On 6/3/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On 3 Jun 2007 at 19:08:00 +0100, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Cla68
Cla68 would like to open a debate on Wiki about this, seems eminently
sensible, please feel free to pitch in.
I found it of interest, in the incident from December that this RfC
centers on, that Mantanmoreland was insisting that Cla68 be blocked
for making a mistaken accusation of sockpuppetry with regard to him
and another user (based on a misunderstanding of another message
thread), while Mantanmoreland himself is profligous with accusations
of sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry, and trolling with regard to people who
end up at odds with him in a dispute (he did some of that at the very
same time he was regarding it as an inexcusable offense to make that
sort of accusation at *him*). He gets so much mileage out of the
fact that he was at one point trolled by "WordBomb" (an apparent
single-purpose trolling account that was banned after a very short
"career") that, if it were a frequent-flyer program, he'd have
several free trips already -- people who criticize him are likely to
end up on the receiving end of his accusations that they're a
"sock/meatpuppet of a banned user".
I find it of interest that you so thoroughly misconstrued the
incidents in question, and filled the RFC itself with a rather vicious
rant/personal attack, seemingly without shame, and carry it forward to
this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Cl…
Six months after an alleged sockpuppeting incident, WordBomb socks
were still bringing it up, and suddenly Cla68 decided to bring it up
as well, on a number of different fora. This followed a previous
accusation of sockpuppetry against three accounts, Cla68 had made a
month earlier on an AfD nomination, one which was eventually deleted
by Jimbo himself.
As for sockpuppetry accusations, it appears that it is *you* who is
getting mileage out of them, bringing them up a further 6 months
later.
And WordBomb, far from being "an apparent single-purpose trolling
account that was banned after a very short "career"", his career
lasted quite a few months, through a number of incarnations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_WordBomb
Finally, regarding the RfC, I have to say it's a first. I've seen
straw man arguments a-plenty on Talk: pages, and even straw man AfD
nominations, but this is the first time I've seen a straw man RfC.