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You clearly missed the point do you?
Nobody has the power to declare policy at commons but the community and the board. You are neither. You have behaved like a vandal, and every other user would have been blocked ad infinitum. This is not about porn, this about you abusing your status in the most evil way anyone could have imagined. If you had followed the correct procedure, instead of going on a deletion spree, everything would have been settled and most images would have been deleted anyway.
This is unacceptible behaviour and is inexcusable. Delete first and discuss later is not the way commons works and it has never worked that way. You say you are proud? Well, you can be proud. You have destroyed all confidence people had in you, and frankly, you don't deserve any better.
If you think stepping toes is the right way to do it, perhaps you should state instead of "an encyclopaedia everyone can edit" "a site that is run in accordance with the whims and fancies of the former owner".
A disgruntled former Commons admin.
- ----------------- Much of the cleanup is done, although there was so much hardcore pornography on commons that there's still some left in nooks and crannies.
I'm taking the day off from deleting, both today and tomorrow, but I do encourage people to continue deleting the most extreme stuff.
But as the immediate crisis has passed (successfully!) there is not nearly the time pressure that there was. I'm shifting into a slower mode.
We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography and doing nothing about it. Now, the correct storyline is that we are cleaning up. I'm proud to have made sure that storyline broke the way it did, and I'm sorry I had to step on some toes to make it happen.
Now, the key is: let's continue to move forward with a responsible policy discussion.