Connolley starts to worm his way out of his ban Options

[thegoodlocust]

In the past I've pointed out on-wiki how Connolley's pattern is to break his various sanctions in the most drama producing way possible. Typically, he does this by innocuously violating his sanction, which usually results in someone filing a request for enforcement against him while his typical allies rally forth with cries of, "But it didn't harm anyone!" - this sort of thing usually ends with his sanction being "clarified" (i.e. the severity is reduced).

If nobody complains then he ups the ante and violates his ban in a slightly more serious way until someone complains or until people just accept that the ban doesn't really apply to him.

Well, he has already started this tried and true tactic by removing a simple bit of vandalism from the diamond dust article. But oh noes? Is it climate related or meteorology? It has a climate section, but it isn't really about global warming. <1>

Of course, why would someone vandalize a lowly-trafficked article that hasn't been edited since June is anyone's guess. I mean, Connolley would never use a proxy or friend to vandalize a page just so he could prove a point and spite others....no....he certainly wouldn't.

I guess we'll see what Arbcom's definition of "broadly construed" means.

[It's the blimp, Frank]

Goodlocust's warning seems plausible to me.

[thegoodlocust]

Goodlocust's warning seems plausible to me.

Well, it seems like my prediction has been coming at least partially true. It looks like he has been posting diffs for his followers to go "fix" certain things - someone had the audacity to call climate models "estimates" which was clearly beyond the pale.

Surprisingly he was blocked, which has caused much wailing and lamentation among his followers and their various sockpuppets.

Now, they are openly talking about setting up a private mailing list among themselves or a private wiki in order to coordinate their activity since they can't track William's contrib history.

The amusing thing is that this has almost certainly already been going on according to some of their off and on-wiki comments, but now they can feel more justified about breaking the rules because of the enormous tragedy that has befallen their little clique. I suppose all of those "cabal approved" stamps they place on their userpages can't really be assumed to be a joke by even the densest of folk at this point.

So the question is, will the Arbs realize their mistake in not topic banning the various personalities discussing coordinating their meatpuppetry offwik? Will some admin under the climate change thingamajig setup by ArbCom rectify that oversight? Are stars merely pinholes in the curtain of night?

Who knows.

This post has been edited by thegoodlocust: Wed 27th October 2010, 8:14pm