MarcusCicero
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MarcusCicero is one of the more controversial members of RationalWiki. Unlike most other atheists on the site, he's pretty weak when it comes to indiscriminate bashing of religion and and seems somewhat partial to defending religion. He has excised several articles of perceived non-credible speculation or hearsay.[3][6]
Various people have accused him of being immature[7], a hypocrite,[8] and of "doing a TK".[9] He has also been accused of "unilaterally removing content without discussion"[10] (although the first time he objected to material in an article he did comment using the article's talk page, even it he waited only three minutes to act[11]).
On January 25, 2009, he was sysoped[12] by Radioactive afikomen, who apparently thought he would be "mostly harmless." He was wrong. MarcusCicero promptly went on a rampage of blocking,[13] blocking more than 20 people before Toast (who had been the victim of one of his blocks) promoted him again.[12]
He is not a fan of Toast's political views.[4] When not logged in he has edited from the IP 134.226.1.129[14]; from that IP, he says that Toast outed herself as a sock of SusanG.[15]
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Reform society and blocking incident
MarcusCicero returned again in September 2009, accusing RationalWiki of being "just a frivolous perpetuation of internet memes and teenage angst"[16]. ToP sysopped him again, but Theemperor promoted him, [17] which resulted in a brief fight between the two.
Despite saying that he doesn't want to be constructive,[18] he started the The Rationalwiki Reform Society with the aim to restore RationalWiki to its "former glory", and rid the site of internet memes (against which he presumably once had an unfortunate childhood incident), juvenile jokes, and the Saloon bar. Naturally, this was met with significant derision, so he abandoned the idea in favor of trolling some more,[19] which led to the Great MarcusCicero Blocking Incident.
Troll admission
In a sudden and quite unexpected spasm of honesty he "came out of the closet" as a troll in early December 2009. [20]. He then asserted that he would be leaving, and was blocked by Ace McWicked. This then led to a block war between himself, Ace, Kels, Gooniepunk2005, and others. He followed this up with a fairly childish little vandal rampage and was ultimately stripped of his sysop rights (which he probably shouldn't have had anyways) and vandal binned. Presumably even trolls can be overfed.
Socks
Marcus has a history of creating transparent socks like Lunacy and hidden socks. He once claimed that he had at least one sock which took an active part in RW activities.
Theemperor (AKA Thedictator, Theautocrat, Dear Leader, Exalted Leader and Glorious Leader) has been identified elsewhere as a possible MS sock, but it is interesting to speculate about others. One can assume that a MC sock will have some or all of the following characteristics.
- It will engage with MC even though the rest of the site is interested in not feeding him.
- This engagement may be supportive as in the case of Neveruse or abusive as in the case of Theemperor.
- The sock may pretend to have philosophical pretensions or some Roman connection like EdmundBurke and Theemperor.
- The sock may try to be deliberately provocative like Conservapederast.
Marcus hands it to his socks
On the 9th of January 2009 Marcus posted one of his regular departure messages:[21]
- This thread has given me a spasm of conscience. Seeing pictures of people here (Especially Kels, who's 'concept drawing' is much more powerful than a mere picture) has led me to realise that I've been thinking of you as non entities, in short, that there wasn't someone behind the computer screen. Man, what a dick I've been. I'm sorry folks. I'll leave you alone from now on.
He has not been seen since that time but his socks seem to be involved in making supportive voting comments on the question of crats.
Notes and references
- ↑ User creation log for MarcusCicero.
- ↑ MarcusCicero states his residency chatting with Angband.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcus Cicero excises hearsay from the Ron Paul article[1] [2] [3].
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=MarcusCicero&page=User%3AToast
- ↑ Just ask St. Augustine! :-)
- ↑ MarcusCicero removes material from libertarianism and Pontius Pilate. Adds qualifiers to Palestine.
- ↑ Radioactive afikomen calls him an "immature two-year-old" [4] [5].
- ↑ Bob M all but calls MarcusCicero a hypocrite.
- ↑ SusanG (as Anon) unfavorably compares MarcusCicero's tactics to TK's.
- ↑ Radioactive afikomen lectures Marcus Cicero.
- ↑ MC takes issue with material in "Libertarianism" at 12:26, removes certain statements from said article 12:29.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AMarcusCicero
- ↑ [6]
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Toast&diff=prev&oldid=303727
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/User_talk:134.226.1.229
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&diff=prev&oldid=431287
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=Theemperor&page=User%3AMarcusCicero&year=2009&month=9
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&diff=prev&oldid=441484
- ↑ MarcusCicero repeats his tired, old argument in a random thread started by a newbie
- ↑ Marcus bears his soul
- ↑ Another goodbye
