Dramacow Ryulong / Michael Cohen - Fanatic Wikisperg, Anti-Gamergater and All Around Asshole

Francis York Morgan said:
Now, onto the other issues Mr. Dragon is going to have with this new pursuit - he's not qualified for a professional translator job. I doubt he has a JPLT or BJT certification and I don't think he can converse at a high enough level to BS his way through one of those interviews.
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But he has his staggering success at the Japanese Wikipedia to put on his resume!

Ryulong is one of those sad cases of severe Dunning–Kruger when it comes to the Japanese language, and apparently he also has a severe lack of understanding how hard translating is. My English is pretty good for someone whose first language isn't English, even if I say so myself, but even in understanding there can be serious gaps. Example: when I was in Britain last year there was great confusion when I tried to order apple juice:
"A half?"
"Ehh, well, ehh, no, a full glass?"
"Yeah, a glass"
"Ehm, yes, a full glass"
"A half?"
"Ehh, no, a full?"
"A pint?"
"Well, no just a glass"
"A half pint?"
"Ah, yes, a half pint please"

I guess you had to be there to truly appreciate the confusion, but the point is you miss a lot of small things when you don't truly "live" the language. You don't learn about these things when you watch Japanese anime or read Japanese books. And living for two years in Japan probably helped Ryulong a bit, but not that much as he doesn't strike me as the outgoing type who struck up conversations in bars every day (or, like, ever) so he probably didn't get *that* much practice... And lets not even begin that understanding cultural context is crucial in translating. There's more to Japan than anime.

I can appreciate his struggle in finding a job though, and wish him good luck. I did unskilled labour back in the day and wouldn't want to wish that on anyone. But living pipe dreams is not helpful.

Did he actually finish his education at the University of Miami or did he drop out? His old userpage at Wikipedia mentions he's an undergrad but that's from 2007...
 
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WhoopieDoo said:
Did he actually finish his education at the University of Miami or did he drop out? His old userpage at Wikipedia mentions he's an undergrad but that's from 2007...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ryulong&oldid=618256952

I am an alumnus of the University of Miami, with a Bachelor of Science in chemical oceanography with a minor in anthropology. I currently attend the University of the Ryukyus.
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https://archive.is/BmMjs#selection-83.4-83.9

By September 2014 he had been "fucked over by the Japanese government" and in October was back home in NYC. http://archive.is/dsrQZ#selection-22315.0-22355.87 http://archive.is/1bHQP

He also blamed Sallie Mae for fucking him over and making him unable to get a job. https://archive.is/YBVYQ#selection-2527.397-2527.457

In October he updated his wiki user page to say he had "recently" attended the University of the Ryukyus. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ryulong&oldid=630686589

During his reddit AMA, Ryulong talked about his past work experiences: https://archive.is/Vzfl3

I'm not working now. I've got a BSc and I attended a MSc program in Japan but it didn't work out as I had hoped. I've worked in offices and laboratories in the past and I'm trying to do that again. I've only been back in the US for a little over a month now.
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Supposedly he was fired for wiki editing on the clock from one or more of these positions.
 
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In the midst of a chimpout, Adam has given us his version of why Ryulong stopped autistically editing at RW.

"Well, I came here because I was interested in the site and wanted to help, but for the longest time I had no idea what pages to edit. If you're here after hearing people complain about a Ryulong character, I am internet friends with this user who, sadly, doesn't edit here any more, largely due to the stress caused by off-site brigading and the lack of tough enough rules to deal with the resulting on-site activity (Not to mention the resulting on-site drama). I'm still around, though, for the most part."
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So this went up on KIA today. It's a message from a Wikimedia staffer:

I wake up every day short on sleep, check staff mail, check wikimedia-l,
check the facebook discussion group, check signpost comments, check irc,
check officewiki recent changes, check wikimediafoundation recent changes...

I gear myself up to learn who may have left today, what they will have
said, to digest the outpouring of support and sadness from others, and the
deafening silence from those who are in a position to put an end to all of
this.

I go over the reasons again in my mind that we're in this crisis: bad
hirings, decisions in secret, dissembling and coverups about the processes
that led to those decisions; refusal or inability to state a clear vision,
let alone get buy-in or the involvement of staff/community in shaping that
vision; restructuring the organization following these same broken
processes. And so much more.

Make no mistake, this is not just about an ED. It's also about failure of
oversight, powerlessness of staff, and a culture of exclusion, among other
things. If, as I hope, the Board acts decisively to remove the current ED,
that will only be the first step in a mountain of work ahead of us. Hard,
painful, exhausting work. But we can't begin to get started on it until
that first step is taken.

In November at The Meeting (you all know which one I mean), Jimmy Wales
called on all of us to give Lila Tretikov a second chance, a chance to
rebuild the trust that had been lost. We're well beyond that point now.
That trust is irrevocably broken. It's possible that she would be able to
play a part in the healing and regrouping that must happen within the WMF
going forwards, but only as a private individual. I would have to have
some distance from things in order to figure that out, and none of us has
that right now. What I do know is that the current situation is toxic, and
getting increasingly more so.

We're bleeding out. Slowly at first, but it's a just matter of time--and
probably not much of it--before that trickle turns into a flood. I plead
with the one organization that has the ability to stop it, to step in and
do so.
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Essentially, at this point, a number of relatively high-level staffers have decided to run the site as their own little fiefdom, veteran users are pulling the Ryulong maneuver and treating articles like their own personal property, and agenda-driven editors are not being sanctioned despite repeated rulebreaking. In essence, we can see our favorite wikisperg as being a tiny slice of what's become a big problem.

But that's just one side of it: There's no direction whatsoever from management and currently no ability whatsoever to keep things on-task. As such, the stuff done by the various staffers are turning either into massive over-reaches or just outright burnouts. One staffer ate a no-confidence vote from the community about a day after they were appointed to the board.

The response has been members of said staff saying "fuck it" and leaving, because they see the site as too far gone to save - remarkably similar to what's been happening on several other Wikis. The current Executive Director who, by all accounts, seems to have been a major impetus for the lack of proper management, and as of today, she's been announced as stepping down from her position.
 
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Seeing some rumblings that Cohen is interested in the Sun and Moon Pokémon games that just got announced. He has some past experience arguing over transrations on wikis for that series, so we may see some more wiki spergery.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?limit=50&tagfilter=&title=Special:Contributions&contribs=user&target=Ryulong&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2016&month=-1

There were some Kiwis that played that Puzzles and Dragons game, right? What can you observe from this? http://archive.is/vBLIN (Pretty sure he has a Japanese version of it as well, so bear in mind this is just the English one)
 
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Bulbapedia's Japanese translations are already hilariously terrible thanks to their army of weebs. All Ryulong needs to do is develop some ephebophilia and he'll fit right in.
 
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fuehrer_dessler said:
What has ephebophilia to do with Pokemon?
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Complicated story, but to cut it short, Bulbapedia's forums went through a phase where there was a "secret" forum called Mozz's Van which involved, among other things, underaged users sharing their nudes. The creator of Bulbapedia, Archaic, is a pedophile who writes fanfiction about the two ten-year-old protagonists of the Pokemon anime having sex with each other.
 
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Cohen is either watching the RW Gamergate pages still and/or being fed info from Adam/one of his other meat puppets as he appears to be whining about The Devil's Advocate. We could very well see Cohen come screeching back to RW like he did when Geth was there.


https://tweetsave.com/tarc0917/status/704170849503453188

As you may recall, Tarc is one of the anti-Gamergate wikispergs that was such an autist they had to indefinitely topic ban him and later indefinitely banned his account from Wikipedia itself after he was harassing someone off-wiki that was involved in the Gamergate fights. Pretty safe to say self-awareness levels are at zero.

https://tweetsave.com/tarc0917/status/701576803891023872
 
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As you may recall, Tarc is one of the anti-Gamergate wikispergs that was such an autist they had to indefinitely topic ban him and later indefinitely banned his account from Wikipedia itself after he was harassing someone off-wiki that was involved in the Gamergate fights. Pretty safe to say self-awareness levels are at zero.
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It never occurs to these pinheads that if they're banned even by people who mostly agree with them, maybe they're the ones doing something wrong.
 
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Adamska said:
He should ask China if he could be a 50 cent'er. They take trolls and will pay them to write prochina sentiment.
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He'd just argue about how they want him to write Xi Jinping "wrong".
 
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The Michael Cohen job hunt continues!

http://archive.is/WMG7M



If he manages to get hired despite seemingly doing jack shit since October 2014, what are the odds he ends up fired - again - for obsessing over wikis or Puzzles and Dragons or Pokemon on the clock?
 
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