Those documented, hard-fought changes largely still stand, but given the way things go here that could easily change -- no one cares about quality here, and the place drives out knowledgeable, quality writers. Instead, this fucking coop takes up everyone's time with constant bullshit, rather than having reasonable rules in place that protect decent and smart editors.
So, I told the person who approached me, that, no, I'm not voting, and having read Rev and the rest of you, I'm also resolute in not coming back. Some associates and I tangentially related to The Intercept are developing a site where I'll be much happier and productive. Many of the best minds leave here, as I saw in my less-than-a-year participating. You all invite that.
I won't be back.---Mona- (talk) 14:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 
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Hellfire said:
Mona came back and chimped out.

http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=prev&oldid=1738963

I have absolutely zero intention of returning here, especially after reading this crap in this coop of endless drama and crap. Having been happily departed, I was appraoched via email by another concerning this vote. I'm not voting. But I want to to address what I'm offended and disgusted to see from Rev above, to wit: "it's not for you to haphazardly enact — in order to intimidate and harass — like Mona or Ryulong would." (I'd been toying with updating the Targeted Individuals article Rev and I both worked on. No. He and the rest of you can go to hell.)
I have never, not once, de-mopped anyone to intimidate or harass, and seeing myself compared to Ryolong by a party I'd thought to have been friendly is a reminder as to why this place is a cesspool and I'm so glad to be gone. I de-mopped Typhoon last June because the woman had some dozen times blocked me and Pb3, and after repeated warnings she must stop it, SHE DID IT AGAIN. The split second a mod showed up (Weaseloid) I told him to give her back her mop and tell her to knock it off; he did both. We moved on.
Or so I thought. A few weeks later I discover I cannot participate in friendly block conversations because David Gerard has de-mopped me, for my having de-mopped Typhoon under the above circumstances for an hour or two. Not one person objected to this including Owlman who is now making a similar defense of her own actions. (Owlman is generally reasonable, and if she felt a de-mopping was necessary to briefly bring someone under control, it likely was. This place suffers from a dearth of rules that protect reasonable and good writers, with the result of chaos and constant drama in this coop.)
No one could tell me what one is supposed to do when another editor keeps blocking them A DOZEN TIMES and no mod is around. No one could tell me how my de-mopping -- for having to stop a pernicious blocker -- was just. And Coop cases are either popularity contests or the metrics used to decide things are absurd -- that is, The Holy Mop is treated as something sacred, taking from another being a mortal sin. It should be seen as a tool that shouldn't be given to just anyone because then they can, e.g., do what Typhoon did to me and Pb3.
I've discovered in the wider Internet that few take RW seriously anyway. Do you really think that, say, The Intercept, gives a shit if this place decided they're "too biased" to use as a source? As young as they are, they are picking up journalism and documentarian awards all over the place; their three co-founding editors have: led a reporting team to a Pulitzer, won an Oscar for best documentary, and been nominated for best documentary. They are cited by prominent media, internationally. What a shrinking pond like RW decides about them, in any given melee, is as irrelevant as anything could be.
I continue to cite this place for only one article and that's the one I joined to write, the one on Targeted Individuals.I hadn't realized how political the place is when I joined until I looked around, and saw what a god-awful mess was anything touching on Israel-Palestine, and effected some necessary changes. Those documented, hard-fought changes largely still stand, but given the way things go here that could easily change -- no one cares about quality here, and the place drives out knowledgeable, quality writers. Instead, this fucking coop takes up everyone's time with constant bullshit, rather than having reasonable rules in place that protect decent and smart editors.
So, I told the person who approached me, that, no, I'm not voting, and having read Rev and the rest of you, I'm also resolute in not coming back. Some associates and I tangentially related to The Intercept are developing a site where I'll be much happier and productive. Many of the best minds leave here, as I saw in my less-than-a-year participating. You all invite that.
I won't be back.---Mona- (talk) 14:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
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Gee, Mona, maybe you shouldn't be so possessive of the Israel article.
 
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