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I've retired from enwiki, or committed suicide by sysop, innumerable times and come back. Nobody was able to chase me away, even by summarily deleting, pursuant to [[wp:Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users|G5]], slews of articles I created and reverting almost everything I did, whenever another sockpuppet was unmasked. I was undeterred, because a lot of times I either had a copy of the pages locally saved, or theoretically had the means to obtain a copy, so nothing was really lost; I figured that if the enwiki community ever unbanned me, I could recreate those articles using that content, or at worst I could create them on a third-party wiki. In the case of reversions, the reverted revisions remained in the page histories, so were even more readily available. | I've retired from enwiki, or committed suicide by sysop, innumerable times and come back. Nobody was able to chase me away, even by summarily deleting, pursuant to [[wp:Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users|G5]], slews of articles I created and reverting almost everything I did, whenever another sockpuppet was unmasked. I was undeterred, because a lot of times I either had a copy of the pages locally saved, or theoretically had the means to obtain a copy, so nothing was really lost; I figured that if the enwiki community ever unbanned me, I could recreate those articles using that content, or at worst I could create them on a third-party wiki. In the case of reversions, the reverted revisions remained in the page histories, so were even more readily available. | ||
So, each time I got blocked, I would just come back and edit a different set of pages, which wasn't hard since I was always taking up new interests. If someone accused me of sockpuppetry, it was because I quit caring about getting caught and therefore purposefully resumed editing the same pages I edited under a past account. However, since the last block, on 11 July 2012, I've almost completely abstained from editing enwiki (I suppose if I were at a library or someone else's house, I might anonymously correct a typo if I stumbled upon one). Originally, part of that was that I wanted to be able to honestly tell the ArbCom I'd fulfilled the conditions of the [http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/The_wisdom_of_the_standard_offer standard offer]. However, from what I hear the ArbCom isn't granting unbans pursuant to the standard offer much anymore; if they wouldn't grant it to Michaeldsuarez and PeterKa, whose misbehavior (if that's what it was) was relatively mild, I doubt they're going to grant it to me. So, that consideration is now a moot point. | So, each time I got blocked, I would just come back and edit a different set of pages, which wasn't hard since I was always taking up new interests that were unrelated to the old ones. If someone accused me of sockpuppetry, it was because I quit caring about getting caught and therefore purposefully resumed editing the same pages I edited under a past account. However, since the last block, on 11 July 2012, I've almost completely abstained from editing enwiki (I suppose if I were at a library or someone else's house, I might anonymously correct a typo if I stumbled upon one). Originally, part of that was that I wanted to be able to honestly tell the ArbCom I'd fulfilled the conditions of the [http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/The_wisdom_of_the_standard_offer standard offer]. However, from what I hear the ArbCom isn't granting unbans pursuant to the standard offer much anymore; if they wouldn't grant it to Michaeldsuarez and PeterKa, whose misbehavior (if that's what it was) was relatively mild, I doubt they're going to grant it to me. So, that consideration is now a moot point. | ||
I can't put my finger on why it is that I don't edit enwiki anymore, but it might simply be that I have similar sentiments to what MZMcBride expressed at [[Meta-Wiki:Meta:Requests_for_bureaucratship/MZMcBride]]. I have no opinion on the merits of the arguments raised in that debate; I didn't research enough to find out whether they were well-founded. All I know is that I can empathize with what he said, "I'm much more disappointed in the . . . votes here from users I respect . . . . As I've watched this discussion unfold over the past day, I find myself wanting more and more to disengage . . . as I no longer want to be as closely associated with many of those who have become the regulars here. A wiki's culture is certainly expected to change over time, but it's becoming clearer to me that . . . the culture isn't improving. . . . This request was my attempt to volunteer to help out, but the vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and stupidity of some of those who have posted here make me question my overall involvement here." | I can't put my finger on why it is that I don't edit enwiki anymore, but it might simply be that I have similar sentiments to what MZMcBride expressed at [[Meta-Wiki:Meta:Requests_for_bureaucratship/MZMcBride]]. I have no opinion on the merits of the arguments raised in that debate; I didn't research enough to find out whether they were well-founded. All I know is that I can empathize with what he said, "I'm much more disappointed in the . . . votes here from users I respect . . . . As I've watched this discussion unfold over the past day, I find myself wanting more and more to disengage . . . as I no longer want to be as closely associated with many of those who have become the regulars here. A wiki's culture is certainly expected to change over time, but it's becoming clearer to me that . . . the culture isn't improving. . . . This request was my attempt to volunteer to help out, but the vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and stupidity of some of those who have posted here make me question my overall involvement here." | ||