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• Is RationalWiki doomed by its own institutional ADHD? After less than a week, Human gives up on the Constitutional Convention and removes it from the Recent changes header. The convention itself has petered out to nothing, with no edits since April 2.[1] [2] Looks like RW forgot to take its Ritalin this month.

• Unable to kick his addiction to RationalWiki, and amidst talk of an "educational block", RA blocks himself for the duration of spring term. Nobody notices.

• SusanG returns using her own account!

• At long last, a Constitutional Convention is called! Will the anarchy be abolished? Will Tmtoulouse give his blessing? Will the people even be able to decide who's invited? Or will Bohdan derail the whole thing with his incessant trolling?

• SusanG is abandoning RationalWiki once and for all! Dissatisfied, she's running off and founding her own wiki!

• SusanG gives up using an account and continues editing as an IP! (217.171.129.73, 82.132.136.194, and 82.132.136.202 are all hers.)

• It's Interpreted to the rescue, with twenty-minute cool down for all participants.

• To all of RW: Three cheers for Headless Chicken Mode --- we find it most entertaining!

• By adding 2 cents, Human somehow makes everyone poorer. It boggles the mind...

• Kudos to AmesG for trying to moderate ([3] [4] [5] [6] [7]), in spite of everyone sabotaging his efforts.

• A bar fight breaks out on MarcusCicero's talk page[8]! Allow us to paraphrase: "You're an asshole!" "You're a hypocrite!" "Fuck you!" "Oh, yeah? Well, you're immature!" "You're both immature." "Shut up!" Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of birds singing children mobbing.

• Sweet moves you got there, RA! Throwing the first punch can be a great way to make friends![9] [10]

• Barbara, Barbara, Barbara. Us? Agent provocateurs? No thanks --- you're doing a fine job of provoking yourselves! All we do is sit back and watch the show!

• The source of the trouble is found! Secret Squirrel is leaving! Question: Isn't marking the image you've used on your userpage for three months as a copyvio[11] tantamount to admitting you've been knowingly breaking the law for three whole months?

• Secret Squirrel wreaks a trail of destruction[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19], culling over 40,000 bits of text across 8 articles. SusanG reins him in.

• RationalWiki: "Let's see, how to combat pseudoscience? Write a needed science article? Nah, I got a better idea. How about we fight over keeping a useless category that no one will remember the name of, until we fight over deleting it again?"

• Secret Squirrel commits drive-by templating and marks numerous categories for deletion.

• After a 44 hour ([20] and [21]) "I'm leaving and never coming back" break, SusanG is back! Maybe. Not really. In a partial, roundabout sort of way. Her spokespuppet claims she isn't. So we really don't know. Stand by for updates in this exciting saga!