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Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

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Are you confused? You replied to me initially, I didn’t seek out one of your comments to reply to. And you still haven’t explained why you answered a comment believed to be a non-sequitor… with your own non-sequitor. Which still makes no sense. If you don’t want to answer any of the questions so far, you are free to leave.

ok, so: no consider that the reason you think my post was a non-sequitur to yours , may be because mine was discussing the topic of the thread you sought out and responded to with a non-sequitur thus, you are confused by both my post and GP ( "This doesnt make sense… ?" ), because you're ignoring the substance of their comment and the allegations

This just reads like gibberish.

You’ve written multiple nonsensical replies in a row, so I’m not going to bother puzzling it out anymore.

Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

#253

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ok, so: no consider that the reason you think my post was a non-sequitur to yours , may be because mine was discussing the topic of the thread you sought out and responded to with a non-sequitur thus, you are confused by both my post and GP ( "This doesnt make sense… ?" ), because you're ignoring the substance of their comment and the allegations

This just reads like gibberish. You’ve written multiple nonsensical replies in a row, so I’m not going to bother puzzling it out anymore.

> This doesnt make sense… ?

> This doesnt seem to address...

> This makes no sense.

> you still haven’t explained...

> still makes no sense.

> This just reads like gibberish

> multiple nonsensical replies

It is unfortunate that you're so confused by what everybody else in this thread is saying. It is totally normal, however, that so many things don't make sense to a confused person.

On the plus side, nobody else seems to be confused by any of the other comments in this thread.

Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

#254

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The rule is: If there is a decision to be made on Wikipedia, the decision is made by reaching a consensus among Wikipedia users using discussions. You’re not allowed to bring in other people that might share your view but that might not even be Wikipedia users and have them argue your position for you. You’re not even allowed to selectively advertise the discussion among Wikipedia users to bias the discussion.

Sorry but that text is contained nowhere in the link that was provided neither are you the person I replied to. What is this supposed to mean?

Wikipedia has a series of interconnected policies and guidelines, and sometimes you cannot simply make a conclusion on that page alone. The Canvassing page is a behavioral guideline that was linked to/from "Consensus" [1] (which I personally believe to be a very ironclad rule, whether positively or not), and "Consensus" is a Conduct Policy. Policy has a higher precedence as it was generally and mostly recognized and acknowledged by its members.

That summary you are replying to is not a verbatim text of the guidelines (since there is none), but an interpretation of the page "Canvassing" itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus

Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

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This just reads like gibberish. You’ve written multiple nonsensical replies in a row, so I’m not going to bother puzzling it out anymore.

> This doesnt make sense… ? > This doesnt seem to address... > This makes no sense. > you still haven’t explained... > still makes no sense. > This just reads like gibberish > multiple nonsensical replies It is unfortunate that you're so confused by what everybody else in this thread is saying. It is totally normal, however, that so many things don't make sense to a confused person. On the plus side, nobody else seem…

This is bizarre. Like some kind of trolling.

Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

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This just reads like gibberish. You’ve written multiple nonsensical replies in a row, so I’m not going to bother puzzling it out anymore.

> This doesnt make sense… ? > This doesnt seem to address... > This makes no sense. > you still haven’t explained... > still makes no sense. > This just reads like gibberish > multiple nonsensical replies It is unfortunate that you're so confused by what everybody else in this thread is saying. It is totally normal, however, that so many things don't make sense to a confused person. On the plus side, nobody else seem…

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Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

#258

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For many topics Wikipedia is well known to be overrun with left wing campaigns - LGBT, and US political topics chief among them. I'd rather see neither side successfully oust the other. But it seems that the left got there first and is entrenched.

How is "LGBT" left wing?? Furthermore, I'm not in the US, but "US politics" doesn't seem to have much left wing about it either.

Unfortunately from a US perspective being a sexual minority/trans is left wing by default because our right wingers hate them.

Re: Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia

#259

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Well, sure, it looks like one thing, but ... I took a quick look at what the "Wikiproject intellectual diversity" was actually monitoring. Specific articles or categories about things Mr Sanger finds interesting,right? Well, indeed: specifically it's all arbcom, admin elections, policy pages. You can check it out here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/WikiProject_... Then he canvassed people from outsi…

This doesnt make sense… ? Clearly all significant names involved with Wikipedia, including admins, have some kind of ulterior motives, to some degree above literally zero. Unless you believe in literally perfect altruism 100% of the time. The degree can vary from one to another, but that seems like a much higher bar to confidently pin down.

The notion that altruism exists - not to mention "literally perfect altruism" - is harmful. And yes, of course - a person can decide to do something that benefits others without apparent benefit to themselves.... until you realize that the decision itself is an inherently "selfish" act as it is based on something that has value to that person. This may seem like nit-picking until you realize how many vile schemes involve preying upon people after convincing them that they are insufficiently "altruistic".
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