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Originally Posted by funkychinaman
Burt actually chime in on the POI banning thread mentioned above, as do several admitted POI sock puppets. That he'd sign in using several obvious sock puppets and one good disguise in one thread seems unlikely. (Or we've been severely underestimating him.) And if you recall, POI tried coming back as himself a few months afterwards.
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Well, the evidence I have:
* The name's in the same format (three worlds, all with initial caps).
* PersonOfInterest's last activity is
26th August 2010. He made a new account and came back (and got banned again) just under a month later on
September 28th.
Burt's first edit is a month and four days later.
* He obsesses over the same pages POI did, specifically
Goldeneye and the N64
The World Is Not Enough. He made a total of 325 edits;
fifty-nine are to those two pages or their talk pages (sixty-one if you include creating two redirects). He also made edits to the PS2
Grand Theft Auto games, another of POI's tendencies.
* He has POI's quirk of often taking two tries to sign talk page edits, if he bothers to sign them at all (look for places where he edits a talk page twice in a row, including his first two edits)
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The user who posted the top comment was PersonOfInterest. How come "both" of them think this is the right way to say things on a talk page?
* Neither of them upload images.
PersonOfInterest uploaded exactly 9 files in his whole time here, none of then screenshots; as of his banning, Burt has uploaded absolutely nothing to the site.
* Burt said of RPG "we don't use that term on this site."
Guess who decided that?
* In the Type 69 thread, Burt described me as havin "a history of being difficult." An odd thing to say of someone who's been absent for a year (at the time I had a history of doing absolutely nothing followed by screencapping
Black); I could only think of two people who
still thought I was a troublemaker (POI and AdAstra2009) and I really don't think Burt is AdAstra.
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Originally Posted by mpe2010
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What's the trick? He posts straight after POI was banned again, bragging that we'd never find his alts. I'd assume the intention was to say "you'll never find my alts, such as this one, hahaha." It's rather like him.
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Originally Posted by MT2008
The number of images that IMFDB members upload is hardly what determines their "value" to the site.
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I wasn't trying to suggest that; simply saying that his contributions are very much outdone by his tendency to cause trouble. Looking through the logs, his arsing around removing "RPG" from articles and the arguing over it accounts for 77 of his edits; almost a quarter of his contributions in total. He suggested those rules for games purely so he had license to edit his two pet articles his way (he threw in that game writeups can't include "personal opinions," which is designed to let him remove whatever isn't
his opinion, while "any other information not relevant to identifying the weapon" basically allows him to remove
anything he wants to barring the gun's name; it's his own little page lobotomy kit) and I imagine his edits to the MP5 page were a last ditch attempt to grant himself some veneer of respectability.
Re: game article rules, I'll try and knock up something better for that since there are articles that go too far into the realm of FAQ (
Metal Gear Solid 2 shouldn't be telling the reader exactly how to find each weapon, for example, and I still don't know what that "passwords" field some VG gun tables have is supposed to be for) but Burt's rules were only ever designed to make Burt king of his pet pages, not to make good or informative pages. I should probably also write a guide to screencapping games along with it (my console setup is rather bizarre, and I've never heard anyone around here mention Irfanview as a method of capping PC games without a native screenshot function).