QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Wed 25th March 2009, 10:12am)
QUOTE(Shalom @ Wed 25th March 2009, 12:13am)
To Bottled_Spider: I did pick apart Iridescent's lies in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Shalom Yechiel (now blanked, but you can read the page history).
I can? That's very nice of you, Shals, but no thanks. Page histories just aren't my "bag", if you catch my drift.
Oh come on, you lazy loser. Here's the link on a silver platter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=226396978QUOTE
I wrote as concisely as possible. The problem in such situations is that making a false statement may take only one sentence, but refuting the falsehood may require a whole paragraph or more.
You've got to watch out for those false statements, Shal. I sense that you took your failed RfA very badly indeed. You see it as a knife in your guts, and you think everyone hates you and laughs at you behind your back. Just let it go, Shal!
I took my failed RFA very badly indeed because it was not merely a rejection of my request for special access, but a rejection of the very premise on which I was working on Wikipedia. I was working for the readership, to be sure, but I was also working for the community to help other people do their volunteering, and many of those people, by supporting false statements about me and explicitly suspecting that I was up to no good, showed me that they wanted me to leave. So I left. I have no regrets about reacting angrily to the false statements. My only regret is that I didn't do it more effectively. If I knew how to handle such situations I could possibly have gotten Iridescent blocked or at least censured for blatant false statements, which are the worst kind of incivility. Not having been familiar with conflict situations because I edited quiet topics, I didn't know how to game the system to screw her over, but she richly deserved it.
I do not take kindly to being called "Shal". "Shalom" is my full name on this forum.