Let's talk about "blackmail" for a second, since it is mentioned in that ANI thread. Here is the "blackmail threat" posted on Fæ's Commons talk page during their RfA:
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If the pictures are not of you...
Then sending them (there are always copies) to your civil partner should be no big deal. Yes/no? 98SA447 (talk) 07:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't know who this was (it wasn't me). Note that there is no mention of the RfA (which was sinking like a concrete warship by this point anyway). Note also that it is not even in the traditional form of
unless you do x, I will do y. There isn't even any implied action that Fæ might take to avoid this. A threat, certainly, but is it blackmail or simply trolling?