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The Articles of Lulz
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This article is not a policy; it's a nice paraphrasis on new ED (.se)'s policy |
We stand united; as a community dedicated to teh Lulz and their acquisition, and their propagation, so that none can deny the true grit and raw, unbridled humanity that is Encyclopedia Dramatica and those domains alike to it. We stand in the name of Lulz, that is, the idea that nothing can be held sacred from truth and that we as a collective shall do what we must, because we can, in the name of Lulz, for Lulz’ sake.
Our Lulz is our culture; a culture totally lacking in censure, censorship, restraint or remorse – and all the better for it. It is a culture lacking in structure or tact; it is as abrasive as it is admirable and liberating. Our Lulz is our freedoms, and those freedoms are protected by the sheer will of the Collective. We are the Users, the trolls and netizens who stand united in a Symphony of Lulz and Brotherhood (no homo). The laws we follow are not so much rules as they are guidelines – an acknowledgment of right honorable and gentlemanly conduct versus utter, cancerous faggotry and fail. These Articles written below are the manifesto, a collection of musings on the nature of the beast, authored by the Users of Ed.ch.
These Articles are as impermanent as life, but as timeless as any idea, and subject to change as all things are. Nothing is safe or sacred; we act in the name of Win and Great Justice, to insure that the Lulz shall never perish from this earth.
The Amendments of the New Encyclopedia Dramatica
- Censorship; Censorship is defined, in summation, as the suppression of what is considered to distasteful by set standards [of a committee, or leader]. Censorship is detrimental to our practice of free speech, though we find that the government employs both. Therefore, it is, in addition, damaging to "wikis" like this and many others, in that it degrades the quality article content (expressive or otherwise). Censorship is not commonly carried out through outlawing of use of a phrase, but more so by threatening a law suit against a person or group who uses a phrase. ED, old or new, has always faced lawsuits and other primarily frivolous legal threats in response to articles (read: aborigines). And though article-specific censorship was never instituted, it is still a possibility, and therefore, ED, as a democratic organization, shall, on the aforementioned grounds, promise never to institute censorship of any sort.
- Freedom To Elect and Impeach Sysops; Each user should be allowed the right to freely choose, and vouch for, any fellow user to become a "sysop". Nominated users must meet specific guidelines: No Temp Bans for the last three years; No edit blocks in the past two months; The user must have only made constructive edits (constructive edits being defined as: no blanking, no vandalism, no attack pages); The user must have created at least 1 page in the past, no more, no less. Impeachment can be voted upon a SysOp by any users, if the SysOp has: Banned a user for no reason whatsoever; Abused their ability to flush pages; Performed any destructive edits to an Article, Talk Page, User Page, or User Talk Page.
- The way voting shall work is as follows: A user shall nominate his/her fellow user to be elected, and all users (excluding the nominee, and nominator) shall be asked, not as requisite, but a kind request of will, to vote for a SysOp to be elected, and the nominee to receive the largest number of votes in their category shall receive sysop privileges; nominees will be divided in to categories, named to focus on the sort of actions the sysop shall focus on. Each user may vote once, and users may nominate themselves. Impeachment shall work in a similar fashion, where, if a user thinks that a sysop is conducting business in an un-constitutional fashion, they may nominate them for impeachment; after nomination, the appeal shall be presented before the community, so that they may validate the nominators claims and decide whether the nominee shall be impeached or not. As an additional protective mechanism, a sysop who bans a user who has nominated, or voted for the impeachment of themselves, shall receive instant impeachment, regardless of protest by user. Impeachment shall not include banning or edit blocking as an accessory on any term whatsoever.
- The Right To Appeal Bans; Each user shall be allowed the irrevocable right to appeal any ban, or block of any sort, at any given time. The appeal shall be fairly judged, and will be lifted or kept on the decision of majority vote of a committee of sysops, assembled to handle appeals. Personal opinion and emotion Shall Not play a role in decisions. The user appealing a ban/block shall submit a valid argument for being un-banned/blocked and shall await contact till further notice.
- The Right to Petition The Court; All users shall have the right to petition the court of Honorary Ed Lolington, should they feel another user has infringed upon them. Court proceedings shall be conducted in an orderly fashion.
- The Right to Dispute Content Removal; Should content be marked for removal, or for some reason, removed, the user who created it has the right to dispute it's status. The dispute will be presented before a committee barring resemblance to a jury, composed of eight users, and two sysops. The committee will review the appeal and decide whether the article should be removed or not by majority vote. Should they content have been deleted, it will be restored.
- The Right to Petition For Deletion Of Content; Should a user think content should be removed, he/she has the right to petition the same aforementioned committee with an argument for deletion of content, so much as as it meets the following guidelines: That the deletion complies with the ED Deletion guidelines (not outlined here); That the user has a valid argument for deletion, the user must absolutely provide and argument with a minimum length of a sentence; The committee shall decide by majority vote whether the article shall be kept or deleted.
- The Right to Free Speech; All users shall have equal rights to speech. This includes everybody, from Sysop to user and beyond that. This goes synonymously with amendment 1, No Censorship, as free speech is the polar opposite of Censorship. ED's founded around free speech; which is one of the driving factors behind its success.
1.1 The Philosophy and Values of the New Encyclopedia Dramatica, Being that there are None
It can be noted that, in light of the ongoing and criminal censorship and whitewashing of the Internet at large, that Encyclopedia Dramatica's greatest value lies in that it is not a censored entity. Knowledge is power, and the Encyclopedia Dramatica shall remain a repository of knowledge and lore concerning the Internet and its many subcultures. In these troubling times of corporatization and privatization of the net, it is up to those with a Willingness to Act to preserve the Internet's cultural identity, the one unfettered by greed, constraint or corporate interest. This culture of lulz and anonymity is under attack; those who would see it privatized, stripped of its grit and raw humanity, who would white wash and commercialize us are closing in with every bought-out domain.
In answer to this, Encyclopedia Dramatica will offer to you, the noble and morally ambiguous User, a place of unbridled thought and expression - lacking in any censorship or contrived sense of political correctness - a place that can claim to offer completely free speech with impunity. We are a forum, free to all who would participate.
It should also be noted that this noble Forum, a home to lulz, also exalts the principles of anonymity as a strength. That is, the Users of this forum are strongly recommended to divorce themselves from any sense of self, as it defeats the purpose of the IRL/RL dichotomy. We are a collective that draws its strength from its own facelessness and inscrutability. In an age of hyper-awareness and hyper-identity, when a person is constantly entrenched in their own lives, tied by the shackles of real life drama and drudgery and self-affirmation via social networking, we remain the opposite. This Forum offers liberation from the oppressive self, a chance to be apart of a greater consciousness that lies in an unseen domain.
We are untouchable, because in this Forum we are immaterial. We are unstoppable, because within this Forum we are forces of thought. We are immortal, because in this Forum we are Ideas. We are virulent and omnipresent, because in this Forum we propagate the Idea of our existence, which takes root in the collected minds of the Users. We are all Anonymous, no more than a concept.
We believe that all Users are entitled to their anonymity and privacy, as that is the User's greatest strength. Look to the examples of the lulz cows and easily dox'd, they ceded their security to the Hive and have suffered as a result. Only You can control the security of your identity, so embrace the anonymity as the cloak to your dagger. A troll's greatest asset is inscrutability. The User must be an enigma, or they shall merely be prey to the invisible hands of those who would prey upon them. User! Guard your anonymity like you would your life - without it you are only one person, as fallible as any other. User! Only You can protect yourself from such dangers, because it's sure as fuck nobody's gonna do it for you. But if you can be secretive and clever and tricksy and hidden, than you can enjoy the powers that anonymity offers to those who harness it - it acts as shield and weapon all at once.
1.2 Concerning Enemies of the State
It should be noted that there do exist, in the shallower levels of the collective stinky onion that is the Interwebs, certain individuals that take issue with the awesomeness that is anonymity in principle; those who are too attached to their egos, who cling to delusions of grandeur and exaggerated self-opinion. They are the lulzcows and EFGs of the Net, and they are enemies of the State of Lulz that is the natural order of the Universe. These enemies of lulz and freedoms must be treated with all possible harshness, so that the Horde may feed off their butthurt and impotent rage. Death to the enemies of the Horde! They are the wretched butthurt and tushy-mushed evil that plagues the noble User to distraction - we shall feast on their bones ftw and great justice!
Amusement can be derived from these lulzcows, if you incite their raging butthurt and goad them to the point of madness; that amusement must be shared generously with the collective! So take joy in the existence of the lulzcow, which can do no more harm to us than a mild case of indigestion, and troll them to infinity and beyond.
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The Articles of Lulz
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