LittleOliveOil wrote:Wikipedia is not punitive, and yet I'm afraid that this," hold users of advanced permissions accountable for their actions.", as I saw in arbitrations in the last year is a punitive eye-for-an-eye measure. Instead, if arbitrators are meant to arbitrate difficult situations one would think the simplest remedy for the difficulty would be the most desirable. Yet, that is not what happened for example, in the Rexx case where a drawn out case was not the easiest and most humane remedy. Holding users of advanced permissions accountable is not the stated remit of arbitration however, "Arbitration is the last step in the dispute resolution process; it is a last resort, only to be employed when all else has failed or there is very good cause to believe they will not help. Try other steps first, including discussion between disputants and, where appropriate, mediation. The Arbitration Committee only deals with the most serious, entrenched, or persistent disputes and cases of rule-breaking, where all other reasonable means have failed." is. How do you reconcile ignoring the simplest path with "all other reasonable means have failed"
Damn right it's a loaded/leading question.This is kind of a loaded question, in that the way you phrased makes it impossible to answer directly without admitting to wrongdoing. If you'd care to rephrase it in a less leading manner I might be inclined to provide an actual reply.
But it is a question.
Nothing a competent Arbitrator shouldn't be able to answer.
The reason it cannot be answered in a way that makes you look like a heartless prick, is because acceptance of the RexxS Case was indisputably an act of sheer cruelty.
Own it.
It is cruel to have to force people like RexxS, who had understandably become used to being allowed to skirt if not wholly ignore the rules regarding decorum simply because he was a Most Valued Editor, and had been elevated to the post of Admin only after a Crat officially deprecated incivility as a grounds oppose an RfA, to ultimately find out that before a court of wikilaw, absent any other good reason to be corrupt (Bishonen having evidently disavow him, perhaps having deliberately set him up to fail), there really is only the stark reality of the assessment of what the accused did and what the rules say people can't do.
Acceptance is conviction, a sad downside to tolerating lazy workshy Arbs just like Beeblebrox who see no issue in expecting to see the entire case handed to them in /Request phase, rather than a mere indication of a problem.
Own your cruelty. Own your laziness. Explain that the community necessarily gets the pain it has baked into the system for decades, when they elect a man like you to the high table.
Defend ArbCom. Explain the clear and compelling reasons to believe punting this back to the community to resolve, would have seen no resolution. Potentially another Fram.
That's a Beeblebrox I could vote for.
It is an easily made defence, and one should think hard why an incumbent candidate for ArbCom can't or more likely is too afraid to make it.
The facts are clear. RexxS didn't seek Adminship for the right reasons, he wasn't given Adminship for the right reasons, he never displayed Admin levels of decorum either before, during or after he was made an Admin, and at all stages, as they are wont to do, RexxS was insulated from the consequences by the Vested Contributor problem. Specifically aggravated by him having real life friends in low places, such as similarly defrocked Admin Kudpung and super abuser Bishonen.
But I know my Beeblebrox.
He is a coward.
He's the sort of bastard who, instead of owning his record, he plays mind games with women who are clearly upset.
He's the sort of bastard who doesn't appreciate the irony that the reason he can't do as he wished and simply remove her question, is because of how hard he fought for Eric Corbett's right to post an even more loaded question to a candidate in a prior election who we all know Beeblebrox hated and was quite happy to see removed from the election before the community were even given a chance to elect a true hard liner on civility. Such acts are not forgotten, for the role they play in the ascent of folks like RexxS to power.
No matter. ElectCom saved his ass, and collapsed her question as a non-question.
But only after he'd taken multiple opportunities to further fuck with her.
If you like this shit, you vote for Beeblebrox.
You buy it, you own it.
We are the Resistance. We didn't really like RexxS. But we fucking hate Beeblebrox.
Right is right. Wrong is wrong.
Oh, and for the record, while we are not privy to what passed between LittleOliveOil and SlimVirgin, we do know that she also publicly posted about her distress caused by other familiar and long standing issues with Wikipedia in the weeks before her death, such as the turbo douchery of Admins like David Gerard.
It clearly is material. A serious Wikipedia criticism site will not shy away from ensuring a woman's dying concerns are not brushed aside, and assist a coward like Beeblebrox in avoiding his share of the shame.
What Wikipediocracy does, and what Wikipedia does, is all too familiar. A dead Wikipedia editor, is no longer anyone's problem.
We shall not forget her.
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