Here's a rare appearance from Zoloft....
What a lot of ABSOLUTE FUCKING HORSEHIT.* Eostrix can't prove they are NOT Icewhiz.
* They can only decloak and prove who they are.
* Problem is, they would then be suspected of being (the anonymous) Icewhiz.
* Icewhiz is most likely a criminal.
* So there is literally nothing Eostrix can do to get out of this pickle.
Here's what Esotrix can do.
1. Ask for ABSOLUTE clarity on how this ban came about. The when, where and why. Because NO FUCKING WAY should a 2 year veteran trusted by the entire community be treated WORSE when it comes to out of the blue shadow bans, than a dirty piece of shit like Fram.
If that's how ArbCom want to run things, and if the sheople that serve under their all powerful masters are fine with that, then they will have more more Icewhiz to deal with. These people can't keep making shit up as they go along, and not expect consequences.
This is the name of the revenge game. Fuck one person over and cost them two years work, and we'll sentence you to four years worth of disruption.
Just on basic fucking principle.
Look at the Global Ban list. There are now far more people who want to stick a hot poker in ArbCom's eye, than there are Arbitrators. You can't keep tabs on em all.
2. Ask for a written confirmation from ArbCom that whatever the nature of this alleged private evidence that supposedly, and via a circuitous path apparently, somehow connects Eostrix to Icewhiz, couldn't be the result of a forgery by one of Icewhiz's enemies.
If ArbCom refuse to answer, then you can probably take it to the bank that this ban could and probably was achieved by someone engaged in fakery, and ArbCom either being too stupid to account for that possibility, or too hell bent on their pathetic revenge games to care.
I mean, fuck, do they not realise that the whole world and his dog knows that the moral compass of this years ArbCom is summed up by Beeblebrox openly saying he would do anything to rid the movement of the "gross" Fae. I bet he fucking would. Scumbag that he is. Nobody has seen Fae around in a while, and it's no coincidence that followed a sustained period of harassment from Beeblebrox. If he can be that blatant about bringing shame on his office in a very public way, you can bet your life he is EVEN WORSE when it comes to matters that are not transparent.
Let him claim he would never do such a thing as fake evidence to ensure a hunch that Eostrix is Icewhiz becomes a dead cert. And let us laugh in his face and suggest that if he wants people to believe that, he should work on his public image more.
3. If 1. and 2. don't yield any proof this ban is unassailable, then together with the fact we already know the CheckUsers and at least three Arbs were unconvinced, don't waste your time appealing or grovelling, just ask a simple question.
If Wikipedia runs on assuming good faith, and if bans are supposed to be preventative, and if Eostrix is suspected of being Icewhiz, and if there was already some suspicious fuck of an Arb watching their every move, and if hundreds of community members couldn't find anything untoward in his record, then where is the harm in allowing Eostrix to carry on as an editor?
If they aren't observed doing anything that could be called material assistance to Icewhiz, for six months let's say, then let them become an Admin. And if they perform that role without reproach for another six months, consider the possibility that you were either wrong, or at the very least you just traded three solid years of good work, for one very easy block.
Never, ever, accept the framing of a situation the way the wilishits present it. There is always an alternative.
Sell outs need not apply.
HTD.