Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitration

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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by Vigilant » Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:21 am

CoachFastball wrote:OK let's face it: We are never going to solve the issues concerning Malleus Fautorum/Eric Corbett. What we need to figure out is how to not lose good admins. Boing! and Drmies were unfortunate losses, albeit we got Drmies back. And then we have incompetent admins like Sjakkalle closing the thread as "block is endorsed as one month per consensus" and abusing rollback and edit warring, which should've lead to a block and/or desysop. But Eric doesn't give a shit about the block. It is extended to indef by Scottywong out of request during anger and is reversed by Floquenbeam in good faith. Finally, after eternity, INeverCry reverses it and is reversed by Prodego and despite the forming consensus, INC re-unblocks and is thus hypocritically taken to Arbcom by Kww. INeverCry resigns and Kww then makes more stupid ideas and remains a shitty admin who does not know how to be an admin. He is called a pathetic prick and told off by Giano and has no one agreeing with him and he doesn't get it. We only continue to have the shitty admins. Took ya a few RfA'sto become a sysop, eh Kww?
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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by Mason » Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:55 am

CoachFastball wrote:We only continue to have the shitty admins. Took ya a few RfA'sto become a sysop, eh Kww?
I will say this in Kww's defense: I like the thoroughness with which he has publicly spanked the brain trust behind the VisualEditor debacle.

Other than that, though...

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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by roger_pearse » Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:36 pm

CoachFastball wrote:.... What we need to figure out is how to not lose good admins. ... We only continue to have the shitty admins.
Quite so. And likewise with contributors; because the good ones leave in disgust.

I wonder if anyone at WP is listening yet?

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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by The Joy » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:08 pm

Are we essentially the crazy guests at the Mad Hatter's tea party blaming the March Hare for screwing up Wonderland?
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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by Poetlister » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:31 pm

The Joy wrote:Are we essentially the crazy guests at the Mad Hatter's tea party blaming the March Hare for screwing up Wonderland?
Especially when it was the Hare hosting the party, not the Hatter.
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Re: Breaking news: Eric unblocked let's request an arbitrati

Unread post by Zoloft » Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:59 am

I sliced off the posts that involved hissing and spitting and obscene suggestions and put them in the trash, including my own.
Back on topic please.

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