Rawtart Makes Sense! And then fails again

It's a well-known fact that even a broken clock is right twice a day, but when Rawtwat the Vicious makes a sensible point... well I don't know, since it's never happened before.

There's been a little spat between Elliot the Thick and DStebbins, an irritating little person who sprays his personal opinions over UESP like a farmer spreading cowshit on a field. DStebbins made the point that zero-weight items give an infinite "value ratio", which is what UESP calls value divided by weight. EtT removes the comment with the edit summary "you can divide by zero, so this make no sense", staking a further claim to his "Thick" label, but at least he followed up with "dummy edit; I meant can't divide by zero". There was also a whole discussion on EtT's talk page, where even the LGA missed the point.

Elliot (and Timenn), of course you can divide by zero. Wikipedia has a whole article on the topic, and maybe you should both read it.

It's left to Rawtwat to reinstate the point and explain why. Unfortunately, and remember that this is an admin, he doesn't know how to link to categories. No, not like this... or like this... and it takes new editor Nx to show the way. So close, Rawtar, and yet so far.

Thanks to the person who emailed me pointing this one out even though it dragged me out of my holiday. Yes - at least one person has worked out who I am.

Nothing Interesting

Wow. What a boring few days. Apart from The Great Deceiver trying to prove what a good little boy he is and Elliot the Thick doing yet more useless crap nobody cares about, almost nothing has happened.

I'm off for Christmas now so I probably won't be doing any updates. Merry Christmas everybody and I'll see you all in the New Year!

The Great Deceiver Breaks the Site

A record-high job queue and one of the servers out of action. Surely it's an Elliot the Thick template session that caused it, right?

Wrong! The Great Deceiver admitted to being the one who single-handedly killed most of UESP over the past couple of days. In his post, he refuses to specify which template caused the problems, but I'm more than happy to oblige: it's this one (I'm linking to Wikipedia since it's going to be deleted off UESP soon).

TGD whines that he didn't expect a template taken from WP would cause such a problem. Perhaps if he had looked at where the template is used on WP, he would have discovered the answer is "almost fucking nowhere" and "literally fucking nowhere" in article space.

Good job, TGD. Perhaps you can give lessons in teh st00pid to Elliot?

So Farewell, Then, Robin Hood

Elliot's Bitch has decided to throw in the towel. What will Elliot do next time he needs defending, I wonder?

To be honest, he won't be missed very much. He did a small about of fact checking but mainly spent his time adding badly thought out opinions to talk pages and absolutely not wanting to be an administrator.

I don't wish him harm so I hope he recovers from his illness. I'm sure there are more productive ways for him to spend his time if he does.

Elliot Annoys User: Film at 11

Let's see... the day has a "y" in its name so Elliot the Thick has been annoying people again. Today's victim is yet another anon, in this case, 68.215.87.128. The complaint is that EtT removed some stuff from the god awful 100% completion page. There have been a rash of IP edits on that page lately, so it's tricky to tell exactly which one the anon is complaining about.I'm guessing, though, that this one was by the same anon. I can't explain exactly why I think that...

Elliot, as usual, can't resist a rude reply, but then Elliot's Bitch pops up on schedule with a typically pointless post. Strange how often this happens. Evidently E's B feels a desperate need to protect EtT for some reason.

The funniest thing about this set of posts is from the anon, though. "I'm over 40 and a master of all aspects of pc use". Yeah. Except your grammar checker.

Ratwar and Timenn?

It seems that, not content with attacking the lowly peons that make up most of UESP, Rawtwat the Vicious finds it necessary to attack his fellow admins. First target? LGA! According to Timenn, Rawtwat bitched in IRC about a preference Timenn expressed for new images uploaded by Elliot the Thick.

The question is, exactly what did Rawtwat say? The other question is that since he hasn't edited on the wiki in three days, why does he find it necessary to criticise other users in IRC? Oh, that's right. He's a vicious thug.

Rpeh Follows Elliot

Oh dear. Looks like the break hasn't helped The Great Deceiver's template skills.

At least when Elliot the Thick screwed up the book templates the other day it wasn't affecting every single book page. TGD's screwup on Book Author hasn't helped the job queue much.

Perhaps EtT can give you a refresher course?