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Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by phaemon on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:16AM (#15391164)
Are you sure it's been vandalised? The author has been a member for a while so it might well be that he thought he was editing his own C4C home page and accidentally did the main wiki page instead.

(if it gets reverted, it used to appear as a homepage for Computers 4 Christians group)

Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by tompccs on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:22AM (#15391184)
That seems more likely. At a glance it looked so bizarre that I could think of no other explanation.
Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by Zhyl on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:48AM (#15391270)
This is the second weird Bible/Christian story I've seen in two days. Yesterday there was mass disruption in my area when some guy started preaching the bible on the train. The passengers got so spooked they self-evacuated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41466140

Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by TausAmmer on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:06AM (#15391323)
Poor preacher, I usually enjoy these.
Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by seszett on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:27AM (#15391391)
I'm not sure if I would panic, but I would definitely be worried if someone started religious preaching about "death not being the end" in an enclosed place that I cannot easily exit. In addition to worrying, I would probably get angry too at being the target of such religious proselytising to people who have not asked anything.
Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by throwanem on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:44AM (#15391456)
That's happened a couple of times during my commute. I don't see any reason to take on about it. Maybe if the guy's waving a knife or something, but that'd be cause enough to worry whether he's preaching or not, out of my book or any other.

Sometimes people go around trying to sell stuff they've half-inched off a store shelf, too. Welcome to public transit, where there are other people living their lives just as you're living yours. Different lives, of course, but that by itself need not be cause for fear. I'd even say it should not, but I suppose that's not for me to decide in any case save my own. In any case, I hope I can be forgiven for thinking it rather silly to evacuate a train because someone's got the word on him.

Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by donquichotte on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:25AM (#15391902)
> Welcome to public transit, where there are other people living their lives just as you're living yours. Different lives, of course, but that by itself need not be cause for fear.

Of course they should live their lives, but in public transport they should STFU about it and not harrass other commuters.

Re:Ubuntu Wiki Homepage Vandalised by stuaxo on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:24AM (#15391894)
Wow, that is special. If I was on that train I'd be pretty pissed off with the people delaying me.