Bishonen indef-blocks FT2, Holy crap, he hasn't been desysopped by Jimbo Options

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[Moulton]

What we have here is a failure to excommunicate.

FT2 has placed himself in an interesting position on the Carrollian Chess Board.

Has he resigned outright? Evidently not.

Has he merely recused himself from handling ArbCom business while there is a cloud looming over his head? Evidently not.

Rather he is "standing down" (whatever that means). Perhaps it's the opposite of "sitting up" or "not taking it lying down" or something not unlike that.

As I see it, he's in that strange twilight zone otherwise known as Limbo.

There is a classic passage in subtle dramas where the protagonist stands mute, not dumbfounded, but intentionally unresponsive to the insistent inquiries of the Spammish Inquisition.

In Zen Koans, the response would be "Mu" — a word that literally means "No Thing" but carries far more subtle connotations. Technically, it means that a question cannot be answered in a simple Yes/No manner because the question embraces a counterfactual, predicated on a lamentable misconception. But the misconception cannot be rectified, for reasons too complicated (or too sensitive) to explain in mere words.

[Peter Damian]

What we have here is a failure to excommunicate.

FT2 has placed himself in an interesting position on the Carrollian Chess Board.

Has he resigned outright? Evidently not.

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No he has resigned. Read his reply to the request for clarification on Jimbo's page.