QUOTE(Gandoman @ Wed 1st July 2009, 7:34am)
One thing that has been shown first with Kurt, then with DougsTech and now with Peter Damian is that anyone who systematically opposes all RFAs for a reason perceived as "bad" will quickly end up blocked/banned. The punishment for doing this is much harsher than for edit-warring, POV pushing etc. I think the RFA community is very afraid of people doing this as it taps into the very weakness of the RFA model: that it is officially "not a vote", and therefore anyone can support or oppose for any reason they want, while in reality it is clearly a vote. Thus, while bureaucrats might disregard the "bad" oppose votes, they will nonetheless count towards the support percentage and possibly bring the RFA below the magical 70% mark.
No, the one thing this shows is that the people in the RfA sector (which, quite frankly, represents a sliver of the total Wikipedia "community") have absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever.
Poor Kurt and Doug were positively hilarious -- I actually looked forward to whenever they popped out of their garbage cans to do their Oscar the Grouch shtick. I don't know if they were trying to be intentionally funny or if they were just aiming for irony -- or if they really were a pair of cranky kooks. So what? Sometimes a benign kook is needed to tell us that we're taking ourselves too seriously.
And who was furious with them? Hundreds and hundreds of people? No, just a tiny handful of shitheads with nothing better to do with their time and no way to vent their frustrations.
With Peter -- this teapot tempest really shows that the characters at Wikipedia need to turn off their computers and get a real life. This whole situation is a riot -- if Peter was an American equine, he'd win the Eclipse Award as Horse of the Year.