Human
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The awards committee at RWW has awarded this user the Jack Wrangler Prominent Member Award
| Stalk this user! (It's a joke) | |
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| Joined: | 21 May 2007 |
| Real name: | Huw Powell |
| Age range: | 49 |
| Gender: | male |
| Locale: | New Hampshire, US |
| Stance: | firm atheist (tolerant) |
| Misc.: | |
| user page -- user talk -- contributions | |
Human is one of the original cabalists and, one of the most (over?) productive RW members, and the most active user by quite a long margin.[1] He regularly edits across a 16-hour swathe of the day (this may have something to do with the fact that he is self-employed). In terms of influence and status, he is the uncontested giant of RationalWiki (though Radioactive afikomen seemed to be trying to challenge him before RA's retirement).
He is usually polite and reasonable, though sometimes abrupt, and would probably be content just having fun on RW without being productive. He is also largely tolerant of religious people, even though he is firmly atheist. He has his moments, however, of ire and wrath. At these times he will attempt to "call it as he sees it", which unfortunately comes off as opinionated and arrogant to others. Human is the sole arbiter on "humor": if he thinks something's funny then it's hilarious; if he can't see the joke then it's reverted.[Evidence needed]
He tries - not always successfully or consistently - to avoid using bad language. Discerning users can observe his temper (or state of inebriation?) when he starts dropping "shit" and "fuck". This change in tone can catch the unprepared (i.e. everybody) off guard.
Human has been involved in a few conflicts on RationalWiki, particularly with Radioactive afikomen and Nx. He left the site for a few days in October 2008, following a bitter feud over whether the Spanish Inquisition constituted British comedy. In March 2009, he clashed with Radioactive afikomen again, and posted a rant to RA's talk-page[2] following a botched realignment of a template[3] and a comment about Human's debating style.[4] He left the wiki again in November 2009 following a heated dispute with Nx over another template issue, stating that "NxWiki" was "authoritarian."[5][6]
Human is an unabashed smoker and drinker, and occasionally tosses around the odd reference to scotch. He hails from Wales, and his real name is distinctly Welsh.
Human edits at Wikipedia under his real name.[7] His user-page is here.
[edit] References and notes
- ↑ See the active users statistics. Human averages around 60 edits per day, about twice as many as the leading competitors.
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Radioactive_afikomen&curid=4859&diff=334893&oldid=333886
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=War_on_Drugs&curid=9340&diff=334876&oldid=334844
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=RationalWiki%3ASaloon_bar&diff=333861&oldid=333856
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=User%3AHuman&diff=476423&oldid=463807
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Human&diff=476415&oldid=476409
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fun:RationalWikiWikiWiki/Human&curid=76300&diff=371657&oldid=371639
