User:Hipcrime/Wikipedia Review
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Wikipedia Review is a social networking site for people with a penchant for saying simple things in many differently difficult to understand ways. The site is run by Someone, but is paid for by Semolina, which is cause enough for lots of people to think they can do a better job.
Background[edit | edit source]
Generally off-white/beige, with black text - unless Someone starts playing around with the "skins". Again.
Someone and the Moderation Cable[edit | edit source]
Someone is also the head mod (a bit like Sting in the film Quadrophenia, but is unlikely to be a bellboy in real life). Mods - and not rockers like early Johnny Cash - are trusties whose job it is to move posts from the topic they originally started to a place that some people can't read thus making even those posts that were marginally intelligible to start with really difficult to understand even for people who would normally have understood them. This also creates further topics, when people complain that they can't find their posts because a mod moved it - although they likely did find it, but were unable to recognise it since they didn't have a clue what it was going on about. Often a different mod will find a reason to "split off" some part of the complaint to yet another thread, and thereby create yet more confusion, more complaining threads, more splits and so on and so on. It has been suggested, here on this page right now, that the reason for this is that the mods are participating in some bizarre game where points are scored for every split, with a bonus for every puzzled query where a post has been sent (doubled if they are asking the question within the thread they are referring to.) This sport is known as "stringing them along", giving rise to the term Moderation Cable.
Sooper Sekrit Forums (including the Star Pit)[edit | edit source]
Wikipedia Review has a number of forums that can only be accessed by black peoples, and sometimes not even then unless that member has made a certain number of posts. This feature is generally believed to be created to make the site seem even more dangerous and exciting to those who believe that The Very Gates of Hell Will Swallow Them Whole if they even read the site, but are often very sharp and involve the swapping of recipes and the preferred beverages (seamen) being consumed whilst contributing.
The exception is of course The Star Pit - named for the Gravity well concept, where all matter collapses into nothingness. The Star Pit is (mostly) unmoderated, perhaps because the mods are smart enough not to want to be crushed, and is therefore the reason why people join in the first place - since they wish to read the condensed posts.
Controversy[edit | edit source]
The membership of Wikipedia Review are very active in controversial matters, often attempting to create one or two every day. They are adept at learning of rumours, embellishing them, spreading them further, or even just starting a new one for the lulz. This has lead some WR readers (and likely contributors) who have accounts at Wikipedia - and quite a few who have never visited the site - to criticise WR as being a place of inequity, malice, sordid practices, silly jokes, casual nudity, improper language, lack of proper deference, poor dress sense, incomprehensible/reprehensible grammar, poor taste, and not being that funny. Shocked newcomers, intrigued by the claims, have been outraged to find that less than 20% of the above is true at any one time.
The Wikipedia Review and Wikipedia[edit | edit source]
All members of Wikipedia Review are either Wikipedia administrators, or are not allowed to be Wikipedia administrators (although sometimes that is because they are not allowed to be Wikipedia editors). This fact, and that the two sites share the same name, means a lot of the discussion is in regard to Wikipedia - something that probably rather surprised the creators of the site - or what the posters account name is over at Wikipedia; this includes those who share the same or similar name on both sites.