--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
I sympathize with this POV for two reasons:
- Because Steve was recently taken down a peg (he
lost his sysop rights) but he STILL is contributing to the encyclopedia and trying to find ways to improve the community.
I have not "lost [my] sysop rights." Anthere (properly) acted to remove my sysop rights on a request (a premature and perhaps partisan one) after the "vote was closed." I had my "RFA" reopened because I thought it should benefit from my input. Hence Anthere's decision to desysop was neutral, and the decision to not immediately resysop was nominal one, and one that I did not object to while the RFA continued.
The RFA failed to find consensus to desysop, and more correctly it rejected the Arbcom's use of the RFA (and its 70% threshold) to render a decision which it (admittedly) could not come to --"deadlocked" case, etc. Though I could have waited, I have asked Anthere to restore my sysop status per the "unsuccessful de-RFA aka my "successful RFA", aka the "remand decision."
Sincerely, SV
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