Thank you for this Carol. I was driven off En.wp /
suffered a death of a
thousand wikilawyering cuts after ridiculously blatant homophobia, outing
and off wiki attacks against my personal life. Even the, now hidden from
view, Arbcom case against me was allowed to bang on about fisting, clearly
intended as abuse. There seem clear parallels, if you are a woman or gay,
you are advised to stay in the closet.
Last week Jimmy Wales was asked to say something, anything, in support of
a more welcoming culture for LGBT editors. Silence in return. The content
may be a marvel, but the 1970s culture is rotten.
On 26 Nov 2014 00:59, "Carol Moore dc" <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net> wrote:
On 11/25/2014 2:48 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
And frankly, Carol might be outspoken, but this is sexist crap when a man
can act all disruptive but be "oh so valuable" and women like Carol (and me
and others) are seen as psychos and angry women who bring nothing to the
project (she's an amazing writer and has contributed a lot too).
....
I'm also really pissed off in general about the last 24 hours in america.
So whatever.
-Sarah
First, I do a mea culpa on not being the perfect little lady editor. I
edit in controversial areas (which according to some guys in itself proves
I'm a drama queen!), disagree with and revert male editors, argue in a
strong manner, sometimes get as competitive as some male editors, take
issues to noticeboards when there's a stalemate and sometimes editors to
ANI when they really get out of line. There is a small percentage of guys
who just go crazy over this sort of thing and from time to time I say
snotty things to them. Nothing like some of the things that have been said
to me!
In the last 3 months I've been under intense harassment and have written
a couple stupid things and today I really let ArbCom know just what I
think. (Per Sarah's comment about Ferguson; having lived in a 95% black
area for almost 20 years, I do take it emotionally).
Anyway my Arbitration Evidence provides a timeline of disruption at GGTF
and detailed the battleground attitudes of a nasty little coterie of
editors who set out to disrupt GGTF and harass a few individual editors.
As I came to learn as Arbitration progressed, over the years they have
driven off a number of editors who disagreed with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender_Ga…
Since they love to yap about "Carol's biggest crimes (all two)" here they
are. Much fewer and far more excusable than much of the stuff they've
pulled.
* After two editors harassing me were either Ibanned or chastised, I got
fed up with another harasser who I believed might be married to the the
King pin editor of this gang and asked her if that was why she was
harassing me, in a not very diplomatic manner. What can I say, PTSD.... I
immediately apologized when it was denied, but have been hearing about it
over and over ever since.
* Last week I got really pissed that even after ArbCom voted to site ban
me, King pin's friends KEPT harassing me! I got pissed and wrote: "This is
a [[gang bang]] over [[C*nt-gate]] by individuals who I mostly am
unfamiliary with" in text and edit summary. The comment was ignored but at
least an arbitrator told them to cut it out which they did for a couple
days. Then it started up again the last few days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Reque…
Today I got pissed that two other individuals who had insulted and
harassed me repeatedly in the past were doing it there. I wrote my REAL
OPINION of what is going on with the whole Arbitration. And cc'd to Jimmy
Wales (who has said the same kind of things about this group, basically
told them to get lost, but refuses to get the WMF board to do anything
about enforcing terms of service.)
*Some people seem to think that ArbCom is so naive they don't know
that the Manchester Gangbangers and their cronies/minions are engaged in
'''institutionalized harassment''' using ArbCom as one of their
harassment
tools. They think just explaining that will open their eyes and they'll do
the right thing.*
*No, the only thing that will clear Wikipedia of this vicious coterie is
a national publicity campaign to pressure the WMF into enforcing its Terms
of Service, including against culpable ArbCom members. (I see several
Sitush/Corbett/ cronies/minions are running for the next Arbitration
Committee.) And I'm one of dozens who see it that way, we just haven't
decided where to organize our efforts. Just because their tactic worked on
silencing 1.2 billion Indians with their Brit imperialist drivel doesn't
mean it will work on silencing 3.3 billion women. After all 1/2 the members
of the Board are women. *
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Reque…
Which got me blocked for (now) 72 hours. By which time I'll be site
banned anyway.
So that's how evil I am!!! Needlesstosay I feel very liberated and
wonder why I didn't quit years ago. (Besides fact I'm a stubborn taurus the
bull.) Now that I'll finally after 8 years be able to update my website,
I'll be creating
http://carolmoore.net/wikipedia with all sorts of
things I've learned over the years. Plus obviously GGTF stuff and a side by
side comparison of the evidence provided against me (mostly me getting
pissed after intensive harassment) vs. the obnoxious things that several
other editors had done at GGTF, me and/or others over the years. That
won't be done til January/February.
Some of are talking about getting something else together off wikipedia,
but nothing solid...
CM
So that's the story....
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