Bohdan
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| Joined: | 23 May 2007[1] |
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| Real name: | Henry S____ |
| Age range: | immature |
| Gender: | male |
| Locale: | United States |
| Stance: | irritant |
| Misc.: | native Ukrainian; supposed expert on Slavic history. |
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Bohdan is yet another ex CP sysop who came over to RationalWiki. (What is it with these guys?) He was the resident "useless irritating person" on the wiki, and the one who most frequently opined that RationalWiki is "just like CP". Unlike other ex-CPers, Bohdan openly edited on both wikis, under both the name of Bohdan and later as HenryS. He claimed to be a "professional wikilawyer"[2] (a job he failed miserably at), which is as silly as claiming one is a "professional panhandler".
He had an unhealthy obsession with Danes, and RatWikiWikiWiki (originally set up to criticize RationalWikiWiki) soon became a platform for an inane Danish meme.
AKjeldsen was one of Bohdan's few friends on RationalWiki.[3] This is perhaps helped by Bohdan's apparent obsession with Danes.
Some time ago Bohdan claimed to be "changed"[4] and "reformed". He remained as unproductive as ever, although his aggravations mostly narrowed to an inane long-term discussion on Danish culture with AKjeldsen.
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[edit] Treatment by other users
The sysops seem to use Bohdan as a form of stress relief. They often suspend all rules when dealing with him, blocking him at will, although this was an act that he enjoyed. Other users feel free to regularly violate the "your userpage is your castle" rule by vandalizing his userpage (though they don't like it when he reciprocates). He is also the only user who seems to be able to get away with deleting comments on his talk page, and not bothering to archive it.
Whether Bohdan was actually liked, tolerated, or outright detested at RationalWiki seems to depend on who you ask. However, as he seems relatively harmless, and has the blessing of Tmtoulouse and Human, his future was fairly secure.
[edit] Sysopship
Bohdan has been sysopped a whopping ten times (judging from the short intervals between sysopships and de-sysopships, these were meant as a joke).[5] Even so regularly stripped of power, he continues entertaining delusions of grandeur, and regularly threatens to "take away your/everyone's sysop powers", which would make him a bureaucrat (at least in his own head).
[edit] Behavior
Despite his empty threats, Bohdan's behavior has, interestingly, never led to Headless Chicken Mode, which indicates how little the other users actually care about what he has to say. Many will even "play" with him, finding it more entertaining than ignoring him completely.
Unfortunately, Bohdan also used to frequently appear on freshly registered users' talk pages to accuse them of being socks of established users (only one person to date ever complained about this).
Bohdan's appearance on a talk page heralds the end of any productive conversation as the entire discussion is hijacked and turned into a kvetching/wanton accusation session by Bohdan.
He doesn't handle criticism very well, and when confronted on his own talk page will either sputter amusingly and try to accuse the critic of "being just like CP", or will remove the comment, either by archiving or reverting.
[edit] Sockpuppetry
Bohdan has accused, and continues to accuse, everyone on RationalWiki of sockpuppetry. He also denies engaging in sockpuppetry himself, yet uses sockpuppets, which suggests a certain degree of projection on his part.
His most troublesome puppet was Locke (not to be confused with Pinto, whose de facto name was already "Locke"). Bohdan denied Locke was his sock, although given that Locke spent such an unusual amount of time obsessing over the same things Bohdan did, the connection is undeniable. He also ran a sock called "Hugh Powell" (named for the English spelling of Human's real name). The sock was renamed to "Bohdan79"[6] after Human tired of its repeated claims of being the real Hugh Powell. When Bohdan went through his "change of life" [7], he allegedly "turned over a new leaf" and also admitted to, and apologized for, the Humanpuppetry. He is now a "scientist", and concerns himself mostly with issues of importance only to Danish pop culture.
Bohdan is also a very popular pseudonym on RationalWiki, and he has spawned an incredible thirteen children (no word yet on the mother of these bastards). The full list is Bohdan2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 37, 73, and 666. The exact ownership of many of these socks is not known, although Namuh is believed to have created numbers 4 through 10 and Human is completely happy to acknowledge being behind some of the others (mostly the random primes, as marked).
- Bohdan2
- Creation date: 7-28-07[8]
- Sockmaster: Bohdan
- Function: Block avoidance.
- Bohdan3
- Creation date: 8-27-07[8]
- Sockmaster: Bohdan
- Function: Block avoidance.
- Bohdan17
- Creation date: 8-31-07[8]
- Sockmaster: Human
- Function: Spreading the love. Human also registered a sockpuppet of the same name on Conservapedia to serve the master Bohdan. It was swiftly banned.
- Bohdan666
- Creation date: 9-3-07[8]
- Sockmaster: n/a
- Function: n/a
[edit] Hysterical Conversion Disorder (Disassociative State)
Bohdan cannot make up his mind about what username to go by. The following flowchart helps make sense of his antics.
Bohdan (21 May 2007 - 3 Feb. 2008)[9][10] → Oscar (3 Feb. - 8 Feb. 2008)[9] → DoggedamesP (8 Feb. - 27 Feb. 2008)[9] → TmtamesP (27 Feb. - 3 April 2008)[9] → Wikinterpretererer (3 April - 5 April 2008)[9] → SHahB (5 April 2008 - present)
"SHahB" refers to something called "Sir Henry and his Butlers".[11] For the sake of convenience, many users continue calling him "Bohdan" or sometimes "Shabby".
To keep things interesting, he had his user name changed at Conservapedia as well![12]
Bohdan (29 March 2007[13] - 8 April 2008)[12] → HenryS (8 April 2008 - present)
In July 2008, after a brief lull in his RW activity, Bohdan popped back up using his Bohdan2 sock instead of SHahB, for some unknown reason.
[edit] Absence
In late 2008, he dropped off the RW radar, did a little editing at CP, and then vanished entirely from these wiki-lands.
[edit] Notes and references
- ↑ User creation log for Bohdan. After Bohdan renamed himself to TmtamesP, another user re-registered the Bohdan account (probably as a joke).
- ↑ Bohdan's statement here.
- ↑ Bohdan declares himself reformed, and asks AKjeldsen to mentor him. Note that Bohdan chose to ask only AKjeldsen.
- ↑ Bohdan declares himself reformed.
- ↑ User rights log for Bohdan.
- ↑ Rename log for Hugh Powell.
- ↑ Sorry too lazy to dig out, see AKjeldsen's talk page for best data, also Human's.
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 User creation logs for Bohdan2, Bohdan3, Bohdan4, Bohdan5, Bohdan6, Bohdan7, Bohdan8, Bohdan9, Bohdan10, Bohdan17, Bohdan37, Bohdan73, and Bohdan666.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Rename logs for Bohdan, Oscar, DoggedamesP, TmtamesP, and Wikinterpretererer.
- ↑ Bohdan was renamed Oscar twice because Linus thought he messed up renaming Bohdan to Oscar, and changed him back. Bohdan restated his original request, and Linus accordingly rectified it.
- ↑ Bohdan predicts his own name change to SHahB.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Rename log for Bohdan on Conservapedia.
- ↑ User creation log for Bohdan on Conservapedia. The "Bohdan" registered April 17, 2008 was someone else — either a prankster or Bohdan himself — reregistering the account name after he was renamed to HenryS.
