Steven Walling wrote:
First try putting in a RFC to get some more voices in
on the debate. If he
is being obviously unreasonable (or you're overreacting and you're too hot
to realize it), getting a few outside opinions is a good way to make people
see sense.
If getting more users in on the debate doesn't work, first try Mediation
before you go to ArbCom.
Someone else in the debate already tried requesting mediation, it was
rejected as an attempt to get a mediator willing to ignore rules to
override the guideline under dispute. When I went to AN/I to get an
outside administrator to look at some rapid-fire unilateral edits he was
making while the debate was still going on, and this too was considered
an attempt to recruit people to oppose him (the _last_ thing I wanted to
do was to have to block him myself). This is why I've been vague so far
and have avoided giving any names, I wanted to avoid giving any more of
that impression.
I was hoping for a more philosophical approach rather than a legalistic
one, but I suppose it's possible there really isn't any other way to
solve things. Though I just found an RfC about this user dating back to
2004 that's about the same pattern of behavior, which leaves me even
more depressed.