Connolley's time of the month (again) Options

[thegoodlocust]

So after both of us were banned from the CC proposed decision page, I for pointing out that WMC was simply stirring shit for shit's sake and WMC for calling me insane, WMC seems to have gone on yet another one of his temper tantrums:

After running around to various talk pages making an ass out of himself he ended up calling Sandstein insane after a dispute where Connolley sees no problem with him edit warring to delete his own comments in a conversation on Sandstein's talk page - Sandstein's position is that he should strike out his comments, but not remove them.

Will Lankiveil block him as promised for making yet another PA? (probably not since several admins have made similar "threats" in the past and not followed through - not that anyone would notice though since he tends to delete such warnings on his talk page)

In any case:

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Also, I was going to mention that he now appears to be socking, something he's done in the past when he's gotten ticked off, but I'm really not sure what to make of this. This IP seems to be trolling around a bit, and it belongs to Connolley's "old' employer the BAS, but if you look at the history of the IP then it looks like it has been used by Polargeo (before and after).

The most obvious conclusion is that Polargeo and Connolley worked at the same place (at the same time?), which is probably nothing more than an interesting factoid.

[Abd]

So after both of us were banned from the CC proposed decision page, I for pointing out that WMC was simply stirring shit for shit's sake and WMC for calling me insane, WMC seems to have gone on yet another one of his temper tantrums:

After running around to various talk pages making an ass out of himself he ended up calling Sandstein insane after a dispute where Connolley sees no problem with him edit warring to delete his own comments in a conversation on Sandstein's talk page - Sandstein's position is that he should strike out his comments, but not remove them. [... etc.]

I've been fascinated to see how someone like WMC could behave in ways that would get a lesser mortal blocked in a flash, yet ArbComm piddles around trying to figure out what to do.

It's not that I'm big on blocking and banning, but .... if you are going to do it, how about blocking and banning the most disruptive, uncivil, disruptive of all the trolls? His behavior, as documented in RfAr/Abd-William M. Connolley, was utterly outrageous, and it continued, only without admin tools.

I certainly got no gratitude for having reduced his clout that much. There is hardly anyone defending me on-wiki, certainly not of the old-timers. One of the global warming skeptic crowd has, and GoRight practically sacrificed himself for me, even though I have a very different POV. I prefer the company of the blocked and banned, to most of the idiots who remain. Still, here and there, there are glimpses of light. Petri Krohn, perhaps an enemy of some of my friends, has nevertheless been very helpful. Friends show up in the oddest places! If I were allowed, I'd try to mediate.... but I'm not, at least not on-wiki. That's ArbComm!

Rootology appears to have retired over Connolley's revert warring with him, during the RfAr, over a notice placed on Hipocrite's Talk page. I'd theorized that WMC and Hipocrite were in cahoots, that the whole situation where he banned both me and Hipocrite from cold fusion was a charade, and this was, later, quite a confirmation. Why was WMC risking sanction to protect Hipocrite from a mere notice?

Rootology was renamed to User:GoneAwayNowAndRetired (T-C-L-K-R-D) , see the essay: User:GoneAwayNowAndRetired/Wikipedia is broken and failing (T-H-L-K-D)

This is the legacy of people like WMC and others whom ArbComm has long tolerated. In the end, this is ArbComm's legacy, because by sanctioning others and leaving these "valuable volunteers" alone, they enabled them, like any collection of co-dependents.

[NuclearWarfare]

Where on Earth did you get that one from, Abd? From my perspective, it is pretty clear that Rootology resigned over disagreements (to put it mildly) about Wikipedia's governance (or lack thereof). Just take a look at his last 150 contributions...

[Hipocrite]

It is, as usual, a complete and total fabrication by serial liar Abd. Shocker.

[Abd]

It is, as usual, a complete and total fabrication by serial liar Abd. Shocker.

No, I prefer to lie all at once, in a tome, don't you know anything, you ninny?

I see that the bells have started tolling for you and company. ArbComm is an equal opportunity blunderbuss.

Now, as to Rootology. Let me rummage around in my kit. Surely Hipocrite, though he had "retired" at that point -- a trick he's used so many times that one would think it would be becoming a tad obvious, but .... -- is aware of what happened on his Talk page. It looks like it was the last straw for Rootology.

My notice to Hipocrite, I was adding him to the RfAr

Connolley reverts.

Rootology restores it.

Connolley reverts and refers to the RfAr page, where he was reverting my addition to the filing.

Rootology dings WMC for reverting the notice. WMC blows him off. The clerks were snoozing.

WMC had reverted the addition of Hipocrite to the case. This is why WMC could claim that Hipocrite was not a party, because he had reverted me, the filer of the case, setting up my own section, acting as if he could clerk a case where he was a primary party. And, in fact, he could, because the clerks did nothing.

Guettarda dings Rootology for using rollback to revert WMC. Rootology answers at 21:38.

At this point I assume that Rootology had, correctly, noticed that Wikipedia had gone completely mad. WMC actually revert warred (two reverts, one of me and then one of Rootology), and Rootology is dinged for one revert because he used rollback?

Rootology saw all this and was gone, quickly, starting to shut things down at 23:50. Sure, this wasn't the only cause. But it was sure proximate.

Now, what was all this about? Why was WMC willing to risk it? It certainly seemed that he led a charmed life, he did so much totally outrageous stuff, and not just to ordinary editors, he wheel-warred, edited under protection, and on and on. And he was grossly uncivil, again and again, and it took years for ArbComm to get around to addressing it, and even then ... most editors would have been site-banned several times over for what he did.

Because the clerks paid no attention to this complete violation of ArbComm process, it stood, and Hipocrite's actions received much less attention than they deserved.

I think it's obvious. How far back the conspiracy goes, I don't know, but definitely when WMC banned both Hipocrite and I from cold fusion -- Hipocrite had been the one revert warring, not I, not that last incidence -- it was for an appearance of equal treatment. WMC had been itching to get rid of me for maybe a year.

Hipocrite didn't care about cold fusion, he never made any substantial edits except for one that he made just as he requested page protection, and later, in the polling I was trying to run to find the most-approved version, he didn't even support his own version, it was so bad. He had suddenly come in with totally obnoxious behavior, much worse than the ordinary "skeptical POV" editors like Enric Naval, with whom it was possible to work.

I think that WMC had agreed to protect Hipocrite if he helped to arrange my ban. So he was fulfilling his part of the deal. I see no other explanation.

It would not have worked if ArbComm had been willing to confront the cabal a bit sooner. It would not have worked if ArbComm actually had set up and used decent process. They did better in the Climate Change case, though it took donkey's ages.

They allowed total misbehavior to run rampant on the case pages in the Abd-WMC arbitration. And, indeed, though WMC had made it utterly necessary to desysop him or it would have been way too obvious that he had a pass, they shot the messenger, an ancient tradition that they must have picked up from reading articles on feudal tyrants.