Ring of Brodgar Wiki

[Roguetinkerer]

I dont use a bot or anything. I just have the wiki up in the background while I play.

[Qode]

I dont use a bot or anything. I just have the wiki up in the background while I play.

Use https://web.archive.org/web/20240519073 ... odgar.com/ as a backup.

Also Cloudflare can block certain countries. I block places like Singapore and China as a lot of hacks come from those sites.

[vatas]

I dont use a bot or anything. I just have the wiki up in the background while I play.

Use https://web.archive.org/web/20240519073 ... odgar.com/ as a backup.

Also Cloudflare can block certain countries. I block places like Singapore and China as a lot of hacks come from those sites.

"Anyone can say anything online, I'm not an expert" -disclaimer...

Other than region-block, it is (at least theoretically) possible that for no fault of his own, he's been assigned a "tainted" IP address that was previously used by bad actors, and was added to the Cloudflare blacklist.

I remember someone claiming that they're blocked from like half the internet, for no fault of their own, because this happened to them.

For IPv4, this pool is 32-bits (232) in size and contains 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses.

"Top-level exhaustion" of that pool occurred as early as 2011. Regular growth of Internet users and Internet of Things (IoT) boom have only continued since. That is why IPv6 is a thing, expanding to a whopping 128-bit pool. Even then this pool is finite, and the possibility of being reassigned a "tainted" address remains, at least theoretically.

[Securis]

Are you blocking access from Russia?

[mvgulik]

Other than region-block, it is (at least theoretically) possible that for no fault of his own, he's been assigned a "tainted" IP address that was previously used by bad actors, and was added to the Cloudflare blacklist.

True. But in such a case it should be possible, for both parties, to change there IP address again. (I did that one's a long time ago when it was given some semi-bad IP address.)
Going a step further could potentially be mac-address tracking/blocking, but baddies usually can change or spoof those too.

At some point there is just no point for a personal hosted site to spent time in figuring out who is good, or a baddie that's pretending to be a innocent goody. (it just not economical ... which is the world we live in now a days last I checked.)

Internet allows for all this shit at its core level. Potential negative side effect at the end-user are just an other typical "Tragedy of the commons" result. ... Get used to it.

... Be happy your still have internet / energy / free from persecution / a world to live in ... it might change at some point at the planet of the Human-Apes/(Voting Cattle). ...

[mvgulik]

Are you blocking access from Russia?

Only Spiff or Cloudflare known this. I don't.

(Don't really care knowing this either. Considering Russia being ruled by a true baddy.)

[Securis]

Considering Russia being ruled by a true baddy.

But i`m not a baddy (((

[mvgulik]

Considering Russia being ruled by a true baddy.

But i`m not a baddy (((

I never said, or inferred, that "you" where a baddy. I just expressed my opinion on the subjective possibility of a potential general block of known Russian IP addresses.

Cool, got an other one.
Blocked: 23 +1

[WowIFuckedUpBADLY]

Considering Russia being ruled by a true baddy.

But i`m not a baddy (((

I never said, or inverted, that "you" where a baddy. I just expressed my opinion on the subjective possibility of a potential general block of known Russian IP addresses.

bro pulled out the thesaurus

[dafels]

SOMEONE unceremoniously hel'd this message, so i'm reposting it here where it apparently belongs.
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I wasn't going to bother, but I was name dropped so let's do it.

Ad Hominem:
adjective
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Mvgulik is nothing less than an autistic swarm of pestilent insects lording over pile of shit of which he has successfully crowned himself king of by scaring literally everyone who might want to clean up the aforementioned pile of shit in order to make the park a little more tolerable for folk to walk through

[[[[[Obviously, the park is the Ring Of Brodgar Wiki, and the pile of shit is the throne upon which he proudly sits. The swarm of caustic, incoherent and autistically agressive bugs is literally Mvgulik, a la The Nightmare Before Christmas' Oogey Boogey ]]]]]


To frame the scene, in early 2016 I took it upon myself to Be The Change I wanted to See In The World and more or less single-handedly revitalized the RoB wiki in light of the Haven 2.0 Update.
When I started:
The Legacy and Hafen pages were integrated into one namespace, which i painstakingly sorted out.
Over half of all items and object had no page, or image, which I added
(I also found a nifty way to pull item's inventory picture straight from the haven server to get some wonderful, high quality item pictures without photoshop)
added FEP +2 to the infobox
added equipment stats to the infobox
added gilding items to the infobox
completely rebuilt tree infobox from the ground up
completely overhauled fish pages from the ground up
Generally speaking, redeemed the name of Ring of Brodgar Wiki amongst a group of retards who, generally speaking, make up their mind once about something.

After so many months of working by myself, I was approached by borka, then an admin for the RoB wiki, with a proposition to become admin. It allowed me some useful tools, such as bulk editing pages, deleting pages, and banning ( ) users. I think in total over 3 years I banned less than 10 spam bots.

Enter MvGulik, incoherent russian tech-guru whose seventh language -rarely practiced- is english. A former admin who had since given up on the wiki to pursue loftier goals, presumably shouting at bird from his basement window for improperly eating rotten food out of his dumpster.

At first cordial, his true demeanor quickly showed itself. As his peer (read: fellow admin ) there was a moment in time where he *suggested* beavhioral changes I should undertake to help the wiki run smoother.
As MvGulik's peer, I would oblige his suggestions, perhaps half of the time, because more than half of the time his suggestions were inane bullshit which I didn't want to do. But naturally, as a wiki is a Collaborative effort, he took every *suggestion* I did not strictly adhere to as a personal slight. in this scenario where we both shared Administrative duties ( ) his word was law.

did someone say evidence???? I hope there's not some sort of operating procedure on handling this EVIDENCE that i'm violating!

Our first interaction: a mundane suggestion to adhere to an inane namespace rule (editor's note: at the time this suggestion was made to me, a total of 5 people or less were actively working on the wiki. There was no 'Convention' established between any of us.


second interaction. Another inane *suggestion* from mvgulik, of which I gave an honest and justifiable explanation to my reasoning.


Yet another example of his lording over the wiki like some sort of nazi riding into poland to reclaim the fatherland


And finally, him asking me to leave, while calling me lazy, stupid, and ignorant


for the whole show instead of the highlight reel, check out the source: https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/User_talk:Ricky

By the time this last correspondence was settled (august 2019) I was completely fed up and essentially stopped giving a shit about the wiki, along with everyone else who I had worked with previously. His behavior was unjustifiably rude, obnoxious, and downright fucking annoying. Imagine being told you're wiping your ass wrong by some no name dipshit whose sole pleasure in life is judging peoples' dirty assholes.

Now, all of this above can be chalked up to me and he having a so called beef, butting heads if you will. let's move to something that in no way involves me yet still completely demonstrates how paranoid and power mongering our resident savant is.

Mentioned previously: user Roskuwacz was permanently blocked on suspicion of alt abuse by Mvgulik (It was not alt abuse.)

The purely subjective junk/fluff in question:

Hmmm yes, very subjective

And here: some very damning evidence that Roskuwacz is Partylikeits1999 ( )

It's fun to note that Since his block (and subsequent unblocking after pleaing to Spiff) that Roscuwacz has yet to contribute to the wiki again. He was, understandably, turned off by rampant and unashamed display of narcissistic personality disorder displayed by the King Of Shit

Here on full display is the peak of Mvgulik's paranoid, power-horny abuse.

Lets break it down:
After Ostracizing Partylikeits1999 for several weeks for having a non-conforming signature (he signed off "and --Partylikeits1999" which is pretty funny), Mvgulik took it upon himself to ban a Roscuwacz, who with no more than 30 seconds of research (esp. with admin powers ( ) can be proven to have no relation to Partylikeits1999 AND ON TOP OF THAT delete actual in-game text written by the hand of jorb himself for seemingly being subjective and not fitting into the brainspace of our autistic overlord of the RoB wiki.

And for all his hard work, all I have left to say is: he can keep it. I've since washed my hands of the wiki, and by extension this game.
There's really nothing left of value for me to add, except this:
Mvgulik is a fucking retard and he always will be.

Interesting read, sadly the images are broken