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Until recent years, any discussion of RationalWiki was forbidden on Conservapedia. RationalWikians maintain many sleepy sockpuppets in [[Conservapedia]], some who advanced in Conservapedia's [[meritocracy]] and are members of various civility associations.
Until recent years, any discussion of RationalWiki was forbidden on Conservapedia. RationalWikians maintain many sleepy sockpuppets in [[Conservapedia]], some who advanced in Conservapedia's [[meritocracy]] and are members of various civility associations.
===RobSmith desyopping as an alleged "useful idiot of an atheist website" and later re-syopping===
In August 2011, [[Conservapedia]] Admoinistrator [[User:RobSmith]] was desysopped for alleging being "a useful idiot of an atheist website". The charge was made by [[User:Conservative]]. Years later, as [[Andy Schlafly]]. [[User:Conservative]], and [[User:Karajou]] realized an error had been made, [[user:RobSmith]] was invited back and his admin powers reinstated. The specific reason he was asked was the same reason RationalWiki editors asked Rob to contribute to the [[Hillary Clinton]] article in advance of the [[2016 presidential election]]. A consensus appeared on both sites that none of the active editors on either site seemed to have the interest, knowledge, or time to devout to the subject.
On election eve, Rob's hit piece on Hillary Clinton hit #16 on [[Google]], with the first 15 results largely being cut n pastes from Hillary's own website and [[propaganda]] campaign.
But the question remained, "Why was Rob so dishonorably discharged under false pretenses is 2011?" The reason apparently was quite simple: in the toxic environment between Conservapedoia and Rationalwiki editors, Rob had always maintained an aire of [[civility]]. and could discuss serious differing points of view on subjects he was knowledgeable or, and did not engage in senseless, meanspirited food fights as such discussions always degenerated into between. There was even an aire of respect between the two o[p[posing positions. For this reason - because Rob could engage in civil discussions with opponents, he was de-sysoped. The immediate cause was when a RationaWiki editor at the RationaWiki website asked Rob if he thought User:Conservative was "mentally ill". As per Conservapedia Guidelines and its Administrator's Guide page outline, Rob did not respond. Indeed, Rob viewed it as just another [[provocation]] and didn't hold an opinion on the subject.
But it didn't end there. User:Conservative, fearing that "word would get out" from others who had interacted with him and knew his editing practices much better than Rob did, retaliated against the rumors by attacking Rob for his civil engagement with RationalWiki editors. Rob had collaborated with user:Conservative on a few pages in 2007 and saw how his research was misused and his pointless, silly interaction with other users, Rob withdrew from any further collaboration and limited interaction in the future. The record of [[leak]]ed emails of the Conservapedia sysop (leaked by User:TK and hacked by User:AceMcWicked) show virtually no interaction between Rob and User:Conservative between 2008 and to 2015. User:Conservative, in fact, was not a member of Andy Schlafly's original "brain trust" in 2007 as other sysops commented that he was a bit odd.
So to prevent the consensus view among RationalWiki editors, who mostly had been blocked from the Conservapedia webserver by 2011, from supposedly appearing on Conservapedia, one is led to believe User:Conservative invented the false and negative charge (and violation of [[Conservapedia:Guidelines]] against [[personal attacks]]) that RobSmith was "a useful idiot of an atheist website", ignoring Rob's four record of [[civility]] and abiding by written guidelines. Why would Rob engage in a pointless smear campaign against another editor? There is no record of him doing so. The smear campaign against Rob User:Conservative evidently invented to save himself from the embarrassment of what he knew others who knew him, and interacted him regularly, thought of his behavior.
== RationalWiki and web traffic ==
== RationalWiki and web traffic ==