JoshuaZ, the sockpuppeteer Options

[thekohser]

I've received some highly incriminating evidence via e-mail that Admin JoshuaZ has been carrying on a sockpuppeting campaign with accounts Gothnic and Miles Naismith.

I do have some suspicions about the e-mail (whether it's true documentation or forgery, but if it were forgery, someone spent dozens of hours piecing it together, so I'll assume it's true). I was advised to post the e-mail verbatim, because the mods here have not opened an account for this person using Gmail.

Anyway, if the news breaks soon, you might be able to say "I heard it here first". As things develop, I'll consider posting the contents of the e-mail.

The long and short of it is that JoshuaZ's "defense" is that those other accounts must be run by a roommate or someone else who follows him around Yale, and who also stops editing when Joshua goes to Puerto Rico for winter break. Of course, no cabalist wants to believe it, but the evidence is just about tight as a drum.

Greg

[Daniel Brandt]

JoshuaZ expressed extreme contempt for me in August 2006, even though the first time he showed up on my radar was in February 2007. When he finally showed up, he disguised his contempt by arguing against deletion on the grounds that I was notable, and months later he blocked me for my off-Wikipedia site. He has sponsored Deletion Reviews against me. All of this was because he hated me, and had little to do with his interest in procedural issues. This hatred should have disqualified him from his use of admin tools against me, and his general harassment of me.

While his edits were disgusting and engendered in me a level of contempt I normally have for Daniel Brandt, I'd rather not indefinitely block him since 1) some users respond very negatively to their first block but later become more productive 2) I don't see a compelling policy justification for a much longer block since his previous incivility has been mild and he received no earlier blocks. If however, another admin wishes to increase the block time, I will not object. JoshuaZ 16:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand why ArbCom hasn't open a case on him yet. Should I email Newyorkbrad?