On 11/26/2014 12:52 AM, Risker wrote:
I have, however, entered a plea that they rename the case. The decision they're voting on now has almost nothing at all to do with the Gender Gap Task Force, and isn't really addressing any of problematic behaviours that are evident on the talk pages of the wikiproject.
GGTF was targeted for disruption because males (and some alleged females who support them) were afraid that the GGTF's concern with civility would lead to more restrictions on guys' right to talk dirty and be hostile when they felt like it. Over time I realized it also was about their right to harass the heck out of people they don't like to drive them off the project and they've been at it for a few years.) The story is pretty clear if you read the evidence in my timeline.
I already was being harassed by two individuals (who don't like what they assume to be my politics) who then came to GGTF primarily to harass and badmouth me. (Their nasty efforts got me topic banned for a couple angry comments in a case where one of them was topic banned for chronic BLP violations! )
Both also supported the "incivility caucus" and were delighted to make me the number 1 target. The other now topic banned editor - who has avoided revealing his/her sex - obviously got under someone's skin for some flippant (or sometimes too on target?) comments and was the second major target.
The Arbitrators were NOT going to take the case until someone else took one of my harassers to WP:ANI about the wikihounding, a bunch of GGTF people complained about him and he got Ibanned from me. This caused a lot of complaints among the anticivility caucus about GGTF canvassing and meat puppetry and I believe angered and terrified them. It freaked out the other editor who came to harass me and he started threatening to follow me, dig up dirt and then wrote a crappy draft biography of me, trashing me freely on his talk page. I took it to MfD. One of his Admin friends took the mess to ANI, where he started screaming there about bringing in Arbcom. And Arbitrators suddenly started to change their votes. (He has at least two powerful friends on the committee.)
The anticivility caucus claimed it was all about getting rid of that awful CarolMoore (even though almost all their evidence came from my complaint about all the harassment in August and September!) But it really was about terrifying and intimidating GGTF so it couldn't get any more of their harassers interaction banned.
During the Arbitration a few people stepped forward to say they also had been harassed by this crew and quit or knew others who had; a couple more emailed me privately. So I began to see that not just incivility but the right to drive off editors through harassment was what they were fighting for. I call it a "gang bang" because probably two dozen editors came out of no where to say how awful I was - all based on being part of this incivility/harassment clique.
If I had not joined GGTF and tried to deal with the disruptions, I wouldn't have gotten the first harasser off my back - but I wouldn't have had the whole crew attack me.
Despite their efforts, two of the incivility crew did end up getting admonished, so in that way it WAS a successful arbitration. We'll see if the discretionary sanctions are used fairly or to keep true GGTF participants from complaining about future disruption.
Believe me I'm VERY happy to be free on a personal level. Just really ticked off that these guys got away with it. And I'm one of those people who never learned to suffer in silence. Expect the video soon and the analysis in a couple months. Meanwhile, I'll watch with interest to see how things develop.
CM