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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.
Bitch gettin' what she deserves.
Got a 404 the first few times I clicked "Read More". What's going wrong with /. ?
First post!!!!
I don't quite have much to say on this topic, unfortunately. I didn't read the article either.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
If you're going to have "nothing to see here" pages on new stories, don't put the goddamn story on the freaking page that has "nothing to see".
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
w0w you pwn3d Slashdot
Are you referring to my semen? 'Cause it has already happened.
...myself.
Bitch gettin' what she deserves.
That's no way to refer to your hand
I wonder if he has been the subject of many dirty limericks.
Why didn't he warn us about the penguins?!
I know this is offtopic and I'm only encouraging bad posting habits but I thought this was hysterical.
While you are at this *mind-blogging stuff*... Have you seen him play?
sollog claims that wales is a pornographer...
REALLY? That is soooo sweet! I knew the guy was cool, but man oh man! Wales started Wikipedia AND shoots pictures of nudie girls, how awesome. I am deffinitely paypalling him some cash...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Mod down!