New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"

[ericbarbour]

Is someone starting to snipe at Eric Jepson? You betcha.....Drmies is. Jepson's talkpage was already filling up with people criticizing him for posting non-notable or junk articles. But when this happens.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... #Topic_ban

Dumbass doesn't realize that Drmies is a crazy bastard, and will go after his jugular if given half the chance.

Those fuckers can deplore Wikipediocracy and WS all they want--but they use these websites to watch each other.

(Meanwhile, Timmy keeps making a damn fool of himself on the WPO thread. Wherein the others document one attempt after another by Nihonjoe to weasel out of his punishment. Sad!)

[boredbird]

After much blathering, the Mickey Mouse Club ordered the setup of a "VRT" system to submit COI reports to themselves directly.

How can we simulate the virtues of transparency while keeping everything a secret?

Historically, this "private evidence" process has resulted in those who provide it being banned ("Defender of Satan" or whatever his username was comes to mind.) At best it amounts a self-inflicted gag order against the submitter, at worst It's like submitting evidence against the mafia to the NYPD.

It's a central feature of this case that senior functionaries, including the arbitrators like Phillip "Primefag" Timko, are COI editors themselves and cannot be trusted.