Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-24573226-20170620150929/@comment-14909251-20170621044528

Not shocked that, despite being told I would be nominated for removal of rights for "inactivity" in articlespace, I am really being nominated for being wude to staff who treat me like garbage. While I have no particular concern regarding my keeping or losing the rollback privileges, I would just note to those taking the staff version of events that the staff page didn't include rollbacks until over a week after I was given the right way back when. The notification I received that I had been given the right didn't state it was a staff position. I did not nominate myself for the position, nor was I asked if I wanted it before I received it.

Until a day before I received a message saying my rights would be removed unless I met certain obligations, the section for rollbacks made no mention of any obligations or role other than the ability to more easily revert edits. I do not believe anyone ever invited me to a Discord, but I was told about a Skype chat years ago that, again, was not said to be a staff chat in any way. Until the message I received about potential removal for inactivity it was not even said that my remaining a rollback was contingent on anything. Certainly there was ample opportunity for someone to say that in the many years I have had rollback privileges.

My ignorance would indeed still be inexcusable if these obligations were posted publicly in some way, but like the rules or decisions I was accused of breaking that started off the whole thing, none of it is publicly posted anywhere. The first instance, when I tried to create a page about Kuroyuri after Episode 10, I asked for a policy on creating pages to be posted and enforced consistently, but despite apparent promises to have some kind of policy posted it never happened. So too is this "inactivity in mainspace" thing another unposted rule I have apparently violated and am now being dressed down for in addition to the real reason for removal that was clearly just being held back.

Let me share with you all a joke about Wikipedia that seems particularly apt right now. A user got blocked on the false accusation of making a disruptive edit as an IP user. When it is confirmed the user was not actually the IP and requests to be unblocked, the request is rejected based on new reasons citing much older edits. Upset, the user files another request for an unblock and complains "This is Kafkaesque!" Seeing this, another admin weighs in: "You say you are Kafkaesque, if you are User:Kafkaesque you need to need to make this unblock request in this account name."