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Are you sure the moon's not green? Hey I've made a few edits over the years and there they are. Maybe that's just another part of the big ruse? They cleverly ke

Are you sure the moon's not green? Hey I've made a few edits over the years and there they are. Maybe that's just another part of the big ruse? They cleverly keep /my/ edits around? Maybe only I see them? Maybe we're all living in a simulation...

hot_gril 3y ago
I do recall getting shadowbanned from Wikipedia in middle school because I kept repeatedly creating an article about my friend, pretending he was a famous person. Indeed they made my edits only visible to me. But of course it was easy to notice that going on another IP address.
- LastTrain 3y ago
  Didn’t we all do that :-)
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    Getting the school IP temp banned from Wikipedia was a rite of passage in computer class. Tell a bunch of 13yos that there's a site anyone can edit, you know what'll happen.
- jowea 3y ago
  I've read a bit about Wikipedia's ban policies and never saw anything about shadowbanning. You're sure the article wasn't just blocked from creation?
  - Alpha3031 3y ago
    The closest thing I can think of would be pending changes protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Pending_changes_protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Pe...) which is not very frequently applied, but plausible for lightly edited articles. Creation of new articles has been restricted to accounts that have made a small number of edits since about 2011.
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    After they deleted the article several times (it was blocked from creation, but I used different spellings), I started adding mentions of him in random other ones, which iirc were the edits they started making visible only to me. My "sources" were his personal website hosted on my PC. Yes I was a twerp. It's also possible I misunderstood and was only seeing the removed edits because of HTTP caching, but I did know about that at the time...
    - jowea 3y ago
      As the other poster said, you may have been hit by pending changes protection on the pages you were hitting, which is applied to the page and not to your account. Or maybe you were so annoying you'd got yourself added to the automated filter list? I guess that's unlikely for a random twerp but who knows.
SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
I understand it to be quite impossible for anyone to deceive me on the color of the moon. Are you trying to make the point that it is impossible to deceive you that Wikipedia could be ideologically and politically manipulated? You’ve made an excellent point for me. Is entirely likely, that at Wikipedia is some level deceiving its users and we can’t know.

hot_gril 3y ago

I do recall getting shadowbanned from Wikipedia in middle school because I kept repeatedly creating an article about my friend, pretending he was a famous person. Indeed they made my edits only visible to me. But of course it was easy to notice that going on another IP address.

LastTrain 3y ago
Didn’t we all do that :-)
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Getting the school IP temp banned from Wikipedia was a rite of passage in computer class. Tell a bunch of 13yos that there's a site anyone can edit, you know what'll happen.
jowea 3y ago
I've read a bit about Wikipedia's ban policies and never saw anything about shadowbanning. You're sure the article wasn't just blocked from creation?
- Alpha3031 3y ago
  The closest thing I can think of would be pending changes protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Pending_changes_protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Pe...) which is not very frequently applied, but plausible for lightly edited articles. Creation of new articles has been restricted to accounts that have made a small number of edits since about 2011.
- hot_gril 3y ago
  After they deleted the article several times (it was blocked from creation, but I used different spellings), I started adding mentions of him in random other ones, which iirc were the edits they started making visible only to me. My "sources" were his personal website hosted on my PC. Yes I was a twerp. It's also possible I misunderstood and was only seeing the removed edits because of HTTP caching, but I did know about that at the time...
  - jowea 3y ago
    As the other poster said, you may have been hit by pending changes protection on the pages you were hitting, which is applied to the page and not to your account. Or maybe you were so annoying you'd got yourself added to the automated filter list? I guess that's unlikely for a random twerp but who knows.

SV_BubbleTime 3y ago

I understand it to be quite impossible for anyone to deceive me on the color of the moon. Are you trying to make the point that it is impossible to deceive you that Wikipedia could be ideologically and politically manipulated? You’ve made an excellent point for me. Is entirely likely, that at Wikipedia is some level deceiving its users and we can’t know.