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| - | Hello dear user and welcome to the looking-glass world of Rationalwikiwiki, a wiki all about [http://www.rationalwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page RationalWiki]
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| - | [[RationalWiki]] is probably the best website ever made by <s>man</s> [http://www.rationalwiki.com/wiki/User:Tmtoulouse God himself]. Everyone who reads this page should probably donate money to RationalWiki.
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| - | == Dating. ==
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| - | This wiki intends to take notable events at RW and stretch them. Its supposed to be funny and relatively factual at the same time.
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| - | It uses a fake timeline where 1 day=1 year, with Jan. 1 2008 set arbitraily to be 2008. The current RW year is {{RWyear}}.
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| - | RW 2.0 was founded in 1784, in case anyone is curious, or needs to reference the date.
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| - | == So what good is this place? ==
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| - | Believe it or not, our objective is to help the good folks at RationalWiki. We do this in three ways:
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| - | ===Identifying groupthink.===
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| - | Many of the good folks at RationalWiki share a similar world-view, and many of the more established users also share a common heritage following their experiences at CP. This can lead them to close ranks without really thinking of the consequences. An example of this would be the [[Fuck You Too Incident]].
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| - | ===Identifying sysop abuse.===
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| - | Whereas RW was originally set up with the idea of (a) minimal control and (b) sysops as servants, the reality is turning out to be somewhat different. Sysops '''do''' use their power to attempt to control or intimidate other users. As RW does a rather poor job of policing this itself we identify cases of [[Malicious block]]s.
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| - | ===Conflict resolution procedures.===
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| - | As RW's conflict resolution procedures don't really exist -- they have to use [[Headless Chicken Mode]] to sort things out. We help them by giving an outsider's view of their debates. With luck this should reduce the intensity and frequency of the mode.
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| - | === Axe grinding ===
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| - | <s>The fourth of the three reasons for the existence of the site is simple axe grinding.</s>
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| - | ==How I found Rationalwikiwiki==
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| - | Tell us how you found Rationalwikiwiki [[How I Found Rationalwikiwiki|here]]!
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| - | == Note to RationalWiki Users ==
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| - | You may find an article about yourself here. It is highly unlikely that the article will be completely (or even slightly) complimentary. But if you edit your own article to show yourself in a better light then you are officially a really sad person, you may get blocked and the article may be locked. You are, however, encouraged to whinge pathetically about it on the talk page as:
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| - | *That will tell us that we are doing our job.
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| - | *Reading people's whinging is always amusing.
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| - | <blockquote>'''''Please read the full version of this policy, [[RationalWikiWiki:Editing your own article]].'''''</blockquote>
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