Posts by Matthew Barrett10

I feel like a lot of us haven't been on our best behavior in this thread, but honestly, what Wikipedia is pulling here is just plain dirty.

As I’m typing this, there are 54 posts in the thread. Out of those 54, how many actually have anything to do with the topic at hand? Is fifteen an exaggeration? Probably not.

For the first eight pages, things mostly stayed on track, aside from some minor attempts to derail the conversation (mostly from Wikipedia, via highly "relevant" posts like and After that, the provocation and tension started building. We were being critical, sure, but nobody was overstepping—until it wasn't enough, and then the baiting began.

Eventually, the whole thread spiraled into trolling and borderline misogyny. Anyone who has spent any real time on these US message boards knows exactly how quickly things can spiral out of control ( ( ( ( (
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So, what's the point of all this, and why does it matter?
It matters because Wikipedia isn't someone who respects the rules; they hijack threads, provoke, derail, insult subtly, and troll. They didn't raise a formal complaint when the thread started losing its purpose, nor did they say anything when it took a misogynistic turn. No, they waited until they could file a grievance against a female user who called them out on their nonsense. It’s pure spite. They were the ones driving the provocations from the start, contributing significantly to why the thread ended up where it did, and they did everything in their power to bait that woman just so they could see her punished.

Anyway, I've said my piece. I'll leave it to the moderators.

Since you’re so quick to point fingers, why don’t you look in the mirror?

Every single time a woman posts a comment on here, you just have to jump in. You’re all over every thread, though I can rarely say I’ve actually read anything useful from you. Instead, you just reflexively nod along with whatever these women are saying.

But now that one of them had the audacity to call you out on some nonsense you wrote, your ego won't let her get away with it, will it?

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...

Go ahead. Report every single one of your own useless posts and all those little provocations of yours. It seems to me you actually enjoy it when the moderators aren't looking, but the second someone calls you out, suddenly it's an issue, right?

For example:
(claiming participation is important... a post designed just to shut down the debate)

(continuing the bit in another thread)

(more comments and more poking at the same woman)

(more trolling; she was involved here too, but she doesn't seem to be stooping this low)

(more baiting, attacking her character, calling her some crazy cat lady...)

(does this even have anything to do with the topic?)

(more mockery, stuff like "can you believe how terrible this is")

(this one is relatively mild, but the provocation is clear; he's trying to bait her into something she can report)

(and more baiting)

(and yet more baiting)

The whole thread turned into a total clusterfuck. Not many people stayed classy here, but from what I can see, you proudly stirred up this fight just for your own amusement because—heaven forbid—a woman dared to call you out. And you never allow that. Fortunately for you, you bury this board under such a massive volume of posts that it's nearly impossible to dig up anything older.