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Racial Slurs
I was contacted last night by a user who claims he was banned with this message: "no more message for you, you freakin jew" (I'm not sure if that's a direct quote or not). I never saw the ban in question on the blocked IP list, so, if it really existed (and I firmly suspect it didn't), it must've been a timed block that expired before he contacted me. I will always side with admins and sysops in conflicts like this, but I hope it goes without saying that if this did indeed happen I'm sorely dissappointed. Racism simply cannot be tolerated coming from our admin/sysop staff. — 
Joey (talk·edits) 15:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- According to the Block Log (which contains every block and message by sysops whether the block has expired or not), no one called anyone "a freakin jew". —FireBird|Talk 17:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- This is absolutely ridiculous, but just for completeness sake:
- I just searched the entire database and %jew% appears 11 times in current pages, and never in a derogatory manner. Results include "jewel case" (x2), "Jewish skullcap," "Jew's harp" (x3), "jewelry" (x2), "jewelrey," "jewel cases," "asjhfijewifjaskdjfkajewifjewjf," and of course this page. In archived (deleted) pages it appears once as "Jeweettoch" in some spam comment. One email address of a user contains a variant of the word "jewel." Nothing else.
- I thought perhaps this user was referring instead to the forum, so I searched that database as well. No red flags there either.
- This user didn't provide their username that was blocked or their IP address? The Blocked text includes a user's IP address and clearly instructs them to include that address in any queries they make. Also, did they say they were blocked from editing the Wiki or that they were banned from posting on the forum? Did they say who blocked/banned them? Any answers to these questions would certainly clear things up. -- Tom 20:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I just spoke with Joey and here's how it all went down:
- Late last night, Joey was contacted via instant message by an irate user about being blocked from the Wiki. The user first called Joey a big racist jerk without explanation and then claimed that Joey had blocked him and used a racial slur in the process. At first the user was unclear as to the content of the block message, but then claimed it was "no more message for you, you freakin jew". The user then told Joey that he hated him and that Joey shouldn't deny saying it. Joey was eventually able to have the user visit http://ipchicken.com to determine his current IP address. This IP address turned out to be one for an AOL proxy. Joey attempted to explain that the user was likely just blocked from editing because of another AOL user who had been blocked, but before he could finish, the user was able to edit again. The user proved this to Joey by editing an article. Joey was then able to convince the user that he needed to go to bed and signed off.
- It is clear to both Joey and myself that none of our Sysops used any kind of language that is inconsistent with our principles here at the Homestar Runner Wiki. We both believe this user's claim to be as far from the truth as possible. Thank you all for your patience in this matter. -- Tom 21:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Article of the Week
This would be a good place to decide how we're going to choose the article of the week. Maybe the article of the week could be a rotating responsibility for sysops? Aurora the Homestar Coder 21:03, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
