Editor Log: July 2001 (thing)

All kills (or 'removals') listed below are without loss unless otherwise stated. The nodegel may go down as well as up.

Fri 6 July

• Diplomacy (idea) by Candy Quack - the same quote was already there earlier in the node.
• not looking (idea) by Wallyberg - weak and short. Sent some helpful /msgs
• keyboard shortcuts for Win 98 (idea) by klinkon - information listed elsewhere.

Mon 9 July

• something is eating my CPU cycles (thing) by Lia - was at -5 and not adding much to the database.
• date (idea) by Ashen - "You can also have dates with members of the same sex, if you're into that kind of thing."
• * hampsterdance (place) by Rizzo (mercifully) - there was already a much fuller hamster dance
• * hamsters dancing on a web page (place) by Spydr (idea) by PJ Jules and (thing) by Orange Julius - as above



• donfreenut says CONTENT EDITORS: Jamaican Patois must die. If any kind people want to obliterate a few hundred writeups, I'd greatly appreciate it.
  
  I picked R...
  • *Raatid (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • !ragga gets left. Not by don.
  • raggamuffin (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *ras clot (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • !Rastafari and
  • !Ras Tafari had a C!. So they get left
  • rat-bat (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • Ratchet (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • red (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • red eye (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *renk (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *rhygin (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • Rial (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *riddim (thing) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *rockers (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • !rude bwoy not by don.
  • *run dung (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *running belly (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  • *runnin' tings (idea) by donfreenut (mercifully)
  
  
  (* = nodeshell needs to go. ! = not killed.)
  
  
• Red Dwarf: Main Theme Edited IvyNeko's wu to remove an &. (First time I've edited a user's wu). Subsequently could remove the wu by arafel below. It said 'Should be "goldfish shoals", without the "&".'
  
  I am more bored than I can tell you. Time to take out some more URLs. All were merciful. All got a message.
• www.realchange.org (thing) by Saige (mercifully)
• www.realchange.org (idea) by plonk plonk
• bonk.dynip.com (place) by Pseudo_Intellectual
• www.X.com (thing) by dtobias (mercifully)
• sebastian.slashdot.org (thing) by tftv256 (mercifully)
• sebastian.slashdot.org (idea) by The Cow (mercifully)
• sebastian.slashdot.org (thing) by xunker
• www.malepregnancy.com (place) by Saige (mercifully)
• www.textfiles.com (thing) by Saige (mercifully)
• alt.fan.miss-manners (place) by Deborah909
• www.llanfairpwllgwyngyll gogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com (thing) by Seqram (mercifully)
• www.ninjasuits.org (thing) by ToiletDuk (mercifully)
• www.fishdot.org (thing) by ToiletDuk (mercifully)
• sdf.lonestar.org (thing) by Modulus (mercifully)
• macosrumors.com (thing) by ScuzzyBug (mercifully)
• www.abnormality.co.uk (place) by asqui (mercifully)
• bedroombondage.com (place) by Dekaritae (mercifully)
• Metshrine.com (place) by jayms (mercifully)
• cjb.net (thing) by SPUI (mercifully)
• www.plastic.com (thing) by pjd (mercifully)
• MyPoints.com (thing) by earthquake (mercifully)
• theonion.com (place) by biafra (mercifully)
• theonion.com (place) by dognose (mercifully)
• suck.com (place) by mjs (mercifully)
• suck.com (place) by hoovah (mercifully)
• suck.com (place) by tsx (mercifully)
• hell.com (thing) by The Narrator (mercifully)
• 0100101110110101.org (idea) by stash (mercifully)
• jodi.org (thing) by stash (mercifully)
• freepc.com (thing) by juliet (mercifully)
• jwz.org (place) by xunker (mercifully)
• linuxprogramming.com (thing) by freeze (mercifully)
• www.sluggy.com (place) by IvyNeko (mercifully)
• news.com (place) by jake (mercifully)
• news.com (thing) by JeffMagnus (mercifully)
• news.com (thing) by shopsinc (mercifully)
• zetes.org (place) by zetes (mercifully)
• glitterglam.org (thing) by Sabazios (mercifully)
• BoobScan.com (place) by tregoweth(mercifully)
• MP3.com (person) by tomwhore (mercifully)
• MP3.com (idea) by r4v5 (mercifully)
• MP3.com (place) by Protector of Mankind (mercifully)
• MP3.com (idea) by Locando (mercifully)
• Starshiptraders.com (thing) by Sun-Tzu (mercifully)
• www.jewwatch.com (thing) by Saige (mercifully)
• religioustolerance.org (thing) by Xamot (mercifully)
• religioustolerance.org (thing) by Saige (mercifully)
• www.stinkymeat.com (thing) by stylee (mercifully)
• www.stinkymeat.com (thing) by perdedor (mercifully)
• www.seedbank.co.uk (thing) by asqui (mercifully)
• punkass.com (thing) by knifegirl (mercifully)
• punkass.com (thing) by discofever (mercifully)
• punkass.com (thing) by loothi (mercifully)
• de.alt.liebesakt (place) by -brazil- (mercifully)
• comp.graphics.apps.gimp (place) by WWWWolf
• www.cheguevara.com (place) by ariels (mercifully)
• DanceSearch.com (thing) by tregoweth (mercifully)

Tue 10 July

• The GIMP (idea) by loose_cannon (mercifully) - crappy Win vs Linux content. There is better content at GIMP.
• *Metropolis.de (thing) by BtS (mercifully)
• Smeagol (person) by dmagoo (mercifully) - at the request of another user. Surpassed by a newer writeup
• "Mum, Dad, I've packed my bags and I'm moving out. I'm staying at Everything2." (idea) by Glottal (mercifully) because it was at -12. The public had spoken

Wed 11 July

• Camel urine as medicine (idea) by hotthamir (mercifully) it was copy and pasted from http://www.answering-christianity.com/urine.htm - Please don't do this.
• Oh dear. It seems that hotthamir has done this before. I have contacted the user and will work on the problem tomorrow.

Thu 12 July

• Alan Cox (person) by hotthamir (mercifully) because it was linkless, had a rep of -6 and added not one new bit of info to the node.
• * sinister OSDN keiretsu (thing) by AAiP (mercifully) - the topic was covered fully at [Sinister Andover Keiretsu] and [OSDN]. At -5
• Phrases you don't want to hear (idea) by TallRoo (mercifully) - wow that sucked. What a loser!

Mon 16 July

• hotthamir has not responded to my various messages since Wednesday (see the entry for Wed 11th, above) regarding copied and pasted material. Today, the follwing were killed because they were lifted from various websites.
  1. bagpipes = www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/organizations/HQ-FMC/PA/news/archive/2001/mar/tinker_sergeant_a_bagpiper.htm
  2. Take now your son, your only son, Isaac = http://www.ishipress.com/isaac.htm
  3. Al Zeer Salem = http://www.sapint.com/dammy3.htm
  I killed them mercifully. If the user does this again then no mercy will be shown.

Tue 17 July

More copy and paste. This time from freepapers.net, a site devoted to letting little blighters cheat on homework assignments. Dark Horse, after some /msgs, submitted an Nuke Request for all copy and pasted writeups.

Mon 23 July

• * slappyjack.com (thing) by slappyjack (mercifully)
• How Harley-Davidson's became known as hogs (idea) by Paradox Muse (mercifully) - the information belonged under Harley-Davidson

I am going away for a week. No doubt I will log in now and then.


* = nodeshell destruction request too.