I spoke too soon. Obviously the secrecy was because of the ongoing sock-puppetry investigation.....
14:10, 2 September 2019 Mkdw talk contribs blocked Eric Corbett talk contribs with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) ({{ArbComBlock}}. May appeal only to
arbcom-en@wikimedia.org)
Arbitration motion regarding Eric Corbett
The Arbitration Committee has been made aware of and has independently confirmed that Eric Corbett (talk · contribs), since his public retirement, has been abusively misusing multiple accounts and disruptively editing while logged out. Eric Corbett's accounts are hereby indefinitely blocked by the Arbitration Committee. Accordingly, the case request involving Eric Corbett, which has been accepted by majority vote, will be closed.
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I would have totally cleared up in the
what cowardly way will Eric find to leave Wikipedia given his martyrdom seems out of reach sweepstakes.
The Wikipedians are of course, FREAKING OUT.
How
dare the Arbitration committee do this thing that they do a hundred times a day to other users! Don't they know, Eric is special?
Special fucking needs. He's socked before, and got a free pass. No second chances.
Who are these idiots, who genuinely didn't know this is exactly what Eric was probably doing, even while demanding his Arb Case request be declined. Loyalty to Eric earns you nothing except embarrassment as he rubs his bare ass in your race, this much has been proven many times in previous incidents.
The people who long ago switched teams, they're the smart ones. Always go with Drmies, he is an expert in knowing when to betray a Wiki-friend who has lost all chance of remaining a Vested Contributor. If you're too dumb to do that, you can surely figure out that when Ritchie333 stops defending an asshole, you should probably too.
No doubt this block is watertight, lest anyone think he has been set up. It is obviously him behind the aptly named
Abuwtiyuw 666 account, the only one being publicly linked. It's gnoming profile matches what he did during his last grand sulk. It is clearly an attempt to edit without being discovered, but if he was, claim he was doing nothing wrong (except, or course, sock-puppetry, which for the mighty Eric, is of course not a crime).
Eric could have been running countless socks, for a long time. That account editted
London Beer Flood, and there are lots of suspicious accounts just randomly helping the resident assholes, Eric's gang of friends, who unusually don't seem to mind the help.
I wouldn't even put it past Eric to have self-reported, he probably found it that easy to edit as a sock, with all his scummy mates knowing who he was even if everyone else does not, he probably thought there's no point going through the farce of an ArbCom case just to inevitably be banned, where the true scale of those few people who have been bending over backwards for him, would have been revealed, potentially harming their ability to help him in his new life, as a proper outlaw editor.
Black Kite isn't surprised Eric has been socking, and I am not surprised he is not surprised - Black Kite having form for helping out such outlaws, right under the nose of ArbCom.