The site has been seemingly defaced yet again, by another account called RedArcher9, who joined around 9 hours ago as of the time of this post. The banner’s image of the user has been provided in the post. This is the first thing I read when I was made aware of their urgent promotion of the “new edits to the site’s history”: “ProleWiki often serves as a ‘gateway’ for Communists to be indoctrinated into chauvinistic and revisionary ideology, with the site actively promoting ‘Patriotic Socialist’ and other social-chauvinist points of view and allowing users of those persuasions into the project.”
I didn’t read the rest of their horseshit because I have other things I would rather occupy my time with than the same trend of erasing and re-writing history which the US already does at scale.
I don’t know the current policies for allowing people to become editors, but this game of cat and mouse with Wisconcom has become very tiresome. I propose a freeze on the creation or promotion of accounts to have edit permissions, and restrict such promotion to only those who have been around (for a good while) and earned the trust of the Lemmygrad netizens. This will make it a lot more expensive for them to pull this crap. In order to have an account that can edit the wiki, I also suggest that person open a People’s Court case and have everyone (minus accounts that are obviously fake accounts or suspicious based on how new they are and what they’ve been up to) come to a consensus based on the user’s credibility and history of contribution to Lemmygrad. If anyone has any thoughts to offer in good faith, I encourage you to leave feedback. I think it’s time to put a stop to this bullshit.
Infiltration attempts normally never succeed because we have processes in place. In this case, we had let our guard down because Wisconcom had been on a hiatus for a couple months, leaving us alone. I just think it’s more sad than anything that he checks prolewiki every minute of the way, writes changes he wants to make in word documents saved on his hard drive during the 2 months it takes him to get an account approved and commit his vandalisms. It’s sad in the same way an orphaned puppy is sad you know, you feel pity.
I think also the editors need to be brought up on security. In the case of his alt account (also hi wisconcom, I know you’re checking lemmygrad every second of the day too), I raised the issue that the account used a temp email and TOR to request their account. But we still let him in because he got the votes (showing he can actually do actual marxism when he wants to, which is even sadder), and also because some editors pointed out they actually know people who use TOR for normal browsing.
I think the editors are naturally trusting, which is normal and a good thing, but I also think it shows that the administration and intsec group hasn’t communicated enough about this, instead keeping it between ourselves because we didn’t want to bother the editors with it. And of course he’s been going on for so long now (since October 2022) that in that time we’ve had new editors get voting rights who have never even met wisconcom. So overall, we’ve once again improved our security processes and his edits were reverted in minutes lol