Update

Well, it looks as if I have constant readers from another sphere.

Following on from my post yesterday, it would appear as if all the links I mentioned in the letter, have mysteriously been oversighted.

Now I wonder who could have done that? Who is so worried that people might see him for the lying skunk that he is?

Ah well, in other news - good morning, Terry Koeckritz.

Update: Ah, thank goodness for capture bot, coming to save the day, from Terry's frantic attempt to cover his tracks.

Prophesy Ignored?

As I mentioned in my post below, Conservapedia is already dead in the water, if not floundering at the gunwales. However, it wasn't always so. At the beginning of 2009, it was a vibrant and happening, albeit it odd, little community. There were regularly over 100 different active editors a week, there were conversations and friendly chats going between talk-pages and the sysops were even inclined to enter into a debate - until they started losing said debate, of course.

Roll forward almost two years, and the little community is looking very run down. The long-time residents have effectively put barricades across the roads, allowing none in, except those who sneak past the defences, and are speedily shot, before they can smash any more windows. The vibrant little community has shrunk to a few old-timers (barely more than 40 editors as week - and 90% of those are blocked with in 1 edit), who no longer talk, but peer out at the world from behind their curtains, shotgun close at hand.

Slow Days Indeed

Dear Constant Reader

My apologies for not having anything new to add lately, but to put it frankly, Conservapedia is about as interesting as watching paint dry at the moment. The editor base has basically shrunk to the remaining sysops, night editing and new user registration are rarely activated - even less so now that it would appear Andrew Schlafly has handed over joint control of those functions to Terry Koeckritz. An act which is probably the wiki equivalent of shooting yourself in both feet, prior to running a marathon.

No new content is being created and even Andy's usual special brand of crazy has been toned down lately. All he seems to be doing these days is masturabating over how well the Tea Party candidates are splitting the GOP vote. Even Terry Koeckritz, left without any editors to block, has taken to actually writing... well, drivel actually, such as the little-known fact that the Democratic Party "is now often referred to as "The Liberal Party.''' A startling fact, that would even have appeared to have escaped even Google's all-seeing eye. Still, what else would we expect from Terry?

Still, have no fear. I'll be keeping an eye on the death-throes of CP and as you all know, Conservapedia is only dead when Andy and his hand picked goons - Terry Koeckritz, Brian Macdonald, Ed Poor, John Patti and Terry Hurbut finally realise that nobody is listening to their ranting and switch off the lights. What on earth will Ken Demyer do then?

it's actually a guy i met on irc, turns out he lives close to me, so we hooked up

Schrödinger's Wine

Wow. Just wow.

Every now and again Conservapedia, usually in the form of Andrew Schlafly, dishes up something so stupid and so monumentally insane, that I actually struggle to find words to comment on it.

Such is this example, from Conservapedia's wacky article on "Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge‎," in which Andy ventures forth to prove that the Bible knew all about quantum mechanics. It's so stupid, I can't even comment. I'll just leave Andy to speak for himself:

The second chapter of the Gospel of John describes the conversion of water into wine by Jesus at a wedding reception. Intuitively one would expect the conversion to occur before anyone tasted the drink. But under quantum mechanics, it is not until observation that matter acquires a definite state. John 2:9 describes this precisely as required by quantum mechanics, and the KJV misses this subtle issue of timing in the conversion.

LIfe Without Ken

One of the questions that frequently gets asked is "Just how long can Conservapedia survive?" The simple answer to that is as long as Andrew Schlafly has some of his mother's money to spend and some bile to spew on the world. And given that Andy hates everything from professors to Hollywood, via abortion, the "liberal" Bible and President Obama, that's a lot of bile.

So, a more relevant question could be "Just how viable is Conservapedia as n ongoing project?" Remember, this is supposed to be the site that will prove to be bigger than, and the eventual downfall of, Wikipedia. Bearing this in mind, one would expect CP to be a hive of activity and at first glance, that would appear to be the case.

Curiouser and curiouser

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Curiouser and curiouser

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Terry Hurlbut & DiggPatriots

I've already mentioned that Terry Hurlbut, aka Conservapedia sysop TerryH, aka username Temlakos, was one of those fine, upstanding citizens involved with the DiggPatriots. You know, those model, moral Americans who saw it as their divine duty to censor as many Digg article comments as possible, that they didn't like. Or that didn't conform to their twisted worldview. They did this by using multiple accounts to vote down articles they didn't like, and even have progressive/liberal contributors banned.

Now, Terry has been notably silent about his involvement, especially once it was brought up in the comments following another of his crackpot articles. Still, no doubt behind the scenes, they're still high-fiving each other and probably have the balls to grumble about being outed.

More fun with Terry Koeckritz

Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to Conservapedia Playtime, where we have more fun with Dick and Jane.  Yes, we're dealing with the biggest Dick of all today, children and I'm sure we'll have a gay old time watching this Dick prance around...

Urgh... no... enough of the children imagery. We're moving into bad touch territory there. But more on Ed Poor another time.

I mentioned in a previous post below that Conservapedia administrator, dear old mincing Terry Koeckritz just hates having his actions questioned in public (and - we are led to believe - there are some actions he really doesn't want made public). Even if that "public" is a private mailing list, comprised of about six of his peers. Terry prefers to operate in the murky reaches of private e-mails (most of which he bcc's to Andrew Schlafly anyway) because there he can be his true obnoxious self and any subsequent accusations boil down to a "he said - he said" argument.

Spreading the Word

Ok, ok, shameless self-promotion time, but seeing as Wordpress have to all this effort, I think it's only fair to use it.

What am I on about, you ask? Well, they've added a whole bunch of "share this" choices, which you'll find at the end of each article. So, if you like what I've been rabitting on about, please take a few seconds to click a button and send it forth into the ethernet.