GET READY FOR RANDY

Next is a perfect and even legendary example of unfair and bias events which lead to the block of a remarkable editor RandyKnotts. That editor then filed a block appeal and the appeal process itself was also abused by even more admins piling on. The gross mishandling of the appeal demonstrates the impunity these dubious admins operate with. Then after speaking up about the blatantly improper appeal review, the editor's issue was escalated to a serious incident. The escalation was executed by a bad-faith UTRS admin Josh Gordon just as it had become fully apparent that the involved admins all looked utterly horrible for their actions.

This particular serious incident escalation seemed more like a plead from the admins to be saved from themselves. It screamed make it end already, because we've been fully cooked. The outsider RandyKnotts' ability to communicate expertly all of the wrongs happening to him in real time was incredible and worthy of a summer blockbuster. Yet with the callousness and arrogance of no valid justification really needed, top admins put the final nail in the editor's coffin with the removal of his own talk page access.

That means that the only place left where an editor can communicate, ask for help, or respond to his or her talk page posts, is no longer available to them. That talk-page-denied editor is completely prevented from posting about any issues no matter how egregious and improper toward him or her. It's the ultimate execution of the editor. They're totally silenced. An editor whose very own talk page access is revoked can't even publicly appeal their block as would normally happen on their talk page. To appeal, they must go through a private system.

In a private form appeal, the blocked contributor is even less likely to be treated fairly due to that much less transparency. Normally, when an editor is blocked, they atleast continue to be able to post on their own talk page and that's the only place they're allowed. Wikipedia typically leaves talk page access open so it can maintain a (false) sense of hope and fairness, in that any editor can someday, even if many years later, be unblocked and restored to a basic editor. However with RandyKnotts, admins urgently shut him up because the editor knew he was on moral high ground and just wouldn't back down. They don't want the talk page used effectively against corrupt admins. It's similar to how a casino will kick out a poker player who isn't breaking any rules simply because he or she is beating the casino royally.

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