Well Fred has successfully confused me once again. No less than 5 times he's declared users did not "act in concert", yet refused three motions to provide a Finding of Fact. Oddly now, the very faction Fred expresses fear of has been created in response to the errors the ArbCom made in handling the case. And this phenomenea is discussed in the Laird Wilcox Report, the basis of the verifiable citations the ArbCom attributed to Nobs as "personal attacks".
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On 1/10/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
I think there is a genuine fear of factions or parties and the host of actions which might follow. This was highlighted by what seemed to be attempts to organize a Catholic faction. Part of the problem is potential escalation. First there is point of view editing, then tag team reverting, alerts to other members of the faction. Then imagine an arbitration case and we, looking at these folks, make some kind of remedy. Then all the usual kicking and screaming and politicing which follows what is perceived as an unfair decision follows. Whether an administrator enforces the remedy becomes an issue of whether there is anti-catholic bias and so on. Arbitrators are googled to see if they ever engaged in Catholic or Protestant activity, etc.
Substitute communist or anti-communist for Catholic and take a look at the Nobs case for a real life example.