Radioactive afikomen
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| Joined: | 3 August 2007[1] |
| Real name: | Jacob A. Murane[2][3] |
| Age range: | 18 |
| Gender: | male |
| Locale: | Albany, Oregon, United States |
| Stance: | atheist (tolerant) |
| Misc.: | College student; Jewish |
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Radioactive afikomen (often called "RA" by lazy typists) is another RationalWiki contributor who seems unable to sleep. He was immensely proud of the size of his contributions,[4] which he boasts about regularly and presumably thinks will help him to pull in chicks. Sadly, it is not size that matters, but quality.
After helping revert pagemove vandalism, Radioactive afikomen was offered sysopship by Pinto's5150.[5] He initially declined, claiming he "didn't feel ready for that degree of responsibility" and would reconsider a "few weeks or months... [later]."[6] A few weeks or monthsThree days later, he changed his mind and asked for Pinto to sysop him.[6] He was accordingly sysoped by Pinto's5150 Jan. 16, 2008.[7]
On March 7, 2008, [8] RA declared he would be catching up with schoolwork and largely unavailable for a couple weeks. He then made over 500 edits in the next fifteen days. As a direct result of his inability to let go of RationalWiki, he failed his classes,[9]and he said his parents removed his room's internet connection.[10]
RA has a tendency to take action without considering the feelings of others first. For example, his "core group" list, drawn up to identify the RationalWikians who should be allowed to write the RationalWiki constitution, rubbed many editors the wrong way.[11]
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Controversies
He once maliciously blocked Rational Thinker,[12] though he soon apologized for it,[12] in one of the few cases of a sysop directly apologizing for such.
He rashly threw the first punch in the MarcusCicero Controversy.[13] He called MarcusCicero an ass for "removing content without discussion", despite the fact that Radioactive afikomen himself has done the same thing many times.
He sometimes lets his emotions get the better of him and rashly insults the entire wiki or certain members thereof. He is later obliged to indulge in humiliating apologies.
He is frequently accused of edit count padding, and has even publicly admitted to carrying out this activity.[14] Nevertheless, whenever he is accused of doing this he protests vigorously.[15]
At RationalWikiWiki he goes under the pseudonym Hans Johnson[16][17] and has significantly edited his own article (this very article) despite that the RWW guidelines that he played a large part in creating explicitly forbid 'editing ones own article'.
Tone
In his earlier days on RationalWiki talk pages, Radioactive afikomen seemed to tone down potentially confrontational language with "softener" phrases, such as "could you?", "I think", and "why don't we?" (this approach apparently first manifested in his Uncyclopedia talk edits). Of late he has abandoned this technique, and devolved into invective.[18] This change has even earned him comparison to Conservapedia sysop Ed Poor.[19]
Sockpuppetry
RA suffers from "Random Sock Creation Syndrome", but with proper care and medication he may yet recover. Known sockpuppets include: Namuh, My password is New Gwenson, Yoda, my password is, DMlaP, Bohdan4 through Bohdan10, My password is Bohdan, Spamgasm and Hans Johnson.[20]
Retirement
On March 24th, 2009, Radioactive made this cryptic change to his user page, and was not seen for over a month, except on March 31 to correct the phrasing.
On May 6, 2009, RA posted a Parthian shot of sorts on his user page, announcing his permanent retirement from the Wiki (which he criticized as "a dumping ground for articles that would never be accepted anywhere else"). In the message he addressed himself particularly to Toast, Pink, AKjeldsen, Tmtoulouse, Human, Doggedpersistence, and CUR.
references
- ↑ User creation log for Radioactive afikomen.
- ↑ RA signs using his supposed real name.
- ↑ Mr. Jacob Murane allows us the use of proper form of his real first name when addressing him.
- ↑ RA has made over 110 edits to his signature updating his edit count.
- ↑ Pinto's5150 offers RA sysopship ("demotion").
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 RA declines sysopship Jan. 13, then recants Jan 16.
- ↑ User rights log for Radioactive afikomen.
- ↑ RA adds an away message, later removes it from his userpage, with 15 days between revisions.
- ↑ RA shares his grades.
- ↑ RA announces his internet has been cut.
- ↑ RA posts a list of the "core members" of RationalWiki. Objections roll in.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 RA blocks Rational Thinker, then apologizes for blocking him less than 60 minutes later.
- ↑ RA makes the opening statement in the prosecution of MarcusCicero.
- ↑ RA discovers that updating one's edit count is a great way to pad one's edit count.
- ↑ RA says he has never been more insulted.
- ↑ RA admits he is HJ
- ↑ Radioactive afikomen has a user box acknowledging his RWW identity.
- ↑ RA calls MarcusCicero an ass.
- ↑ PFoster and MarcusCicero compare Radioactive afikomen to Ed Poor.
- ↑ Hans confirms his sockpuppetry on the old server. (link down)
