Hi, Samuel.
Samuel L Bronkowitz wrote:
Lie much?
Here we have an example of why you are unlikely to make any progress in
this.
No, I don't lie much. I offered you advice on how to press your case;
you rejected it out of hand. I gave my opinion in answer to a question
asked, and you accuse me of lying. I'm not sure how I could be lying
about my own opinion, but let that pass.
This isn't my job. I'm just an occasional volunteer editor, with no
special perks, no special powers, and no personal acquaintance with
anybody here. I have no obligation to deal with you just because you're
in a lather. But I took the time to look into into your concern, because
it's important to me that Wikipedia succeeds, and I think the move
toward a caste system is one of the biggest risk factors right now. If
that's not enough for you, that seems like your problem, not mine.
I'm not saying you are a sockpuppet; I'm just saying that's a reasonable
conclusion to come to, and that your behavior fits the patterns that I'm
familiar with. If you don't like that, perhaps you should try behaving
differently.
"he was being contentious and
difficult on AIV within 30 minutes of creating his account."
You mean, I spoke up on Adminstrator's Noticeboard (AIV?) about something I
saw that I considered to be improper behavior: the deliberate provocation of
a user, by an admin, conduct which would never have been countenanced were
they not an admin, a Checkuser filed obviously as a fishing expedition, and
obviously falsified results that could have no bearing on the case.
Coverup.
You're welcome to your interpretation of the events. I have mine.
Being accusatory and rude didn't appear to help you in your 7 entire
hours on Wikipedia, and it's not doing much for me here. I would like to
believe that you care about Wikipedia so deeply, but you've managed to
convince me that you're one of the tiny minority of participants who is
more invested in being upset and generating drama than in doing anything
productive.
I could be entirely wrong, of course. But your behavior has persuaded me
that it's not worth more time to find out. And I'd guess that's why
you've seen so little response here from others as well.
So again, I'd suggest that you let this go and take a month off. If
there really is a sinister cabal, it will still be here in 30 days, and
you can uncover its machinations then. And hopefully you'll do it with a
cool head and a kind word. The greatest friend to real conspiracies are
the ranting conspiracy nuts, as they make it very difficult for more
measured people to take the possibility of conspiracy seriously.
And if there isn't one, well, you can always come back and actually edit
some articles.
Regards,
William
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William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri