On 11/26/2014 12:52 AM, Risker wrote:
I have, however, entered a plea that they rename the case. The
decision they're voting on now has almost nothing at all to do with
the Gender Gap Task Force, and isn't really addressing any of
problematic behaviours that are evident on the talk pages of the
wikiproject.
GGTF was targeted for disruption because males (and some alleged females
who support them) were afraid that the GGTF's concern with civility
would lead to more restrictions on guys' right to talk dirty and be
hostile when they felt like it. Over time I realized it also was about
their right to harass the heck out of people they don't like to drive
them off the project and they've been at it for a few years.) The story
is pretty clear if you read the evidence in my timeline.
I already was being harassed by two individuals (who don't like what
they assume to be my politics) who then came to GGTF primarily to harass
and badmouth me. (Their nasty efforts got me topic banned for a couple
angry comments in a case where one of them was topic banned for chronic
BLP violations! )
Both also supported the "incivility caucus" and were delighted to make
me the number 1 target. The other now topic banned editor - who has
avoided revealing his/her sex - obviously got under someone's skin for
some flippant (or sometimes too on target?) comments and was the second
major target.
The Arbitrators were NOT going to take the case until someone else took
one of my harassers to WP:ANI about the wikihounding, a bunch of GGTF
people complained about him and he got Ibanned from me. This caused a
lot of complaints among the anticivility caucus about GGTF canvassing
and meat puppetry and I believe angered and terrified them. It freaked
out the other editor who came to harass me and he started threatening
to follow me, dig up dirt and then wrote a crappy draft biography of me,
trashing me freely on his talk page. I took it to MfD. One of his Admin
friends took the mess to ANI, where he started screaming there about
bringing in Arbcom. And Arbitrators suddenly started to change their
votes. (He has at least two powerful friends on the committee.)
The anticivility caucus claimed it was all about getting rid of that
awful CarolMoore (even though almost all their evidence came from my
complaint about all the harassment in August and September!) But it
really was about terrifying and intimidating GGTF so it couldn't get any
more of their harassers interaction banned.
During the Arbitration a few people stepped forward to say they also
had been harassed by this crew and quit or knew others who had; a couple
more emailed me privately. So I began to see that not just incivility
but the right to drive off editors through harassment was what they were
fighting for. I call it a "gang bang" because probably two dozen
editors came out of no where to say how awful I was - all based on being
part of this incivility/harassment clique.
If I had not joined GGTF and tried to deal with the disruptions, I
wouldn't have gotten the first harasser off my back - but I wouldn't
have had the whole crew attack me.
Despite their efforts, two of the incivility crew did end up getting
admonished, so in that way it WAS a successful arbitration. We'll see
if the discretionary sanctions are used fairly or to keep true GGTF
participants from complaining about future disruption.
Believe me I'm VERY happy to be free on a personal level. Just really
ticked off that these guys got away with it. And I'm one of those people
who never learned to suffer in silence. Expect the video soon and the
analysis in a couple months. Meanwhile, I'll watch with interest to see
how things develop.
CM
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