My thoughts (as a regular user - I'm not an admin) -
I'm gravely disturbed by this whole process (or lack thereof). Through my eyes, I see
a political vendetta that was pursued within the ranks of the admins, who I would wish
that I could trust implicitly, and my confidence in that is shaken. There's nothing
scary than a mob of villagers pursuing someone with torches. My natural instinct is to
jump into the fray on the side of the "wronged" party, but obviously, that's
not appropriate here.
I have no opinion about Jeff - I think he probably serves a good purpose, as the agitator,
and agitators often have detractors, but I hurt for him in this. Further, I hurt for the
people who made this decision; it's so difficult to be put in a position where you
feel like you're driven to drastic action. I wonder what it was that made them decide
that our ordinary dispute resolution steps wouldn't work here? Where is the consensus
model in this? Where did we, as a community fail? DID we, as a community fail? And,
more importantly, how do we fix it to prevent it from happening again?
Jeff was wronged, there's no question in my mind. I won't cry out for blood, but
I'll ask for accountability, and I'll ask for the decision tree, so that we can
figure out where our systems broke down, if they did.
I wonder about how we repair the damage that was done here - obviously, Jeff's
unblocked, and that's A Good Thing. But, what about the users like myself who see
this action and worry about the unity and spirit of our admin corps? How do we repair the
shaken trust? I know these are people - flawed, like myself, but I expect a higher
standard from admins. Obviously, ArbComm's involved, and I think that's good.
I'd like to see users (not just the one who made the block, but including him/her)
come forward and say "I was wrong, and I apologize".
More than anything, this makes me sad.
Philippe
[[User:Philippe]]
----- Original Message -----
From: John Lee
To: English Wikipedia
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking badlydrawnjeff (was Re: Thoughts on#wikipedia - threat
or menace?)
On 5/23/07, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au>
wrote:
[1] Who, I note, is a proud CVU member with a tonne of userboxen and a
WikiDefcon template on his userpage. Correlation is not causation, I know,
but ... hmm ...
Precisely what I was thinking.
Johnleemk
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