Night of the Sysoping
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The Night of the Sysoping was a big round of demotions that happened on RationalWiki on 3 December 2008, which is seen by some to be the most definitive watershed moment in the slow relaxation of the criteria for sysopship on RationalWiki that eventually culminated in the events of May 2011.
The event, possibly named after the Night of the Blunt Knives at Conservapedia,[1] lasted exactly four hours, during which Π and Caius demoted eight new sysops, including several newcomers to the site and two Conservapedia sysops. Of the eight, only two (ListenerX and Hamster) remained active 3 years later.
[edit] Logs of the night
- from the user rights log
- 07:43, 3 December 2008 Caius (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Newton from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of sysoping)
- 07:40, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Neon from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of the sysoping)
- 07:36, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:OneForLogic from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of the sysoping)
- 05:29, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:ListenerX from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of the sysoping)
- 05:27, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Hamster from (none) to sysop (Victim of the knight of the sysoping)
- 03:46, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:BlueSprite from (none) to sysop (A little earlier than normal but it is good to have opinion diversty around for once)
- 03:45, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Publius from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of the sysoping)
- 03:43, 3 December 2008 Π (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Fox from (none) to sysop (Victim of the night of the sysoping)
