[WikiEN-l] Badsites meets RFA meets... RfC

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 3 Jun 2007 at 19:08:00 +0100, Guy Chapman aka JzG 
<guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Cla68
> 
> Cla68 would like to open a debate on Wiki about this, seems eminently
> sensible, please feel free to pitch in.

I found it of interest, in the incident from December that this RfC 
centers on, that Mantanmoreland was insisting that Cla68 be blocked 
for making a mistaken accusation of sockpuppetry with regard to him 
and another user (based on a misunderstanding of another message 
thread), while Mantanmoreland himself is profligous with accusations 
of sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry, and trolling with regard to people who 
end up at odds with him in a dispute (he did some of that at the very 
same time he was regarding it as an inexcusable offense to make that 
sort of accusation at *him*).  He gets so much mileage out of the 
fact that he was at one point trolled by "WordBomb" (an apparent 
single-purpose trolling account that was banned after a very short 
"career") that, if it were a frequent-flyer program, he'd have 
several free trips already -- people who criticize him are likely to 
end up on the receiving end of his accusations that they're a 
"sock/meatpuppet of a banned user".

So I ask... is there a double standard on Wikipedia, where there's an 
"untouchable" caste that gets to hurl accusations freely, but can 
suppress anybody who does the same back at *them*?


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