Kings Wiki Update Thread

jps

 
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Update for week ending November 13, 2016

Content:

Technical:
  • A sitenotice template was added to recognize the impending ascendance of Donald Trump to his rightful place in the cosmos. A dismissal link was then added.
 

jps

 
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Update for week ending November 20, 2016

I did not introduce myself last time. I am Conchis, a Count with the wiki. I've been an admin since May. Feel free to leave me questions or feedback on my talk page.

New & Notable Content

Technical & Administrative Work
 

fokker

 
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Anyone else getting database errors when trying to get onto KW? It's saying "(Cannot access the database: Too many connections (localhost))".
 

fokker

 
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Is anyone else having trouble logging into the wiki? When I click the "Log in" button, it sends me back to the page where I was, but it still shows me as an anonymous user. I'm using Brave v0.12.15
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Delta

Kingfisher
From the Facebook article:

A big part of the reason you'll deal with nothing but lying, duplicitous scumbag women nowadays is because they've become so accustomed to bullshitting themselves and everyone else on their social media platforms.

I apologize if this derails the thread, but I believe it's important to point out: Quotes like the above need to be jettisoned from our community.

Do we want to be a community of rational men known for promoting cold, hard truth and self-improvement, or a community of bitter, hateful lunatics known for exaggerated emotional rants and pathological disdain for women?

While most guys here are far too level-headed and nuanced to write something like this, there is a sizable enough minority of toxic individuals among our ranks to make us look like the latter sometimes. I can't be alone in not wanting to be associated with shit like this.
 

fokker

 
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When writing Kings Wiki articles, I try to act as if I'm writing a Wikipedia article. I've recently gone through my earlier edits and tried to remove editorialisation from them.

Regarding that quote you highlighted, it's a quote from one of AV8R's ROK articles.
 

jps

 
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Delta said:
I can't be alone in not wanting to be associated with shit like this.

Delta, if you look around the rest of the wiki, I'm certain you'll find more views that you find objectionable.

The small sentence you selected was part of a much longer quote about the social impact of Facebook and includes severe censure of men and women alike.

Ideally, all of the articles would have a range of views from manosphere sources. Ideally, the quote you mentioned would have some preamble. Ideally it would be edited down to the key points. Ideally, there would be better transition as it moves from privacy concerns to social impact. Ideally you'd make these revisions rather than complaining about them on the forum.
 

Jean Valjean

 
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jps said:
Delta said:
I can't be alone in not wanting to be associated with shit like this.

Delta, if you look around the rest of the wiki, I'm certain you'll find more views that you find objectionable.

The small sentence you selected was part of a much longer quote about the social impact of Facebook and includes severe censure of men and women alike.

Ideally, all of the articles would have a range of views from manosphere sources. Ideally, the quote you mentioned would have some preamble. Ideally it would be edited down to the key points. Ideally, there would be better transition as it moves from privacy concerns to social impact. Ideally you'd make these revisions rather than complaining about them on the forum.

I think A.V. Yader was using hyperbole to hammer home his point that the propaganda that women put out about themselves and their lives on Facebook needs to be taken with a big grain of salt. If he were literally correct that there are no good women left out there, I guess we would all have to go MGTOW, but he's just saying to be skeptical and not take everything at face value, as so many naive and infatuated men are liable to do.

Yeah, people outside the manosphere will quote stuff like that on sites like We Hunted the Mammoth and accuse us of being misogynists, but only die-hard feminists (whose minds we're unlikely to change) read those sites anyway. I would argue that what's most important, at this point in the manosphere's development, is that we save good men, who could make good mates for the right women, from being victimized by the wrong women. Society will not have these men's back when the divorce and/or the false rape accusations happen, so it makes sense for men who see red flags to suspect the worst until proven otherwise (for example, it's commonly-dispensed Red Pill wisdom to assume a girl is a slut unless there's evidence that she isn't) and err on the side of caution. And when, as often happens, Blue Pill men who have already been victimized are looking for answers about "why did this happen" and "how can I keep this from happening again," it's good that we help lead them to the Red Pill truth, however bitter that pill may be.

I think A.V. Yader makes a legitimate point that, all else equal, women who don't use Facebook much are preferable to women who do.
 

Jean Valjean

 
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Delta said:
From the Facebook article:

A big part of the reason you'll deal with nothing but lying, duplicitous scumbag women nowadays is because they've become so accustomed to bullshitting themselves and everyone else on their social media platforms.

I apologize if this derails the thread, but I believe it's important to point out: Quotes like the above need to be jettisoned from our community.

Do we want to be a community of rational men known for promoting cold, hard truth and self-improvement, or a community of bitter, hateful lunatics known for exaggerated emotional rants and pathological disdain for women?

While most guys here are far too level-headed and nuanced to write something like this, there is a sizable enough minority of toxic individuals among our ranks to make us look like the latter sometimes. I can't be alone in not wanting to be associated with shit like this.

I couldn't find the URL that the the A.V. Yader quote originated from, so that turned out to be a good excuse to remove it from the article.

However, one thing I'd like to say about bitterness and disdain for women as a sex is that it comes about for a reason, which is that women, relative to men, do a poor job policing their own sex. Rather, they tend to enable other women's bad behavior, or at best remain silent as they observe other women wreaking havoc in innocent men's lives, as long as it doesn't directly affect them. It is, therefore, up to men to take on the traditional patriarchal role of restraining women from antisocial behavior, because no one else is going to do it.

Men will call out a man who abuses women, and restrain him from causing her further harm. Women are much less likely to call out a woman who abuses a man; they are much more likely to close ranks and defend their fellow woman if a conflict breaks out between a man and a woman. They will leave it up to men to defend their fellow man. (I'm not aware of there being a term for the female equivalent of a "white knight" who goes out of her way to attack any women she sees who harm men, because such women don't seem to exist, although Christy0misty was accused of being anti-feminist in order to get guys to like her.)

It wasn't long after I discovered the Internet, that I became aware that mail order brides could be obtained by financially stable men with zero game, as long as they didn't have too much anti-game. Then, after reading books like The Game, I realized that sex with beautiful women, even those of American nationality, was attainable by any man willing to put in the effort. It made the situation seem much more egalitarian and meritocratic, much like a capitalist economy, in which money is attainable by any intelligent man willing to put in the necessary hard work. Similarly to how an awareness of economics gives a man less reason to hate the capitalists, having an awareness of game gave me less reason to hate women and the men who were able to attract them, because I knew that what those men had, I could have too.

Then I married an American woman, was betrayed and hurt badly by her, and at first blamed myself but then, with the help of friends, began to wake up to the reality of what had happened. She had effectively brainwashed the whole circle of family and friends, including me, into thinking I was an abuser, as a way of justifying her breaking her marriage vows. But that was just one woman, and therefore her behavior did not, by itself, cause me to feel disdain toward American women as a whole. What did that was when I saw how other women who heard both sides of the story, and saw the evidence, supported her rather than calling her out.

Men, being men, know how men are, and so if men hear a woman complain, "My husband cheated on me," they'll probably believe her and sympathize with her. Even when men are not yet aware that All Women Are Like That, they still know, from being men and hanging around men, that All Men Are Like That. On the other hand, if a man complains, "My wife falsely accused me of rape and left with the kid," women will usually believe, or claim to believe, the woman's accusation, even though they should know better, since women have been hanging around other women all their lives and know about the kinds of manipulative practices that many women engage in.

The women who dissent from women's and society's abuse of men usually stay quiet about it, as is the tendency of most women when they hold a view that diverges from mainstream opinion. Women are more likely to go with the flow and look out for their own reputations rather than martyr themselves for the sake of a principle. This creates an appearance that all women are bad, because in these situations, the good women usually don't speak out and thereby make the presence of good women known.

Interestingly, according to Heartiste's theory, feminism is actually a conspiracy by low-SMV women to wreck high-SMV women's prospects of getting an alpha male to commit to them. Some go a step further to say that feminism is actually a conspiracy by alpha men to hoard all the high-SMV poon for themselves, rather than sharing with greater betas. Either way, we have to acknowledge that the current state of affairs has given women who, in a different culture and under a different legal system, would have behaved well, an incentive to behave badly. Since it's in women's nature to conform to society's expectations, in a bad society, women will tend to be bad. Therefore, there's some truth to the statement that in our society, all women are bad.
 

jps

 
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Update for week ending January 1, 2016

Content pages: 2018
All pages: 6097
Page edits: 22,263

Lots of fitness-related content added this week.

New Pages
  • 84 CrossFit workouts have been posted, with references, spanning the "Girls", the "New Girls", and the "Heroes" series
  • Tightened shoulders (also known as "packed shoulders"), important for safe and strong lifting, with pointers on achieving it

Significant Updates
 

Delta

Kingfisher
jps said:
Delta said:
I can't be alone in not wanting to be associated with shit like this.

Delta, if you look around the rest of the wiki, I'm certain you'll find more views that you find objectionable.

The small sentence you selected was part of a much longer quote about the social impact of Facebook and includes severe censure of men and women alike.

Ideally, all of the articles would have a range of views from manosphere sources. Ideally, the quote you mentioned would have some preamble. Ideally it would be edited down to the key points. Ideally, there would be better transition as it moves from privacy concerns to social impact. Ideally you'd make these revisions rather than complaining about them on the forum.

I take no issue with A.V. Yader's overall message that facebook profiles are just carefully crafted bullshit, and I'm not terribly fixated on the "lying, duplicitous scumbags" quote either. I'm speaking to a larger problem.

In any ideological group, not just this one, members have a tendency to say outrageous and idiotic things when speaking to their like-minded peers. Not having to consider the opposition's counterarguments (because the opposition isn't around to present them) brings out the worst in people. It's how college liberals have become so unbelievably crazy with the lack of intellectual diversity on campus. Unfortunately, we're not immune to the effect either, and the quote I highlighted earlier is just one example of many.

Consider it this way: How hard would you want to hammer a feminist who said that men are "nothing but scumbags?"

I strongly encourage everyone, whether posting or writing articles, to write under the mindset that you're speaking to a general audience, not just fellow RVF members. It's the best way to ward off intellectual laziness and prevent yourself from saying something ridiculous that may turn off men who could otherwise benefit from the community.
 
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