Conservapedia:Boycott

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The Conservapedia Boycott is when RationalWikians decide to collectively refrain from visiting, editing, or commenting upon Conservapedia.

Contents 1 Goals of the boycott 2 Status light 3 Places to change things to start or end a boycott 4 Alternative amusements

[edit] Goals of the boycott

The boycott's purpose is to achieve some of the following objectives:

• Remove Trashionalwikians from the editing pool at far-right extremist blog Conservapedia, in order to divine how much of their traffic is generated by RationalWiki members;
• Starve Conservapedia of intarwebternet oxygen, by cutting it off from its largest source of traffic;
• Enrage TK by removing the supply of victims his pent-up sexual tension is normally released upon;
• Encourage deep paranoia in RobS by going into radio silence, the language of spies and conspirators;
• Cause tremendous confusion in Conservative by allowing him to run rampant through every article unhindered;
• Taking away Jinx's spell-checker causing him to have to actually read Conservapedia and his blog to find errors.
• Make various inside jokes about the CP sysops behind their backs.

[edit] Status light

Off

Boycott 6 started sometime during February 11th 2009, and ran until a bit after midnight February 17th 2009 UTC.

Boycott 5 started on Friday 8 Aug. 2008 and is slated to run for the duration of the Olympic Games in China, through Sunday, August 24. collapsed under its own weight on Thursday 14 Aug. 2008.

Boycott 4 ran from Friday 15 Feb. 2008 8 PM "your time" through 8 PM Friday 22.

Boycott 3 ran from 00:00 Dec 01 2007 "your time" through Friday, Dec 07, "my birthday your time".

Boycott 2 was Sept. 13 - 21, 2007. Please join us when the next one randomly occurs!

Boycott 1's history is lost in the legendary mists of Arthurian mythology, but we assure you it happened!

[edit] Places to change things to start or end a boycott

Change this to read On.

Be sure to test your results after each change.

[edit] Alternative amusements

RationalWiki realizes that many of us get a good deal of our entertainment from our world-renowned What is going on? page. We therefore have provided some small alternatives that may fill the void... when you're not editing RationalWiki, of course.

1. xkcd, a good web-comic.
2. Sam and Fuzzy, another great webcomic. With continuity, even. (You've been linked to comic #1 for convenience's sake.)
3. Pearls Before Swine, an irreverent newspaper comic.
4. Get Fuzzy, a newspaper comic that is almost as good as Pearls.
5. Non Sequitur, another irreverent newspaper comic that frequently promotes pro-rational and pro-skeptical themes.
6. Jesus and Mo, a webcomic featuring not one but two religious founders.
7. Dolphin Olympics, possibly the best Flash game ever. Try to beat the RationalWiki best, which is currently 7.6 million, held by Norseman. Hint: finish with a tailslide.
8. Dolphin Olympics 2 is hard. Good luck, chump. (Beat Hoji's 17.1 million, and watch in envy at this)
9. Listen to NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me," a news-comedy show, available in Podcast, web radio, or real-radio form.
10. Fall in love (always never a good thing to do).
11. Come up with an idea for NaNoWriMo - sign-up starts October 1! NaNo is over, but you can still write!
12. Optical delusions, visually initiated epileptics be warned.
13. Play vocabulary games. And feed babies at the same time.
14. Revert neo nazi teletubby gang wandalismo.
15. Write some stuff to piss off Ben Stein. That whole Expelled thing pisses me off.
16. The Trebuchet Game.
17. Play Winterbells and beat the 6,47.10²³ points record.
18. Play this and try to beat my score of 31,415,916,535 pojints.
19. Achewood, empirically proven by gas chromatograph mass awesomeoscopy to be the best comic since Calvin and Hobbes.
20. Piled Higher & Deeper a webcomic examining the (lack of) life in academia, mostly the sad goings on of the post-graduate students.
21. TVTropes Kiss your spare time good-bye.
22. A VERY simple yet addictive game.
23. Possibly the strangest thing I have ever played.
24. Get back to work/studying.
25. Pop That Zit, a repository of really thrilling cyst, pimple, boil, abscess, bot fly, blackhead, and ganglion cyst videos.

In addition, there are still plenty of fundamentalist whackjob websites to prowl and report on, or even "copy and refute", as we do so well. There are insane authors and pundits backing YEC or the GWOT who need us to take them down a few notches. Heck, we could survive for months just refuting Brush Lintball or Shill O'Really!

Finally, remember that Man has achieved most of his great works by turning off the computer, implementing the 'Going Outside™' routine, taking a walk and/or meeting people. You do not need to upgrade to version 1.1 of Going Outside™ to achieve this - Version 1.0 has been stable since its release back at the Dawn Of Time and has not ever needed to be updated.