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Revision as of 21:28, 24 December 2010 by Dylan Flaherty (talk | contribs) (bye)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) ASSASSINATED This user was politically assassinated.Conclusions
Yes, this was an obvious imposter, most likely the AfricaTruth/AfricanTruth person.
I'll leave you with a puzzle. Here are three recent statements made on Misplaced Pages. One comes from a respected admin who's notable enough to have a biographical article, another from a famous lawyer who likewise has a biographical article, and one was the statement that got an old Irish man indefinitely banned as a menace to Misplaced Pages. See if you can match them up without cheating.
- "I see overwhelming ANI again with lots of lies."
- "Thank you so much for piling on. I will give your opinion exactly as much weight as I have always given it."
- "Are you an idiot, or only pretending to be one?"
What makes one worse than the other? Here's a hint: two of them are heavily involved in conservative politics, while one is just an ordinary guy whose lifelong conservativism is tempered with principle, piety and kindness.
In my short time here, I believe I've done much good, but I've also twice been falsely accused of being a sock, banned from interacting with an unstable individual who stalked my edits and banned from even talking about the idea of making Sarah Palin slightly more neutral. Entirely by "coincidence", before the Palin ban could expire so I could launch an RfC, many of the same people who have opposed my edits all along managed to pile on to an AN/I report to have my ban broadened to the entire site and extended indefinitely. And, of course, it's now a certainty that any number of people who, in the future, support some of the changes I've made will be falsely identified as my sock and permanently blocked.
I'm told that it would be easy to get the indefinite block removed: all I'd have to do is lie. I would need to play a particular role, where I'm contrite, admit guilt, and promise never to sin again. I should throw myself at the feet of the lynch mob and beg them to take me back, accepting onerous conditions that would prevent me from actually doing anything upon my return. I think it should be very clear why that would require undermining my own integrity and would be entirely unacceptable.
Misplaced Pages gets the editors it deserves. I'll leave it at that. Dylan Flaherty 18:40, 24 December 2010 (UTC)