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

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[SirFozzie]

my bad. (blame my work schedule for it, I'll post more on teh fun times I'm going through in the Lounge in a minute)

[Cla68]

FT2 has posted a letter of resignation on Jimbo's talk page:

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[Somey]

FT2 has posted a letter of conditional resignation on Jimbo's talk page:

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Yikes - I have to say, I wasn't expecting that. (Though the line about the "fair hearing with appropriate gravitas" is priceless!)

And he managed to do it in only 2,600 words, too...

[dogbiscuit]

FT2 has posted a letter of conditional resignation on Jimbo's talk page:

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Yikes - I have to say, I wasn't expecting that. (Though the line about the "fair hearing with appropriate gravitas" is priceless!)

And he managed to do it in only 2,600 words, too...

I got bored, but I think his little rant showed his fundamental lack of self-awareness which has always been at the bottom of his disputes.

I found the PoetLister section a classic - how he solved it all himself alone (is he therefore admitting that he was the one who hacked the private emails?) how this vital issue of international importance required him interfering with PL's employers at the highest level.

More generally all the good things we can never understand he did so perfectly because it is all private, so we just have to take his word for it. We have lost Wikipedia's most valuable asset, obviously.

[Kato]

I found the PoetLister section a classic - how he solved it all himself alone (is he therefore admitting that he was the one who hacked the private emails?) how this vital issue of international importance required him interfering with PL's employers at the highest level.

FT2 writes:

I handled personally and alone, the cross-wiki inquiry into Poetlister/Cato. This involved a team of arbs, crats, and cross-wiki stewards, the historically prickly "political" relationships between the enwiki and wikiquote communities or users within them, WMF (Jimbo, Cary), three top level directors within the UK civil service, and the user himself. The risk here was of "rogue checkuser", the creation of a media storm harmful to the project, and immense loss of trust related to private data handling. It was complicated by a lack of formal proof of rogue-ness, and communal mis-belief these socks were genuine people. The matter was handled in a way that caused less drama than most desysoppings. It took a large part of 3 - 4 months of my year to do so, and was highly commended by seasoned Wikimedians.

Despite being by far the most sensitive and complex sock-puppetry matter in the entire history of all WMF projects combined, and with inter-project and real-life "political" concerns, it still concluded with barely a ripple in any WMF sense, and with all matters under good control from a WMF and enwiki perspective.

So who hacked Poetguy's private email - read all the posts to discover the sockpuppetry - and did the nasty? That question has never been answered.

What was FT2's involvement in that? If any?

And besides, by the time Poetguy imploded all over this board last Spring, Somey was just about the last person left who was still convinced Poetguy wasn't a fraud of some sort. FT2 was somewhere behind Inspector Clouseau and Helen Keller in making the necessary connections.

Anyway, I'm glad FT2 has resigned. I've been calling for leading disgraced Wikipedians to do the honourable thing and resign when it gets too much for a long while. But they hardly ever do. At least FT2 had the good sense now. Last month, when FT2 was engaged in some sordid drama or other here, I requested that he get off the pot asap. He should have done it then, as his extra month has done him no favors.

FT2, word of advice; I hope you will lay down the tools from the websites you have used them, and get on with your mainstream life, as well.

It's time for you to move on from Wikipedia because you are drowning. And the only way is down for you.

Wikipedia has become too important for someone who goes about like you to hold positions of power over other people. And the whirlpools surrounding your every move are getting faster and faster.

You need to recognize this and cut your losses before you find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into grimy tarpits like this.