The Dubious Dealings of an Online Enyclopedia


Crushed Whistleblower

Then it happened. When it became clear that the wrong would stand,
the editor, seeing this, told the prime pair of abusive admins Jim F. Bleak and SarekofVulcan that if they didn't right this immediately,
he'd be sending an explantory letter to
the DOJ and Wikipedia's head office about it.
Understandably, RandyKnotts was at the very end of his plentiful rope and said the one thing that could be used to scapegoat him.
Freedom of speech outside of Wikipedia isn't lawyering, it's whistleblowing. However, some admins may interpret whistleblowing as a legal threat and Wikipedia doesn't tolerate whistleblowers.
Just then, another admin Theroadislong who had been page stalking
like a creep suddenly slapped the editor
from behind with a posted Disciplinary Warning.
The public action was an official Wikipedian templated warning to RandyKnotts that his last sentence may appear to some to be a legal threat,
and that any further talk like that would result in a block.
Though disagreeing in principle, editor RandyKnotts made no more such statements and fully adhered.
It was finally over. Jim F. Bleak had successfully abused his power, and though he and his friend SarekofVulcan had been ripped to shreds on merit,
Jim F. Bleak just didn't have to do the obvious right thing.
RandyKnotts humbly moved on. He took a break and then decided to edit elsewhere on the encyclopedia.
Then, during an unrelated edit, he got the templated official message. He had just been blocked by the obese knitting man SarekofVulcan.
The admin's grudge was just too much. SarekofVulcan had retaliated with double jeopardy and an after the fact double discipline.
Though RandyKnotts had already received disciplinary action and fully adhered to it, the petty admin could never let it go.
SarekofVulcan had pounced like a hog on an odorous mud pie. He had taken a bad-faith capital punishment action because he could, for the same issue which had already been concluded.
RandyKnotts was left with the option to either walk away
from this misjustice or file a block appeal.
With a historic and extraordinarily profound appeal statement, RandyKnotts appealed the retaliatory block by SarekofVulcan.
In his appeal, RandyKnotts explained everything that had happened and hoped for a decent human being to appear.
Maybe a UTRS admin would recognize all of the guidelines broken against the editor, and that he had received double jeopardy
disciplinary action for the sentence in question,
and that he had even adhered to the posted warning fully. Maybe they'd even help restore the draft article and allow Teahouse to review it.

Did you think things were going to turn fair and hunkydory all of a sudden?
That's far from what occurred next. Instead, a lazy and corrupt UTRS admin called JPGordon, or Josh Gordon, agreed to review the appeal.
The problem is Josh Gordon had no intention of properly fulfilling the powerful role he had signed up to do,
presumably without a firearm pointed at his noggin.
Instead, Josh Gordon glared superficially at the marvelous appeal statement
made by RandyKnotts, then he quickly scanned what was going on, and he took note of the other admins involved
which he surely wasn't about to undermine.
Then JPGordon immediately denied the appeal. His lazy appeal denial was about two short sentences which amounted to
I didn't see a full submission by the guilty Wikipedian.
In his incompetent appeal review statement, Josh Gordon arrogantly, surely sensing his pure impunity, admitted that he
hadn't even reviewed most (any) of what had happened.
Then Josh Gordon, in black and pure white on a public Wikipedian page, expressed that he didn't feel like figuring out what really happened,
and he didn't think any other admins would care enough to either, because as he proclaimed, they're not being compensated financially.
So the appeal reviewer apparently
needed money to do the right thing.
This astounding (lack of) appeal review by JPGordon was immediately responded to by editor RandyKnotts.
By now, the amount of viewers tuned into this epic Wikipedian drama unfolding before everyone's bug eyes was staggering.
No matter what happened after this, RandyKnotts was simply a Wikipedian legend. Nobody had previously ever been able to dissect the abuse of the world's enyclopedia in this manner,
and he was doing it in real time. It was goose-bump inducing.
RandyKnotts quickly replied to this admittedly illegitimate appeal review with the clarity of a Botswanan diamond.
He described how the reviewing UTRS admin had acted dishonorably and with bad-faith in his duties as he cited Josh Gordon's very own confession of not reviewing all the facts of the appeal.
Just then, sensing panic and urgency, another page stalking admin called Deepfriedokra attacked while completely ignoring
the valid points made by RandyKnotts.
Deepfriedokra said brashly and superficially
that he agreed with Josh Gordon's appeal review.
The inappropriate post by page-stalker Deepfriedokra on RandyKnott's talk page further served to interfere, and is yet another
example of Wikipedian gang bullying by admins.
Adding insult, Deepfriedokra's post had been
dismissive, tonedeaf, and nonsensical.








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