On 3/14/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
want to be blocked or desysopped. I think this was made pretty clear by the pedophilia userbox thing, where people who reversed what he did were summarily desysopped, and it took a day or two of arguing with him to get him to undo a block that seemed to pretty clearly not have consensus (as I recall the incident).
I seem to recall the situation as mass confusion over whether the actions taken were "official" (err, "office"-ial) or not. But yeah, effectively, people (well, one person) were desysopped for opposing him. Even if they didn't actually mean to oppose him. And then the situation was clarified and the Ewoks danced.
All of which served to reinforce the notion that Jimbo's role is clearly a very special one, and not merely the "voice of the people" idea suggested earlier.
Steve