SlimVirgin, you seem to have missed this question.
Look, it's obvious. Jay did something - rightly or wrongly - and many people are unhappy about how he went about it. Presumably, if CharlotteWebb was first asked to explain when they first used an open proxy to edit, as you claim, if no response was given the account would have been blocked for using open proxies, and the matter sent to ANI, which it wasn't.
All you're doing is defending Jay to the core without even accepting what he did could be even *seen* as being highly inappropriate, and it does raise questions (as it has in the past). Without insinuating anything further, I think you might want to step back just ever-so-slightly and re-look the case over.
On the matter itself I think that the concerns that this was aimed at sinking the RFA are founded. However, I think it would be a fair assumption of good faith to say that Jay probably wasn't thinking of sinking the RFA when he posted that question. However, the question could certainly have been asked by email, instead of throwing the dirty laundry out into public. It probably wouldn't be enough, but a simple "I shouldn't have done that" (use the RFA to ask it) from Jay would probably satisfy most people that he made an error in judgement.
Just my two cents.
On 17/06/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/06/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
She probably didn't reply because she (understandably) saw it as an attack, not a question, it being the first she'd heard about it (AIUI).
Well, no. The first s/he heard about it was when s/he first used an open proxy to edit.
Evidence?
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