Evercat v. Libertas - WikiEN-l

4 Jan 2005

I'm gonna get in some pre-emptive retaliation since I expect this might 
be about to be discussed...

I've been accused by User/Troll Libertas of being all "creepy" since I 
revealed "her" location after 172 asked me to investigate whether
"she" 
might be User:Reithy. Libertas claims I've repeatedly revealed "her" 
location. This is sort of true. I did indeed look up "her" location and 
reveal it.

(I use "her" throughout since "she" claims to be female, but I
distrust 
trolls...)

I did not use any special powers to find Libertas' IP address. Of 
course, mere sysops have no such powers. Libertas revealed "her" IP 
address by editing logged out. 172 then gave me it, and asked me to 
investigate. I had never been involved with Libertas before.

As far as I recall (the Wiki is much too slow right now to check, so 
possibly I'm forgetting something), I mentioned the location on the 
following occasions:

I initially mentioned it on 172's talk page, noting that it differed 
from Reithy's. I restored it a few times when Libertas edited it 
(because I don't like my comments being edited) and mentioned it once 
more in a stupid debate (that Libertas started, by complaining about 
something I wrote on my userpage about reincarnation) over whether 
userpages can contain controversial claims.

I regret the last occurence (the gist of which was that if "she" really 
was from said location, it didn't make sense that "her" userpage was so 
pro-American, so it looked like it was that way just to stir things up); 
but I was discounting the possibility of an American living in said 
place. So that was stupid of me.

Anyway, this culminated in a big blowout on IRC. I don't have a log, 
alas, but it involved "her" repeatedly claiming that I was acting 
creepy, behaving like a thug, and threatening "her". "She" also seemed

to claim that I knew "she" was female (I didn't) and that this made my 
discussion of "her" location more disturbing. Curiously, Libertas was 
happy to reveal "her" location to everyone on IRC during this discussion.

I did apologise on IRC for the last occurence.

But "she" kept on with "her" insults, and finally, becoming Really 
Bloody Furious (tm) I blocked "her". This was possibly another mistake. 
I'll step down as a sysop, if people feel I should, but "she" seems like 
an obvious troll to me.

But I'm tired, and upset, and angry, and going to bed now.

Evercat
-- 
Allan Crossman - a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk
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