QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 14th May 2010, 9:18am)
Mods,
GdB and Abd, and a cast of Moultons, appear to have appropriated this thread to their own chatter, far and away from the the topic of Jimbo's attempt to enforce a global ban on Thekohser, and what it says about the pressing issue of Wikimedia's Central Controll Freekdom.
Could some nice Mod please sort the off-topic stuff to another thread?
Thanks,
Jon (IMG:
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I've been discussing fallout from the "global ban," so has GdB (he was blocked over his attempt to restore the Kohs speaker listing), this is all relevant. Jimbo's actions contrary to consensus would have been confronted much sooner if not for local admins who have supported them, and there was retaliation, for sure, on meta, against GdB. The basic issue is admin abuse, actually, not Jimbo per se, who is simply pushing his own vision for Wikipedia, and who simply had too much unrestrained personal power. He'll be fine when he actually functions as a leader (as well as spokesperson), instead of as God-king, with a Divine Right of Buttons. Those days may be over.
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Fri 14th May 2010, 5:30am)
Note that Herbythyme, who vandalized Greg's entry and user page, is now also harassing Ottava Rima on Commons.
QUOTE(Abd @ Fri 14th May 2010, 1:33am)
You create a self-fulfilling prophecy that nobody will help. (...)
You seem to have the wrong impression that I care about the block or my account over there. I do not.
What makes Guido think that I have that impression? Seems entirely projected to me.
Guido, you confused the issue on meta, though your action there with Koh's speaker listing did call attention to the removal. What was your purpose, though? From what you've been saying here, it was one which could properly be blocked. Whether or not it was wise to actually block is another issue, and certainly it was not wise for Abigor to block you while engaged in an edit war with you, and Abigor also harassed Ottava Rima. Naughty. What's the meta process for reviewing admin abuse?