Slowking Man

Just to be sure

Totally unrelated to User:Slowking4, right? Alien333 (talk) 12:06, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, no relation. *looks* Geez, wish I had that much motivation. Just not in the causing trouble way. If someone is doing a lot of complex puppeting they have to be really good at "hygiene" to not eventually get swept up in a block or unintentionally reveal info. Which I think is what has caught out every "long-term puppeteer" eventually.

(Also how real-world spies "criminal masterminds" etc tend to get caught. Flawlessly keeping up a lot of complicated lies for a long time is really stressful and involved and few humans are able to for a very long time. Which is one reason why elaborate sweeping all-encompassing conspiracies are the stuff of fantasy. I mean the Soviets had multiple moles in the Manhattan Project!)

Amusing anecdote: John Campbell claimed later that he had figured out "something big was going on at Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos" because he had a wall map where he tracked sales in different places for Astounding Science Fiction, and during WWII they shot up from nowhere in those places. Though he was known to embellish things. --Slowking Man (talk) 21:15, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Worst part is that I think there are no (or really few) "criminal masterminds" among us. I have multiple times worked with Slowking4 (and other editors blocked at enwp (for some of which it really suprised me to learn)) at enws, where he's retreated after a huge mess (that I must admit I haven't followed closely), and he's just a transcriber like another. I think he's one in a long line of people that get caught up in a dispute because they acted disruptive (most often in good faith), gain from that a distrust/dislike of Wikipedia and other Wikipedians, as well as a dislike of them by those Wikipedians, retire/move away, or maybe become wikipediocrats. (sorry for the load of parentheses). Alien333 (talk) 22:44, 16 August 2024 (UTC)