On 02/05/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Time out. If an uninvolved admin, who doesn't even KNOW about the cliques, feels that there were blocks warranted, maybe just maybe there's fire under all the smoke. Naconkantari's flameout seems to have mistargeted and caused some secondary problems. But ... maybe we DO need to block everyone legitimately involved for 24 hrs next time. Everyone outside all the cliques is treating clique insiders as too hot to handle. That's really bad. Everyone can make mistakes. If I go off on a tear and rampage around insulting people for a bit, and a random admin whacks me with a pay-attention block, I don't want friends from here or unblock-en-L unblocking me just because they know me.
I've emailed the arbcom pointing out precisely this, and that they in fact made the mess by completely fumbling it late last year: they expressly gave one editor a free pass for vicious personal attacks and expressly marked another editor as fair game henceforth. Ignoring it hasn't made it go away.
- d.