Chicken Coop
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The Chicken Coop is a page where RationalWikians can bitch about each other. It was previously called Administrative Abuse until such a title was deemed as far too Serious Fucking Business. However, the title change hasn't altered the bitchiness at all. The Chicken Coop has bounced between being a legitimate complaints board and a forum for the worst bitching on RW. Legitimate complaints are few and far between and when they do arise, they're dealt with quickly. The issue becomes when a troll and known trouble maker tries to intentionally use it as a springboard for creating turmoil on the site and that some users are more than happy to go along with it for the ride. As a result, the Chicken Coop is now the biggest piece of tl;dr on RationalWiki and by far one of the least productive. The voices of Reason - most commonly Bob and Goonie in the case of the Coop - are often drowned out by the fact that everyone wants to have the last word, say the wittiest thing and, ultimately, be the one who is most right. When trying to do this, everyone fails.
This article is about "serious" incidents. Idiot #X and Neveruse 's whining and being ignored don't belong here.
[edit] Incidents
[edit] HeartOfGold
31 July 2007 - 1 August 2007
[edit] PalMD
25-26 March 2008
For blocking TK three times with no reason.[1] Nobody cares.
[edit] Pink
11 June 2008
For reverting edits on a user page belonging to another user.[2] Again, no one cares,[3] and Pink wasn't even a sysop yet.[4]
[edit] Proxima Centauri
22 December 2008
The Rose Petals Incident.[5] Human says it is silly,[6] and the community moves on its merry way.
[edit] CUR
27-28 January 2009
Theory of Practice takes CUR to the coop for edit warring.[7] Debate shifts to what the coop is for,[8] but then CUR shows up, and the shouting begins.[9] Kels pops up to defend CUR [10] and Weaseloid says that they are being too harsh.[11] It is pointed out that if CUR wasn't a sysop, he would be binned and banned.[12] CUR demands a lawyer [13] Human votes for promotion, [14] Javascap move to a probation agreement[15], and the debate drags on and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.... until Human declares it closed.[16]
[edit] CUR
April 22nd - April 23rd, 2009
CUR complained about Human (something about Human doing something to CUR after CUR did something to some other site... or whatever) but the discussing quickly derailed onto CUR's attitude and behaviour on RationalWiki until TheoryOfPractice rescued it, bringing it back to the allegation against Human. Most 'crats seemed to be on Human's side this time, after a long discussion over the course of a day or so, Weaseloid dismissed the entire thing and archived the page.
[edit] Totnesmartin
December 3rd - December 4th, 2009
Totnesmartin brings himself up to the abuse board for "renaming MarcusCicero to MarcusCicero, aged 3½". Ace McWicked and Armondikov agree that MC is a little annoying bitch and has forfeited protection under the house rules. On the other hand, Bob M suggests that it is a very bad precedent to set and Goonie agrees. A few others become split but little is done.
[edit] Irrationalatheist
February 9th, 2010
TheoryOfPractice questions the IrrationalAtheist of making non-friendly blocks and blocking users after a single edit. The complaint was upheld and IrrationalAtheist stripped of sysop rights for a few days - although Kels notes that he was "leaving and never coming back".
[edit] Gooniepunk2010
March 12th - March 13th, 2010
TheoryOfPractice asks if Gooniepunk should have hid behind a spambot to go troll feeding. Goonie eventually said he'd have no more to do with MarcusCicero, who filled the intervening discussion with the usual tripe.
[edit] Nutty Roux
March 29th - March 31st, 2010
Don't be fooled by the short range of dates, this was quite long and the title was worthy of a 1st level header with only single "=" either side of the title. P-Foster brings up the issue of Nutty Roux blocking TK (OMG) for two years for making legal threats against RationalWiki. Bob questions why legal threats were block worthy - the answer seems to be "because TK is a fuck nugget".
[edit] Phantom Hoover
June 3rd - June 8th, 2010
Neveruse bitches about Phantom Hoover. Quite literally, no one gives a shit, with it taking the best part of five days to acquire a response. The response; a characteristic "who cares" from Human.
[edit] Crundy
June 3rd, 2010
Crundy brings himself to the abuse board out of boredom. Little does he know...
June 11th - June 14th, 2010
Crundy gets drawn into the Uber Trolling, with a BON complaining about Crundy's use of the vandal bin. Receiving no attention, the MC troll becomes desperate for attention and tries to argue with Nx for a day or so. With no actual thing to hurl at Crundy, MC leaves the conversation and goes back to masturbating over anime.
[edit] Lumenos
June 28th - June 29th, 2010
P-Foster notes that Lumenos is filling the wiki with shite. A brief medium fairly sizable discussion about whether "idiocy" comes under administrative abuse or not. Everyone seems to agree Lumenos is annoying but harmless and Trent still continues to pay $100 a month to support this crap.
[edit] Nx
April 18th, 2010
Nx brings himself to the abuse board, presenting a wide range of evidence that he has abused and violated RationalWiki's rules and principles. Most people side with Nx... erm. Yeah.
March 30th - June 5th, 2010
Human complains that Nx is using server access for evil, eventually calling for Nx to be blocked from accessing the server and rendered as a non-sysop (it's like hell for RationalWikians but without the all-you-can-eat BBQ). Over several sections things just got fucking weird as evidence was presented that Nx was using his Overlord Powers to do horrid things like deleting the "frot" picture. Neveruse complains like a bitch, Nx goes all innocent and, well, acts like Nx.
July 25th - July 27th, 2010
David Gerard whines about Nx "toll-enabling behavour" over the range-blocking issue. It continued in a further section but fizzled out quickly.
[edit] David Gerard
June 27th - June 28th, 2010
BON gets annoyed at David Gerard. Pi accuses DG of trolling due to his dick-waving behaviour.
July 25th - August 3rd, 2010
Nx brought up David Gerard for deleting comments from talk pages. This may have been a problem after the Loya Jirga decided that "obviously vile" was enough of a watertight description to rollback talk page comments.
August 4th - August 5th, 2010
David Gerard was whined at for putting Ultra Troll Marcus Cicero in the vandal bin. By this point no one gave a flying fuck anymore as MC's persecution complex was getting boring - although Quaru gave him the "EGG LAYER AWARD FOR BEING AN ANNOYING PRAT IN THE CHICKEN COOP".
August 6th - August 12th, 2010
Several trolling BONs (probably Neveruse and MarcusCicero) got hacked off with David Gerard for blocking them and developed an uptight persecution complex, pouncing on Gerard repeatedly. Weighing in on the situation was Human, who claimed the blocking was abuse of RW's lack of ethical standards, Ace, who told Human to shut the fuck up because the BONs were abusive, similarly Toast who suggested that a user who called her a "sandy-vagina'ed old cunt" wouldn't be missed. Goonie, strandled the fence as usual, telling both sides they sucked.
[edit] Lyra Silvertongue
5 August 201
[edit] Idiot Number
August 14th - August 24th, 2010
In a slightly less drama-whoring incident. RA took offence at the "Idiot Number..." user claiming to be the rightful owner of RationalWiki. Since the official formation of the RationalWiki Foundation, however, this may be a legitimate Serious Business complaint.
[edit] Human again
- Main article: Don't Bite the Newbies Incident
October 1st - Oct 17th, 2010
Human was called out by Phantom Hoover for using the rollback button far to liberally on otherwise good faith edits. Most likely due to the number of heavy-hitting editors who participated in the discussion, Human briefly tried to change his ways.
[edit] UncleHo
January 25 2011-January 28 2011
For accusations of racism, fascism, and death threats to ListenerX. No one seems to be supporting him. Promoted and blocked for 3 months
[edit] Nx, again
January 28 2011-January 30 2011
By SuspectedReplicant, for following site policy, by deleting 238 saloon bar revisions... from a year ago. Everyone but SR and human supported him. Nx LANCB that day.
[edit] Sprocket J Cogswell
February 28 2011-March 8 2011
By a BoN for blocking em during an edit war over Libertarianism. Overwhelming support for Cogs. Lumenos argued a bit, but nothing came out of it.
[edit] Tyrannis
March 9 2011
Arguably the lamest conflict ever, Ty was taken to the coop by ColbertFan as he blocked him for 31 seconds. LX and Ty explained what joke blocks were, and the community moved on its merry way.
[edit] Leotardo
30 March 2011
Brought by SuspectedReplicant for posting information about Karajou's son, and making fun of SR's sister. The whole thing blew over rather quickly, as they were told to take it outside, and SR apologized and withdrew the measure [16]. The matter was mediated by EddyP. Then it got worse, as Leotardo refused to let things go.
[edit] RA
30 March 2011
RA is taken to the coop by Ace after creating an "attack page" (reproduced here) against human. SuperJosh and Weaseloid say that RA is just trolling[17] while Blue remarks that while RA should be censured, there was no need to take it to the coop[18]. Everyone then starts making Hate, Love, _______ is a swell guy articles.
[edit] JimJast
15 April 2011
For concern trolling, using the wiki as free webhosting[19]. Nothing happens, a it got bogged down in an attempted essay standards revamp.
[edit] Brxbrx
21 April 2011
Taken by a BoN for blocking Occasionaluse for 2 days. An argument with Occasionaluse, Quaru, and Iscariot commenced over block lengths and reasons, then a vote was put up, in which the mob expressed complete apathy.
[edit] Psygremlin
27 April 2011
For renaming a vandal [20]. Occasionaluse says Psy should be promoted to sysop[21], Psy undoes what he did, and Gooniepunk2010 and Javascap declare the case closed while Occasionaluse objects on the grounds that more drama was needed. Ty and P-Foster suggested far more sadistic punishments, which were ignored.
[edit] SuspectedReplicant
2 May 2011
SuspectedReplicant was not taken to the coop because MarcusCicero didn't care that he had violated standards by deleting a post from his liquid-threaded talk page. The response from the community was unsurprisingly uncaring, given that the plaintiff couldn't care himself. The final vote was four yawns, two goats, an "Err" and a "No case".
[edit] Human
8 May 2011
- Main article: Trial of Human
After a short but intense fight between Human on one side and Blue and SuspectedReplicant on the other, carried out on Armondikov's talk page, Human unilaterally de-cratted Blue. She immediately took him to the Coop. This was the first major event in the period of great unrest that culminated in the Knife Night Coup.
[edit] ListenerX
13 May 2011
In one of the most ridiculous accusations of administrative abuse, annoyed with ListenerX's alleged continuing of the HCM on Rationalwiki, Psygremlin took ListenerX to the coop. But within a couple of hours, it was unilaterally archived by Ace McWicked.
[edit] Eira
19 May 2011
Psygremlin takes Eira to the Coop[17], the outcome of a long and messy HCM which it is best we don't elaborate on any further. Maratrean proposes that Chicken Coop be abolished[18], but DickTurpis correctly points out that doing so is rather hard when it is unclear who if anyone has the authority to make such a decision.[19] Eira also jumps in saying "I'm a Trustee! Can't remove me! Na-na-nana-na!"[20]
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- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=791543&oldid=786211
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=791551&oldid=791550
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=791596&oldid=791582
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&curid=2919&diff=791607&oldid=791602
