Terry Koeckritz has been a busy little boy

Well, well, well. Conservapedia's de-facto 2IC and resident troll, Terry Koeckritz, has been pretty quiet lately. In f ct, his last edit made to Conservapedia was on Dec 16th. That makes it his longest absence from the hallowed halls of CP, excluding the time of his banishing for swearing at Andrew Schlafly and his blatant plagiarism.

Now there have been questions raised about Terry's whereabouts and health - after all, he is an old, sickly and poor man. However, it might be too soon to break out that well-loved refrain from the Wizard of Oz. It seems everybody's favourite malicious internet troll has been busy somewhere behind the scenes.

Now, we've commentated in the past about how Terry has almost single-handedly shut down Conservapedia, by starving it of its life-blood - editors. Nobody has done more to shut CP off from the outside world than our friend Terry. By using a masterful combination of blocking as many editors as possible, plus vast amounts of long-term IP range blocks, usually covering the x.x.0.0/16 range. These were backed up by his insistence that other sysops could neither question, nor undo, another's block. Given that the others are all a bunch of cowards, this became law. Finally, he played on the already rampant paranoia of the remaining sysops, which has resulted in them eventually shutting down open registration, instead requiring prospective editors to apply via e-mail. Apparently, sysops also demand to know if editors have Facebook / Twitter / or similar accounts, so they can engage in some cyber-stalking to verify your bona fides.

All of this means that CP has been reduced to a central core of the 6 remaining sysops, and the myriad of short-lived parodists, and the project is essentially dead in the water, apart from Ken Demyer's ongoing bizarre "essays." There's nobody left for him to abuse, bully, taunt and block, so life must be pretty boring for somebody who gets his jollies from acting like a playground bully. Our friend Terry is very likely going to ditch Conservapedia soon, for pastures new.

Why do I say this?

During 2010, Terry and partner-in-crime Rob Smith, troll their asses off at Wikipedia, trying to get Terry's name removed from their article on Conservapedia. The problem was, his name - which he gave to the journalist himself - was published by a reputable source, and so the name stayed. He tried a similar tactic with RationalWiki, but also failed.

And now it seems he's turned his beady little eyes on me. A reader fortunately informed me of a strange development with the entries on this blog. As anybody familar with blogs will know, clicking on a tagged item, takes you to similarly tagged pages on other blogs. So imagine his surprise, upon clicking the 'Terry Koeckritz" tag to find the following:

Now, this doesn't appear to be a Wordpress error, as the tags for Andrew Schlafly and Ed Poor, for example, still work fine.

So, it would appear as if friend Terry has run like a whiny bitch to the Powers That Be, and somehow convinced them to de-link his name. I'd like to know how and also why Wordpress didn't contact me. Still, we all know just how well Terry can play the victim, so I'm sure he managed to win somebody over with his pathetic sob story.

It looks like Terry Koeckritz is trying to cover his tracks, prior to joining some other on-line community. The less references to him on the web, the better for him. Conversely, for the sake of those innocents out there, as much information about this devious, scheming, malicious scumbag needs to be as public as possible. And there are plenty of ways to skin a cat...

It's also worth noting that Terry's Christian charity only stretched as far as covering his own ass. For all the cares, the other sysops could go to hell for all he cares. Which is what we've been telling Andy all along.