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== RationalWiki and its poor leadership ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and leadership]] and [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheism and social skills]]
The godless have a reputation for having poor leadership (see: [[Atheism and leadership]]) and as can be seen below RationalWiki is no exception to this matter which helps explains its socially challenged atmosphere and impoverished state as well as it falling web traffic and falling influence. See also: [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheism and social skills]]
On July 14, 2022, during the election process for the RationalMedia Foundation board of directors, RationalWiki users admitted that RationalWikians were offering weak candidates so far.<ref>[https://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2022/07/rationalwiki-users-admit-election-for.html RationalWiki users admit the election for its Board of Trustees is offering weak candidates so far], [[Examining Atheism]] blog, July 14, 2022</ref>
=== GrammarCommie ===
[[Image:Nicolo.jpg|right|thumb|GrammarCommie is known for his bullying.
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Research on the dark triad of personality traits ([[narcissism]], [[Machiavellianism]], and [[Psychopath|psychopathy]]) indicate a correlation with bullying.<ref>Chabrol H.; Van Leeuwen N.; Rodgers R.; Séjourné S. (2009). "''Contributions of psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian, and sadistic personality traits to juvenile delinquency''". ''Personality and Individual Differences''. 47 (7): 734–39. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.020.</ref> See also: [[Atheism and narcissism]] and [[Atheism and psychopathy]]
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Portrait of [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] by Santi di Tito.]]
''See also:'' [[GrammarCommie]]
[[GrammarCommie]] (GC) is largely a former RationalWiki administrator. He retired and vowed to never come back a few times (He came back a few times. His last post was July 13, 2022).<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/GrammarCommie GrammarCommie contributions]</ref>
He formerly served on the RationalWiki Foundation board of directors until he had a mental health crisis which consisted of him threatening to cut himself and commit suicide in order to get his way at RationalWiki (See: [[GrammarCommie#Screenshot captures of RationalWiki posts related to GrammnarCommie|Screenshot captures of RationalWiki posts related to GrammnarCommie]]). He is an atheist and leftist.
As noted above, GrammarCommie has anger management issues which sometimes results in him angrily posting abusive posts in all caps laced with profanity (see also: [[Atheism and anger]] and [[Atheism and profanity]]).<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&diff=2399206&oldid=2399203 Revision as of 22:51, 4 January 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)]</ref><ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&diff=2399207&oldid=2399206 Revision as of 22:55, 4 January 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)]</ref> The RationalWiki admin who goes by the moniker CorruptUser wrote about GrammarCommie on March 25, 2021: "GC has this belief that there's a Certain Way you have to make arguments, and seeing anyone deviating from that Certain Way results in him losing control, and he has little ability to regain his composure. During this time he will write vicious screeds, make threats, or engage in blockwars including removal of rights."<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:All_things_in_moderation&diff=2303295&oldid=2303292 RationalWiki talk:All things in moderation - March 25, 2021 post by Admin CorruptUser]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence]]
GrammarCommie frequently bans people which contributes to RationalWiki being a wiki that has a low [[Essay: Edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki|edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki]]. He also frequently reverts other editors. A wiki with a low edit to block ratio tends to be a closed-minded wiki that is dogmatic and intolerant (see also: [[Atheism and dogmatism]] and [[Atheism and intolerance]]).
He is also known for his bullying. Research on the dark triad of personality traits ([[narcissism]], [[Machiavellianism]], and [[Psychopath|psychopathy]]) indicate a correlation with bullying.<ref>Chabrol H.; Van Leeuwen N.; Rodgers R.; Séjourné S. (2009). "''Contributions of psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian, and sadistic personality traits to juvenile delinquency''". ''Personality and Individual Differences''. 47 (7): 734–39. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.020.</ref> See also: [[Atheism and narcissism]] and [[Atheism and psychopathy]]
In June of 2022, GrammarCommie was banning and unbanning himself. Before banning himself initially, GrammarCommie said that RationalWiki was "half-dead" and filled with "twits".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2friedeggs&diff=prev&oldid=2460941 Revision as of 03:49, 10 June 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)]</ref> Specifically, he wrote: "You know what, fine. Take your half dead site, where most of you twits obsess over one or two articles and et the rest of the site rot, where I can't even perform basic category maintenance without someone getting on my ass, which by the way is why i haven't touched mainspace in ages, where trolls are humored as long as there's the barest minimum level of plausible deniability, and shove it right up your f**king *ss."<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2friedeggs&diff=prev&oldid=2460941 Revision as of 03:49, 10 June 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)]</ref> In reply, the RationalWiki user 2friedeggs said: "This site is dying for a reason" and he indicated that GrammarCommie was chasing good faith editors away. On July 3, 2022, the RationalWiki Moderator [[LeftyGreenMario]] gave Grammarcommie an ultimatum. He could either unblock himself and "contribute to the community without taking swipes at other people" or he could stay blocked.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GrammarCommie&oldid=2467127#two_choices LeftyGreenMario's ultimatum to GrammarCommie]</ref> In response, GrammarCommie replied: "@LeftyGreenMario What, exactly, am I supposed to contribute? I try to deal with trolls and asshats, I get burned. I try to clean up categories, I get burned. So. What, exactly, am I supposed to contribute?".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GrammarCommie&oldid=2467127#two_choices LeftyGreenMario's ultimatum to GrammarCommie]</ref>
GrammarCommie often pontificates about politics and economics and sees himself as very knowledgeable about these areas despite describing himself as being lower middle class. On July 30, 2021, GrammarCommie wrote: "I asked for data, not random factoids. Just as we can't infer that every white person lives at the lower middle class level because I do...".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Saloon_bar&diff=2348120&oldid=2348116 RationalWiki Saloon Revision as of 04:33, 30 July 2021 (view source) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs) (→Critical Race Theory)]</ref> He is also known for correcting people's grammar and being intolerant of people's grammatical errors.<ref>[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grammar%20Commie Grammar Commie - Urban dictionary]</ref>
GrammarCommie describes himself thusly, "Deeply [[cynicism|cynical]] and borderline [[misanthropy|misanthropic]]. Very much not [[Utopian]]. Unconventional left-winger. If you want more info engage me in a conversation. I'm an asshole, but I'm honest."<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User:GrammarCommie GrammarCommie user page at RationalWiki]</ref> GrammarCommmie is admin at RationalWiki, which is a wiki that intentionally lies about its web traffic statistics on its article about itself in that it greatly inflates its web traffic and global market share
=== LeftyGreenMario ===
''See also:'' [[LeftyGreenMario]]
[[File:LeftyGreenMario.JPG|thumbnail|right|500px|LeftyGreenMario (LGM) is a RationalWiki moderator.
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LeftyGreenMario is not sure if she has bad judgment. She feels as if she is a bad person due to her gossiping about other RationalWikians at the RationalWiki Discord server.
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The above screenshot was taken from the RationalWiki Discord server.]]
[[LeftyGreenMario]] (LGM) is a lady RationalWiki (RW) moderator and administrator. She is also a RationalWiki Foundation trustee. [[RationalWiki and web traffic|RationalWiki.org]] is a politically [[leftism|left]]-leaning [[wiki]] website that skews towards [[atheism]]/[[agnosticism]] in terms of its [[worldview]]. LeftyGreenMario became a RationalWiki moderator in January of 2018.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:LeftyGreenMario&diff=1917739&oldid=1908438 LeftyGreenMario's post on her user page that she became a RationalWiki Moderator]</ref>
LeftyGreenMario is a [[feminism|feminist]], self-described [[asexual]], [[atheism|atheist]], [[evolution]]ist, proponent of [[abortion]], [[environmentalism|environmentalist]] and a video game enthusiast.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User:LeftyGreenMario LeftyGreenMario - RationalWiki]</ref> She works as a dental lab technician and driver.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LeftyGreenMario&diff=2504324&oldid=2504120 LeftyGreenMario, works as a dental lab technician and driver.]</ref>
LeftyGreenMario is a student of [[Herbert Marcuse]]'s [[partisan tolerance]], and almost singlehandedly destroyed what little bit of balance and tolerance of diverse viewpoints existed in the Rationalwiki community since its founding in 2007. As a Trustee of the RationalMedia Foundation,<ref>https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nm/4330247</ref> LeftyGreenMario has led the project down the road of leftist intolerance. Many longtime contributors abandoned the project after her rise as a central figure. See also: [[RationalWiki and web traffic]]
and [[RationalWiki and web traffic#LeafyGreenMario and Google referral traffic|LeafyGreenMario and Google referral traffic]]
Google has a number of quality indicators by which is rates a website. According to SEMRush, RationalWiki had 1.49 million monthly referral visits from Google in January of 2018 (which is when LeafyGreenMario became a RationalWiki moderator). According to SEMRush, RationalWiki's peak Google referral traffic was 3.5 million visits per month in August 2019. In June of 2020, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki had 464,000 monthly referrals from Google. In January of 2022, according to SEMRUsh, RationalWiki had 185,661 monthly referrals from Google. RationalWiki has lost a massive amount of web traffic since its peak in August of 2019 (see: [[RationalWiki and web traffic]]).
LeftyGreenMario is not sure if she has bad judgment (see screenshot graphic to the right). She feels as if she is a bad person due to her gossiping about other RationalWikians at the RationalWiki Discord server.
She was threatened with impeachment by a former RationalWiki Moderator and current Administrator of RationalWiki, who goes by the username Ace McWicked, due to her involvement in the RationalWiki GossipGate scandal (She gossiped about Ace McWicked). She apologized to Ace McWicked to turn things around, to no effect (see screenshot graphic to the right).
==== LeftyGreenMario's disturbing behavior as a RationalWiki Moderator in 2023 ====
On March 4, 2023, the RationalWiki editor Ace McWicked wrote about the RationalWiki Moderator LeftyGreenMario: "You have no justification in blocking a user or reverting comments just because you say the conversation is done. We don't do that here... Are the rest of us just peons who must cease talking when a mod says so?".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LeftyGreenMario&diff=2531062&oldid=2527930 Revision as of 01:47, 4 March 2023 (view source) Ace McWicked]</ref><ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LeftyGreenMario&diff=2531078&oldid=2531071 Revision as of 04:02, 4 March 2023 (view source) Ace McWicked]</ref> The RationalWiki Administrator DuceMooseolini concurred with Ace McWicked's commentary about LeftyGreenMario's behavior and wrote: "This is actually very disturbing behavior to see from a mod."<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LeftyGreenMario&diff=2531085&oldid=2531084 Revision as of 04:42, 4 March 2023 (view source) DuceMoosolini]</ref> RationalWiki editor FairDinkum, who is in the midst of creating a series of essays on the academic discipline of argumentation based on the scholar David Zarefsky's lecture on the subject, wrote about LeftyGreenMario's disturbing behavior, "For once I agree with Ace."<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LeftyGreenMario&diff=2531669&oldid=2531666 Revision as of 16:21, 6 March 2023 (view source) FairDinkum]</ref><ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Argumentation_-_An_Introduction Essay:Argumentation - An Introduction] by RationalWiki editor FairDinkum</ref>
==== RationalWiki administrator Hastur on LeftyGreenMario's temperament being unsuitable for a moderator ====
[[File:LeftyGreenMario RationalWiki moderator.JPG|thumbnail|center|1500px|RationalWiki administrator Hastur on LeftyGreenMario's temperament.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:All_things_in_moderation&diff=2399454&oldid=2399448 Latest revision as of 14:46, 5 January 2022 (view source) Hastur (talk | contribs)]</ref> According to RationalWiki policy, ill-behavior on the RationalWiki Discord Server is not a recallable offense. However, RationalWikians do ignore their policies and act arbitrarily. For example, a RationalWikian was permabanned from the RationalWiki website without a 2/3rds vote which by RationalWkiki's policies is required.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=prev&oldid=2296799 Revision as of 21:46, 11 March 2021 (view source) Christopher (talk | contribs)]</ref>]]
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==== LeftyGreenMario's influence on RationalWiki according to RationalWiki Admininstrator Ace McWicked ====
[[File:LeftyGreenMario RationalWiki.png|thumbnail|600px|center|On May 23, 2020, a RationalWiki (RW) administrator who goes by the moniker Ace McWicked essentially admits that RationalWiki is becoming an echo chamber of its most prominent administrator.
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In the above quote, LGM is an acronym for the lady, RationalWiki administrator LeftyGreenMario. See: [[Atheism and groupthink]] ]]
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=== RationalWiki and anti-feminist language by RationalWiki Moderator User: Spud ===
[[File:Sexist language used by RationalWiki Moderator User Spud.jpg|center|800px|thumbnail|RationalWiki is a pro-[[feminism]] website.<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Feminism RationalWiki - Feminism]</ref>
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Above is a screen capture of one of the instances of RationalWiki Moderator User: Spud using language that would be considered derogatory to women by some [[feminism|feminists]]. ]]
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== RationalWiki and closedmindedness ==
== RationalWiki and closedmindedness ==