On 2/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It appears as though attempts to have any resolution or investigation
are
being stonewalled, the user is being deliberately kept from their
rightful
dispute resolution process, and that there is a severe systematic
attempt to
block complaints because they relate to "high-ranking" administrators.
Your response is just one more example of same.
Has anyone approached ArbCom? I believe they accept cases from banned users via email.
I have CC'ed an arbcom member with regard to this, as well as sending private emails urging him to get into contact with the user in question, repeatedly.
No response to those CC's and no email from said Arbcom member has been forthcoming.
I wonder if this is the first anyone has actually mentioned this to the user of even having such an option. Likely so, given the conduct of administrators in this case and in general; there seems to be a concerted effort to keep users who are being abused away from the dispute resolution process at all costs.
I'd also like to say, I have never seen an arbitration committee case actually be accepted from email, save from "Nathanrdotcom" (which then turned into a closed, "secret evidence" case vaguely reminiscent of something "The Party" in Soviet Russia would hold). It seems to be a "policy" that exists largely to be ignored.\
Then again, our dispute resolution process is so byzantine that it seems designed to deliberately stop anyone who's not wikilawyering from successfully navigating it, whereupon they can be accused of wikilawyering and/or trolling for even getting that far.
Parker