User talk:Phantom Hoover

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That's the most pathetic welcome from someone on RationalWiki I've ever seen. I think we can do better. Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 23:23, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

I offer a most heartfelt welcome to you, Phantom Hoover. Welcome to the defenestratable defenestratable gymnasium! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 23:23, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

Ah, I got a welcoming block for being a sock of AmesG. Phantom Hoover

Welcome to the Dollhouse! Nice sig font, by the way. ħuman 20:18, 16 November 2008 (EST)

My sig is just a heavily edited version of yours. How do you do the upside-down text, by the way? Phantom Hoover

Hmmm, interesting. I'm not sure how to do the upside down thing (I haven't used it - or have I?), they aren't in the box of tricks below the edit box. Maybe look at the source of someone doing it, copy from there? ħuman 17:13, 18 November 2008 (EST)

Tried that, they just come out as normal characters. Phantom Hoover

Let's see... sloqɯʎs puɐ suƃıs uɐɪɹɐssoʎ - did that work? (Yes) I suspect he copied and pasted them in from some font in another application, perhaps. Maybe you should ask Yossarian how he did it? ħuman 15:25, 19 November 2008 (EST)

xoq ɐdɪ əʜɫ uɪ s,ɫɪ 'ɫɪ punoɟ Cubic cubic Hoover!

It is? I don't see it. Anyway, glad you found it! ħuman 18:00, 20 November 2008 (EST)

They're not in a list, they're scattered around the weird symbol list. For instance, the ʎ, ɥ, ə and ɐ are in the IPA list, while Б is Cyrillic and n, u, o and so on are just normal symbols. Cubic cubic Hoover!

Ah, I see. So while some are "perfect", like u and n, and the ʎ is pretty good, others are clunkier, like ɥ. The key is to use a phrase that employs the better ones ;)

ɐ q (c) p ə (f) ƃ ɥ ɪ (j) (k) (l) ɯ u o d b ɹ s (t) n Λ м x λ z - missing six so far... ħuman 17:28, 24 November 2008 (EST)

Heh, ok, "l" is wrong in edit mode (serif) but fine in display if one is defaulting to sans-serif (arial) ħuman 17:29, 24 November 2008 (EST)

ʌ-- ˙ǝʇsɐd puɐ ʎdoɔ ǝןdɯıs ɐ ɥʇıʍ ǝןqıssod ǝʇınb sı uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʍoɥ ʇno puıɟ puɐ '„ʇǝuɹǝʇuı„ ǝɥʇ pǝןןɐɔ uoıʇuǝʌuı ןnɟɹǝpuoʍ sıɥʇ ɹǝʌo ɥɔɹɐǝs ǝןdɯıs ʎןƃuıɯɹɐןɐ uɐ ɯɹoɟɹǝd oʇ noʎ oɟ ǝןqıssod sı ʇı 'sʞuıɥʇǝɯ 'ɹo

Demotion

RationalWiki:Sysop guide explore as you see fit. The mobs and buckets are in room 202. tmtoulouse 13:00, 24 November 2008 (EST)

That block spree O_O

Hey there, watching through the recent changes, I noticed a rather fascinating block spree you went on with "My Password is ____". In general, we don't block for reasons of wandals unless they are actually wandals wandalising RationalWiki (although fun blocks are perfectly fine). Just thought I should drop a line, and give you some advice on that brand-new banhammer (Don't worry about it, we are all, deep down, eager to use our banhammer ;). Javasca₧ my sig is my own opiate!

Yes, I was in a slightly mad frame of mind. I'm very sorry, I won't do it again. Anyway, [bitterness]what about the 1 day block I got on my first day? [/bitterness] Cubic cubic Hoover!

Block of Proxima Centauri

Why the f*ck did you block me? Proxima Centauri 04:19, 13 December 2008 (EST)

You blocked Rose pedals for a year, despite the fact that they had done nothing to warrant a block. Cubic cubic Hoover!

Rose Pedals looks like a sock of User:Fall down. Proxima Centauri 04:27, 13 December 2008 (EST)

Did they hit Women, Whores, RationalWiki and Child support? Wazza^{Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me...} 04:28, 13 December 2008 (EST)

In addition, their only edit was a silly one to Charles Darwin, which could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered like FD's rubbish. Cubic cubic Hoover!

There was other trouble. There were 2 similar accounts made to look the same to confuse. SEE below. I blocked him for several reasons.

1. He turned up in the middle of a vandal attack.

2. The name, Rose Pedals was similar to User:Spring flowers, User:Summer flowers and User:Autumn flowers. Those three are socks of the vandal.

3 The first contribution this new user made looked like vandalism.

4 When the second Rose Pedals came up that confirmed this user is setting out to confuse us and I blocked again without hesitation.

I still think it's more likely than not that the Rose Pedals accounts are socks of the vandal. I think we should leave one of the two accounts open just incase he wants to edit constructively. If there's more trouble block him. Proxima Centauri 10:18, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Thanks for the update, yes, there was a lot of confusion going on. Hopefully it is all settled out now. ħuman 14:01, 11 December 2008 (EST)

On an associated technical question, how come we have two different users with what looks like exactly the same name "Rose Pedals"? Look at the user creation log and the talk pages - they are different. Or are my old eyes playing tricks?--Bob^{bing up} 14:24, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Is probably using a different Ascii letter for one of the letters - no idea which one - it's not cap i & lc L though. Or the space might be involved " " and "_" ? Fortinbrass 14:29, 11 December 2008 (EST)

"Rose Pedаls" "Rose Pedals" Hmmm. Firefox is marking the first "Pedals" as mispelled, so although even in a serif font it looks the same, obviously one of the characters is not. Copied into Word, changed font to "wingdings", the "a" is different. The "wrong one" is the one with the short talk page. Yup, copying the url shows the "a" is really %D0%B0, whatever that is. Should we rename them to something innocuous? ħuman 14:31, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Well, they are pretty innocuous already. But it does rather indicate a knowledge of block circumvention, proxies, and trickywikying on the part of the innocent Miss Rose. Still - assume good faith, presumption of innocence and all that.--Bob^{bing up} 14:41, 11 December 2008 (EST)

True. PS, by "renaming them" I only meant the one with the weird character in it. Perhaps Rose signed on using a mucked up character first then re-signed using normal letters? (The weird one was first, IIRC). ħuman 14:46, 11 December 2008 (EST)

OK. Yes that could be the explanation. I'd put the first account in the vandal bin (for the "Darwin was a sock of Hitler" edit) when the second one was created, so I think her IP should have been blocked as well. Presumably Rose has a dynamic IP and she logged of and logged back in, was automatically given a new IP, and created the new account - without, what she suddenly realised was, a strange character. Isn't "assume good faith" a wonderful thing?--Bob^{bing up} 16:06, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Proxima Centauri 04:37, 13 December 2008 (EST)

With hindsight it may have been better to wait for trouble before blocking the second Rose Pedals. Weren't the 2 similar and confusing accounts trouble? This happened in the middle of a vandal attack. I've had repeated obscene vandalism to my userpage and talk page. The vandalism was before that and since then. The creator of both Rose Pedals accounts clearly knew how to do ban evasion and wouldn't be permanently blocked.

On RationalWiki we avoid the blatant abuse of power that happens on Conservapedia. There will always be a few human errors and there will always be disagreement about borderline cases. I hope this discussion won't start that obscene vandal off again. We do need to discuss borderline cases. If we don't we may gradually slide into unfair blocking practise. Proxima Centauri 04:52, 13 December 2008 (EST)

Where'd you copy and paste the conversation from? Cubic cubic Hoover!

User talk:Human#Take over

Rangeblocks?

Was that Tit's? Isn't /16 a big range? Are we even allowed to do such a thing? PFoster 10:10, 13 December 2008 (EST)

If you looked, it was 127.0.0.0/16 (presumably you know that 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved for loopback) and was for 0 seconds. I for some reason had thought rangeblocks were disabled here, and was testing. Cubic cubic Hoover!

presumably you know that 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved for loopback) You're cute. Presumably, i know how to turn my computer on. I have no fucking idea what you're on about...PFoster 10:26, 13 December 2008 (EST)

You know how to turn it on? Can you do tech support for me? --Kels 10:31, 13 December 2008 (EST)

Sorry, I didn't realize that, no disrespect intended. The Wikipedia article explains it better than I could, but essentially you could only edit from that block if you installed editing software onto the RW server and edited it from there. Cubic cubic Hoover!

Rusty spotted cat

The article doesn't belong in funspace. Please replace it (or I just might if you don't come up with a better reason than it belongs there because I said so). --"ConservapediaUndergroundResistor^cat! 17:04, 15 December 2008 (EST)

For flip's sake, do it yourself. Cubic cubic Hoover!^{Signing off for the night.}

Unfunny WIGO

I agree with you about the template thing but the way to deal with it is to vote it down not comment it out. As the page says "one man's boredom is another man's lulz". -- Lily ^{Ta, wack!} 02:43, 22 December 2008 (EST)

I get fed up with WIGO mocking CP for things which nobody would care about elsewhere. Cubic cubic Hoover!

I know what you mean, we've had a spate of low quality WIGOs but the consensus is that we give them the thumbs down rather than striking them out. -- Lily ^{Ta, wack!} 02:49, 22 December 2008 (EST)

Hello

Greetings! Miserable worm (recognize that greeting , worm?) mwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa! (and also don't reveal the great master plan of general master-plannedness - it isn't ready for launch!)Samurai Fish 05:16, 22 December 2008 (EST)

Oh, shut up. Enjoy the vandal cat. AND LEARN TO USE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROPERLY! Cubic cubic Hoover!

So you do recognize the greeting, well tell Mr.π that my entry on your talk page was a rude greeting, not an insult ^{— Unsigned, by: Samurai Fish / talk / contribs}

I shall do no such thing, and please specify an email address in your preferences. Phantom Hoover 04:18, 23 December 2008 (EST)

Is your sig broken?

You having troubles there? - User $\scriptstyle 4\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 07:40, 22 December 2008 (EST)

Yes, markup doesn't work; the symbols just show up without any effect. My sig comes out as "Phantom Hoover" normally, but the same code comes out as "''<small><font color="#007500" face="zapfino">Phantom Hoover</font></small>''" 08:02, 22 December 2008 (EST)" when using the four tildes. Cubic cubic Hoover!

How does you sig come out without the tildas? Any way here is how you make an annoying sig like mine.

1. Create a subpage called User:Phantom Hoover/sig
2. Make your sig the way you want it to appear, including any links, in this subpage and nothing else.
3. Go to my preferences
4. Make your nickname {{User:Phantom Hoover/sig}} and tick the box that says Raw signiture
5. Save preferences.

Before you know it you too can receive complaints about the space your sig takes up. - User $\scriptstyle 4\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 18:06, 22 December 2008 (EST)

Thanks. Phantom Hoover 04:03, 23 December 2008 (EST)

No worries. - User $\scriptstyle 4\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 05:29, 24 December 2008 (EST)

What?

"Spica, stop your campaign of email intimidation against me." Wtf? What are you on about? I have never, ever, emailed you and I have never intimidated you. Is this a joke? If it is, I don't find it at all funny. Spica the Hiver ^{If you tolerate this, then your children will be next...} 18:38, 24 December 2008 (EST)

Is this a joke Spica? Have you not seen our favorite little trick yet? Go to Weaseloid's page. - User $\scriptstyle 4\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 05:58, 25 December 2008 (EST)

"Anonymous User" (specialty not in breast cancer), homosexuality is so prevalent among relativists that I hardly think a citation is needed to demonstrate it. I've analyzed your unconcise replies and you rely on a secular conception of the past, so clearly you're a complete denialist. Like all atheists, you deny that homeschooling helps resist video games. Liberals don't like it, but jaywalking is not prosecuted as much as petty shoplifting. We're hoping that eventually some liberal public school students will at least realize what Waterloo was in history! Your account will be blocked if you simply continue to rant here.--Andy Schlafly 11:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Right, I see. Spica the Hiver ^{If you tolerate this, then your children will be next...} 10:19, 25 December 2008 (EST)

I see my name is being taken in vain again. Sigh! Blame it all on the weasel. wassaiLOId~ 10:31, 25 December 2008 (EST)

Yes! Someone fell for it! Phantom Hoover 04:45, 26 December 2008 (EST)

You've blocked at Uncyclopedia. That is provided you're logged in there. Proxima Centauri 05:03, 26 December 2008 (EST)