[WikiEN-l] Admins who pretend to quit (was Re: MONGO and the ArbComm)

[Parker Peters]

On 12/14/06, M Roget <mroget at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/13/06, Sarah (slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 12/12/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com
> <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>> wrote:
> >*> On 12/12/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster at gmail.com
> <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>> wrote:
> *>* >>
> *>* >> On 12/12/06, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com
> <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>> wrote:
> *>>*> > MONGO: I lost count.
> *>* >> Slimvirgin: at least 3 instances, one of which was "if you don't
> ban this
> *>* >> user I'm leaving."
> *>* >> FloNight: at least 2 instances.
> *
> >I left once for about a week, and I believe FloNight left once too.
> >Please get your facts straight.
>
> If you were serious about leaving and not just pretending to in order to
> elicit a reaction why didn't you ask to by desysopped when you quit?
>
> Michel
> ___


After looking back at the affair, it seems to me that Slim and Flo's
"leaving" was a ruse to get another admin punished for attempting to mend
fences with one of Wikipedia's detractors.

Parker