QUOTE(UseOnceAndDestroy @ Thu 26th February 2009, 3:51am)
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QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Thu 26th February 2009, 7:47am)
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QUOTE(Somey @ Wed 25th February 2009, 11:27pm)
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He does seem like quite a decent fellow
Seemed. Decent people get frustrated too. Here's another case of user burnout, while wikipediots do nothing about the bullying from one of their admins.
This is the consequence of behaviour discussed in
this thread - wikipedia puts its unpaid labourers into a pressure cooker, then shrugs off responsibility when the stress starts to show.
RHMED is one of the resident British malcontents with problems telling the difference between irony and rudeness -- his attempts to be wry never quite worked and he often wound up coming across as sour, sarcastic and mean-spirited. Not being an admin, he was never able to get away with this silly behavior and was, thus, the subject of harassment (as we see today). He also lacked admin clique protection that shields other perennial big mouths -- fellow Brit Malleus Flatulence (or whatever the fuck his name is) does the same shtick but is protected by the admin Iridescent, who also falls into the category of the obnoxious British boors (it must be something in the water over there).
That being said, the RHMED murder looks like a Wiki who's who of tool-possessing assholes. We have Barry Bonds-worthy banhammer swings from the likes of Xeno, Tznkai, Protonk, Aitas, Kevin -- to paraphrase Baha Men, who let the jerks out?
However, barnstars are in order for Wehwalt (perhaps the one admin with a brain, heart and courage) and Eric Barbour (my new hero) for bringing a sense of maturity and sincerity to this mess. And a cheer to Smash the State for his input at WP:AN. (IMG:
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