But I considered another possibility: Maybe LKWR is in fact 24/EofT disguised as a moderate voice--setting up User:Moderator (after reading en:Wiki of course) as a patsy/decoy personality. After demolishing "Moderator" this would allow 24/EofT to re-join the collective with a clean slate altogether! ~No one would suspect~
24 can't make more than a dozen contributions without resisting his various demons, even when he's trying to play the "moderate voice."
Hahaha! Judge the messenger, or the message?
It is unfortunate that the project loses the benefit of his unique perspective and his insightful commentary as a result of the need to protect itself from his stubborn, iconoclastic side. At this point he's probably too far gone to save, and a good deal of community effort has already been expended to try to work with him.
Hmmm! So what hidden agenda is there in this attempt to suppress all these mediation proposals?
Those who believe there is value there could perhaps rework the articles into a more acceptable form. My agenda is simple: we need a community-based means of dealing with article disputes. 24 was trying to install something by fiat instead. Big hat--no cattle, as they say in Texas.
It is strange that LKWR (supposedly new) seems so familiar with existing policy, and his echoing of that old (wrong) stigma--that any work under suspicion of being by a banned user must be eradicated with extreme prejudice-- is just too... whats the word....?
Well, I don't believe the material should stand based on its own merits either, regardless of authorship, but we could spend the next two weeks trying to get everyone to agree on that.
<Ray> You have the burden of proof backward. It's up to the person
making the accusation to prove that he is. Innocent until proven guilty.
<Jimbo> Sure, but I consider this proven now.
Very well, but this sort of checking should have been done in the
first >place. These kind of accusations are all too often completely
speculative.
I was quite sure of my conclusions, and raised the issue first at User_talk:Mediator, where he had an opprotunity to refute it, which he did not.
Beyond that, there was little I could do to check my facts, since I don't have access to the server logs. What more do you believe I should have done before raising the allegation here?
--- Louis Kyu Won Ryu