Alas, there is always some excuse for why they can't step up. Presented in order of invites issued, which itself shows how quickly he had to start scraping the barrel! Note also, the sheer obsequious nature of the advances. What a little brown noser.
That last line is probably the only truthful part of this decline. Worth noting that he doesn't mind being an Administrator, where he is also necessarily going to have to do that, if he does the job properly. Which he doesn't. No way does this guy not have the time, energy or interest in running otherwise. He is already spending hours on Wikipedia, it would simply be a case of swapping less important work for more important work. It would be about showing that he genuinely deserves to be thought of as "one of their best," rather than this being clearly the sick joke it always has been. Best at being corrupt is all it means, something that would be way more obvious to everybody if he was doing it as an Arb.Hey, good ol' Jim
Are you ready to run for Arbcom in 2019? It's about time for you to do so. I'm sick of sycophants and star chambers... Yeah, it's a shitty job — but somebody needs to do it. More correctly: somebody needs to do it other than the current crowd of WMF-genuflecting knuckleberries... Please give it some thought. —tim /// Carrite (talk) 04:43, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Carrite, my friend Tim, I think that if the goal is to purge "sycophants" and "WMF-genuflecting knuckleberries", then plenty of zealots could cherry-pick diffs portraying me as precisely that type of person, I have both criticized and praised the WMF, and will continue to do so. I have no interest in donning armor and picking up a sword. Plus, I still operate a small business and have a very active family and political life, all of which are challenging. I am a 67 year old guy doing physically challenging construction work about four days a week on average. I get tired. I do not have the time to do the Arbcom job properly in 2020. Plus, I get very emotional when dealing with pernicious and insane behavior in depth. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:15, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
This decline was just so much absolute horseshit, except the most relevant line - I wouldn't get elected. This fucking bitch would run in a heartbeat, if she remotely thought she could win, or even place respectably but lose in an otherwise outstanding field. She wants it precisely because she's not politically or legally minded. She covets the sheer power. She's about using force to achieve her selfish objectives, and fuck anyone else who tries to get in her way. She quite willingly threw away her Adminship simply to unilaterally undo a block of Eric Corbett, in the hopes it started a firestorm to clear away all the obstacles to her goals. Hilarious to think that that act in defence a misogynist, would have succeeded, if she were a man. If Floquenbeam can defy the office to unblock Fram just to provoke a reaction, why shouldn't she get away with doing the same? Have we not been shown by the highest levels of ArbCom, that Eric is considered even more valuable than Fram? ArbCom already has one women just like Yvan at heart on it, Opabina. She has shown the role doesn't call for putting down your shield and hammer, merely the willingness to cloak them in superficially political sounding words. Their legal truth is neither here nor there. Yvan could easily be another Opabina in the Committee. She has achieved more for Eric on the Committee, than his loyal handmaidens outside it ever have.Arbcom
Good daughter of Yngvi... Have you given any thought to committing the supreme foolishness of running for Arbcom? The current shitshow has made it clear that there needs to be a new crew rolling in and an old crew rolling out into well-deserved retirement. Count me as a big YES if you do run. Please give it some thought. best, —tim /// Carrite (talk) 04:39, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Yngvi I can't, for a number of reasons. It requires adminship, and I can't do that again (and might not even get promoted, the way things are now, let's not assume). It requires identifying to the WMF, and I don't trust them with my data. It requires being a political or legal animal, and I am very far from either. And even if I could talk myself into doing some sort of shieldmaid damn-the-torpedoes run, I wouldn't get elected. Thanks for your confidence, misplaced though it is. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:22, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
How typical that Brad doesn't even reply to the underlying tugging at his robes. Brad will be running, make no mistake. He's horrified at the prospect en.wiki governance could be bounced by the WMF into getting serious about harassment, protecting vulnerable users, and ensuring a safe and respectful environment for all. Brad didn't spend years on the Committee ensuring en.wiki is a place where even after a decade, Eric Corbett would still be an editor even now, if he hadn't been so desperate to commit wiki-suicide, to see that all washed away.Grand Master Brad
Did you know that our ancestors evolved over millions of years just to arrive at the historical moment at which you could resume your destiny as Big Daddy of Arbcom? It's all true. You need to run again in 2019 — we're sorely lacking your gravitas. Actually, there also seems to be a lack of other things on the current committee as well, but we'll keep it positive, eh? Please do run again! —tim //// Carrite (talk) 04:48, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
That oblique reference is to the time this dude managed to get himself elected to ArbCom, despite having an undeclared account on the hate site Wikipediocracy, one that had been frequently commenting on matters that have in the past or would have in the future, been a matter for the Committee. No surprise he felt obliged to resign before taking up his seat. Hilarious that Timmy thinks the time is right for Arbcom to embrace someone so devious, although it does show he really only wants a slate of candidates that will manage the website the way Wikipediocracy wants. Scare the women, support the assholes, fight the WMF at every turn, and overall, keep your true motives to the inner circle, while pretending to be something you so clearly aren't. He wasn't an ArbCom candidate, they're not independent Wikipedia critics.Arbcom
Yes, Arbcom is a shitty job that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. Yes, you need to run for it in 2019. I've had it to the gills with sycophants and ding-dongs. Please give it some thought. best, —tim /// Carrite (talk) 04:51, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Just the other day my wife was telling me how glad she was that I didn't spend 2014-2015 on the committee. If that's not a "sign from above" I don't know what is.But thank you both for the vote of confidence. It will certainly be interesting to see who puts their hats in the ring. 28bytes (talk) 11:05, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Pure garbage. He isn't running because he knows nothing has changed in him since the time that saw him get defeated when he ran for a second term. His support for Sandstein reveals him to the be same absolute asshole he always was. Sandstein has had to suffer dog's abuse, a sustained campaign of vicious harassment, all for just doing his job, on behalf of the very Committee he was once a part of. Did he step up and stop it? No. One of the chief protagonists was that psycho Malik Shabbaz, who Drmies to this day still thinks should still be a Wikipedia Administrator, and the fact he is not is somehow not his fault. Drmies has already basically admitted that he only stood for the Committee last time so he could achieve a couple of personal objectives he could not get done as an ordinary Administrator. No surprise then that it was during his term the Committee decided out of the blue to declare Malik was no longer considered a threat, and could ask for his tools back any time he liked, no questions asked. Thank the Lord he at least had the sense to know that would be like giving an arsonist a match, preferring as he did to stay a lowly editor, free to insult and abuse Sandstein. Drmies of course knows how he would have voted in an Eric Corbett case, he is just wise to the fact revealing it now would do him no favours. As always, if a decision or position doesn't need to be stated, he won't, he'll just make jokes. It's the same reason he supposedly supports both Sanderson and Bishonen for ArbCom, a ridiculous proposition, and never going to happen anyway. But it continues his fine tradition of fooling the community into thinking he's something he is not. You just know what he would have done in the Eric case - like there has ever been a time he has not done what Opabina does. He wants in her knickers that badly. The real Drmies is the one who implicitly trusts Black Kite and Iridescent. The former of course is one of the few Administrators to have been admonished by ArbCom and just carried on doing the things that got him admonished (water carrying for Eric Corbett), the latter being the most obvious example of an overt and sustained campaign of insurrection against the WMF by an official of en.wiki governance, that you will ever see. Drmies never warns much less blocks these people for doing the exact same thing he warns and blocks powerless users for. A self-serving hypocrite to his very core, all about what's in it for him. How could someone who flipped pissing around on Wikipedia into lifelong job security, be anything else?Hey, Mies
Hope you've enjoyed your time off, but the hour has arrived for you to run for Arbcom again. So scrape the rust off that crowbar and buy yourself a nice new baseball bat, because the community needs an enforcer. Hope you'll run again, —tim /// Carrite (talk) 04:55, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Ha, User:Carrite, I thought about it--but I really can't. It's too much: too much time, too much email, too much GMail, too much paperwork. I can barely follow the rules and regulations as we have em. I appreciate the thought, though. Are you running? You know, I could support Sandstein, for instance--they're always saying he's too authoritarian, and I disagree frequently enough with him, but on a committee he'd be one solid voice out of a dozen or more, not out of two or three like at AE. I really want Bishonen, Ponyo, zzuuzz, Rosiestep... (I'm not pinging them cause they're all just going to laugh...) Or Black Kite, Iridescent; I trust their judgment. And I'll tell you also, I just don't know how I would have voted in Eric Corbett's case. Ha, I probably would have taken the coward's way out and abstained--though my colleague just said that if you feel strongly about something you shouldn't abstain, because you're basically letting the majority run. Oh, he came in to say the best thing to do is to be fortuitously absent that day... Drmies (talk) 14:15, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Sitush is a shitheel bully and a total gobshite, not remotely entitled to call himself an editor due to his daily failures to meet even the minimal standards of conduct. The very idea he could be elected, is laughable. Says it all that Carrite even did so. Pure trollery. That said, we live in a time when what Queen Bishonen wants, Bishonen gets. She wanted her loyal servant RexxS to be an Administrator so he could join her in the campaign of harassment against Sandstein, and even though she filed a joke nomination and RexxS was literally personally attacking users a day before his RfA, well, fuck me didn't the powers that he find some way to promote him? So if Bishonen wants it, arise Sir Sitush, first non-Administrator to ever hold a seat on ArbCom. Stranger things have happened.Hey, Simon
Why not run for Arbcom? That election is coming up pretty quickly here and while you and I may or may not have a different take on the banning of certain Manchesterians, I've always respected you as a solid content guy with the best interests of the project at heart — and somebody not afraid to throw a punch at the bureaucratic sorts who are slowly strangling English WP. Anyway, give it some thought. I'm sure it would be an uphill fight to win election, and the job itself sucks if you're unlucky enough to win, but running would be a bully pulpit, to steal a line from a dead Republican US President. best regards, —tim /// Carrite (talk) 01:00, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Mancunians. - Sitush (talk) 03:03, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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If this sorry sack of shit is all Timmy can think of to stand at this crucial time, well, start buying shares in HTD Inc. is my official recommendation.
