Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Several RationalWiki website editors have experienced mental health issues amidst the public having a much lower interest their website

In terms of its editor base and content, the website RationalWiki skews left of center politically and the majority of editor base are atheists/agnostics.

On January 15, I published a blog post entitled Donald J. Trump vs. RationalWiki. Donald Trump's election in 2016 was a big blow to RationalWiki in the United States.

In May of 2020, former RationalWiki Foundation board member and admin GrammarCommie reported that: he was cutting himself; he had thoughts of wanting to die and that he had feelings of low self worth.  During this time, the RationalWiki administrator LeftyGreenMario indicated that GrammarComie's mental health crisis was affecting the mental health of the rest of RationalWikians. 

On May 17, 2020, the RationalWiki administrator who goes by the moniker DuceMoosolini, stated that RationalWiki "attracts all sorts of weird people".

On May 24, 2020, the RationalWiki administrator Oxyaena wrote: "it's just that i am probably raging too much most of the time to form coherent sentences."

On May 24, 2020, the RationalWiki editor who goes by the moniker Amassivegay indicated: "I am never sure I am even coherent most of the time."

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

Below is the Google trends graph RationalWiki and you can see that the number of searches for RationWiki at Google is much lower than its peak in November of 2014. 


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