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I've been quite clear that I will not abide by restrictions that should have been lifted ages ago. If the committee wants to unleash the thugs to beat a few IPs to a bloody pulp over a joke account, and have a fair number of reasonable editors be appalled by it, I'm happy to oblige. 'Jack' was always a mirror to the community, anyway. Gotta go, 110.139.190.67 (talk) 14:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
You have to see it in the light of the chronologically previous comment : "I'm certainly not going to support lifting a restriction that is being flaunted repeatedly", and the utter hubris of "Frankly, if not for the defiance in creating these additional accounts, I'd have seriously considered lifting all of the remaining sanctions" in the comment above that one.
You are right though, that those two edits mark the sharp downturn in events, quite contrary to Jack's very reasonable expectations. There he was, like a prisoner tantalised with a promise of freedom, when the gates were slammed shut in his face. I'm not surprised by his response in the circumstances, and you really shouldn't be either. --RexxS (talk) 23:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
My personal favourite: "worthy of a smackdown". Epic. What do we have to do to be worthy of a smackdown? At what point is Coren going to smack me down? Does he have the right? Does anyone? The sheer pomposity of it leaves me speechless. Jack scuttled his accounts with one hour of this post. Coincidence? I think not --Diannaa03:32, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Things went south with Coren's comments, but it really started with Risker's comment. She previously voted to "commend for a clean return" and the bit (2.) re my "transitioning from a formal mentorship to unrestricted editing" (my bold;). Now she's after permanent restriction. As I , I see Risker as involved, and her continued participation makes the entire process illegitimate. Want me to go into detail in public? I can say some of it. Somewhere it says to bring recusal request up on an arb's talk page, but hers was semi'd and I was on only an IP at the time. She's just un-semi'd it, but I see that as bait to reply to Doc9871's continued dogging of me.
Also, technically I didn't create user:Merridew; you (xeno) did when you usurped it for me. That was an entirely legitimate request for anti-impersonation reasons and because Gimmetoo was rudely referring to me simple as "Merridew". He's another that's been dogging me for a year, and Risker waded in there, too. The net effect of these years of restriction is that anything goes when it comes to me; truth is I've received a hundred times as much as harassment and bad faith as I've ever been accused of. And it's all due to the various ACs having failed to ever resolve anything; they just prolong things. This failure, repeated in many cases, is *why* this project has gone toxic. The committee is craven before the mob of anyones and feeds their taste for blood.
Motion 5 is all fucked-up. Multiple arbs are saying they prefer sink-or-swim, but have not voted for it. My take-away is that unexpressed, back-room shite is driving that. The fix is in; Jack will be fucked forever. So, I'm left with the option of illustrating this. I've not been doing so in a disruptive manner, just in a really embarrassing manner (and constructive re articles).
