Abusive
Sockpuppeteer and known canvasser JoshuaZ
proposes that email checks be made on the accused.
QUOTE(JoshuaZ)
This may be a bad idea but I thought it should be at least put up for consideration: As I understand it, it is now possible to verify which Wikipedia email user functions were recently used with whom. Could the people with that capability (checkuser or maybe just developers?) look at that and see if there is any evidence of using it directly to canvass to these users? JoshuaZ (talk) 04:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Yeah. That is a bad idea.
Why can't they just accept that a bunch of people didn't like a decision this guy made, for whatever reason, and voted oppose. As is apparently their right? Jayjg has been orchestrating these kinds of things all over the site for years, with impunity and under everyone's nose. That is the system you operate in - like it or leave it.
I mean, it isn't anywhere near as bad as those Cool Hand Luke opposes, which came from people being duped by a malicious smear attempt by Ryan Postlethwaite.