The Musings Of The Consensus

I write this article because I want to make clear an issue I have a burning contempt for, and I believe I do so with good reason. Any community that tries to be as opaque about how authority is exercised, meted out, and put into practice. I believe accountability for one's actions is a fundamental good for everyone, and it ensure the parties who are supposed to enforce the rules are not above them, nor can they use the rules as an excuse to vent their own personal beliefs, hatreds, and grudges under the guise of doing their jobs. That is not to say I believe there are not times when such opaque activity is bad. In the case of legal matters, private information, or other matters requiring sensitivity and discretion, then there is a reasonable, ethical basis for not being flagrantly transparent, such does more harm than good. My primary basis for this contempt stems from many web communities I have either been members of or have administrated myself, but I believe, the above ex...

I recently found out Wikia shuttered the Crappy Games Wiki, apparently due to this guy. By their own account, they did so because they were fighting sexism and fighting libel and defamation. ( archive ) The truth is far from this supposed moral high horse they want to ride. In fact, the real reason they did this was revenge for being blocked . ( archive ) Proof they are the same person on Wikia and RationalWiki . ( archive ) This all said, I just want to say I'm not going to get into whether GamerGate or any allegations made by anyone on anyone are valid in detail save to say I was an adamant supporter. I fought that battle long ago, consider the matter over, will let the facts speak for themselves, and I'm leaving it at that. However, what I am going to say is that this PKMNLivesNew/ UglyRat disgusts me because despite their supposed claims to fighting sexism and violations of Wikia policy, they were trying, as the above links demonstrate, to recruit a personal ...