I expected this sort of response from David Gerard. It saddens me to see it, but I knew it would come.
This sort of attitude and obsessiveness is precisely why I am leaving.
David, I saw an email sent to this list on the admin who was removing the unblock request from the page of a user he himself had blocked. YOU declared it a nonissue. I'm sure that the affected user, who by our arbcom rules is the "only" one allowed to make such an arbcom case, is completely unable to do so since they are BLOCKED.
This is a larger problem I have with our policies, though. Every policy we have on the matter is designed to make it impossible for an aggrieved user to make any protest against abuse.
Parker.
On 10/6/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/10/06, Parker Peters onmywayoutster@gmail.com wrote:
But I'm quitting. It's sad to say, I know, and even sadder that due to
my
reasons for quitting, I can't trust leaving a goodbye message on my user page or mailing from my normal account. But for the things I am about to say, I know that several admins and possibly those higher up in the
project
would ban me just for saying it. I know this message may never reach
this
list either, but I'm at least going to try. I'm doing it this way
because
someday, I might want to come back, and I'd like to be able to come back under the same username I left.
Being banned for speaking out? I know of no cases. The claim was most frequently heard from the hydra commonly tagged "Enviroknnot", but he was banned for being a pathological fuckwit and for assuming no-one could possibly work out it was him every time just by looking at the way he always came back making the same edits to the same bunch of articles.
I saw a thread earlier today which I thought was monstrous - a user
whose
talk page was locked for "unblock template abuse", whose only crime or "abuse" of the template was removing the template after the blocking
admin
consistently and maliciously removed it. This thread was stopped by the assertion of David Gerard that the person who started the thread was "Enviroknot." I don't give a damn who started the thread, if the
question is
valid, the question is valid. I looked at the user in question, and I
see
plenty of problems with the way it was handled, and at least two admins
who
deserve at the least a stern censure and at the most, de-adminning for abusive behavior. We NEED users to bring these problems up. We NEED to
cull
the herd of abusive administrators.
We have the Arbitration Committee for that. If you don't say anything, they don't know.
WE, the admins of wikipedia, broke it. We broke it by being stuck-up
jerks.
We broke it by thinking we are better than normal editors, by getting
full
of ourselves.
If you are an admin then I am a notorious troll living in Houston.
- d.
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