Beginning of the End

Sorry the blog hasn't covered recent events. I thought my new sub-editor was going to follow things, but it doesn't look like it.

Where to begin?

I could go all the way back to Daveh's decision to emphasise his own idiocy and incompetence by de-adminning rpeh and Krusty, but that's so long ago it's probably better to start with Whining Little Bitch's RfA.

Let's remember that Whining Little Bitch was the one who has stated before that he has no interest in being an admin, so it's obvious that the Queen of Trolls contacted him to talk about her nomination. So much for the claims there's no clique. Then we can look at the votes. First we get the usual collection of sycophants and lick-spittles seeking favour.

Support 1 comes from the Queen of Trolls herself, a known liar with her own agenda for the site.
Support 2 comes from Eric Snowmane, the Wikia Stooge - another known liar
Support 3 is from Helenaannevalentine. I don't know much about her but she looks like a decent user.
Support 4 is from Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick, the world's most stupid person. Given that Whining Little Bitch used to be known as Elliot's Bitch, this one was always going to happen.
Support 5 is from TheRealLurlock. For those who don't remember, Lurlock is an idiot who was bounced into the post of admin when Aristeo found himself a victim of Nephele's personal agenda. Nobody has ever claimed that he's genuinely suitable for the role.
Support 6 is from ^CEshe^V, the only admin so incompetent that she can't even copy/paste information correctly.
Support 7 is Velyanthe, another user who came in with Skyrim and who I don't know.
Support 8 is Alphabetface, another SR user.
Support 9 comes from Jak Atackka, a Skyrim user who looked promising at first but seems to have become a bit of a dickhead.
Support 10 is from Minor Edits. I was surprised to see this one. ME is usually more sensible than this and although he expressed scepticism in his vote, he never saw fit to change it (unlike others).
Support 11 comes from SkoomaManiac, a user who has been around for quite a while without ever doing much.

There were also Support votes from ThuumofReason and Legoless. The first was changed to an oppose and the second withdrawn after reading the opposition.

The first Oppose vote was a wall of text from The Great Dane (new name for Krusty). It's a long post and suffers from his usual slightly fractured English, but it exposes Whining Little Bitch for the shameless scheming liar he really is.
The second was from Kiz, who adds some good examples of WLB being a fucking idiot.
The third was from Rpeh, who pointed out that WLB has never done anything big on the site.
Then we get "Haysie" who joined in July 2011 but never did anything except post on his user page before voting in the RfA.
Lastly we have Kitkat, who gives another good set of examples where WLB has been a fucking idiot.

At this point, WLB realised that the editors with actual talent were starting to vote and withdrew his nomination before any more examples of his incompetence could be posted, or before the few remaining decent editors could vote Oppose.

It's at this point things get even better. Alpha Kenny Buddy, who has somehow made admin whilst having a username that violates site policy, made a post ending with "Finally, if the community feels it is I in the wrong here for what I'm about to do, I would like you to consider this my resignation from all duties relating to this site." and blocked Rpeh for 3 months. He also called for The Great Dane to be stripped of his admin rights, although later withdrew this.

Seriously? Saying "I know this is going to be controversial but I'm doing it anyway and if you don't like it you can fuck yourselves" is the sort of thing we want to see from admins now?

The debate that followed largely fell along party lines. Editors with any degree of talent, such as Dwarfmp and Minor Edits, essentially told AKB that he had overstepped and was only prolonging the drama. Idiots like Elliot and Nephele plus the appalling AKB refused to budge, though, so rpeh gets a three month block for comments made two months ago.

The whole mess that started with Daveh being a moron has ended with almost all the site's best editors having left, with only a clique of self-important assholes suffering from adminitis left behind. UESP will stick around for some time, but the talent pool has evaporated. Do you really think people likeElliot the Obnoxiously Thick and Whining Little Bitch can improve the site? If so, why haven't they done so in the past?

No. It's the beginning of the end.

New Blood in the Watch

Hi everyone. Tiber is taking a break from UESPWatch and I'm taking over for the moment. It looks like we have a load of brand new chaos and hypocrisy on UESP so hopefully I'll be making a few posts soon. You can still contact UESPWatch at uespwatch@gmail.com with anything you want to tell us. Thanks for staying with the blog!

Yes I know

Okay, okay, okay.

If I mention that The Great Deceiver has been fired, can I go home?

I've grown bored with both Bethesda and UESP so sorry if I can't be bothered to keep up to date any more.

What rpeh did was a bit dickish but wasn't any worse than what ^CEshe^V and Rawtwat the Ignorant, Obnoxious and Vicious did when rpeh made his comeback after the last admin-level clusterfuck.

Daveh has been looking less and less secure as head of his personal monarchy. He still hasn't sorted out the anon caching problem; he took a couple of weeks to realise there was a bloody great firewall between his site and the Internet; he still hasn't fixed the category problem; he still hasn't managed to upgrade to the latest MediaWiki version; and now he decides to wade into a debate and has managed to take the wrong decision from day one.

In short, it's time Daveh quit. He hasn't been able to maintain the site and this latest mess demonstrates is perfectly. As I said earlier, rpeh was a bit of a dick over his interactions with the assholes at TESWiki, but that should have generated a warning at most. Instant de-adminning of rpeh and Krusty was a stupid decision that undermines Daveh's claim to be a hands-off leader.

What UESP has now is a resurgence of the idiots. TheRealLurlock - a moron so inconsequential that I'm giving him the nickname "TheRealLurlock", partly in recognition of the fact that he was so stupid he hadn't registered his own name - has turned up; ^CEshe^V and Rawtwat the Ignorant, Obnoxious and Vicious have both returned too. The simple fact is that these three are idiots. As is the simpering simpleton Whining Little Bitch, aka RobinHood70. His whining was partly what caused this mess, and he's keeping up his usual strategy of praising people he thinks like him while attacking everybody else. Whining Little Bitch is the single most-unpleasant person I've ever encountered on the Internet. Most trolls will attack you to your face, but Whining Little Bitch likes to be sly. Slimy, unpleasant, and never going to be an admin.

UESP has decided to put its trust into people who were around at the start -Rawtwat the Ignorant, Obnoxious and Vicious and "TheRealLurlock", who have been shown to be inadequate for the job, and ^CEshe^V, who only got nominated by The Great Deceiver because The Great Deceiver wanted to have sex with her.

From other posts it seems that Timenn has given up, and GuildKnight has decided her young child is more important than dealing with children. I don't blame either of them.

So in summary: Daveh is incompetent as are most of his admins. The long, slow decline of UESP started with the release of Skyrim.

Still Here

As somebody took the time to write a nice email asking me to keep writing UESP Watch, let's see about a quick post to prove I'm still here. Obviously, with Skyrim lurking around the corner there's probably going to be a lot more activity on the site, and that means there should be more work for me too. For now, let's take a look at an old post from this site. In fact, look at the comments.

It seems somebody called Yvonne Lucidia, who doesn't seem to have any observable sense of humour, created a petition with the aim of shutting this blog down. In fact she's so determined that she joined that petition site purely with this aim in mind, to judge from her registration date. This was on the 15th of July 2010. Well we've had 15 months since then so let's see how close she is to her goal of collecting 5000 signatures. How many has she got?

6.

Six.

That must be a little disappointing. Go on - sign up. It'll keep Yvonne happy.

Rpeh for Admin - for real!

I can only assume there is a spy in UESP Watch Towers, because it's the only way Krusty could have timed his nomination of rpeh for Admin precisely after I went away for a week.

Of course we don't need to do any diffs for this story because it's obvious that there will be loads of editors supporting the nomination but that Rawtwat the Vicious and Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick will oppose it, right? Eh? What's that? Really? Seriously?!?! Okay, let's do this properly then.

Things started off as predicted, with Alpha Kenny Buddy, Pwnageincarnate, Legoless and Corevette789 all voting "Yay" before rpeh had even posted his responses. Next came Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, then rpeh added a whole extra load of crap, then comes the first opposition: Wrye.

It's been so long since Wrye has shown his face that I couldn't remember much about him, except that he was a bit of a pompous twat at times. I had a murky memory of him even managing to annoy the usually unflappable Timenn, and eventually found the debate here. The next memory refresher was to look at his edit distribution, which made my eyebrows go up along way.  40% of his edits are about promoting his modding projects in the Tes3Mod and Tes4Mod namespaces. Another 14% has him arguing in UESPWiki space, 17% in User space, and after that, there's almost nothing. Now I see why rpeh wanted regular admin votes - this guy is treating the wiki like his own private website.

Anyway. After nice, subtle dig from rpeh, we have several increasingly desperate attempts from Wrye to justify his vote interspersed with several people telling him he's a moron. Eventually we come to our second Oppose vote, and it's from Whining Little Bitch fully living up to his name, in a post demolished by rpeh a little later.

The next odd vote is from DKong27, who I had firmly in the "Support" camp, but who voted "Neutral", making the accurate point that rpeh does tend to make enemies, but it's this vote that really made me swear in disbelief. Elliot voted to support rpeh's RfA. Let me repeat that: Elliot voted to support rpeh's RfA. In a well-written and thoughtful post, Elliot takes a brief look at their history, moves on, and expresses some hopes and thoughts for the future. I might have to change his name if he keeps making posts like this one.

With the vote currently at 17-2, and a full week already gone, it's only a matter of time before UESP has a new admin. True, Daveh might decide not to listen to the community's suggestion, but since we know he's already given rpeh server access, I can't see that being a problem.

Let's hope he has learned from the mistakes of the past and is not doomed to repeat them.

Maybe this time

It's been a whole month since Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick's block ran out. I didn't want to post the day after it happened in case it had simply slipped his memory, but after a month it might be that he really has "moved on".

Herschel blocked him for six months starting on Sep 1 last year, and that block ran out on March 1 this year. One month and one day later and still nothing from EtOT.

I know that several sad people commenting on this blog are going to do the usual ritual of telling me not to bother any more, to which I'll say only this... it's been two months since my last post because there's been no drama, no trouble, no acts of viciousness... it's been quiet. The way a wiki should be.

What's changed since I set up this blog? No more Rawtwat the Vicious. No more ^CEshe^V. No more Queen of Trolls. No more EtOT. Their feet no longer press on the brake pedal of good relations. The Great Deceiver has returned, but it seems he is willing to accept a subordinate role as sergeant to Krusty's general.

I'm going to keep watching. In fact, I've started editing again. Let's hope things remain quiet for now.

One and the Same

I'm sure you all thought I wasn't going to bother with this any more but a couple of emails have reached UESP Watch Central and I thought I should respond.

Two emails pointed out that Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick is unblocked once again. This seems to be true. His last block expired at the start of March 2011, so it seems he is now free to post his particular brand of idiocy once more.

One email had something more interesting, however. A page called "#uespwiki @ chatspike by roddie" suggests that EtOT made his last edit there 215 days ago and that Rawtwat the Vicious last vomited up his half baked opinions 217 days ago. My correspondent suggests that these dates are too close together to be more than a coincidence.

If Elliot = Ratwar, a great many things would be explained, like how RtV stopped editing just as EtOT came along, but it seems too convenient to be true. Surely the two biggest anchors holding back UESP can't have been the same person? Can they?