A lot of people probably still remember Greg Kohs.  His name used to be on the Wikipediocracy domain name registration, both the domain "hosting" account and the domain "registrar" account.

There was Other Stuff too, but we'll get to that.

It has been a long-standing joke on Wikipediocracy that the operation is run out of Greg Kohs' "fetid basement." There is even a photo of the place, which even now adorns the Wikipedia  "basement" article.

Kohs' schtick on Wikipediocracy was to be as obnoxious as possible, post as many sleazy pics of women in bikinis as possible, and try to set Jimmy Wales up as a villain, even though the guy has only been a figurehead on Wikipedia for years now.  Logic was never a factor. The Kohs playbook was taken from Hoffer's The True Believer, not Alinky's Rules for Radicals.  He also liked to harass people on Wikipedia and then go back to Wikipediocracy and brag about it, like some little adolescent bully. You can see a few people on the internet still doing it, like Crowsnest and that Lupito guy on Sucks. They don't have any internal compass, they just play to the stands.  It's funny maybe once or twice, to some people, but in the long run it's a waste of time, and an appeal to the lowest possible intellect.

Was there anyone who Kohs did not try to slime?  In the end, you cannot trust anything people like this say, since they only say things for effect. They probably don't even believe any of it themselves.

Kohs was no stranger to making fake claims. Who could forget his "grant proposal" on Meta, "Grants:IdeaLab/Impacts on lives of the banned," complete with a troll avatar, which he went back to his blog and bragged about here: (archived).  Just think what might have been accomplished with some actual concerted effort towards community grants, if Kohs had not been screaming for attention to line his own pockets. Does anyone really believe the WMF cannot afford to fund anything they want? Or that there was anything serious in Kohs' proposal?  You have to wonder how much he poisoned the well for serious proposals.

And then there was the time he tried to take down genderdesk.  (See "Wikipediocracy takes no prisoners: Kohs fires off DMCA against Gender Desk")  WordPress does not take kindly to people who waste their time with false reports, so that one did not go anywhere.

Then there was the dildo thing.  See "Greg Kohs trolls Zoe Quinn yet again".  Just ewww.

And threatening violence. Remember when he "punched" the volunteer leaders of WMDC, while sucking up to the bigwigs?  Nothing like a little intimidation, eh?  The whole thing was archived at this comment here: https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2021/05/23/et-tu-harej/comment-page-1/#comment-97961

Kohs recently passed through Reddit, and left a few small calling cards. It seems his old "Mywikibiz" project did not do well in the long run, but in spite of that, he has retired to Florida, and started another business venture.



A pity that Mywikibiz didn't do any better, and after all that effort he put into engaging on Jimbo's talk page.


So that's his new website, Research Biz LLC.  https://archive.fo/lqxHz There is even a contact page. https://archive.fo/wip/Ty3Vl It has a very nice photo.  He doesn't look a day over twenty-five, isn't technology wonderful, but he also doesn't seem to have much hair left, just saying.

And our Mr. Kohs is not at all shy about putting his address out there, so we can now also compute the distance between him and, say, doing lunch with Donald Trump over at Mar a lago. It's practically just down the street.

We can also say quite unequivocally that his new digs does NOT have a basement, but I do think we should give him the benefit of the doubt and say it is probably still quite fetid.

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