So lets give her an insight into what the nutjob wing of the movement, fully endorsed by Beeblebrox, the exact sort of scum she is undoubtedly going to have to deal with at some point, is really all about, shall we?
Their thread on Framgate is up to 76 pages, and the lesbian power couple conspiracy theory is still their settled analysis. Nothing else fits, in their eyes.
And nor would it. Because in the true tradition of batshit conspiracy theories, they make the facts fit their chosen theory, not the other way around.
Here's sell out Jake, Bored Admin, making it offishul......(but as ever, not so official that they're prepared to put any of it in a blog post, even though if true, it would be the biggest scandal in Foundation history).....
76 fucking pages, and they still aren't prepared to admit that the conflict of interest was fully declared, that nobody was in the dark, that Fram was an exceptional harasser, that the need to find new and powerful ways to clamp down on English Wikipedia's harasmsent problem was long standing and well known, that there were multiple complainants and nobody can even prove the women in question was one of them, and that the ultimate choice to only ban Fram for a year and only from English Wikipedia was actually perfectly understandable and was actually fully explained, and makes perfect sense.Sure, it's possible that we're wrong about the "direct request" issue. But if you really dig down, it becomes increasingly clear that all of this was consistent with a well-documented pattern of behavior that points very strongly in the other direction.
Why do Wikipediocracy continue to choose to ignore these inconvenient facts? Becasue this is hardly the first time I have reminded them of their existence. Because doesn't it make if far easier to sell this bullshit, by claiming, without evidence, and contrary to the facts, that there was no declaration, that people in the investigation genuinely didn't know the risks, and that the are no perfectly plausible alternate explanations for why Fram was chosen for this experiment in taking a hard line on minimal standards?
People did know, and they did it anyway. The tinfoil hat brigade hate this, because it shows the truth. What Fram was doing, and more importantly, what the community and their ArbCom leadership weren't doing about it, was so serious, it justified taking the risks that they could be accused of doing something wrong, something underhand.
There was no other suitable candidate, no other case so prime for action. If there was, they could name them, surely? In terms of scale and harm, not even a scumlord like Guy Chapman matches what Fram was doing, or showed how and why the community was letting him do it, right up to and including multiple free passes from ArbCom.
Fram was extraordinary, perhaps genuinely mentally ill even. He was so dogged and shameless, he was that rare example of an Administrator actually being told to cool it and alter his approach, on occasion. What did he do? Ignored it. Confident as he was that he had the mob behind him, and ArbCom wouldn't do anything about him even if they wanted to, lest it see them voted out en mass, or worse, strung up as traitors.
I mean for fuck's sake, let's have it right. Fram is the ONLY example I'm aware of, of someone seen as such a problem, such a black stain on the already pretty tarnished reputation of "English Wikipedia Administrator", that an ArbCom member actually saw the need to step down from the bench and prosecute them himself.
This is yet another of the many inconvenient facts that simply don't factor into the whack job Wikipediocracy conspiracy theory.
If they had any actual facts of their own which contradict these publicly available facts, they would have come to light somewhere in that thread. I hate to disappoint Vigilant, but his standard READ THE THREAD IF YOU WANT PROOF is not going to work, because I have read the thread, I read it as they were writing it.
There is no proof that Fram is the victim of a conspiracy. Just allegations upon allegations, and Bush did 9/11 type assertions.
In short, it's fucking garbage, from start to finish.
It's so obvious, the inherent lies and misdirection their theory necessarily promotes and propagates.
To take one topical example, it's genuinely still a point of contention in the community as to whether its OK to punch a Nazi. By contrast, before Framgate, and probably still now, it was the settled view that it's OK to insult and denigrate and generally try to bully a user with less power and less voice than you. And you can get away with it if the community thinks your bullying is being done in the name of Wikipedia. The sort of bullying that has never been recognised as such by ArbCom, even though the way Fram went about his business was in explicit violation of settled policy and oft stated ArbCom principles in support of it.
The community didn't care. An open secret, like how the civility pillar still actually exists, on paper.
Wikipedia Administrators aren't cops, and they do not stand alone. They are supposed to hand off issues to the community or their colleagues if they meet resistance to their Orders. It's never supposed to be personal, and it's never supposed to look personal.
If a person gets upset to the point of actually wanting to leave Wikipedia because of how the Administration has treated them, then it has to be unambiguously true and obvious that they weren't mistreated and they are one hundred percent responsible for their own upset. That was never the case with Fram. NEVER.
Even if that genuinely wasn't his intention, there was ample reason why he looked like a psycho creep, utterly obsessed with the idea that if he couldn't get his victim to comply, he would DESTROY them, the ends justifying the means. Threats to Wikipedia shall be nullified, and absolutely nobody could get in his way, even his own colleagues.
It was Judge Dredd stuff, but sadly in this game, there were real people being harmed. Wikipediocracy, as ever, only seems to have sympathy for the poor Wikipedians. Fuck them.
They were all guilty. Fram wasn't doing what he did in my name. I'm not a scumbag.
The scum that calls itself the community, the white western male techbros, absolutely loved him for it. He was their freaking HERO. Even those who disliked him personally, were prepared to stand with him on principle, for what he represented.
The right of the scum to regulate their own behaviour. The swamp must not be drained. It must be kept toxic. Newcomers with a clear eye for what is toxic behaviour, are a threat to their hobby.
Fram needs Wikipedia. He can't get satisfy his deep seated need to be a bully anywhere else, at least not for free, and certainly not anonymously. Cops have badge numbers. You can even shoot cops, in the name of justice. Wikipedia is not justice, as they never tire of reminding people. Why? Because you can't have people like Fram in positions of power, if you're trying to be good people.
The Wikipediocracy crowd, mirroring as they do the demographics and mindset of the community, know deep down that the Foundation didn't do anything wrong, they took a bold and brave move, for the right reasons, and they paid for it. Because the community are in fact worse than they had ever imagined. They are as revolting as we serious critics would have told them they are, had they asked. They literally revolted to stand with Fram and against any idea they and their directly elected leadership had failed to uphold what is a clear and documented minimum standard of behaviour that is supposed to apply across the board, in their shithouse of a project.
The movement you see today, where en.wiki ArbCom member Beeblebrox feels zero shame about hopping across to Commons to harass Fae as part of an obvious personal feud, and Ymblanter feels no shame in having made an obviously improper block to assist him, and he actually LAUGHS at the idea the corporation can hold him to account where the community did not, is what resulted from their revolution.
A woman would never step into this insanity, if she truly knew want she was taking on.
And it pisses Wikipediocracy off, because they knows that that means for them really. It shows who they stand with. Scum. He's right there, next to them, after all. Beeblebrox. He uses the word "we" to refer to Wikipediocracy, because he identifies with them. Scum knows scum.
Fae can be bullied by Beeblebrox because he is "gross". Unworthy of any expectation of the minimum standard of behaviour in wiki land, where people like Beeblebrox have real power. Beeblebrox broke the very rules he is expected to uphold. Fact. Let him deny it, if he DARES. Beeblebrox is on the committee expected to remind people that pursuing personal fueds is wrong, and if you have a grievance, there is only one acceptable way to pursue it.
These are all the hallmarks of a failed governance system that couldn't or wouldn't deal with an obvious problem like Fram. They have what they all fought for in Framgate. Continuity of scummery.
Toxic is as toxic does.
Obvious batshit conspiracy theory is obvious batshit conspiracy theory.
Can they prove otherwise? Can they fuck. And they have absolutely no interest in doing so, they only want to shout and scream and insult and try to unperson the people who have noticed the holes in their story and have reasonable queries. Which is exactly what you would expect, from tinfoil hat wearing nutjobs.
Into the sea with them.
