[WikiEN-l] SHOWCASING Abuses of Admin Power

Sat Jul 2 09:57:17 UTC 2005

For the public record, this user is not "booted off the list". Rather,
he or she is mdoerated, with postings to be approved by moderators.
Here is an email I sent to this anonymous user:

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You (and your other two accounts) have been moderated on WikiEN-l
because you were rude and abusive to others. The WikiEN-l mailing list
information page is at the following URL:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

You must have seen this page to subscribe your accounts to the mailing
list. You will notice down the bottom it says "[u]sers who are
extremely disruptive or uncivil may be banned from the mailing list by
the [mailing list] administrators". As I am sure you will freely
concede, your messages were very rude towards certain other
subscribers of the mailing list. Here are a couple of examples from
your messages:

"you are nothing but a fascist hag anyways"
"Give Gerard my regards if you can be bothered to stop fellating him
long enough to speak."
"running around like a complete fat fool"
"you idiots spend your time jerking off"
"power-mad cretins"

In view of this extreme lack of civility on your part, you are hereby
moderated on this mailing list. Any messages you now send to the
mailing list will be held for approval by one of the list's
moderators. If you construct your messages with meaning and civility,
they will be readily accepted onto the mailing list, regardless of
what you are arguing. This moderation is to maintain respectful
conversation on the mailing list, not to censor your views.

If, however, you continue to create new anonymous accounts (we're up
to 3 now), I may be forced to make mailing list subscriptions by
approval only, which would have the effect of hindering community
participation in the mailing list. As I'm sure you appreciate how
undesirable an outcome that would be, I'm sure you will respect my
requests.

~Mark Ryan
WikiEN-l Mailing List Administrator

On 7/2/05, A. Nony Mouse <tempforcomments3 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Whoops! Looks like somebody didn't like the truth told of them, they booted
> me off the list for speaking truth to power.
> 
> You wanted abuse of power? There you have it JT.
> 
> Seems to happen a lot around here and on Wikipedia. Speak truth to the
> circle-jerk of power mad fools known as Admins, get booted.
> 
> Ambi is the Red Queen of arbcom - running around like a complete fat fool,
> screaming "Orf Wiv is 'ead" whenever a case comes before her. She gets some
> sadistic pleasure from it I'm sure.
> 
> The rest of ArbCom isn't any better. Never do they actually talk to anyone
> involved in a case. Never do they let little things like facts get in the
> way of their witch hunts.
> 
> Ambi posts up a message that her say-so ought to be considered basis enough
> for banning Marmot, whose only crime was exposing the Adminship
> self-protection racket for what it was, and you all just sit there
> applauding.
> 
> I think you proved Marmot's case FOR him.
> 
> An arbitration request comes up and someone adds an extra name to it, and
> all of a sudden the original name on the arbitration request isn't even
> MENTIONED in the final verdict and an innocent user who (and I checked the
> log to be sure) has not used a single naughty word is banned.
> 
> Yoder gets caught in an infinite ban loop by an Admin who was involved in
> his case, and you idiots spend your time jerking off saying "well you
> shouldn't have crossed an admin" and calling him names  rather than paying
> attention to what was going on. And you're STILL DOING IT.
> 
> And then there's what you did a couple days ago to Kurita77. A new user
> comes in, reads the tutorials, makes edits, and you ban him for the crime of
> knowing too much? I was watching that. Poor kid didn't do anything wrong but
> you spent your time harassing him, one of you sends him crank emails, and
> before you know it we have a user screaming profanities.
> 
> Not his fault. YOUR fault.
> 
> There's a reason I post these sentiments anonymously. It's because you
> power-mad cretins would like nothing more than to get ahold of anyone who
> dares to speak the truth about you around here. You'd ban my Wikipedia
> account just out of spite if you knew who I was. And I know you WAY too well
> for you to claim otherwise, JT.
> 
> Come on. Prove me wrong. Show some sense. Show for even ONE SECOND that you
> actually respect the policies and procedures of Wikipedia.
> 
> Biting the newbies, attacking anyone who's not part of your inner circle
> jerk, and insulting new users once you've bitten them isn't doing you any
> favors.
> 
> A. Nony Mouse.
> 
> >>
> >and your a sockpuppet but that's beyond the point, I would be interested in
> >seeing an iota of proof of any of these accusations, that would support
> >your case, and the case of the longwinded Nathan J. Yoder much better than
> >these unceasing tireless rants.
> >
> >-Jtkiefer
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