He's going for it, probably launching tomorrow or Thursday.
I'm wondering if Fram hasn't been lulled into a false sense of security. For the last three months, he has been surrounded by people who mostly basically want to suck his dick or have his babies. Very few people who were quite openly critical of Fram before his ban have actually put their heads above the parapet in either the laughably misnamed 'community response' or the ArbCom review. No surprise, given both venues were quickly dominated by vicious people, with equally vicious friends at Wikipediocracy, who have made it clear there really is only one acceptable view, that Fram is innocent, or at the very least, he is guilty only of misdemeanors. Those pre-ban critics certainly weren't bitching about misdemeanors.
Now the whole distraction of Foundation interference is out of the way, and now we're back on familiar territory for the locals, those people who spoke up before the ban, given they can't have seen anything in Fram's performance that suggests he has changed, and won't be fooled by his second draft, will now speak up, given there is a real reason to do so. Skin in the game.
It's gonna be fun, as he and all his defenders watch as this whole host of names arrives to say the
wrong thing, people they never once saw pipe up in three months. Fram's coaching team are all already assuming those people won't have followed the three months of drama, but they would have. They're stake-holders, only temporarily silent partners in Fram's journey.
He may not even have any idea why some people don't like him and have seemingly come out of the blue to say it in his RfA. But we're dealing with Wikipedia reality here. The guy who said this......
Case should be accepted but only to consider Fram's behaviour under WP:ADMINACCT which we can't deal with at ANi.
.....eighteen months ago, has had seventeen months to mature his sock, having been indeffed for a
never coming back from that type offence. He may even vote multiple times, crossing the bridge to sockland rather relaxes your wiki morals, and he knows he won't be caught. Stab stab stab.
There's been a three month window when there hasn't really been much point for Fram's critics to speak out, as odd as that sounds given the matters at hand. But there really wasn't, it was only ever going to be comments from the sidelines. Floquenbeam totally acted unilaterally, the timeline alone exposing his denials as a sham. ArbCom certainly weren't writing their letter on behalf of the community, as they later realised. Commenting on the case as a critic? Pointless. A couple did speak during this window, and got absolutely battered!
But now, although many people still think this is going to be about expressing their rage against ArbCom or the Foundation, it is also now the time those critics can make themselves known again, their long held view being exclusively about the matter at hand. And no matter the risks, it's going to be worth it.
The beauty about RfA is, you can quite easily phone it in if you really are scared of retaliation, blend into the crowd. Takes no effort to simply oppose Fram because you have concerns about his judgement that his nom and answers don't reassure you over. Way easier than getting into the kind of detail the critics had to do in previous efforts to be heard, for their view to be factored into the consensus, to effect a definite outcome. You can do that in ban proposals too, but as Fram's critics know only too well, that chance was only ever a pipe dream.
Fram hasn't been through an RfA for twelve whole years, and it was a very different experience back then.
He certainly seems not to appreciate the critical differences between an ad hoc expression of rage where he was a distant and arguably tangential actor (community response), a relatively closed shop where he was intimately involved (Case), and a structured community slugfest where he'll have to be extremely careful in how he engages (RfA).....
I feel that I just had 3 months of editor/admin review already, where all my actions, attitudes, opinions, ... were discussed to death.
I don't think he truly knows the risks. He's such a highly strung person and is so vested in this process, that between this problem and the avalanche of questions, I think he could quite easily properly lose it in the first twenty four to forty eight hours.
Ah well, if he did know the risks, he might be able to say he had good judgement.
