Followed a link here from the Birdo thread and wooooow.
I'm actually close friends with a former MarioWiki admin from years ago and I linked him here. He wasn't surprised. "For every 10 people who actually cared about the project, there were 20 more who wanted to use it as a platform for their own issues or just mass shitpost. After Walkazo died and people stared bullying Stooben into giving them power.....I realized I was completely out of fucks to give and bailed."
Asked him if he knew anything about Alex95, and "I don't specifically recall the name, but I'm not surprised it happened. Someone/s with talent walking in and doing a lot of good work while also being a shitpipe of some variation, only to finally cross major line for the fourth time and get the boot is a long standing Mario Wiki tradition. I mean that literally, one of the first four members on the wiki 15+ years ago nearly killed it right out the gate because of his behavior, and one of the saviors tried hack control of the site over to him with some auto-mod scripts he shit out. There were more instances of this as the years went on."
Edit: Final thought from same guy: "THEY ACTUALLY MADE THAT BABY LUIGI IDIOT AN ADMIN?!?! The horror show who used to make long depressing thread about them and their sibling being bulled by their traditional asian parents and how they'd cope by abusing their Mario and Luigi plushies, who they thought of as representatives for themselves?! That suicidal basketcase was given power????? Fucking hell, Stooben lets himself get pushed into all kinds of crap and Porpal just sees dollar signs......"
