Editor Log: May 2001 (idea)

my policy: I log all the nukes that are not done at the user's request. All nukes have an explanation. Notice that if you (non-editor user) find nuke-worthy stuff, you can always /msg me - I will think about it.
This log also contains subjects that need to be written up, so if you are need a worthy theme for your inspiration this is a good place to look.
If I do node editing, that's to say I go in and modify another user's writeup, I always msg the user, unless it is a really trivial spelling fix.

Thu May 3 11:43:03 CDT 2001

• Mike Oldfield by Zach because: superseded, mercy
• Mike Oldfield by slim because: superseded, mercy (NB: Hermes_we's WU on Mike Oldfield rocks. Great job.)
• scum by MagicWiz because: kind of pointless
• scum by GtHS because: entirely pointless
• Power in Cars by Web Head because: rant, no point (NB: mercyfully: a newbie)
• cool, tight-fitting spandex by csm because: a one liner, sitting at -5
• mongo by csm because: "person to whom 'For Mongo' was dedicated". Indeed.
• marijuana spending by marvin42 because: info available elsewhere, first node (NB: mercy, user msg'd)
• screwed by MagicWiz because: boring Clinton reference
• day by MagicWiz because: yawn
• day by Racaille because: link to weekdays. not very useful.
• night by MagicWiz because: severely boring
• BOOTP by Racaille because: superseded two words WU
• CCITT by Racaille because: superseded, uninformative
• telco by Avenger because: E1 remain, inflammatory
• telco by gunga-din because: E1 remain, flamage
• testra by avenger because: E1 remain, superseded, very little info
• telstra by tres equis because: vide supra

These nodes need work: chastity belt
Every now and then, I stumble across these epic sagas of sex, drugs and good writing. Start with bejewel and go on from there. Enjoy the parallel slalom by riverrun and dannye.
By now, my editing method should be obvious: I wander, more or less at random, and when I find a particularly "promising" user, I do a user search on him and go through all his writeups. If it is a very productive user, I may sort them by reputation, but reputation is not a great indicator. There are very crappy WUs with high reps.

I deleted a total of 18 WUs (4 without XP loss).

Tue May 8 18:00:47 CDT 2001

• attaccabottonai by bonnet because: possible copyright issue; and wrong spelling as well. It should be "attaccabottoni", which translates quite well as "a bore". I can see how Mr. Rheingold had need to pad his books, but we don't necessarily share his needs. (NB: mercy)
• the phantom menace by kiyolee because: why not explain the reasons for its suckiness?
• the phantom menace by t_f_c_b because: vide supra
• the phantom menace by Wolfang because: vide supra
• deep impact by drdink because: one liner, no info
• assrape by Shanoyu because: not very informative
• lameness by bungie because: vide supra
• mountain biker by sporter because: ok, they don't wear spandex. But they must have some other defining attribute...
• jagermeister by ccuning, discofever, FlexAble, dolphinboy, gaffney because: correct spelling is Jägermeister (NB: mercy)
• Dead Parrot by Tjl because: vide supra
• Ennio Morricone by dmiller because: Death by Quality (NB: mercy)

mass mauled Blackavar (14 nodes): chatroom(info free one liner from E1. superseded.) Socialists(both wrong and offensive) sitcoms(no info) Graham Chapman(one liner, no info) GCHQ(one liner, superseded) the geek house(no see also WUs) then(E1 remain) assrape(vide supra) lameness(the state of this writeup) deadly force("get thee to a search engine". Grump.) mountain biker(flamage, not amusing) Dead Parrot(obvious reference to the Dead Parrot Sketch) ignoranto elenchi(it is either ignorantia elenchi or ignoratio elenchi, not something in the middle) political(superseded by Webster)

Kudos to nodepie for responding to my plea and noding deadly force.

I deleted a total of 25 WUs (7 without XP loss).

Thu May 10 23:20:12 CDT 2001

• I need employment by sane_guy because: belongs in a daylog. User msg'd. (NB: mercy)
• Why I'm going to punch George Lucas in the Throat the next time I see him. by CzarKhan Shanoyu dragoon Ameno der_wolf because: unsustainable title, Star Wars rant, bleah
• Boycott all future Olympics, regardless of where they're held by Monkey because: learning how to read is an important task for a noder
• nethack by jtkirk01 because: ok, so nethack is lame. Why not tell us why? (NB: user msg'ed)
• if you don't look, you deserve to fall in by Tabs because: topic drift is very dangerous
• if you don't look, you deserve to fall in by jtkirk01 because: weak WU, again drifting (NB: mercy, in consideration of newbieness)
• Sabotage by malyn because: no info, no fun
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by Pr0n K1ng because: we are not amused, and it was at -9, and it was a lame idea in general
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by SanjuroE because: too original to live in this cruel world, ad at -7
• I 've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by mat catastrophe because: right in principle, but it stopped making sense (NB: mercy)
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by anomie because: TWAJS (NB: mercy)
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by Kallen because: boring, not very amusing
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by eric because: ok, popular music sucks, next concept (NB: mercy)
• I've figured out how to stop people from pirating mp3's by Agent000 because: it may be data, but it ain't information (NB: topic drift kills, but I had mercy)
• mdk by Pr0n K1ng because: Death by Quality (NB: mercy)
• The node linked to all others crashed konqueror by Sir Norris because: ... and one day my Netscape crashed! this is really news.
• The node linked to all others crashed konqueror by Pr0n K1ng because: and now it doesn't crash it any more. Exciting.
• Comparasion by gimpboy because: we don't node typos

zgirll nodes good stuff.

Nodes that need work: Cecil Rhodes.

I deleted a total of 18 WUs (7 without XP loss).

Fri May 11 22:06:42 CDT 2001

• IMAP by Clorox because: Death by Quality (NB: mercy)
• taste by Clorox because: Death by Quality, superseded (NB: mercy)
• taste by majick because: included in Oolong's later WU (NB: mercy)
• taste by joedipus because: a bit pointless, linkless (NB: mercy)
• taste by ReMecc because: any writeup that starts with "Lick somthing" will die. No, really, superseded (NB: mercy)
• the third word in the English language ending in "gry" by a scar faery because: repeats stuff present at the end of the blowdart's WU (NB: mercy)
• smurfing by Silicon Jesus because: not much info, superseded (NB: mercy on E1 remains)
• smurfing by Berkeley because: Death by Quality (NB: mercy)
• boids by FishHead because: Death by Quality (NB: mercy)
• sperical coordinates by maless because: empty WU (NB: mercy)
• insert by Pseudo_Intellectual because: E1 remain, superseded (NB: mercy; nothing like the thrill of deleting something by the E2 Best User))

mricicle writes good stuff!
excellent smurfing WU by Jonath

I deleted a total of 11 WUs (11 without XP loss).

Mon May 14 22:13:51 CDT 2001

• pianist by hackman because: silly E1 remain
• pianist by mayzie because: no info, superseded
• bottom bracket by Temporary Man because: Death by Quality
• Necco wafers by washort because: Death by boring subjective opinion
• Lake Titicaca by provoloneotron because: cut-and-paste unattributed from http://www.crystalinks.com/laketiticaca.htm (NB: don't do this)
• Computational Linguistics by ^P^ because: completely off the mark

I deleted a total of 6 WUs (0 without XP loss). original logfile: 1205.txt

Thu May 17 00:03:45 CDT 2001

• Defenestrations of Prague by mcewanca because: The point didn't need to be made and the illations are just that (NB: mercy, due to newbieness)
• re-inventing the holocaust as a "funny little story" by Lockheart because: holocaust jokes: We are not amused

I deleted a total of 2 WUs (1 without XP loss). original logfile: 1605.txt

Tue May 22 00:15:08 CDT 2001

• Do not go gentle into that good night by Synthoid because: superseded (NB: mercy)
• Do not go gentle into that good night by Pseudo_Intellectual because: superseded (NB: mercy)
• usufruct by Mike626 because: didn't add info to Webster's definition (NB: mercy)
• fragile by ojnk because: E1 remain (NB: superseded)
• Moxy Früvous by Misch because: repeats what is said in frutripping. User msg'd. (NB: mercy for the newbie)
• perversion by Javrkom because: E1 remain, neither amusing nor informative
• Henry and June by novasoy because: nuked at user's request - quite steamy (NB: mercy)
• links by ^P^ because: we don't do plurals, unless they mean something different
• Carlito's Way by Robo because: mostly off topic (NB: mercy for the newbie)

I deleted a total of 9 WUs (6 without XP loss). original logfile: 1705.txt

Tue May 22 20:03:19 CDT 2001

• silent lucidity by pink princess because: not very relevant; user msg'd (NB: mercy, newbie)
• lucid dreaming by pink princess because: still not very relevant (contains definition of lucid and lucid dreaming, not very enlightening, and a reference to Silent Lucidity, a song) (NB: mercy, newbie)
• The Tiny Finger Game by Machew because: rant, not relevant
• desert by gabrielh because: misplaced trivia
• cannon by asdff because: E1 remain
• kleptomaniacs by shig because: we don't do plurals
• kleptomaniacs by ohe because: we don't do plurals
• kleptomaniacs by pink princess because: we don't do plurals: user msg'd (NB: mercy for the newbie)

Nodes that need work: recce lieutenant colonel.

I deleted a total of 8 WUs (3 without XP loss). original logfile: 2205.txt

Wed May 23 23:56:26 CDT 2001

• acoustic coupler by Kalie Ma because: E1 remain, failed to define, superseded
• sex is stupid by euphorica because: newbie's half-formed ramblings. msg'd (NB: mercy)

Thanks to Jurph for noding recce!

I deleted a total of 2 WUs (1 without XP loss). original logfile: 2305.txt

Mon May 28 20:52:02 CDT 2001

• ler by theler because: "The Ler That would be me." - charming (NB: mercy for newbieness)
• innuendo by JerboaKolinowski because: "Italian for suppository" (NB: no, I think not)
• green beretes by tres equis because: so, a green beret is a beret that is green. (NB: excessively enlightening)
• Prozac by krellis because: sucky one liner, superseded
• Prozac by illuvator because: ok, so you think it is great stuff. But why?
• Prozac by dipsy because: One liners depress us. And depressed editors nuke.
• French Canadians don't speak French by Cyt because: I thought long and hard before nuking this. But it remains factually wrong. Canadian French is just a variant of Standard French, with very mild lexica and pronounciation differences.
• French Canadians don't speak French by kiimihaana because: wrong as fact, and failed as humour.

kudos to matilda that noded lounge girl by popular request.

I deleted a total of 8 WUs (1 without XP loss). original logfile: 2405.txt

Tue May 29 19:33:51 CDT 2001

• G.K. Chesterton by ainsje because: linkless, and completely superseded by viterbiSearcher's smashing writeup (NB: mercy)
• printable version by whitemole because: idle musings, no information (NB: mercy - newbie)
• tribes by SuperV because: *yawn* writeups that compare games without saying one is better than the other will die. Violently.
• tribes by Dark Horse because: rather charming writeup, but it dies because it is totally off topic
• Bookers Scotch on Rocks w/ Water Chase(mmmm) by bnsNrice because: ok, so Bookers Scotch is really nice. But why?
• Mexican food is NOT bad for you by bnsNrice because: much as I agree with the title, the node is vague rambling, contains a Spanish grammar error and vague bad science bullshit (NB: user msg'ed, no reaction)
• eminem by redeemer because: "Original name Marshall Bruce Mathers III (The 3rd)." - factual, but too short. And it was at -5. (NB: mercy)
• O Captain! My Captain! by mouse because: "Wasn't this poem also referring to Christ??" - I don't know, tell me. But don't node your question. (NB: mercy)
• Wherever you go, there you are by Spydr because: It may be Zen, but it looks like a platitude. (NB: mercy, because today I am nice person)
• Wherever you go, there you are by datagirl because: vide supra
• Wherever you go, there you are by wintersweet because: vide supra

Nodes that need work: aerogel drill bit bore sigthing.

I deleted a total of 11 WUs (5 without XP loss). original logfile: 2905.txt

Wed May 30 21:44:04 CDT 2001

• Hydroplaning isn't just a river in Egypt by qeyser because: Don't make shit up, not very funny
• H. P. Lovecraft by MIU because: E1 remain, superseded (NB: mercy)
• H. P. Lovecraft by Quizro because: vide supra (NB: mercy)
• flying by wonko because: E1 remain, superseded (NB: mercy)
• Mexican food is NOT bad for you by bnsNrice because: it sucked yesterday, and it still sucks tomorrow
• National Institute of Public Health by bnsNrice because: if it is a Mexican institution, it should be noded under its real name: Insituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Bizarrely enough, public organizations in Mexico tend to have names in Spanish. (NB: mercy)
• Tell Tale Heart by bnsNrice because: superseded (NB: mercy)
• S & M by mrhandstand because: already there under S&M and BDSM and who knows where else. In this place of perversion, what would you expect. (NB: mercy)
• Your eyeballs rotate the opposite way to your head by Tabs because: I will believe many things before I believe that we have gyroscopes inside our eyeballs. But what is this whirring noise? AYEEE!
• high school by evilsock because: ok, so high school sucks and you are a fucking genius and you should not go through it.
• high school by oomnyptitsa because: newbie, spouting high and mighty, including URL. BEWM (NB: mercy for the newbie)
• Daria by WhizzKidd because: typos, and unexplained opinions

I nuked a daylog of mine, that I had posted under the WRONG DATE. How silly can one be, I wonder.
anthropod added a very useful WU to the tortilla node.
mmm ... wild rice

I deleted a total of 12 WUs (7 without XP loss), which means violent activity in impassionate mode.
original logfile: 3005.txt

The radioactive wasteland of Editor Log: April 2001 - the blasted deserts of Editor Log: June 2001