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Rational Wiki deletes essay criticizing Rational Wiki
I’ve been exposing harassing behaviors in collaborative communities ever since and began to publish Wikipedia, we have a problem.
Words like 'pseudoscientist!' 'woo supporter'! get thrown around by these communities to individuals they believe are writing or researching in a number of alternative health or mind/body topics.
But to apply those terms to people who are making editorial arguments about biographical facts on an encyclopedia?
If someone was to discover who I am for the first time via my biography on Rational Wiki - I would look like a crank or a nut ball. As an entrepreneur, I can’t tell you how utterly annoying it is when I have to explain my ‘Rational Wiki’ article entry to an investor or a client.
I decided to find out a few days ago to finally see what they offer for resolution and what process they use to arrive at it. I went to their site and this caught my attention.
Great I thought. I absolutely disagree with Rational Wiki’s publication being used to leverage ‘payback’ on me for anonymously editing a Wikipedia article. After all - they claim to be a publisher of ‘evidenced based facts’, so they have set the high standard for themselves as a publisher.
So I clicked on the link ‘constructive dialogue’ and came to the next page.
So I did. I choose option #3 and I wrote an essay called ‘Rational Wiki revisited, a critique’ and posted it to their website on April 15th, 2015 - just two days ago.
So I spent two days chatting with them on their deletion vote - I confronted each comment made with critical questioning. I comprised the essay to address the various comments and opinions they had, and even adjusted some of my own statements based on what they told me. I asked them questions to each new argument twist they gave me. Their argument closed with comparing me to Nazi’s defending themselves at the Nuremberg trials, Godwin’s Law and all.
They then deleted the essay from Rational Wiki from all of the archives. As if it was never there.
I archived the essay here. It never received a completed edit so apologies for typos or a few rants on sentences. Oye.
And thus concluded the ‘reasoned debate’ about ‘evidenced based’ facts with the juvenile Rational Wiki community.
This article is also posted here: http://romeviharo.tumblr.com/post/116776035715/rational-wiki-deletes-essay-criticizing-rational
I’ve been exposing harassing behaviors in collaborative communities ever since and began to publish Wikipedia, we have a problem.
Words like 'pseudoscientist!' 'woo supporter'! get thrown around by these communities to individuals they believe are writing or researching in a number of alternative health or mind/body topics.
But to apply those terms to people who are making editorial arguments about biographical facts on an encyclopedia?
If someone was to discover who I am for the first time via my biography on Rational Wiki - I would look like a crank or a nut ball. As an entrepreneur, I can’t tell you how utterly annoying it is when I have to explain my ‘Rational Wiki’ article entry to an investor or a client.
I decided to find out a few days ago to finally see what they offer for resolution and what process they use to arrive at it. I went to their site and this caught my attention.
Great I thought. I absolutely disagree with Rational Wiki’s publication being used to leverage ‘payback’ on me for anonymously editing a Wikipedia article. After all - they claim to be a publisher of ‘evidenced based facts’, so they have set the high standard for themselves as a publisher.
So I clicked on the link ‘constructive dialogue’ and came to the next page.
So I did. I choose option #3 and I wrote an essay called ‘Rational Wiki revisited, a critique’ and posted it to their website on April 15th, 2015 - just two days ago.
So I spent two days chatting with them on their deletion vote - I confronted each comment made with critical questioning. I comprised the essay to address the various comments and opinions they had, and even adjusted some of my own statements based on what they told me. I asked them questions to each new argument twist they gave me. Their argument closed with comparing me to Nazi’s defending themselves at the Nuremberg trials, Godwin’s Law and all.
They then deleted the essay from Rational Wiki from all of the archives. As if it was never there.
I archived the essay here. It never received a completed edit so apologies for typos or a few rants on sentences. Oye.
And thus concluded the ‘reasoned debate’ about ‘evidenced based’ facts with the juvenile Rational Wiki community.
This article is also posted here: http://romeviharo.tumblr.com/post/116776035715/rational-wiki-deletes-essay-criticizing-rational
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