The Inverse Consensus GambitYesterday, Erkan Yilmaz suddenly turned in his 'bits' and went dark on WV and on IRC.
Today, SB_Johnny suddenly blanked his user page and replaced it with note that he was "On break until further notice."
Meantime, in IRC, we have the following hypotheses on the table:
H0: Benign AGF (Assume Good Faith) that nothing sinister, nothing unusual, nothing extraordinary has happened.
H1: Speculative (and as yet unproven) hypothesis that "an unknown number of (unidentified) admins requested that Jimbo be the one to make the block" on the (reliable) theory that there would then not be a consensus to overturn the block, even if the consensus were that it was improper for Jimbo to have been asked to make the block on their behalf (and improper for him to have acceded to doing so).
H
1 is a falsifiable and testable hypothesis, so I have (elsewhere) proposed a simple experiment to test it. Those here who are a systems scientist, can figure out the experimental test without much difficulty.
There are other hypotheses (H
2, H
3, etc) which we need not clutter this post with at this time.
On edit... Yet another WV Custodian, Emesee, has also resigned his bits. This comes after
blocking Centaur of Attention (Odd nature) for an unspecified reason.
This post has been edited by Moulton: