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It is interesting to watch how different things I observe on internet interact with each other. Two recent discoveries:
1) Arthur Chu, known to readers of SSC as a person not exactly in favor of niceness, created a Kickstarted project called "Who is Arthur Chu?". Failed by collecting only 20% of the planned $50.000. (Which, if I understand the rules of Kickstarter correctly, means he will get nothing.)
Not sure if the proper reaction here is to laugh (something like: "you had a choice between niceness and winning, you rejected niceness, and now you have neither"), or to congratulate for empirically testing "how much money could I get from random people on internet if I just openly ask them to contribute to my glory". I mean, next time if he would ask people to donate mere $10.000, he could actually get it. Of course only if they do not forget him in the meantime.
2) Gamergate was recently a 3rd largest article on RationalWiki. Then it was split into multiple articles, so at this moment it is merely at positions 8 ("Gamergate") and 13 ("Timeline of Gamergate") in the longest article list. Unsurprisingly, the whole article is one person's playground. Specifically, it is a person recently kicked out for similar behavior from Wikipedia. It will be interesting to see how other people on RationalWiki will deal with this.
Can you recommend a good summary of RationaWiki as such from an external and fairly unbiased point of view? To me it looks like a place that very easily hands out insulting, degrading evaluations of other people's work/thoughts and the part I find kind of weird is that while they clearly have a kind of an agenda or ideology it is not really clear what that is. Who are the main people behind it and what are their convictions etc.
They appear to be a bunch of reasonably smart people who got really good at guessing the teacher's password. Now they've heard that the passwords are "skepticism" and "science", unfortunately they don't appear to understand what either of those words mean.
I think you summarised it pretty well. RationalWiki is exactly what it looks like.
I heard it described somewhere as "providing arguments for left-wing atheists to win internet debates". Seems accurate.
The ideology is called "Atheism Plus".
Have you read the Wikipedia article on it?