Durova Resigns, The correct answer Options

[WhispersOfWisdom]

Durova Resigns on 11-26-07

[Somey]

I'm not the least bit surprised that she resigned, personally, and I doubt that it was arranged... The simple fact of it is, she didn't have to resign at all - all she had to do was promise to stop portraying herself as some sort of "sock-hunting super-sleuth," given that she obviously wasn't good at it, and go back to doing regular admin duties - in which case, the whole thing would have eventually died down and relatively few people would have complained. Nobody forced her to ask Cary Bass to desysop her, and it's doubtful that the ArbCom would have done it either. And it's not as though her being a regular editor means they're going to kick her off the sooperseekrit mailing list.

If you ask me, Durova is probably some sort of depressive personality with a major chip on her shoulder. She's a perfectionist, and not the good kind of perfectionist who actually strives for perfection, but the bad kind who freaks out when perfection can't be achieved - and who then starts blaming others when things go wrong, and ultimately gives up completely at the first instance of an unfixable "stain" on her "perfect record."

I doubt she'll stand for another RfA, we eventually may not even see all that much of her again, period. She'll stick around to defend herself (again, by blaming others), but once that gets tiresome, the place will have lost all interest for her. Regular admin duties like reverting vandals and cleaning up articles just aren't enough for sock-hunting super-sleuths, I'm afraid.

[Jonny Cache]

I'm not the least bit surprised that she resigned, personally, and I doubt that it was arranged... The simple fact of it is, she didn't have to resign at all — all she had to do was promise to stop portraying herself as some sort of "sock-hunting super-sleuth", given that she obviously wasn't good at it, and go back to doing regular admin duties — in which case, the whole thing would have eventually died down and relatively few people would have complained. Nobody forced her to ask Cary Bass to desysop her, and it's doubtful that the ArbCom would have done it either. And it's not as though her being a regular editor means they're going to kick her off the sooperseekrit mailing list.

If you ask me, Durova is probably some sort of depressive personality with a major chip on her shoulder. She's a perfectionist, and not the good kind of perfectionist who actually strives for perfection, but the bad kind who freaks out when perfection can't be achieved — and who then starts blaming others when things go wrong, and ultimately gives up completely at the first instance of an unfixable "stain" on her "perfect record".

I doubt she'll stand for another RfA, we eventually may not even see all that much of her again, period. She'll stick around to defend herself (again, by blaming others), but once that gets tiresome, the place will have lost all interest for her. Regular admin duties like reverting vandals and cleaning up articles just aren't enough for sock-hunting super-sleuths, I'm afraid.

I haven't been able to follow all of the posts on this and the 5 or 6 other threads devoted to the Durova Debacle, but just from my sample it seems that everyone has missed the more likely possibility that Durova got disciplined not for going ban-anas on Bamm-Bamm — I mean, really, where's the novelty in yet another ban-button mainliner going Koo-Koo 4 Koko-Puffs over dey ??? — but because she outed the existence of SlimVirgin's enemas list.

Jonny

[Piperdown]

I haven't been able to follow all of the posts on this and the 5 or 6 other threads devoted to the Durova Debacle, but just from my sample it seems that everyone has missed the more likely possibility that Durova got disciplined not for going ban-anas on Bamm-Bamm — I mean, really, where's the novelty in yet another ban-button mainliner going Koo-Koo 4 Koko-Puffs over dey ??? — but because she outed the existence of SlimVirgin's enemas list.

Jonny

Yup.

Durova = Scooter Libbey
Jajyg = Karl Rove
SlimVirgin = Rumsfeld
Jimbo = Bush

or for the older Chevrolet set:

Durvoa = G. Gordon Liddy
Jimbo = Nixon
etc...Brandt could do a better list here.