Arbcom goes after Betacommand, Another victory for the Free Kulture crowd Options

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The Arbitrary Committee is now going after Betacommand/Δ for doing NFCC enforcement, and it looks like he'll be sanctioned this time.

I think there's a lesson to be learned here folks: just because people complain about something, it doesn't automatically become bad.

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What does Betacommand want? What does he want to do to help Wikipedia?

Has anyone even asked him this?

Betacommand does strike me as the stereotypical programmer who is very brilliant at making bots and doing technical work, but lousy at communication. I think Kelly Martin or someone here once suggested partnering him with someone who could deal with the complaints and then work with Betacommand one-on-one to adjust his actions. Has anyone even suggested this type of arrangement on-wiki?

I don't necessarily like Betacommand's attitude or how he responds to people, but when I see editors storming a person's talkpage and pushing him to the brink, I feel sympathy for him. Last I checked, he did still have supporters. Perhaps they could partner with him? Maybe give him his bot back, but require his mentors to have control and access to it?

Honestly, besides pissing off image-uploaders and being rude to them, what evil has he done (since no longer being an admin)?

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Honestly, besides pissing off image-uploaders and being rude to them, what evil has he done (since no longer being an admin)?

Let me see now.

He started an alternate account and accidentally used it in a revert war. People decided this was "abusive sockpuppetry".

After being indeffed, he started socking to add orphan tags to articles and other such stuff. This, too, was deemed abusive sockpuppetry.

After getting his ban suspended by the Arbitrary Committee and changing his name to that triangle, he pissed off Rlevse by refusing to put "I used to be Betacommand" on his userpage.

Or, in other words, I can't think of anything.

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