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Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia
Early last week an anonymous editor with a posting style remarkably like the one widely believed to be that of Sollog himself contributed this article to the encyclopedia, boasting of Sollog's prophesizing prowess and mathematical genius. Less than twenty-four hours later, the article was looking a little more balanced and encyclopedic. Along with Sollog's claims, it now carried the revelation that not everyone is as convinced of the accuracy of Sollog's power of prediction as he himself is, along with links to some rather unflattering appraisals of his work.
A week of spectacular net.kookery has since transpired, replete with vandalism of the article, bizarre legal threats, long semi-coherent rants with LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS, a rich bounty of links to Ennis-run sites, and a legion of anonymous posters with exactly the same writing style as one another all strenuously affirming that they are individual and distinct "fans" of Sollog and not the man himself. Unable to accept that Wikipedia's policy of presenting a Neutral Point of View means that an article on Sollog would have to include both pro- and anti-Sollog material, and unable to force other Wikipedia editors to accept his version of reality, Ennis has taken instead to making hostile phone calls to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at his home, and setting up his very own Wikipedia and Wales hate site.
Whether or not Sollog really did predict Princess Diana's death, the Oklahoma bombing, 9/11, the crash of TWA flight 800, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and most of the natural disasters in the US over the last few years, he doesn't seem to have foreseen his inability to control the picture that Wikipedia presents of him to the world.
See here for the current revision of the article, which may or may not be currently in a vandalized state.
That he will get first post on Slashdot.
Sollog the "Varnisher" is not someone to be messed with. ;-)
The owls are not what they seem
Ten bucks says that in the next 10 minutes, it is modified about 1200 more times.
... that the top-rated comment in this thread will be +5, funny.
Every single one of you will be dead by 2152.
You don't have to be psychic to have seen this coming.
I'm thinking this motherfucker bit off more than he can chew with this one.
You talking to me bitch? I predict my foot up yo' ass.
If one of Sollog's most famous "math discoveries" is The Fibonacci Algorithm, then why isn't it called "The Sollog Algorithm?"
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Shouldn't he have registered wikipediasucks.com in advance as his psychic powers would have allowed him to see the impact of his actions. Further, shouldn't he already have a slashdotsucks.com already? And, shouldn't I already have a reply to this message from him telling me I'm a fool?
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
Time Cube is the only answer!
Apparently not "Sollog", which kind of lends credence to his detractor's arguments that he can't predict jack, does it not?
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
When I visited it, Wikipedia read "Sollog eats his nuts." I would assume that Sollog eats nuts since eating nuts is part of a balanced healthy diet. Whether they are his or not is a matter of speculation unless you are Sollog (prognostication may or may not be included).
Did he predict the Bush Re-election?
Taken from Solog's google group page ...
"It is the fastes growing religion on Earth"
Perhaps Solog's vast mental powers in nearly every field diminish its ability to spell properly, or learn how to use a spell checker.
in AD2101 war was beginning...
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. - Catcher in the Rye
He's a pornographer AND an objectivist??? This guy is my new hero!
For those of you wanting fruitcake this Christmas, may I recommend Collin Street Bakery?
If Collin Street Bakery is a bit too expensive for your liking, however, then you may wish to try Sollog's folks. They look well-stocked.
Nah, it would never work.
1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
I bet he had a rough time at school.
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Does anybody else picture "Dr. Orpheus" from the Venture Bros. cartoon when you read about this guy? Complete with the methods of speaking and all? I sure do, and it's funny.
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
I think I too will set up a personal home page on WikiPedia just like this Sollog cornflake.
/. and a page full of rejected submissions.
Of course, my only achievement in life is positive karma on
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
What wikipedia needs is to implement /. style moderation! Then every point of view will be represented fairly! Ni!
You're a fool.
-Sollog
He's taken his Ennis enlargement pills again, I see.
Is a completely available domain name. Now, who is going to buy it up?
Memories become legend, Legend fades to myth, and even myth is forgotten by the time that age comes again.-Robert Jordan
The year is 2678, and I am using the greatest invention of the millenium to post to slashdot from the future!
HAHAHA!
And I *still* can only get a damn ~500,000 uid. Must be something with slashdot.org rejecting my 512bit IPv19 address...
Nope, sorry. There's nothing wrong with your ipv19 to ipv4 gateway. At the request of several prestigious software archaeological societies and organizations, we in the 37th century set up a temporal filter rejecting all registration requests to slashdot from the 27th century prior to the issuance of slashdot id 516229, ipv19 or otherwise.
Of course, I would have had a slashdot ID of #1, but those rat bastards in the 43rd are blocking all packets temporally synced to all timeframes prior to slashdot ID #11483.
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sollog claims that wales is a pornographer.. I have to wonder if sollog thinks that will sway the hordes of /. unwashed to his side.
Im thinking the opposite:)
Sollog's real name is John Patrick Ennis (Born born July 14, 1960). Thats right folks, Sollog is John P. Ennis.
he is a total dick..
time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
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His real name is John P.Ennis.
No troll would pick a name as obvious as that.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
you say that like Sollog has credibility to lose.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Wikipedia could [...] become a sort of collection of the intelligence and expertise of the masses on the internet.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened.
from http://www.247news.net/2004/20041211-wikipedia.sht ml
.agrippa.
"I sat in an office of AIS and saw three different people on one high speed connection post about Sollog. They were all called the same person and Sollog. Then I went to local Starbucks and saw another person post to Wikipedia pro Sollog statements and they too were called Sollog."
No shit www.wikipediasucks.com now says /. RULES
haha
I like Wikipediasucks.com so much I downloaded the website... 10,203 times.... and counting!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
The discussion is pretty big, and i really wont trust his own site in explaining it, so can anyone here tell me who he is, and what he has done (with proof)?
He's the guy from the fourth book of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Trilogy - you know, Sollog, and Thanks for All the Fish.
I know that was bad, but I couldn't help myself.
[quote] It's locked right no since the /.ers are being especially stupid today[/quote]
You definitely underestimate the average daily stupidity of slashdotters.
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Give up?
The answer is "screw you". Hehe.
Ah, that was fun. Back to work.
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You know that a Wikipedia edit war is interesting when its history page has a line like this:
(cur) (last) 17:03, 13 Dec 2004 JamesMLane (rm "first rate nutter" to forestall objections from genuine first-rate nutters who consider Sollog second-rate)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Yum Pie!
I think it's time to write that book I've been meaning to write about God's secret messages in pi. I am convinced that if you express pi in binary and then print it out, you can search it for not only all knowledge previously known, but images of virtually anything.
In fact, I'm pretty sure there's a picture of a picture of a grilled cheese with Michelle Pfeiffer on it at index 3,444,738,956,368,665,431,233. And not only that, Jesus is a mere three billion and 6 away from that!
That means something. God put those pictures in pi in order to tell us he loves us.
As you may have noted, he now links to one of these sites from wikipediasucks using "SOLLOG SAYS SLASHDOT.ORG RULES" text for the link. :) Clever troll.
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Ah, and the belief in the theory of objective reality is not?
If you believe I exist and am not a figment of your imagination, then there exists an objective reality. There is no inbetween state dividing solipsism and objective reality. As soon as you admit that your perception about the world is not guaranteed to be correct, then that means there MUST exist an objective reality. If yesterday you believed the moon was made of cheese and today you believe it is made of rocks, then in a 100% subjective reality, that would mean that yesterday the moon really was made of cheese and it suddenly changed to rock when your opinion of it changed it into rock - at no time before or after your change of mind were you ever incorrect.
Saying there is no objective reality is synonymous with solipsism, in which case why are you bothering to post to a forum read only by what you believe to be figments of your imagination?
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.