Adambro blocks JWSchmidt‎ on Wikiversity Options

[Adambro]

Thought I'd do you guys a favour. "Jimbo's lording over Wikiversity again" is getting pretty long and although it is about Wikiversity, it doesn't directly relate to this. Since I'm sure my latest action will come under the scrutiny of the wikipedia review crowd I thought I'd lend you a hand and start a new thread for your comments criticism. I can't guarantee I'll pay it much attention though, sorry.

[Moulton]

Every Sunday, mourning, over WVBD

Ottava spells out the rules of his Bondage and Discipline Fetish...

This is not Wikipedia and Wikipedia policy is not in effect here. I favor the creation of a privacy policy that protects anonymous editors and protects people like Moulton from thugs who hide behind their anonymity. --JWSchmidt 00:11, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay, let me try another approach based on your fixation on the above language. Obviously, you aren't in a power or political position to determine what is fair, what wikiversity is meant to be, and the rest. Instead, you have been shown over the past two years that both you and Moulton are at the mercy of fickle admin who rely on arbitrary decisions. So, instead of claiming what should be, focus on what is. I provided the criteria that -I-, as a fickle admin relying on arbitrary decisions, would need to perform an unblock as a whim. You can say that is unjust or not right all you want, but it is how it is, and you can agree to the terms or not. Ottava Rima (talk) 01:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Precisely so. Ottava admits that he and the other custodians have knowingly and intentionally set up an unjust and corrupt governance regime, so as to learn (by direct experience) how I or JWS will handle such an exceptional situation. And I have responded by adopting the practices taught by Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King — namely civil disobedience. To the best of my knowledge, those are the ethical best practices under the current problematic situation. Moulton 01:46, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

To continue with your logic: in this fascist state, civil disobedience is still disobedience, and disobedience results in excessive blocks and a burnt earth policy. So, you can obey or you can be responsible with us that there are tons of innocent people harmed. Are you immune to the guilt caused by your unwillingness to stop using people's real names? Ottava Rima (talk) 01:51, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

If it pleases you to burn Wikiversity to the ground, rather than evolve to a 21st Century learning community committed to ethical best practices, who am I to deny you the ecstasy of your banhammerama? —Moulton 02:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

So there you have it, kids.

Ottava's objective is to teach Bondage and Discipline, and mine is to teach Civil Disobedience.

Who's winning?

[Subtle Bee]

So there you have it, kids.

Ottava's objective is to teach Bondage and Discipline, and mine is to teach Civil Disobedience.

Who's winning?

I'd love it to be you, and it can't be Ottava, but then there's this...

I have responded by adopting the practices taught by Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King — namely civil disobedience. Moulton 01:46, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

...and I have to call Niwdog on you.

So, to answer your question, nobody's winning.

Don't everybody spit-take all at once.

[Moulton]

So, to answer your question, nobody's winning.

Right, because I took a contest and transformed it into a learning project.

I dunno what the hell Ottava thinks he's learning by running a B&D Fetish shop, but I'm having a ball learning to craft song parodies.