Conservapedia:TK

TK masturbating to his favorite net porn, Conservapedia's block log.

“” The threshold for tolerating constant arguments and disputes is very low these days. It will get lower.

—TK, 8th Dec '08

TK (aka, Terry Koeckritz, "The Knife", "Team Killer", and sometimes "Terry Koeckritz") is arguably the least productive active sysop on Conservapedia. He was defrocked in late November 2007 after swearing at Schlafly in a private email, but was rehired to enforce Aschlafly's iron will at the end of 2008. People tend to think he is loyal to nobody but himself, and terminally power hungry. When he talks, let no dog bark; indeed, you would do well to heed his roar. He walks among conservapedians like a god among crazy men. Those of us who have faith know he is the Messiah who will wrest control from Aschlafly and force the remaining sysops into exile. To pray to him, you may only send him an email. He is kind and wise. He is inclined to be abrasive, and tears communities down skillfully.

Operating system

The TK police

He prefers to contact users privately, through email or other means, so most of the community doesn’t see what’s happening. He targets new users who haven’t learned about his past, and shows them only his “better” side. These users end up supporting TK against experienced users who know him better as quarrels develop. Discussions get fragmented off via chatroom forums, instant messenger chat sessions, etc., where the rest of the community won’t know what he’s doing.

He ignores reasonable discussion and imposes what he wants.

He is also an unrepentant bully, threatening people with actions outside of the wiki-verse.

Conservapedia

For some time TK was close to Aschlafly and ranked just below the Führer. He was notorious as the most tyrannical of the sysops at Conservapedia, and even the other sysops feared him. TK was enthusiastic with the banhammer and blocked large numbers of users. He even used range blocks against potential users who had done nothing. He banned a group of users who had got together and started RationalWiki 1.0 in the great purge (or "Night of the Blunt Knives"). At that point he felt able to challenge Andrew Schlafly himself. TK undid some of Schlafly's edits, and refused to accept The Boss's say as final. Schlafly turned around and stung TK by desysopping him. After that TK had to do without the special powers. Desperate for power TK tried to act as a sysop even after he had been desysoped.

Banishment and return

Terry Koeckritz Returns!

For a time TK was banished from Conservapedia and caused problems at RationalWiki instead, where he succeeded in becoming one of the first users banned from RationalWiki

TK returned to Conservapedia on the 23rd of March, 2008, after being unblocked by Geo.plrd. Although he was supposedly on parole, the document that discussed the specifics of this status was quietly deleted (again by Geo.plrd) on 28th March with the comment "Per private discussion".

Between late April and mid November 2008, TK stayed away from CP. TK returned to Conservapedia in November 2008 with a vengeance and continues as active as he ever was. He got blocking rights within three weeks of his return. Several previously committed Conservapedia sysops say they left Conservapedia because of him.^{[citation needed]} In his tell-most exposé, Philip J. Rayment wrote a chapter on his difficulties with TK, naming him one of the multitude reasons he left. There have been prominent, probably futile letters of complaint. (See JessicaT and An open letter from a disillusioned conservapedian.) RationalWikians may only speculate what TK may be doing through emails, chatrooms, etc.

Currently, TK seems to be working faster than last time. He may feel a need to do his stuff before his reputation catches up with him, but Schlafly has a bad memory: on December 1st, 2008, he reinstalled TK to near-sysopship, now with added checkabuser checkuser powers. TK was one of six people to receive full sysopship (in his case, for a second time around, of course) a few minutes before mid-night on the 31st of December 2008.

He has since been given oversight powers, which enable him to not only make edits invisible, but to remove almost any trace of them having ever happened. He subsequently accused RW of forging screenshots.

Motives

TK has something in common with an Internet Griefer. Conservapedia suits him - there are strong but arbitrarily enforced rules, behind-the-scenes administrative communications, a fairly clear ideology to abuse, and plenty of vulnerable normal users and borderline personality-disordered admins to manipulate. However, we can't get inside his head to see exactly what he wants. Last time, Aschlafly kicked him out before he could finish whatever he wanted to do. Theories include:

1. Perhaps he wants to bring the site down.
2. Perhaps he's playing some type of brinkmanship. "Let's see how far I can get before they block me."
3. Perhaps he aims to control the site, and plans to manipulate even Aschlafly later so that he will be the real power.
4. Perhaps he learned from his last mistake, and will be satisfied when he controls everybody except the Schlafly family.
5. He is a dick and/or cunt.

TK's shenanigans

IP range blocks

Huge IP range blocks, taking out whole regions and/or ISPs, are instituted by TK and Geo.plrd, apparently an ally in this endeavour. It appears that TK is trying to stamp out the use of TOR and proxy servers by vandals, without caring how much collateral damage he does in the process. Another possibility is that he would like to minimize non-American involvement in Conservapedia. Either way he has refused to discuss the rationale behind these range blocks publicly.

TK has even used range blocks deceitfully and vindictively to target individuals. When Sideways queried a fellow editor's block (our own Human), TK responded not by openly targeting Sideways but by blocking IP range 79.76.0.0/16, effectively stopping a large proportion of a UK-based ISP's customers from editing Conservapedia. When Sideways used a proxy IP to further complain, TK banned him/her for "abusing multiple accounts", associating Sideways with various unrelated vandals who had used the same proxy.

A similar pattern shows up in TK's treatment of User:BRichtigen, whom it is likely that TK was deliberately targeting for BRichtigen's persistent insistence on fair treatment of editors by sysops (see Conservapedia:MYOB). On 2nd December 2008, TK blocked IP range 81.210.0.0/16. BRichtigen then complained that he was covered by this block, along with many thousands of other households in Germany and Central Europe. Subsequently the block was lifted, but when TK blocked BRichtigen for two weeks, on 16th December, he again blocked BRichtigen's IP, this time for six months. Again, both blocks were lifted by other administrators. However, when Bugler blocked BRichtigen for a week, on 27th December, TK saw his chance again, and blocked the IP range for a full year.

It is likely that TK uses this tactic consistently. A glance through his block log shows that he blocks almost as many IP addresses as user accounts, often alternating between the two. It seems probable that, as in the case of Sideways and BRichtigen, he bars user's IP addresses when blocking them, often for much longer than the user is blocked. He has also been seen encouraging other users with block rights to share information with him for the purpose of range blocks.

Parodist

Former Conservapedia sysop JessicaT thinks TK is an open parodist.

Extracted from his User page

== '''My Blocking Policy:''' == True wikis have simple, clear rules. Otherwise it is a mobocracy and Conservapedia and its Founder has explicitly rejected mob rule, and has Administrators to decide its policy. A person who stops by merely to ridicule and denigrate others scholarly efforts, without at least trying to make positive contributions to this project, cannot have a "point" other than to disrupt and waste the time of sincere contributors and Administrators. If a person comes to Conservapedia knowing full well it is a conservative/Christian friendly wiki-encyclopedia, and is a liberal, the question is why? If the answer is they support Andy Schlafly's idea of intellectual freedom, of a Conservative & Christian-friendly alternative to the decidedly left-of-center, editor dominated Wikipedia, that's great! All voices should be represented on the Net. But if their intentions are merely to argue and dispute Conservative or Christian points of view, that becomes a form of vandalism, inasmuch as it is a great time waster and distraction for those who genuinely want to contribute, and build this encyclopedia. Those who obsessively create new user names, only to argue against our values, and do not make an effort to substantially contribute, are actually terrorists of the Internet kind. What other reason would they have to stick around, arguing and wasting our time? Any board or wiki has the absolute right of free association. I am not for truncating free speech automatically, but after days or weeks of disputing everything, knowing you are not going to change CP into Wikipedia's more liberal world-view, or have CP adopt Wikipedia's member conventions, a person's efforts then cross over into something more; "Internet Terrorism". CP has an owner, it is his right to have whatever viewpoint he wants. If people agree, with even a part, they stick around and help build this place. If they don't, what other reason, other than being obstinate or having malicious intent, could they have? Disagreement is fine, debate is good. But where does it end, and the ability of like-minded individuals to associate with those they agree with, without argument without end begin? So if you find yourself blocked by me, please re-read this. If after doing so you feel you have made positive, non-talk edits and article improvements, email me using the link to the left, or the information at the top of this page. Don't expect an answer if I check and find no such positive contributions.

Fair and honest things done by TK

Awards

This is to certify that TK received the HOVIND RECOGNITION FOR SYSOP ABUSE From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2008

This is to certify that TK received the SARAH PALIN AWARD FOR BEING A LIABILITY TO THE CAUSE From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2009

This is to certify that TK received the "I DON'T RECALL EVER BEING AT A MEETING WHERE THAT SUBJECT CAME UP" AWARD FOR LYING From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2009

This is to certify that TK received the DICK CHENEY EXTENSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH POWERS AWARD From RationalWiki, on November 21, 2009

See also

• Fun:TK
• Don't feed the Troll
• Conservapedia:Blatant plagiarism

External links

• RationalWikiWiki's report on TK—Offers a drier and more comprehensive history of TK