Beginning of the End

Sorry the blog hasn't covered recent events. I thought my new sub-editor was going to follow things, but it doesn't look like it.

Where to begin?

I could go all the way back to Daveh's decision to emphasise his own idiocy and incompetence by de-adminning rpeh and Krusty, but that's so long ago it's probably better to start with Whining Little Bitch's RfA.

Let's remember that Whining Little Bitch was the one who has stated before that he has no interest in being an admin, so it's obvious that the Queen of Trolls contacted him to talk about her nomination. So much for the claims there's no clique. Then we can look at the votes. First we get the usual collection of sycophants and lick-spittles seeking favour.

Support 1 comes from the Queen of Trolls herself, a known liar with her own agenda for the site.
Support 2 comes from Eric Snowmane, the Wikia Stooge - another known liar
Support 3 is from Helenaannevalentine. I don't know much about her but she looks like a decent user.
Support 4 is from Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick, the world's most stupid person. Given that Whining Little Bitch used to be known as Elliot's Bitch, this one was always going to happen.
Support 5 is from TheRealLurlock. For those who don't remember, Lurlock is an idiot who was bounced into the post of admin when Aristeo found himself a victim of Nephele's personal agenda. Nobody has ever claimed that he's genuinely suitable for the role.
Support 6 is from ^CEshe^V, the only admin so incompetent that she can't even copy/paste information correctly.
Support 7 is Velyanthe, another user who came in with Skyrim and who I don't know.
Support 8 is Alphabetface, another SR user.
Support 9 comes from Jak Atackka, a Skyrim user who looked promising at first but seems to have become a bit of a dickhead.
Support 10 is from Minor Edits. I was surprised to see this one. ME is usually more sensible than this and although he expressed scepticism in his vote, he never saw fit to change it (unlike others).
Support 11 comes from SkoomaManiac, a user who has been around for quite a while without ever doing much.

There were also Support votes from ThuumofReason and Legoless. The first was changed to an oppose and the second withdrawn after reading the opposition.

The first Oppose vote was a wall of text from The Great Dane (new name for Krusty). It's a long post and suffers from his usual slightly fractured English, but it exposes Whining Little Bitch for the shameless scheming liar he really is.
The second was from Kiz, who adds some good examples of WLB being a fucking idiot.
The third was from Rpeh, who pointed out that WLB has never done anything big on the site.
Then we get "Haysie" who joined in July 2011 but never did anything except post on his user page before voting in the RfA.
Lastly we have Kitkat, who gives another good set of examples where WLB has been a fucking idiot.

At this point, WLB realised that the editors with actual talent were starting to vote and withdrew his nomination before any more examples of his incompetence could be posted, or before the few remaining decent editors could vote Oppose.

It's at this point things get even better. Alpha Kenny Buddy, who has somehow made admin whilst having a username that violates site policy, made a post ending with "Finally, if the community feels it is I in the wrong here for what I'm about to do, I would like you to consider this my resignation from all duties relating to this site." and blocked Rpeh for 3 months. He also called for The Great Dane to be stripped of his admin rights, although later withdrew this.

Seriously? Saying "I know this is going to be controversial but I'm doing it anyway and if you don't like it you can fuck yourselves" is the sort of thing we want to see from admins now?

The debate that followed largely fell along party lines. Editors with any degree of talent, such as Dwarfmp and Minor Edits, essentially told AKB that he had overstepped and was only prolonging the drama. Idiots like Elliot and Nephele plus the appalling AKB refused to budge, though, so rpeh gets a three month block for comments made two months ago.

The whole mess that started with Daveh being a moron has ended with almost all the site's best editors having left, with only a clique of self-important assholes suffering from adminitis left behind. UESP will stick around for some time, but the talent pool has evaporated. Do you really think people likeElliot the Obnoxiously Thick and Whining Little Bitch can improve the site? If so, why haven't they done so in the past?

No. It's the beginning of the end.