SlimVirgin desysopped Options

[Sceptre]

Arbitration motion included

[gomi]

He hasn't used the block button since August, though. Slim has Jayjg and the rest of the cabal for that, I suppose.

[Son of a Yeti]

He hasn't used the block button since August, though. Slim has Jayjg and the rest of the cabal for that, I suppose.

I do hope Jayjg will be the next one to meet the banhammer.

Did I hear "Impossible"?

In tightly-knitted paranoia-driven cabals everything is possible.

[gomi]

I do hope Jayjg will be the next one to meet the banhammer.

One would hope that was true, but Jayjg is a different kettle of fish. Unlike Slim, FT2, MONGO, and other once-and-future cabal members, Jay has now very successfully barricaded himself in the clocktower of his POV editing. He almost never comments (in any public forum) on wiki-politics and wiki-drama, stays away from most policy disputes, and hasn't run for any wiki-office for years.

Why? He has everything he wants: he's a checkuser, so he can spy on anyone he wishes, he has oversight, so he can remove any edit he deems inconvenient to himself or his posse, he is on the Arbcom mailing list, so he can observe and influence the inner workings of Arbcom.

Most importantly, by dint of sheer tenaciousness, disingenuous argument, and outright threats, Jayjg WP:OWNs his articles with an iron first. Anyone opposing him will be labeled with a series of epithets, beginning with "disruptive" and ending (in the few cases needed) with "anti-Semite". The combination of these things make him very nearly unassailable.

It would seem that Jayjg may be a truly different kind of Wikipidiot that the others, even Slimey: he values being effective at pushing his narrow, partisan POV more highly than being powerful, or at least being seen as powerful. And that makes him the scariest one of all.