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Originally Posted by O-tacular
Wow. Never seen anything like that on Wikipedia before. What kind of insecure, small dicked, sociopathic meathead bully writes that kind of shit? How can you hate someone that much? That’s what I don’t understand. How do bullies hate their victims so much? That’s beyond displaced anger. That’s maliciousness.
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It's actually surprisingly common. I wrote the bulk of and managed all the Thunder Bay-related pages for a few years about a decade ago, and even then, comments adding in insults directed at people and in some cases, entire pages about normal people being created to slander them, were roughly a weekly occurrence. And we didn't have roll back then! Undoing a revision required multiple page clicks to accomplish. The ironic thing is shortly after I got rollback rights, around the time it came out, I got a job and lost interest in the site. Wikipedia keeps an archive of every single revision to every single page, meaning that for most editors simply removing the comment might not eliminate it entirely. In the worst cases (and fortunately I've never had to deal with them), pages had to actually be removed from the site and had their histories altered so that an insult someone put on the page wouldn't appear in that public record. That's how bad it can get. What Blader posted isn't even particularly bad for that site. In some cases, they'll write that shit in a more serious tone and even add fake citations and it can be weeks or even years before someone finds it and removed it. A while back I removed a "so-and-so is gay" comment from a page that, according to its history, had been there for about two years.
Being a volunteer in youth programming now, I've seen how much worse it is with Facebook. Rumours spread fast, and before you know it we're catching kids spraypainting "*girl's name* is a slut" in an alleyway and setting things in their yard on fire. In a few cases, we know the bullies are acting that way because their parents are neglecting or bullying them. I'm kind of thankful that when I was in school, only a small fraction of kids had cell phones and none of them had cameras.