https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 73302#EEng
Fram wrongly focused on the quirky humour aspect. He vastly under-estimated the appetite there is among the freaks and fuckheads of Wikipedia for this type of utter nonsense, even when it is unambiguously just trolling.
EEng actually needs to be banned for contributions like this.....
As rude and inflammatory as it is, the real question is why was he even making that comment? The incident in question was this one.Oh for fuck sake, you're taking this to ANI? Move on. EEng 20:22, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
EEng had absolutely no involvement, no reason to comment as an involved party. And of course, EEng is not and never will be an Administrator, so his opinion as a neutral observer is worthless when not carrying the weight of policy, or even any kind of justification at all.
He was also, and this is very important, completely and totally in the wrong. A user had cast serious aspersions on another editor, calling them a racist and a bigot. These were completely unjustified personal attacks, not least because the attacker had not accurately recalled a two year old incident he was dredging up. The victim had been completely ignored by his attacker, who alternated between merrily editing other areas and taking uncharacteristically long periods way from Wikipedia. Two Administrators had demanded explanations, they had also been ignored.
The victim had every right to file an AN/I report. Who is seriously going to say otherwise? The only plausible explanation for EEng's angry dismissal of a perfectly valid report, was because the attacker was one of their friends. Both EEng and that attacker, Serial Number 54129, are unsurprisingly very close with Drmies.
It was of course Drmies who closed that report, despite nothing having happened to reassure anyone the attacker had indeed learned anything, not least since they sat the entire thing out, completely off wiki. Drmies gets away with stuff like that, because, well, who is going to stop him? The only users more powerful than him, are even less bothered about being seen as asshole facilitators than he is.
It is widely acknowledged that AN/I is corrupt and so getting any kind of satisfactory result at all against a Vested Contributor is hard at the best of times. Allowing the presence of EEng to interject in his own unique way, needlessly rubs this sense of absolute hopelessness right in the faces of the people on Wikipedia who are genuine victims with legitimate grievances.
Eeng offers no actual value to AN/I except amusing some seriously disturbed people and furthering themes that go entirely against the principles of how governance should actually work on Wikipedia. But they won't ban him. He has too many friends, arguably some weird kind of fandom. You can see why. Drmies surely hates himself. EEng's satirical posts are presumably a nice distraction.
It's ironic that EEng was often a vocal critic of the little weasel Eric Corbett. It if course wasn't a dislike of how that particular nasty little fuck had complete immunity despite making endlessly acerbic and unhelpful comments because he too was protected by scum like Drmies. It was of course rooted in content disagreements between the two.
It should be a rule on Wikipedia. Whenever two Vested Assholes are going at it, the feud should be shunted off to an area that is only visible to their friends and enablers. Let Drmies deal with it. I guarantee that bastard would be off on a wikibreak immediately.
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