Comments on: Rooms of the House

By: ritz

ritz — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:13:28 +0000

?????

By: Aria

Aria — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:22:56 +0000

Just a quick note to say that the Ask Manson page is still up. It’s accessible from the right-hand menu but not the top menu. :) (Or maybe you meant that it was defunct in the sense that WR is no longer asking Manson questions on our behalf.) I’ve emailed WR once or twice since he took his leave but have not received a response. It would be nice to hear from him! I hope he’s doing ok.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:27:34 +0000

Now *that* is interesting. Now I’m even *more* confused as to his goals in posting here.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:19:16 +0000

I did some googling and found that a surprisingly high amount of WBM’s posts are just copied and pasted from elsewhere. Not just recently, but going way back. Most of these originate from either Wikipedia articles or online dictionary entries (and of course elsewhere on the abyss more recently). For example, the first comment I ever read on this forum was this unprompted explanation of psychopomps that he posted on the Identity of the Guide page in 2018; it was copied and pasted from the Wikipedia article of the same name. Likewise, many of his recent comments originate from the Wikipedia article titled “Sealioning”, slightly edited to include vewatkins’ handle.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:48:39 +0000

His self-imposed term of involvement expired in 2016 (although I think he was also experiencing some serious health issues at the time), but he posted at least a couple of times after that. His last post that I’m aware of was on March 1st, 2017, on the now defunct Ask Manson page, where he mentioned he was writing his dissertation. However, he still checks the site every few weeks to approve new members, as he did with me last month.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:37:17 +0000

When was the last time WR interacted here at all though? I’m pretty sure it was before I joined. I don’t think they care anymore.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:35:55 +0000

Has anyone considered reaching out to WR about him? His behavior over the last week or two has escalated to just plain spamming, which is almost universally recognized as grounds for being banned from any forum.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:30:04 +0000

I don’t think he IS copying from something. Nobody except WBM would just write “quest scions” and then move on without any explanation.

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:50:32 +0000

I think he’s just copying something and putting my name in it. None of this is describing anyone’s actual behavior on the site, however generously viewed; nobody is requesting “evidence” (whatever that would mean, in the context of Maze) or clamoring for a debate; nobody is cyberbullying anybody; nobody is being goaded into behavior that gets their “account” suspended; etc. WBM seems to be going through something right now, but whatever it is, his repeated copy/paste comments spread around to every page on the site should not be mistaken for real attempts at conversation, or an expression of earnest grievances.

If there’s something we’ve learned from years of dealing with WBM, it’s that obvious strategies are not useful is getting him to stop posting perpetual nonsense. He doesn’t appreciate you being polite, he doesn’t want to engage in discussion, he doesn’t like being ignored, and he doesn’t like being dismissed. The only way to please him may be to agree with him, which is admittedly a strategy we’ve never tried, but that does not seem likely to curtail his nonsense posting, even if it would decrease his tantrum posting. Just buckle up, everybody! The fun never stops with the fun factory!

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:50:26 +0000

So what, he’s Ben Shapiro?