QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 5th July 2010, 9:55am)
Adambro's intention, near as I can tell, is to systematically deny the rights of his fellow scholars at WV the freedom to peaceably assemble and study the subjects of their choice with the collaborating scholars of their choice.
No, he's simply, now, taking minimal action to enforce what he believes to be a ban, which is a somewhat reasonable belief. He's willing to allow due process to truly find out if there is a ban or not, so he's actually, where it counts, on the right side.
It's a reasonable belief for someone who is living on Cloud Cuckoo Land. It's not a reasonable belief for anyone who is a well-grounded scholar.
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
He's not wheel-warring, and I won't tempt him into it. His range block was excessive, I reversed it, and he backed off. If however, you continue pushing it, I'll point out that I won't wheel-war myself, and you may convince someone else to go ahead and range-block, and I'd be powerless to fix that directly.
I dunno who taught him those obscure technical range blocks. It would have had to be Ottava or one of the two Mikes. No one else would have known the parameters without taking the time to do the research. And we all know that Adam never does any research, full stop.
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
His lesser actions are within his normal rights and responsibilities and discretion.
Baloney. He demonstrating why JWSchmidt was right to question his qualifications.
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
If disruption continues -- which means disregard for due process and community rights (and wiki due process includes wide admin discretion, short-term) -- then I will start to move for more effective and less disruptive means of dealing with it, that might even make the "disruption" useful. Moulton, you are succeeding in convincing most of those who would be your friends that the block should remain.
You know my attitude about the role of blocks and bans in the context of an authentic learning community.
If people there insist on adopting that anachronistic governance model and practice, then they necessarily abdicate any credible claim to being an authentic learning community, full stop. (And doubly so if they don't even have a concept of due process, evidence-based reasoning, etc.)
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 5th July 2010, 9:55am)
In this manner, he is systematically disabling Wikiversity and rendering it dysfunctional and unusable as a collegial and congenial learning community of collaborating scholars.
That's a rather narrow view, Moulton. He's just continuing, to some degree, the status quo, and is being relatively restrained. He is certainly not increasing disability or dysfunction, and by being willing to consider such things as the unblock of Thekohser and perhaps even you -- unless you continue as you have been acting -- he's becoming part of the solution instead of being part of the problem. If you don't see him as an improvement over certain others, well, I can only shake my head in wonder.
The
status quo is that the thugs who invaded WV two years ago morphed it into a post-modern theater of the absurd. I haven't seen a shred of evidence that Javert is anywhere close to having the epiphany that would avert his suicide at the end of the drama.
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 5th July 2010, 9:55am)
I reckon the likely result of this clearly visible policy and practice will be to drive veteran scholars like Geoff Plourde, PrivateMusings, JWSchmidt, and Abd away from Wikiversity and over to alternate venues like
NetKnowledge, where they will not be encumbered and impeded by Adambro's oppressive thumb.
Ah, preposterous! Adambro is not creating new damage, he is taking actions within what is reasonable, given all the preconditions. It is not him who is stopping you from contributing to Wikiversity, it's the adversarial relationship between you and "those on high," which is then transferred to anyone you see as cooperating with them. And you've been told this for something approaching two years, and those who attempted, in the past, to help resolve this situation, frequently ended up with egg on their face.
Like Richard Daley said, "Adambro isn't there to
cause disorder. Adambro is there to
preserve disorder."
QUOTE(Abd @ Mon 5th July 2010, 1:56pm)
Adambro isn't even close to driving me away, I see him as welcoming. As to Netknowledge, great! The more the merrier. Diversity is essential to academic freedom and depth.
Did you just jump aboard Cloud Cuckoo Land, too?