Vote for Opabina, if you want more of this shit......
......I didn't think the [Eric Corbett] case request that prompted all of this was well-posed or should have been accepted. I probably would've supported another effort to, if not exactly "clean" start, try to return to content work under a less attention-grabbing name. (Though given the history, I don't think a negotiated restart would have worked out.).......Opabinia regalis (talk) 06:56, 3 September 2019
What is she even proposing here? Not accepting a case because an attempt to give Eric a different account, which she doesn't even think would have worked, was a better way forward?
Vote for Opabina if you like your Arbitrators to be so comfortable with reimagining actual Wikipedia history they will present Eric thusly......
.....A long-standing volunteer who has made a lot of high-quality contributions to the project, and established a network of positive relationships with other long-standing volunteers, but also caused a lot of friction and frustration, has left under unpleasant circumstances...... Opabinia regalis (talk) 06:56, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
....like he was just some unfortunate case of digital hayvever.
You know it is at best romanticisim, at worst an outright deception. If you disagree, congratulations, you're the toxic fuck who is the real problem.
Eric was pure poison. His friends, rather his enablersrs, are some pretty sick people. Inexcusably evil. Calculated in their lies. Obvious in their tactics. Protect that shitheel
at all costs, and fuck anyone who thought differently. Give no quarter, accept no liability, take no prisoners. Whatever it takes to clear any and all obstacles in the path of the One True Editor.
It was her job these past four years to stop that sort of unapologetic civil war by proposing workable solutions, up to and including showing a productive but disruptive contributor the door, for the greater good, not further enable it. It's no accident that in this period, his offending continued, people just gave up on reporting it, until the latest round of entirely foreseeable chaos. No surprise this period was recently repackaged by RexxS, the Administrator with a record level of community mistrust, wanting to sell that as success. Evil. Blatant.
There was one workable solution left. Extreme mentoring, erect a firewall between Eric and the wider community, and make the Arbitrators solely responsible for his behavior toward anyone allowed within his sphere of operations. Let them alone face the consequences for either enforcing, or choosing not to enforce, the basic standards of behavior required of anyone else. Hide it behind a screen, perpetuating the myth to the public that there are no sacred cows, everyone is equal, really.
She naturally didn't want to do that, nor would she have banned him. She wanted to release him back into the community, might even still find a way to do so behind the scenes, like it hasn't already been proven with his failed room-mate experiment, that the problem wasn't his name, it was
him. The evil little bastard he calls a soul, and the evil scum who just love a bad boy. Including quite a few prominent Wikipedia women like Opabina, because, well, bad boys rule!
You vote for her again, she'll just do it again. If not Eric, then for some other absolute fucking pyscho who would tear your face off and eat it as soon as look at you, then file a claim against you for indigestion.
You get the Committee you deserve, it shapes the community you ask for. Leadership. And boy, do you stupid bastards deserve all the self-inflicted pain you have suffered this last decade. You genuinely could have all been building an encyclopedia instead of being Eric Corbett's punching bags and protectors all these years, it's not like his personal contributions, what he edited and who he helped edit, really adds up to much, is it? In the grand scheme.
I mean, I could lay out the facts and figures for you, to counter the ever present anecdotal heart warming tear jerking stories from people who never got on his bad side, and think crying about broken bones is for SJW pussies, but I don't want any suicides on my conscience, once the reality is laid bare. You already know it wasn't worth it, deep down. You know defending him wasn't even worth the principle, since all you did was persuade the Foundation that you really really can't be trusted.
Y'all be safe now. I have a sense you're not done killing each other yet. So, usual rules apply. Last man standing wins! The Crown is a little dented, I had to wrestle it off a vomit stained tramp outside a Manchester bar who was screaming about Jimmy and American child Admins and some bullshit. But I just kicked him in the nuts and he went down to like a sack of shit.
HTD.