Forum:Revenge of the MRN

About a month ago I got engaged in a discussion with GuentinGeorge in this thread, and subsequently blocked by Havac, as well as blocked (apparently indefinetly) from the IRC channel by Darth Culator. Now I'm back, have xmas over with, and is here to throw the book at all three of them.

1) Regarding QG:

Admins are just users who have special powers, so I cannot really demand that he acts nicely just because he is one. But in this case he messed up. He first made an accusation that anyone with a mind to can check the validity of, and will find was false: I have not started any threads about "my beef with canon", nor did I start the one in question. Therefore, the warning he gave me was unnecessary, and based on a flawed premise. But more importantly, this | page claims an admin should only use his powers in a preventive manner for the good of the site, never for punitive purposes. So, unless QG can demonstrate in what way threatening me with a block for something I haven't done qualifies as preventive, or at all for the good of the site, I call abuse of power. And it doesn't help matters that he and I have disputed over Canon issues in the past, and that he in this latest one decided to use his powers on me, the opposition, with an end result that removed my voice from the thread. It raises questions.

Still, all in all, QG is relatively innocent in this case, as he never actually did anything. But since he, as I will come to soon, was responsible for giving me the warning that got me banned, I cannot simply dismiss him.

2) Regarding Havac:

Havac never actually participated in the thread. All he did was ban me moments after my last comment. His given reason: "You were warned". He thus broke blocking policy by not clarifying his reasons, as stated | here. Indeed, I'm still not sure what the real reason for my block was, which will lead to a lenghtening of this post in an attempt to cover the possibilities. It is decidedly a punitive rather than a preventive action to block someone without giving them the necessary info to improve themselves.

But more important is the fact that he blocked me in the first place. As I wrote above, QG's reasons for warning me were unjust and based on incorrect information. So, as one is to believe from "You were warned", I was blocked on faulty grounds. And as stated | here: "A user may be blocked when his or her conduct severely disrupts the project". Unless Havac can demonstrate in what way my last post violated the warning I was given, in what way it severely disrupted the project, and whether the warning was good enough in the first place to heed, the history between Havac and me gives reason to suspect at the very least overzealous blocking practice, at worst admin abuse of power.

However, there is a second option. Perhaps Havac banned me for desruption. My tone in the thread in question was anything but friendly, particularly after being accused. But if this is the case, why did he not so much as leave a warning on either Culator's or QG's talk pages on account of their rudeness in the very same thread, when my rudeness was grounds for a block? Therefore, this surely cannot be the reason.

And a third option. It might have been that QG’s intent was to insure that I did not cause disruption by bringing my so-called “beef with canon” into the matter, even though I had no conceivable reason to until QG used it against me, and had not displayed any signs that could be interpreted as such. If this was the case, then me going ahead and exclaiming how I have come to see myself as understanding Canon better than the Wook big-timers, would indeed qualify as disrupting the thread in the manner I had been warned against, and given Havac ample reason to ban me, saying I had been warned. Everything would have made sense. Problem is: THAT WAS NOT THE NATURE OF THE WARNING I WAS GIVEN!!! I always obey my admins, even when they are complete lunatics. Had I been asked to step off, as any admin interested in actually keeping the peace would have done, I would have, not least because I had nothing further to add to the discussion. In stead I go from fairly safe to knife-edge on the bandom scale.

3) Regarding Darth Culator:

Below my last comment in the thread, Culator left a mocking remark. This, again, isn't a huge deal, since he as a normal user with special powers is perfectly within his rights to be an ass to another user. However, when I went to the IRC after getting banned, trying to get a hold of Havac, I found only Culator. I made it clear to everyone that I was there to have my block contested, and Culator made a strange comment that neither Havac or anyone else would get to read my comment. Angry with his mocking remark, I called him a murglak for adding fuel to the fire when he is supposed to keep order. I was immedately blocked from the IRC, and more than a month later I still am. I cannot prove that Culator is responsible, but it seems likely. And if so, he will have to demonstrate in what way it is preventive rather than punitive to use admin powers on someone who is an ass to you -after you have been an ass to them. Furthermore, he will have to explain how he justifies blocking a user whom he knew needed IRC contact with his blocking admin to contest it (Havac doesn't have an email adress provided) for longer than the duration of the block itself.

If these three cannot demonstrate what I have asked, they will be in violation of this rule from the blocking policy: "Users requesting blocks should supply credible evidence of the circumstances warranting a block.". In that case I have two demands:

1) That the block, which I have wrongly endured, is erased from my permanent record, as I now find myself facing a permaban next time.

2) That these three are kept in check by the rest of the administration until they have proven an ability to wield their powers as a burden of responsibility rather than a means to satisy their own egos or as weapons in personal vendettas.

DarthMRN 22:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)