Andre you are intelligent enough to know that no matter how I had defended myself you should have given me the right to a defence.
No, that's often not the case. This is a common misconception.
As I understand the case, you were blocked for repeatedly using proxy accounts. When these were blocked, you opened another proxy account. You cannot claim that you were unaware of the infraction. The creation of a new account demonstrates that you were fully aware of what was going on.
This is on par with a firingsquad in a bananarepublic.
No, it's on par with a parking ticket.
If you get a parking ticket and fail to respond, you'll be considered guilty by default and fined. This is true even if you claim you were unaware of the fine (the "wind blew it off" non-defence), but it seems clear from my readings here that you couldn't even claim that in this case.
It's simply the way the system works. Minor crimes that have little effect on the guilty (like a small fine) can be considerably "more wrong" than major ones that have major effects on the guilty (like jail time). You've likely heard the statement that "it is better for ten guilty men to go free than one innocent man go to jail", but in the case of minor infractions the reverse is true. Maybe it sucks, but that's the way it is.
And let's face it, the punishement in this case is hardly limiting you. A month ban on an account you clearly stated you no longer wanted to use anyway? I wish I had such problems.
What Waerth does not tell you is that the "attacking and harassing"
This is always the case in my experience. I've seen edit wars over changes in grammar.
That said, I have been repeatedly upset by the "invisibility" of the process. For a project that claims to be about sharing information, the way the arbcom decisions are made without any publically available information being posted. That discredits the wiki, IMHO.
For instance, I recently came across a perma-ban on a use whom I had past "dealings" with. Try as I might, I was unable to find out any information on what had happened to precipitate the ban. I wrote to the banning user, and the person that started the process, and was given the runaround for days. I still don't know precisely what happened.
Is it really too much to require a CLEAR explaination of what the events were to be posted on the userpage in question? I think this should be policy.
Maury
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