Pink
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The awards committee at RationalWikiWiki has awarded this user the Henry VIII Defender of the Faith Award.
| Stalk this inactive user! (It's a joke) | |
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| Joined: | 6 May 2008[1] |
| Last edit | 4 July 2011 |
| Real name: | Penelope[2] |
| Age range: | 19[3] |
| Gender: | female[2] |
| Locale: | n/a |
| Stance: | theist[4] |
| Archetype: | |
| Articles created: | |
| Misc.: | abstract denotation of colour |
| user page -- user talk -- contributions | |
Pink (formerly 85 25 151 22, or just "85" to particularly lazy people like us, as well as Chaos!, Gloom and Jellyfish) was one of the most active to RationalWiki in some time. In a fit of sillyness, she originally named herself after her own IP (minus the periods). The nickname "Jellyfish" reflects the name she took on at Conservapedia,[5] where she became another casualty on the killing fields and later fled to RationalWiki. She declined suggestions that she change her account name to match her CP nickname.[6]
She holds the record for most signatures used[7] on RationalWiki.[8]
Pink was the prototypical I'm-just-here-for-the-lulz editor, and almost never partook in constructive editing of articles (vandal-reverting aside) or engaged in relevant site discussions.
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[edit] Not qualified — just empowered!
85 25 151 22 was sysoped May 14, 2008 by Tmtoulouse,[9] a mere eight days after registering, apparently because her demand[10] for sysopship was sufficiently amusing. Later, 85 had a brush with Secret Squirrel, and it occurred to her that its "demotion" was implicitly demeaning to other editors with longer and more productive records, and later asked the newly-bureaucratized SusanG to desysop her.[11] She obligingly did so May 29 2008.[9] Less than 38 hours later SusanG resysoped her,[9] apparently to aid in battling a vandal.[12]
Update: Barely one day after being resysoped, 85 asked to be desysoped yet again.[13] SusanG obliged it, desysoping her (again) June 1, 2008[9]. Before long, 85 was also made a bureaucrat, although it is difficult to divine exactly when or why among all the renames, mistakes, promotions and demotions.[14]
[edit] Rename
In late June 2008, 85 asked Human to rename it "Chaos!", a request which, after some investigation of whether using the exclamation point would be a problem for the software, was quickly granted. As Chaos!, she signed with a highly variable signature that at one time was random series of randomly colored, occasionally blinking symbols. During the summer of 2008, she used a signature with a (sic) white Mowse. Variations in color of the "Mowse" have been taken up by other users.
On 22nd September 2008, Chaos! renamed herself to Pink.[15]
[edit] Controversy and departure
Pink has sometimes been accused of being a sock of Radioactive afikomen, something which both Pink and Radioactive Afikomen deny (but then they would). The two have also been accused of being romantically or sexually involved, at least on the cyber level. Human made several comments along these lines, during September and October 2008, adding to the increasing tensions between himself and both RA and Pink.[16]
Finally, Pink left the site on 16th October 2008, after Human unilaterally relieved her of her bureaucrat status and included among her user rights that of "liar?", stating he was "sick of ad hominem attacks".[17]
Since then, she has edited at aSK, and made a brief comeback to RationalWiki when RA addressed her in his Parthian shot.[3]
[edit] Cryonically reanimated?
On 24 December 2010, Pink returned briefly to post a video to Blue's talk page.[18] During an enormous coop fight, Blue restored her cratship. Pink decratted herself a few hours later, saying she would rather be voted in. Pink returned on May 23rd 2011, using a sock-puppet named BIue.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ User creation log for 85 25 151 22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 At ASK
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Radioactive_afikomen&diff=prev&oldid=368082
- ↑ According to the userbox on a previous version of her userpage.
- ↑ Chaos! explains her choice of nickname.
- ↑ Chaos! repels the suggestion that she change her name
- ↑ Emphasis on "used". We discount signatures created for lulz and never actually used to sign posts with.
- ↑ One sig, two sig, red sig, blue sig.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 User rights log for Chaos!.
- ↑ Chaos! demands "Make me a sysop."
- ↑ 85 asks to be desysoped. We gather that Secret Squirrel had something to do with the request.
- ↑ Susan and Chaos! discuss his resysopment. The relevant section header is named for the vandal that spurred the "demotion".
- ↑ Chaos's second request for desysopment.
- ↑ User rights logs for 85 25 151 22, Chaos!, and Pink!.
- ↑ Rename log.
- ↑ See, for example, this comment (this revision has been oversighted) from the cabal forum, posted on RW by Radioactive afikomen, in which Human suggests that RA "wants to boink" Pink; and this comment at RWW, in which he suggests that they are the same person.
- ↑ User rights changes.
- ↑ http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Blue&diff=704173&oldid=699919
