QUOTE(SirFozzie @ Wed 28th May 2008, 7:30pm)
From what FT2 said, looks like MM screwed up once and made an edit from a MM IP with the Bassetcat account instead of the dial in and that was enough to trip him up
I find this the most sublime of all ironies: in the end, it was the ridiculously ineffective ArbCom decision (to allow Mantanmoreland to edit non-NSS articles) that was, in the end, his undoing.
Otherwise, there would have been no point of reference for associating MM and Bassettcat.
Another effect of the earlier ArbCom decision was -- just as they'd intended -- that it was very difficult to sell this as a story to any worthwhile media outlet, given nothing really happened.
And so, I didn't even bother.
Believe me when I say that's not how things are going to be tomorrow.
At this point, it's an embarrassment of riches: either the guy is site-banned or he's not. Site-banning this shyster journalist will be a huge story. But, given FT2's findings,
not site-banning might make for an even
bigger story.
I'm a little torn... (IMG:
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