How Wikipediocracy suppressed study of steward actions
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:17 pm
[edit: the title here could be misleading, while the WPO action may have had that effect, that was not the purpose of my ban there, see ensuing comments.]
Recently it's been claimed (on Wikipediocracy) that (1) I destroyed the Wil Sinclair project, Offwiki, and was community banned there, and (2) when I whined about it on Wikipediocracy, they booted me. Or something like that.
This is, to say the least, counterfactual. My last post on Wikipediocracy was in a thread I had started May 14, 2014, The stewards are in control. This was a factual review, and evidence showed how stewards were suppressing simple documentation of their actions, apparently to protect one of them from being visible for his abuses. One of the stewards responded usefully. My last post there was Jun 15, 2014, and that was my last post on WPO. My account there says "retired." In fact, I was banned. I could no longer log in or see my PMs. There was no warning or notice to the public.
I was still active on OffWiki 24 July, 2014 as can be seen by the archived "community ban discussion."
People told themselves stories, invented interpretations, and as is very human and very common, remember their own interpretations more than what actually happened. They are not lying, necessarily (Vigilant might be), but rather deluded. There are other commentaries from that time, that were, at the time (like that archive), evidenced, and the evidence has mostly disappeared. In my view, allowing a community project to vanish is a betrayal of the community, and it's happened many times, demonstrating how some critics are irresponsible themselves.
Recently it's been claimed (on Wikipediocracy) that (1) I destroyed the Wil Sinclair project, Offwiki, and was community banned there, and (2) when I whined about it on Wikipediocracy, they booted me. Or something like that.
This is, to say the least, counterfactual. My last post on Wikipediocracy was in a thread I had started May 14, 2014, The stewards are in control. This was a factual review, and evidence showed how stewards were suppressing simple documentation of their actions, apparently to protect one of them from being visible for his abuses. One of the stewards responded usefully. My last post there was Jun 15, 2014, and that was my last post on WPO. My account there says "retired." In fact, I was banned. I could no longer log in or see my PMs. There was no warning or notice to the public.
I was still active on OffWiki 24 July, 2014 as can be seen by the archived "community ban discussion."
People told themselves stories, invented interpretations, and as is very human and very common, remember their own interpretations more than what actually happened. They are not lying, necessarily (Vigilant might be), but rather deluded. There are other commentaries from that time, that were, at the time (like that archive), evidenced, and the evidence has mostly disappeared. In my view, allowing a community project to vanish is a betrayal of the community, and it's happened many times, demonstrating how some critics are irresponsible themselves.