Stealth parody

From Liberapedia

A Stealth Parody differs from a normal parody in that it does not purport it's self to be a parody, often the proprietors of a self parody website or group will flat out deny that they are in fact a parody. Often Stealth Parodies are created by people with completely opposite views that the alleged parody contains, and the parody has been created to disregard the group that holds the opposite views. Organisations such as Conservapedia and the Flat Earth Society are often asked if they are Stealth Parodies.

On Liberapedia

We suspect that some of the best and the most creative humour on Liberapedia was done by stealth parodists who were really Conservatives.

What about liberapedia? Liberals spew even greater nonsense (than Conservapedia) [1]

Later someone else wrote

Looks like the conservatives has started trolling Liberapedia as well, there isn't anything on there that makes sense. [2]

But we kept the parodies as we want our wiki to be humorous in places. At first we left the pages as they were, because we assumed that as Liberapedia became better-known, people would get to know that the parody they see here is deliberate. Later, when we saw people weren't catching on, we put templates onto many parody pages. These templates show we know that what's on the pages is meant to be a joke, and isn't just silliness that was supposed to be a serious article, but ended up unintentionally funny. By the way that mentally-ill diction former President George W. Bush indulged in often was unintentionally hillarious --before he heard people laughing at it, and started doing it on purpose.

External links

Yet More Stealth Parody in Conservapedia It seems a RationalWikian admitted doing it. Wikis like Conservapedia and Liberapedia may have to remove material that goes against their viewpoint.

• Bugler was a stealth parodist of monumental proportions at Conservapedia.