QUOTE(MBisanz @ Sun 22nd November 2009, 8:41am)
QUOTE(Mathsci @ Sun 22nd November 2009, 8:31am)
Shell Kinney has now declared her candidacy, shortly after being banned with from the EEML case for a week with no prior warning by trainee clerk Manning Bartlett. Slightly later he also gave Jehochman a mild warning by email. Here is the
heated discussion between Shell Kinney and Jehochman.
He also gave a warning to Thatcher a month ago, but the warning had to be toned down considerably and he admitted he had over-reacted.
On the other hand Manning did not warn his other fellow clerk AGK for inflammatory language on the case pages. Instead he wrote a glowing endorsement of AGK for the elections.
Probably worth noting that Manning is user #100, meaning he has been here for nearly all of the shit ever to occur on the wiki. Also worth noting that while I was involved in the EEML case and thus unable to help out with clerking, Manning has a rather commendable job cutting through the usual amounts of crap in these complex cases and has not done so simply by cutting out the small names, but also taking on the big names with almost no backup from the arbs, et. al., so I'm having a hard time criticizing him for bringing order to the wastelands.
Well, ArbCom was not happy about Manning's actions and have removed the ban. See this discussion on
Shell's talk page. I understand that EEML is a particularly troublesome case, but bans like this to respected admins send out the wrong messages about participating in ArbCom cases. Besides, usually Shell and Thatcher make very good and sensible points.
That cannot be said about Jehochman: I would use the word "inconsistent" to describe him. I listened to his interview with Private Musings. His voice is not quite as squeaky as Adam Cuerdon's audio demo on wikivoices. Private Musings on the other hand has the reassuring laid back voice of an English pirate radio DJ ....
Manning Bartlett has also deleted his user page, blanked his talk page, resigned as clerk and sysop ...
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