He is fully active and abusive as ever.
Two days ago User:YonkerTonk
proposed at AN/I that EEng should be referred to Arbitration. As anyone can see, the drama surrounding EEng is reaching Eric Corbett/Giano levels of farce. It will end up at Arbitration eventually. I mean fuck me, the guy has been unblocked by Bishonen three times! Obvious problem child is obvious.
His fan boys are not even pretending to cite policy in his defence. The solid policy based arguments of the few who dare to stand up to the mob and support sanctions, are being completely ignored or worse, trolled with impunity by EEng. Snow Rise and a few othes are trying to argue they're not really fan boys and they are concerned about EEng's bad qualities, they just don't think this particular proposal is waranted. Whatever.
These wannabe Ghandis think the regular folk are morons. They think people don't remember these exact same tactics were seen in defence of Eric/Giano. If they were serious, they would be coming up with their own proposals. Or at the very least they would feel a deep shame when what EEng is doing in that very thread is directly contradicting their thoughts and prayers. Nope.
Instead all they offer is this ludicrous idea EEng is capable of changing all by himself, he just needs to be asked nicely. Fuck off with that bullshit. He's a child. He's had years to learn what is acceptable. All he has learned is what Eric and Giano learned. Don't give in, lean into being a cunt, and the weak minded scum for whom policy is only ever an inconvenience, will rally to your banner forever.
Obviously the prospect of EEng having to defend himself with evidence terrifies the crap out of the scum and their Admin enablers. They can ill-afford another glaring example that Wikipedia isn't remotely capable of governing itself to a minimally acceptable standard. A few more of these and someone in San Francisco is definitely going to be looking back at FRAMGATE and realising they got played.
But as ever, it's only Bbb23 who has the deep seated instinct for corruption to do what is truly necessary to protect the cult.
He
removed the proposal, not even bothering to say why, and blocked YonkerDonk.
No discussion, no warnings, no explanations beyond the usual vague wave to NOTHERE.
As he has done for years, Bbb23 probably assumed that would be the end of it. Whether YonkerDonk is up to no good or completely innocent, the sheer aggression and total lack of respect for the blocked user's rights to know why they were blocked and how they might be unblocked, would be enough to make people just go away. Usually they do. Nobody gives a fuck. After all, it's not like they keep a tally, is it?
Bbb23 hadn't counted on YonkerDonk being from another project, and possibly even a pretty powerful user at that. YonkerDonk has laid into Bbb23 something rotten, calling out the obvious issues with his bullshit block, while having the good sense not to do anything that would get his talk page access revoked.
It's obviously got Bbb23 rattled. He's been not so subtly trying to
persuade CheckUsers to fish. He's been
pleading with other Administrators to let him SHUT IT DOWN. It's all very pathetic.
Bbb23 doesn't have a leg to stand on, and is now panicking that he might actually be overruled. The block is a classic Bbb23 judgement block, eminently appealable, because he consistently displays poor judgement. He hastily formed an opinion and acted unilaterally despite there being no rush and plenty of alternatives to blocking. At no point does the target or colleague's opinions or even the block policy come into it. He sees his Admin badge as a license to do whatever the fuck he wants, and for the most part he gets away with it.
It takes YonkerDonk levels of scrutiny to box him in and make him sweat.
The part where he asks what "movement" means having already blocked a user whose defence relies on experienced gained outside of Wikipedia, is fucking hilarious. That needs to be shown in every Wikimedia office and posted on every other project. Especially the fools who negotiated the resolution to FRAMGATE.
Wikipedia's ArbCom lied to the Foundation when they promised there would never be a repeat of popular but abusive users being given free reign to ignore what are movement wide minimum standards just because The warped culture of Wikipedia enables it.
The most interesting part is that there are signs a Newyorkbrad is finally gathering up the courage to propose shit-canning Bbb23 once and for all. Correcting the ridiculous error of the guy apparently losing the trust of being a CheckUser, but still somehow seen as capable of being an Administrator. Quite unbelievable.
I noted with interest that he directly
chided Bbb23 recently, and in this case, shut down hard Bbb23's suggestion that YonkerDonk be locked out. Brad might be finally seeing what everyone else sees. He might be finally viewing what Bbb23 does through the lens of policy and the victims, rather than what is convenient for Bbb23 and popular with the masses.
Then again, it might be nothing. It is Brad after all.
In short, Bbb23 is still Bbb23. He is far too invested in Wikipedia to go anywhere.