On 2015-01-20 18:21, Sydney Poore wrote:
Frankly, I'm much more concerned about the large
number of community
indefinite blocks done by a single administrator with no training than
these few bans that are investigated and signed off on by a
professional
whose work is being evaluated.
Sydney Poore
The problem is that WMF already produced a lot of damage, and foremost,
damage to their reputation. Russavia at the point he was banned was
still a Commons administrator, and he recently survived a desysop
discussion. This means he really was trusted by active part of the
community (though there was vocal opposition as well). At some point,
WMF will need to get volunteer support for some of its actions, and it
will be extremely difficult to achieve on Commons. And this is just one
of a series of moves they continue to alienate the community with. For
me personally, the last straw was not the ban of Russavia, but the
accident of I guess last year, when a number of users (not me, I was
completely unrelated) were just duly desysopped on WMF internal wiki,
because a staffer decided she can manage everything herself (she turned
out to be wrong), and no apologies were ever offered, quite the
opposite. Community blocks can be (and are sometimes) reversed if
needed, but trust and reputation are extremely difficult to recover. I
am sorry to write this, but this is how I see the situation.
Cheers
Yaroslav