RationalWiki and web traffic

RationalWiki.org is a politically left-leaning website that skews towards atheism/agnosticism in terms of its worldview.

The RationalWiki website lost a huge amount of web traffic in the latter part of 2019 and throughout most the first half of 2020 (see graphics below). In January of 2022, SimilarWeb.com reported that the RationalWiki.org website was dropping in terms of its global ranking of web traffic (see: 2022 state of RationalWiki.org in terms of web traffic and web marketing metrics). In the latter part of 2022, the RationalWiki website lost a very large portion of its Google referral traffic (see: From June 5, 2022 to November 5, 2022, the RationalWiki website lost a major amount of its Google referral traffic according to the leading web marketing company SEMRush).

As of December 5, 2021, a RationalWikian put a "this section needs updating" in the "scope and statistics" section of the RationalWiki web page describing itself.[1] But as of July 25, 2022, the "scope and statistics" section has yet to be thoroughly updated. Apparently, RationalWiki does not want its readers to know about the tremendous amount of web traffic it lost.

On May 29, 2022, one of the founders of the RationalWiki website indicated "Currently the donations we get are sparse... We have not done a donation drive in a long time and have not been self-supporting for over a year....".[2] See also: Atheism and charity and Atheist organizations and fundraising and Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising

In June of 2022, the RationalWiki admin GrammarCommie said that RationalWiki was "half dead".[3] In reply, the RationalWiki user 2friedeggs said: "This site is dying for a reason" and he indicated that GrammarCommie was chasing good faith editors away. In addition, in June of 2022, RationalWiki user Neiltyson1fan called RationalWiki a "zombie wiki".[4] On August 15, 2022, RationalWiki User: KarmaPolice wrote concerning RationalWiki: "...it's quite possible that by say, 2030 the RW 'TimeCube' page may be *only* surviving record of it's existence."[5] On November 6, 2022, RationalWiki user Rairyu75 wrote: "See, what I'm trying to ask, in a really roundabout sort of way is... are you all confident this website will continue to exist? Not like into next week, or next month but like, next year, or 5 years from now? Cause I would kinda like to edit this place... and I just can't tell if it would be futile or not. Like fixing the engine of a car that's destined for the scrapheap. I just can't f@cking tell if one day, in the near future, I will type the URL into my search bar and I'll get nothing in response."[6]

## Contents

* 1 RationalWiki and loss of Google referral web traffic
* 1.1 RationalWiki and Google referral traffic as reported by the leading web marketing company SEMRush.com
* 1.2 RationalWiki and Google referral traffic as reported by the leading web marketing company Ahrefs.com
* 2 2022 state of RationalWiki.org in terms of web traffic and web marketing metrics
* 2.1 SimilarWeb.com data for RationalWiki as of January 9, 2022: On January 9, 2022, SimilarWeb indicated that RataionalWiki.org was losing its ranking relative to other websites when it comes to web traffic.
* 2.2 RationalWiki lost a significant amount of its popularity from August 2020 to January 2023 according to the Mangools SEO tool
* 2.3 In June of 2022, RationalWiki was losing Google referral traffic
* 3 RationalWiki.org: Referring domains and other websites delinking to RationalWiki
* 3.1 1,300+ websites delinked from RationalWiki.org from May of 2021 to July 15, 2021
* 3.2 In December of 2021, RationalWiki was experiencing a high negative link velocity
* 4 RationalWiki.org: May 2020 to May 2022 loss of Google traffic
* 5 Similarweb.com: In terms of web traffic, RationalWiki's global and United States website ranking was dropping in July of 2021
* 6 Google searches for the term "RationalWiki" from 2007 to February 6, 2022 in the world and in the United States
* 6.1 Worldwide Google searches for the term "RationalWiki"
* 6.2 Google searches for the term "RationalWiki" from 2007 to February 6, 2022 in the United States
* 6.3 RationalWiki: Google searches for the term RationalWiki from 5-15-2017 to 5-15-2022. Beginning in the latter part of 2020, there were far fewer people in the world doing Google searches for the term "RationalWiki"
* 7 Nearly two-thirds of RationalWiki's web audience is male according to SimilarWeb.com
* 8 RationalWiki and web visitor interest in pornography and the trolling of RationalWiki editors
* 8.1 Trustworthiness of websites linking to RationalWiki
* 8.2 Atheism and pornography. Atheism and child pornography.
* 8.3 RationalWiki, internet trolls, the Kiwi Farms website and individuals going to RationalWiki to troll politically left-leaning atheists
* 8.3.1 RationalWiki and concern trolling
* 8.4 RationalWiki, its Discord discussion servers and its fear of transparency/trolls
* 9 RationalWiki's donate button on every page of its website and its infrequent usage
* 10 RationalWiki and its poor leadership
* 10.1 GrammarCommie
* 10.2 LeftyGreenMario
* 11 RationalWiki and its Alexa rankings
* 11.1 On October 23, 2021, RationalWiki fell below the top 100,000 most popular websites on the worldwide web according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa
* 12 See also
* 13 Humor concerning RationalWiki
* 14 References

## RationalWiki and loss of Google referral web traffic[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and Google referral traffic

### RationalWiki and Google referral traffic as reported by the leading web marketing company SEMRush.com[edit]

According to the leading web marketing company SEMRush, RationalWiki has experienced a huge drop in Google referral traffic in the latter part of 2019 and as of January 12, 2023 it receives 142,700 monthly visits via Google referral traffic.

In addition, RationalWiki dropped from a 66 domain authority score on October 21, 2023 to a 44 domain authority score on February 22, 2023. Domains with low domain scores typically have less traffic, less authoritative websites linking to them and more lower quality websites linking to them.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

According to the leading web marketing website SEMRush.com, the website RationalWiki lost a large amount of Google referral traffic from November 2020 to October 21, 2022.

In November 2020, RationalWiki.org was receiving 413,529 web visits a month according to SEMRush.com. On October 21, 2022, RationalWiki.org received 152,236 web visits in the last 30 days according to SEMRush.com. Google referral traffic is commonly referred to as organic traffic by web marketing professionals.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

### RationalWiki and Google referral traffic as reported by the leading web marketing company Ahrefs.com[edit]

According to the leading web marketing website Ahrefs.com, the website RationalWiki has lost a huge amount of Google referral traffic since the latter part of 2019. As of December 22, 2022, Ahefs.com reported that RationalWiki.org was merely receiving 111,000 Google visits per month.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

According to the leading web marketing website Ahrefs.com, the website RationalWiki lost a large amount of Google referral traffic from August 10, 2022 to October 3, 2022. Google referral traffic is commonly referred to as organic traffic by web marketing professionals.

Specifically, according to Ahrefs.com, on August 10, 2022, the website RationalWiki was receiving 240,713 monthly referral web visits by Google. By October 3, 2022, RationalWiki.org was merely receiving 131,083 monthly referral web visits by Google.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

## 2022 state of RationalWiki.org in terms of web traffic and web marketing metrics[edit]

### SimilarWeb.com data for RationalWiki as of January 9, 2022: On January 9, 2022, SimilarWeb indicated that RataionalWiki.org was losing its ranking relative to other websites when it comes to web traffic.[edit]

On January 9, 2022, SimilarWeb indicated that RataionalWiki.org was losing its ranking relative to other websites when it comes to web traffic.

Web marketing is often a relative strength game. Just because a website is gaining content or links does not mean that its competitors are not moving faster.

### RationalWiki lost a significant amount of its popularity from August 2020 to January 2023 according to the Mangools SEO tool[edit]

According to search engine optimization tool produced by the company Mangools, RationalWiki lost a significant amount of its popularity from August 2020 to January 2023.

### In June of 2022, RationalWiki was losing Google referral traffic[edit]

As can be seen above, according to the leading SEO marketing website SEMRush.com, the amount of Google referral traffic going to RationalWiki.org went down in June of 2022. The RationalWiki website lost a huge amount of web traffic compared to its previous peak web traffic (see: RationalWiki and web traffic).

RationalWiki.org is a dying website where the majority of contributors are male.

## RationalWiki.org: Referring domains and other websites delinking to RationalWiki[edit]

While the quality and quantity of a website play a part in a website's Google rankings for its various keywords, so do the quality and quantity of its backlinks.

According to the leading web marketing tool website, SEMRush.com, about 1,200 websites delinked to RationalWiki from July 2022 to around the end of November 2022.

According to the leading web marketing website Ahrefs.com, from May 23, 2022 to November 7, 2022 there were 805 website owners that removed their links to the RationalWiki website.

On May 23, 2022 there were 22,132 websites linking to RationalWiki according to Ahref.com. But by November 7, 2022, there were 21,327 websites linking to RationalWiki.org.

According to the leading backlink analysis tool Ahrefs, RationalWiki.org experienced a loss of the strength of backlink relative to other websites from 2-15-2022 to 5-15-2022.

As of January 9, 2022, Link Research Tools shows RationalWiki has a high negative link velocity of -30% which is a very steep loss of domains linking to the website.

A website that has the interest and trust of the public has a steady inbound link growth from other websites.

According to LinkResearchTool.com: "Link Velocity describes the speed of link growth to a page or domain. Link Velocity can be measured in new links per month or new linking root domains per month."[7]

In addition, according to Link Research Tools: "A very negative link velocity trend (LVT) means that the web has lost interest in the page or domain."[8]

On July 17, 2021, according to Link Research Tools, RationalWiki.org had a -35% negative link velocity trend which is a very steep loss of domains linking to the website.

Link Research Tools is the Cadilac of link research tools in terms of showing websites: number of backlinks, number of referring backlink domains, quality of links linking to a website, competitor link data, link building opportunities, toxic backlinks, etc. It is also one of the most expensive backlink tools to use. It is more expensive than some of its competitors such as Ahrefs.com and SEMRush.com.

### 1,300+ websites delinked from RationalWiki.org from May of 2021 to July 15, 2021[edit]

Semrush offers solutions for SEO, PPC, content, social media and competitive research. Semrush is trusted by over 7,000,000 marketers worldwide.

In May of 2021, there were 22,394 domains linking to RationalWiki.org according to Semrush.

On July 15, 2021, there were 21,090 domains linking to RationalWiki.org according to Semrush.

From May of 2021 to July 15, 2021, RationalWiki lost 1,304 domains linking to it.

That's about a loss of 1,300+ websites linking to RationalWiki.org in a few months.

Two of the leading website marketing analytics websites indicate that the link velocity rate of RationalWiki is negative, not positive (SEMRush and Link Research Tools).

According to Link Research Tools: "A very negative link velocity trend (LVT) means that the web has lost interest in the page or domain."[9]

SimilarWeb.com indicates RationalWiki lost traffic in 2021 and that it is currently losing web traffic.[10]

Semrush offers solutions for SEO, PPC, content, social media and competitive research. Semrush is trusted by over 7,000,000 marketers worldwide.

In May of 2021, there were 22,394 domains linking to RationalWiki.org according to Semrush.

On July 15, 2021, there were 21,090 domains linking to RationalWiki.org according to Semrush.

From May of 2021 to June 15, 2021, RationalWiki lost 1,304 domains linking to it.

RationalWiki.org has a negative link velocity. When a website loses interest with the online public, it often has a negative link velocity. A negative link velocity means that the number

A website that has the interest and trust of the public has a steady inbound link growth from other websites.

According to LinkResearchTool.com: "Link Velocity describes the speed of link growth to a page or domain. Link Velocity can be measured in new links per month or new linking root domains per month."[11]

In addition, according to Link Research Tools: "A very negative link velocity trend (LVT) means that the web has lost interest in the page or domain."[12]

On July 17, 2021, according to Link Research Tools, RationalWiki.org had a -35% negative link velocity trend which is a very steep loss of domains linking to the website.

### In December of 2021, RationalWiki was experiencing a high negative link velocity[edit]

On December 25, 2021, according to Link Research Tools, RationalWiki.org had a -31% negative link velocity trend which is a very steep loss of domains linking to the website.

## RationalWiki.org: May 2020 to May 2022 loss of Google traffic[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and Google referral traffic

According to the leading web marketing tool SEMRUsh, RationalWiki.org lost Google traffic from May 2020 to May 2022.

## Similarweb.com: In terms of web traffic, RationalWiki's global and United States website ranking was dropping in July of 2021[edit]

As can be seen above, in terms of web traffic, RationalWiki's global and United States ranking was dropping in July of 2021 according to Similarweb.com.

## Google searches for the term "RationalWiki" from 2007 to February 6, 2022 in the world and in the United States[edit]

See also: Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms

### Worldwide Google searches for the term "RationalWiki"[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and its branding problems

According to the leading SEO and web marketing website MOZ.com, the number of brand searches for a domain is significantly correlated with a website's Google referral traffic - even more so than a website's domain strength (Domain strength is the quality and quantity of inbound links to a website.).

As can be seen below, the number of brand searches for the term "RationalWiki" is on a downward trend.

Google Trends reports the number of Google searches per month for a given search term.

The above the Google Trends graph for the search term "RationalWiki" and as you can see the number of searches for the term RationWiki at Google is much lower than its peak.

### Google searches for the term "RationalWiki" from 2007 to February 6, 2022 in the United States[edit]

Google Trends reports the number of Google searches per month for a given search term. The above graph shows the Google search for the term RationalWiki from 2004 to February 6, 2022 in the United States.

As you can see in the above graph, as far as the United States, the number of searches for the term RationWiki at Google is much lower than its peak in May of 2015.

### RationalWiki: Google searches for the term RationalWiki from 5-15-2017 to 5-15-2022. Beginning in the latter part of 2020, there were far fewer people in the world doing Google searches for the term "RationalWiki"[edit]

The above graph is a global Google Trends graph for the term "RationalWiki" from the period of 5-15-2017 to 5-15-2022.

Beginning in the latter part of 2020, there were far fewer people in the world doing Google searches for the term "RationalWiki".

## Nearly two-thirds of RationalWiki's web audience is male according to SimilarWeb.com[edit]

See also: Atheism and women

In March of 2022, SimilarWeb indicated that approximately two-thirds of RationalWiki's audience is male.

## RationalWiki and web visitor interest in pornography and the trolling of RationalWiki editors[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and web visitor interest in pornography and RationalWiki and internet trolls

RationalWiki.org is a politically left leaning website that skews towards atheism/agnosticism in terms of its worldview.

The editors of the website RationalWiki try to portray the website as a thinking person's wiki where the editors carefully analyze various matters.

But SimilarWeb.com data shows a significant portion of RationalWiki's web audience is interested in "adult" material as can be seen by the "adult" audience interests in the above graphic.

Atheists have played a significant role in both the production and consumption of pornographic material (See: Atheism and pornography and Atheism and child pornography).

Many feminists contend that pornography exploits women.[13] RationalWiki is a pro-feminism website.[14]

The 5th most similar website audience in terms of RationalWiki.org is Kiwifarms.net.[15] Kiwi Farms is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows". According to the website, Knowyourmeme.com, "Lolcow, a portmanteau of the acronym LOL and cow, is a derogatory slang term used to describe an individual who is deemed highly exploitable, and therefore susceptible to online trolling and flaming, due to his or her display of gullible behavior online."[16]

The editors of the website RationalWiki try to portray the website as a thinking person's wiki where the editors carefully analyze various matters.

But SimilarWeb.com data shows a significant portion of RationalWiki's web audience is interested in "adult" material as can be seen by the "adult" audience interests in the above graphic.

Many feminists contend that pornography exploits women.[17] RationalWiki is a pro-feminism website.[18]

### Trustworthiness of websites linking to RationalWiki[edit]

According to the leading search engine optimization website Search Engine Land: "Citation Flow is a number of predicting how influential a URL might be based on how many sites link to it. Trust Flow is a number predicting how trustworthy a page is based on how trustworthy sites tend to link to trustworthy neighbors."[19]

As far as a website's domain, high authority and trustworthy websites commonly have their trustflow metric higher than their citation flow metric. As can been above, RationalWiki has the exact opposite. Perhaps its web visitors who visit adult websites link to RationalWiki from low quality websites that are untrusted.

### Atheism and pornography. Atheism and child pornography.[edit]

* Atheism and pornography

* Atheism and child pornography

### RationalWiki, internet trolls, the Kiwi Farms website and individuals going to RationalWiki to troll politically left-leaning atheists[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and internet trolls and Mocking of atheism and Atheist trolls and Atheism and humor and Atheism and arrogance

According to an article published in the Los Angeles Times in 2007, RationalWiki members "by their own admission" vandalize Conservapedia.[20] At the same time, RationalWiki.org is currently experiencing a significant amount of trolling and vandalism.

As can be seen in the graphic above from SimilarWeb.com, the 5th most similar website audience in terms of RationalWiki.org is Kiwifarms.net.[21]

According to Wikipedia, which is a website founded by an atheist and agnostic, "Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows". The targets of threads are often subject to doxing and other forms of organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users."[22] According to the website, Knowyourmeme.com, "Lolcow, a portmanteau of the acronym LOL and cow, is a derogatory slang term used to describe an individual who is deemed highly exploitable, and therefore susceptible to online trolling and flaming, due to his or her display of gullible behavior online."[23]

The psalmist David wrote: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" - Psalms 14:1 (ESV)

See also: Atheism and foolishness and Mocking of atheism

At the Kiwi Farms website, there is currently 136 pages of discussion pages at the Kiwi Farms website dealing with RationalWiki and much of it is of a disparaging nature.[24] A discussion thread about RationalWiki at the Kiwi Farms website describes RationalWiki as a "Whiny hugbox for spergs and a cluster**** of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website."[25] Atheists have a reputation for having poor social skills (see: Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence). In recent years, as noted above, the website RationalWiki has seen an enormous loss of web traffic. Apparently, the web visitors of Kiwi Farms consider RationalWikians to be gullible "lolcows" who are easily upset (see also: Atheism and gullibility).

The website Kiwi Farms has antipathy towards social justice warriors. RationalWiki.org is largely a pro-SJW atheists website.

Websites that are under troll and vandal attacks often take a bunker mentality and become preoccupied with fighting trolls and vandals. This bunker mentality is especially prevalent for websites that wish to defend a narrow-minded political/ideological narrative that poorly reflects reality such as RationalWiki. As a result, they often become unwelcoming websites to a large portion of the public.

Furthermore, because the individuals involved in the website are bogged down fighting trolls and vandals instead of creating new content, often this is a contributing factor to the websites losing global marketshare, Google rankings and web traffic in general.

As can be seen above, the website RationalWiki is currently losing global market share.

Both atheists and Muslims have developed a reputation of being thin-skinned (and for wanting to impose their ideology on others). It has been quipped that "Atheism is the easiest religion to troll".[26][27] Internet trolls often actively pursue trolling atheists due to their penchant of being so proud and so easily angered.[28]

In 2012, The Guardian published an article entitled Limmy's Show: Confessions of an internet troll which had the subtitle There's a witch-hunt going on against internet trolls right now. But, argues Scots funnyman Limmy, randomly goading atheists, jocks and non-existent techno geeks can be fun.[28] And of course, being thin-skinned is symptomatic of having excessive pride.

Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, a self-described provocateur, indicates "the reason I have a go at atheists is that it's fun. They are so thin-skinned. They are like libertarians, or...they are like liberal Democrats in the UK or..feminists in fact. They are so easy to wind up... They are so touchy."[29]

Atheists have reputation for being arrogant (see: Atheism and arrogance). Most people and cultures take a very dim view of proud people and some cultures are known for actively engaging humbling successful people and/or proud people (Several Anglosphere nations are known for having tall poppy syndrome and Filipinos are known for having a "crab culture". Crabs in a bucket of water will pull down crabs trying to escape from the bucket).

As can be seen by the below screenshots, RationalWiki is currently attracting a lot of trolls and vandals.

The above graphic is the block log for RationalWiki taken on February 6, 2022 at 6:45pm. As you can see, RationalWiki is currently blocking a lot of internet trolls who engage in vandalism and edit warring.

The above graphic is the deletion log for RationalWiki taken on February 6, 2022 at 6:40pm. As you can see, RationalWiki is currently deleting a lot of content created by internet trolls who engage in trolling and vandalism.

The above graphic is the page protection log for RationalWiki taken on February 6, 2022 at 8:25pm. As you can see, RationalWiki is currently protecting web pages due to internet trolls who engage in trolling and vandalism.

#### RationalWiki and concern trolling[edit]

An angry atheist speaking to a woman with a Bible in her hand.

The Christian philosopher James S. Spiegel says the path from Christianity to atheism among several of his friends involved moral slippage such as resentment or unforgiveness.[30]

See: Atheism and anger and Atheism and unforgiveness

See also: Atheism and intolerance and Atheism and anger and Atheism and dogmatism and Atheism and profanity

According to Dictionary.com a concerning troll is: "Concern trolling involves someone opposing an idea or viewpoint, yet acting like they’re an advocate for the cause. A concern troll offers undermining criticisms under the guise of concern. Their goal is to sabotage the cause being discussed, and to inspire doubt among group members. This occurs in groups rallied around a particular issue, especially in political parties, and the goal of concern trolling is to cause dissent within a community."[31]

Given the many problems of atheist worldview (see: Rebuttals to atheist arguments), the decline of the secular left, atheist hypocrisy, global desecularization and the many problems Democrats and American leftists are experiencing under the Biden Administration, RationalWikians especially dislike concern trolling. It raises questions that cause cognitive dissonance within RationalWikians and it also undermines group cohesiveness (see also: Atheism and groupthink). It also makes the secular leftists depressed and many secular leftists are prone to depression and depression regarding political events unfavorable to secular leftism (see: Atheism and depression and Secular leftists and psychogenic illness). The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: Donald Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services.[32]

RationalWiki's Saloon Bar (a general discussion area at RationalWiki ) and article/user talk pages are especially prone to concerning trolling. RationalWikians have become very angry and have displayed such behavior as using profanity and angrily typing in all cap letters when their ideas are questioned by others and/or concern trolls (see: Atheism and intolerance and Atheism and anger and Atheism and dogmatism and Atheism and profanity).[33]

Concerning atheism and dogmatism, research shows that atheists are less open-minded (see: Atheism and open-mindedness).

In the BBC documentary The Trouble with Atheism the award-winning journalist Rod Liddle indicates:

“  |  Some atheists have become rather dogmatic. Terribly certain in their conviction that there is no God and anyone who thinks there is is a deluded and dangerous fool. ...atheists are becoming as intransigent about their own views as the people they so despise.

Atheism is becoming a religion of its own. It already has its gurus and its revered sacred texts... It has its magnificent temples within which lie mysteries and unknowable truths.[34]

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RationalWiki has created an entire article devoted to concern trolling.[35]

### RationalWiki, its Discord discussion servers and its fear of transparency/trolls[edit]

RationalWiki has two Discord discussion servers which are given below:

* RationalWiki Support Chat — Support server, it's focused on wiki-related issues and moderation issues

* RationalWiki unofficial Discord server

RationalWiki.org puts requirements on its Discord servers in terms of joining in terms of a certain amount of edits to RationalWiki.org due to its fear of trolls and transparency.

## RationalWiki's donate button on every page of its website and its infrequent usage[edit]

RationalWiki has a bright yellow donate button on the left side of every page of its wiki.

On May 29, 2022, one of the founders of the RationalWiki website indicated "Currently the donations we get are sparse... We have not done a donation drive in a long time and have not been self-supporting for over a year....".[36]

Apparently, few if any atheists/agnostics at RationalWiki use that bright yellow donate button at RationalWiki. See also: Atheist organizations and fundraising and Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising and Atheism and charity and Liberals and uncharitableness

## RationalWiki and its poor leadership[edit]

See also: Atheism and leadership

### GrammarCommie[edit]

GrammarCommie is known for his bullying.

Research on the dark triad of personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) indicate a correlation with bullying.[37] See also: Atheism and narcissism and Atheism and psychopathy

Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito.

See also: GrammarCommie

GrammarCommie (GC) is a RationalWiki administrator.

He formerly served on the RationalWiki Foundation board of directors until he had a mental health crisis which consisted of him threatening to cut himself and commit suicide in order to get his way at RationalWiki (see screen captures below). He is an atheist and leftist.

GrammarCommie has anger management issues which sometimes results in him angrily posting abusive posts in all caps laced with profanity (see also: Atheism and anger and Atheism and profanity).[38][39] The RationalWiki admin who goes by the moniker CorruptUser wrote about GrammarCommie on March 25, 2021: "GC has this belief that there's a Certain Way you have to make arguments, and seeing anyone deviating from that Certain Way results in him losing control, and he has little ability to regain his composure. During this time he will write vicious screeds, make threats, or engage in blockwars including removal of rights."[40] See also: Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence

GrammarCommie frequently bans people which contributes to RationalWiki being a wiki that has a low edits to blocked editor accounts ratio at a wiki. He also frequently reverts other editors. A wiki with a low edit to block ratio tends to be a closed-minded wiki that is dogmatic and intolerant (see also: Atheism and dogmatism and Atheism and intolerance).

He is also known for his bullying. Research on the dark triad of personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) indicate a correlation with bullying.[41] See also: Atheism and narcissism and Atheism and psychopathy

In June of 2022, GrammarCommie was banning and unbanning himself.[42] Before banning himself initially, GrammarCommie said that RationalWiki was "half-dead" and filled with "twits".[43] Specifically, he wrote: "You know what, fine. Take your half dead site, where most of you twits obsess over one or two articles and et the rest of the site rot, where I can't even perform basic category maintenance without someone getting on my ass, which by the way is why i haven't touched mainspace in ages, where trolls are humored as long as there's the barest minimum level of plausible deniability, and shove it right up your f**king *ss."[44] In reply, the RationalWiki user 2friedeggs said: "This site is dying for a reason" and he indicated that GrammarCommie was chasing good faith editors away.

GrammarCommie often pontificates about politics and economics and sees himself as very knowledgeable about these areas despite describing himself as being lower middle class. On July 30, 2021, GrammarCommie wrote: "I asked for data, not random factoids. Just as we can't infer that every white person lives at the lower middle class level because I do...".[45] He is also known for correcting people's grammar and being intolerant of people's grammatical errors.[46]

GrammarCommie describes himself thusly, "Deeply cynical and borderline misanthropic. Very much not Utopian. Unconventional left-winger. If you want more info engage me in a conversation. I'm an asshole, but I'm honest."[47] GrammarCommmie is admin at RationalWiki, which is a wiki that intentionally lies about its web traffic statistics on its article about itself in that it greatly inflates its web traffic and global market share.

### LeftyGreenMario[edit]

See also: LeftyGreenMario

LeftyGreenMario (LGM) is a RationalWiki moderator.

LeftyGreenMario is not sure if she has bad judgment. She feels as if she is a bad person due to her gossiping about other RationalWikians at the RationalWiki Discord server.

The above screenshot was taken from the RationalWiki Discord server.

LeftyGreenMario (LGM) is a lady RationalWiki (RW) moderator and administrator. She is also a RationalWiki Foundation trustee.

LeftyGreenMario is a feminist, self-described asexual, atheist, evolutionist, proponent of abortion, environmentalist and a video game enthusiast.[48] LeftyGreenMario is a student of Herbert Marcuse's partisan tolerance, and almost singlehandedly destroyed what little bit of balance and tolerance of diverse viewpoints existed in the Rationalwiki community since its founding in 2007. Her asexual outlook on life has been transformed into feelings of hostility and meanspiritedness toward other human beings. As a Trustee of the RationalMedia Foundation,[49] LeftyGreenMario has led the project down the road of leftist intolerance. Many longtime contributors abandoned the project after her rise as a central figure. See also: LeafyGreenMario and Google referral traffic

Google has a number of quality indicators by which is rates a website. According to SEMRush, RationalWiki had 1.49 million monthly referral visits from Google in January of 2018 (which is when LeafyGreenMario became a RationalWiki moderator). According to SEMRush, RationalWiki's peak Google referral traffic was 3.5 million visits per month in August 2019. In June of 2020, according to SEMRush, RationalWiki had 464,000 monthly referrals from Google. In January of 2022, according to SEMRUsh, RationalWiki had 185,661 monthly referrals from Google. As noted above, RationalWiki has lost a massive amount of web traffic since its peak in August of 2019.

LeftyGreenMario is not sure if she has bad judgment (see screenshot graphic to the right). She feels as if she is a bad person due to her gossiping about other RationalWikians at the RationalWiki Discord server.

She was threatened with impeachment by a former RationalWiki Moderator and current Administrator of RationalWiki, who goes by the username Ace McWicked, due to her involvement in the RationalWiki GossipGate scandal (She gossiped about Ace McWicked). She apologized to Ace McWicked to turn things around, to no effect (see screenshot graphic to the right).

## RationalWiki and its Alexa rankings[edit]

See also: RationalWiki and Alexa rankings

On January 28, 2022, the web traffic tracking company Alexa ranked RationalWiki the 125,248th most popular website in the world. As can be seen above, according to Alexa, in the previous 90 days RationalWiki experienced a signficant fall in terms of its global popularity.

According to Alexa, on November 26, 2021, the average website visitor to the RationalWiki website was spending 3 minutes and 10 seconds on the RationalWiki website. But as can be seen above, on January 28, 2022, website visitors to the RationalWiki website were merely spending on average 2 minutes and 32 seconds on the website.

On January 16, 2022, the web traffic tracking company Alexa ranked RationalWiki the 113,799th most popular website in the world. As can be seen above, in 2021 RationalWiki experienced a dramatic fall in terms of its global popularity.

According to Alexa, on November 26, 2021, the average website visitor to the RationalWiki website was spending 3 minutes and 10 seconds on the RationalWiki website. But as can be seen above, on January 16, 2022, website visitors to the RationalWiki website were merely spending on average 2 minutes and 37 seconds on the website.

On January 16, 2022, the web traffic tracking company Alexa ranked RationalWiki the 113,799th most popular website in the world. As can be seen above, in 2021 RationalWiki experienced a dramatic fall in terms of its global popularity.

According to Alexa, on November 26, 2021, the average website visitor to the RationalWiki website was spending 3 minutes and 10 seconds on the RationalWiki website. But as can be seen above, on January 16, 2022, website visitors to the RationalWiki website were merely spending on average 2 minutes and 37 seconds on the website.

On December 17, 2021, the web traffic tracking company Alexa ranked RationalWiki the 111,433th most popular website in the world. As can be seen above, in 2021 RationalWiki experienced a dramatic fall in terms of its global popularity.

On November 26, 2021, the web traffic tracking company Alexa ranked RationalWiki the 110,759th most popular website in the world. As can be seen above, in 2021 RationalWiki experienced a dramatic fall in terms of its global popularity.

### On October 23, 2021, RationalWiki fell below the top 100,000 most popular websites on the worldwide web according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa[edit]

RationalWiki (RW) is a politically left leaning website that skews towards atheism/agnosticism in terms of its worldview.

On October 23, 2021, RationalWiki fell below the top 100,000 most popular websites on the worldwide web according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa. Specifically, on October 23, 2021, RationalWiki was ranked the 100,814th most popular website in the world.

On October 23, 2021, RationalWiki's website indicates: "Also since 2013, RW's Alexa rank (a measure accurate only in a broad sense) has hovered between 15,000th and 25,000th most popular website on the entire Internet...".[50] One again, atheists engage in deceit! See: Atheism and deception

However, on October 23, 2021, RationalWiki did correctly point out that RationalWiki was more popular than skeptic websites such as Freethought Blogs and Skeptoid which currently rank the 111,152th and 468,630th most popular websites in the world by Alexa.[51]

## See also[edit]

RationalWiki specific articles:

* RationalWiki and web visitor interest in pornography
* RationalWiki, pornography and pedophilia
* RationalMedia Foundation board of trustees and the lack of Black representation
* RationalWiki and Holocaust denial
* RationalWiki and internet trolls

Related:

* Internet atheism
* Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
* Internet evangelism
* Decline of the atheist movement
* Decline of the secular left
* SJW atheists

## Humor concerning RationalWiki[edit]

* Comrade RationalWikian, can you spare a dime?
* RationalWiki theme song
* The seven profound differences between Phyllis Schlafly and RationalWikians
* Secular, leftist, feminist website likes its low-class, atheist women to be on the trashy side
* BullyGate: RationalWiki Administrator and RationalWiki Media Foundation board member DuceMoosolini left RationalWiki due to the public shame of being bullied by the female, RationalWiki Moderator Techpriest
* RationalWikians stabbed in the back by Google and then by the Ukrainians. Et tu, Ukrainians?

Other:

* Comedy and satires concerning atheism and evolution

## References[edit]

1. ↑ RationalWiki, December 5, 2021
2. ↑ Difference between revisions of "RationalWiki talk:Site support", Revision as of 17:15, 29 May 2022 (edit) (undo)
3. ↑ [https://rationalwiki.orghttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:2friedeggs&diff=prev&oldid=2460941 Revision as of 03:49, 10 June 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)
4. ↑ Latest revision as of 10:07, 21 June 2022 (view source), Neiltyson1fan (talk | contribs)
5. ↑ Latest revision as of 19:08, 15 August 2022 (edit) (undo) KarmaPolice (talk | contribs)(→‎Rationalwiki should tone down on the snark.)
6. ↑ Revision as of 00:56, 6 November 2022 (edit) (undo) Rairyu75 (talk | contribs) (→‎You guys doing okay?: new section)
7. ↑ Link Velocity Trends (LVT)
8. ↑ What are typical uses of Link Velocity Trends?, Link Research Tools website
9. ↑ What are typical uses of Link Velocity Trends?, Link Research Tools website
10. ↑ SimilarWeb.com - RationalWiki
11. ↑ Link Velocity Trends (LVT)
12. ↑ What are typical uses of Link Velocity Trends?, Link Research Tools website
13. ↑ Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, October 6, 2020
14. ↑ RationalWiki - Feminism
15. ↑ SimilarWeb.com - RationalWiki
16. ↑ Lolcow - Knowyourmeme
17. ↑ Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, October 6, 2020
18. ↑ RationalWiki - Feminism
19. ↑ Majestic SEO Announces New Link Metrics: Trust Flow & Citation Flow
20. ↑ Simon, Stephanie (June 19, 2007). "A conservative's answer to Wikipedia". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019.
21. ↑ SimilarWeb.com - RationalWiki
22. ↑ Wikipedia - Kiwi Farms
23. ↑ Lolcow - Knowyourmeme
24. ↑ Kiwi Farms - RationalWiki discussion pages
25. ↑ Kiwi Farms - RationalWiki discussion pages
26. ↑ "Martin Wefail" on Twitter
27. ↑ Atheism is the easiest religion to troll
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Limmy's Show: Confessions of an internet troll, The Guardian, Brian Limond The Guardian, Friday 9 November 2012 10.00 EST
29. ↑ Milo Yiannopoulos vs Atheism
30. ↑ Christian Philosopher Explores Causes of Atheism
31. ↑ Concern troll
32. ↑ Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services, Marketwatch 2016
33. ↑ RationalWiki Saloon Bar archives
34. ↑ BBC Documentary The Trouble With Atheism BBC Horizon Documentary
35. ↑ RationalWiki - Concern Troll
36. ↑ Difference between revisions of "RationalWiki talk:Site support", Revision as of 17:15, 29 May 2022 (edit) (undo)
37. ↑ Chabrol H.; Van Leeuwen N.; Rodgers R.; Séjourné S. (2009). "Contributions of psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian, and sadistic personality traits to juvenile delinquency". Personality and Individual Differences. 47 (7): 734–39. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.020.
38. ↑ Revision as of 22:51, 4 January 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)
39. ↑ Revision as of 22:55, 4 January 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)
40. ↑ [https://rationalwiki.orghttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:All_things_in_moderation&diff=2303295&oldid=2303292 RationalWiki talk:All things in moderation - March 25, 2021 post by Admin CorruptUser
41. ↑ Chabrol H.; Van Leeuwen N.; Rodgers R.; Séjourné S. (2009). "Contributions of psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian, and sadistic personality traits to juvenile delinquency". Personality and Individual Differences. 47 (7): 734–39. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.020.
42. ↑ Screencapture of GrammarCommie banning and unbanning himself
43. ↑ [https://rationalwiki.orghttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:2friedeggs&diff=prev&oldid=2460941 Revision as of 03:49, 10 June 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)
44. ↑ [https://rationalwiki.orghttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:2friedeggs&diff=prev&oldid=2460941 Revision as of 03:49, 10 June 2022 (edit) (undo) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs)
45. ↑ RationalWiki Saloon Revision as of 04:33, 30 July 2021 (view source) GrammarCommie (talk | contribs) (→‎Critical Race Theory)
46. ↑ Grammar Commie - Urban dictionary
47. ↑ GrammarCommie user page at RationalWiki
48. ↑ LeftyGreenMario - RationalWiki
49. ↑ https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nm/4330247
50. ↑ RationalWiki article at RationalWki
51. ↑ RationalWiki article at RationalWki