The warning signs were when the Arbitration Committee decided that continual agitation was just "free speech". We all know the users who have taken the lead. The precipitating event is at:
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Kelly Martin 4
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 08:08 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: [WikiEN-l] Administrator flameout: Naconkantari
Per last week's very topical discussion, we just lost someone again (maybe).
[[User talk:Naconkantari]]
I was off away from the net while this all happened. Did anyone see any warning signs?
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Fred Bauder wrote:
The warning signs were when the Arbitration Committee decided that continual agitation was just "free speech". We all know the users who have taken the lead. The precipitating event is at:
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Kelly Martin 4
So after reading that and rummaging, I've got a couple of questions.
It seems like Naconkantari had recently taken some heat for too-vigorous blocking. Then he blocked several people on the RFC you link to above, shortly before the RFC was deleted. Doc Glasgow, one of the people blocked, offers this as an explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_notice...
Given that, is it fair to think of Naconkantari as one of those people who got caught in what I think of as the "overburdened admin spiral", where a tired person becomes more short-tempered, causing incidents that weary them further? And that this was just the final turn of that spiral?
Also, when you refer to ArbCom-blessed continual agitation, is that the same thing as the ANI reference to free passes for certain people?
Thanks,
William