User:Defiant Elements

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So for anyone who's tired of spelling out "Defiant Elements" every time, my real name is Ben, I'm a recently married twenty-five year old journalist currently living in New York (originally from Washington D.C.).

I used to be an active contributor to GuildWiki, but after the builds wipe I helped to establish PvXwiki where I'm a Bureaucrat. As of 9/8/08, I'm also a Sysop on this wiki.

Although I'm an avid RC vulture, my primary interest (as far as wikis go) is policy, so that's probably the area in which I'll be most active (I'm also a heavy proponent of administrative discretion). That said, I'm pretty knowledgeable about wikis in general, so feel free to ask me a question on my talk page.

According to the personality test found here, I'm an "Inspirer". Go figure.

For anyone currently using IE, I would advise them to peruse the information contained in this link: Internet Explorer Sucks

If you get into a dispute with me, keep these two things in mind:

1. I am always right.
2. If you suspect me of being wrong, refer to point #1 :P

This user laments the destruction of the noble WikiDragons (damn WikiKnights!)

Chess is awesome.

• Write GWW:Constructive Anarchy.
  • Revised statement of GWW's WikiCulture, essentially: Ignore All Rules.
  • Corollary: GWW:No WikiLawyering.
    • Corollary: GWW:No Strict Literalism
• Write GWW:Dictators.
  • Corollary: GWW:IRCabal.
  • Corollary: GWW:No Voting.
• Expand the scope of ArbComm.
  • Alternative: GWW:WikiBoss.
• Watch ensuing hilarity.

Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! […] Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

The word of the day is Nimiety (nim-eye'-et-ee) n. excess, redundancy.

• Don't argue with zealots
• Don't argue with idiots
• Definitely don't argue with idiotic zealots
• Just because people disagree with you doesn't mean that they're zealots
• But it definitely doesn't rule out the possibility that they're idiots.

• "Product, Process, Policy"
• "Use Common Sense"
• "Don't Be a Fanatic"
• "Follow Consensus, Not Policy"
• "Interpret All Rules"
• "No Excessive Literalism"
• "Polls are Evil"
• "Voting is a Tool"
• "Polling is not a Substitute for Discussion"
• "Gaming the system"
• "Don't Disrupt Wikipedia to Illustrate a Point"
• List of logical fallacies

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