asssiveego has posted his RfA and I have blocked him for it  Hello I have blocked Masssiveego for his antics on WikipediaRequests for adminshipMasssiveego which seems like a clear attempt to draw fire from people bitter with his own antics on RfA with a minimalist nomination and tongueincheek answers to the questions He seems to have induced a bite from Pschemp at least This lasts for a week I previously did this for WikipediaRequests for adminshipThe Mad Bomber for trolling his own RfA Please review and feel free to protest on my talk page Blnguyen  BLabberiNg   Sounds about right Cyde Weys       Good call  Samir            I dont see any issues with this block Pure WPPOINT Can we close the RfA Or does it need to be a crat alphaChimp laudare   I was thinking of blocking him myself so obviously I endorse the block Its rather obvious that hes trolling for attention with all this RfA stuff lets just not feed him and move on Wmarsh   RFA has been closed Support block  Chacor                   Hey should I close it then Its already WPSNOWballing with opposes and he is blocked after all  Glen   shit   edit conflicts later its been done S                      Sheesh if you use the shortcut at least shorten the verb to WPSNOWing I want snow P  Chacor                           I added an extra day to the block for  and  CanadianCaesar Et tu Brute   edit  Exhausting community patience  Once again its time to bring this up Hes coming close to exhausting the communitys patience in my view Thoughts  Chacor       Not yet I would not have blocked him at all for starting the RfA In fact i think SNOWing this RfA was a bad idea Rather I would have let it run the full  days Having  opposes might have finally gotten through to this editor that he needs to reconsider his approach But with the RfA snowed hes got ammo to say we arent treating him right etc Lar tc           Perhaps but there just isnt a reason to let trolls stay  Chacor               Is this user a flat out troll Sure close the book right away Or is he rescuable if rescuable is it worth the effort thats how I evaluate the question of whether community patience is exhausted I dont think ME is a flat out troll His contributions are light so not a LOT of effort is justified but Im not convinced he is not rescuable Contrast with Tobias next thread CLEARLY not a troll has a big contribution record therefore worth a fair bit of effort but Im starting to think not rescuable Make sense Lar tc   Would we simply be gratifying him by letting the RfA run Blnguyen  BLabberiNg       Hard to say Im not too sussed either way but I did want to throw out that on balance gratified or not this is one time that SNOW isnt the right thing to do In my view anyway Lar tc           I think closing it was the right thing to do to avoid disruption Blocking him I dont know whether hes a good faith user or not and I suspect probably not but Im generally upset by the level of blocking going on in Wikipedia at the moment The Land        I think the Masssiveegos RFA voting is a problem and unhelpful but I think imposing blocks for it is a rather drastic measure A much better penalty would be for the RFA closing bureaucrats to systematically disregard his votes Regarding the RFA I agree with Lar that I would not have blocked him for that either and that a hundred opposes on what is in effect an editor peer review might convey the message far more clearly than a block ever will Sjakkalle Check       I agree with Lar and Sjakkalle Haukur       Users are allowed to use whatever criteria they like in RfAs His are high and somewhat arbitrary but thats his perogative He feels that there are problems with some admins and thus that the process should be more strictchanged He has a right to that opinion and should not be persecuted for it Obviously his RFA selfnom wasnt meant to be a serious attempt but I also dont see where it caused any significant disruption justifying a block CBD            It was obvious trolling I think its really not good as a community if we just let people do that I really dont think Id mind if someone opposed every RfA at least I wouldnt want to block them for it if I felt they were doing it in good faith With his comments it just seems like hes clammoring for attention most of the time As a community we need to be aware of situations like that and stop them Wmarsh           edit conflict He hasnt been opposing RfAs on the basis that he thinks the candiates will be bad admins hes been opposing them to annoy people The whole Masssiveego is allowed to vote using his own critera is what has allowed him to continue trolling for so long  Steel                o The above look like assumptions of bad faith It seems clear to me that Massiveego votes the way he does because he legitimately believes there are problems with admins and the process for appointing them He has repeatedly said that is the case These claims that he is lying seem wholly unsubstantiated and inconsistent with the history IMO CBD                       Its bad to assume bad faith but that absolutely does not mean that I cant conclude bad faith and this is a situation where Ill do it This defense of an obvious troll is kind of sad Lets go work on writing the encyclopedia Wmarsh                       I thought he was acting in good faith as well until this latest RfA CBD have you read his statement and answers Given how many of his edits are to the RfA pages he would know that suich an RfA would merit automatic opposes no matter who it was from and he himself has opposed before per people saying the answers to the questions are too short WPAGF is not a suicide pact JoshuaZ                             Lets talk about AGF Blnguyen blocked Massiveego for a week for posting that RFA Blnguyen also told him to post that RFA Can I really be the only person who has a problem with that If it were such a terrible thing to do then the same people damning him here should not have been telling him to do it CBD                       Masssive has also shown here and here that he considers RfA a joke I realise those RfAs are from a while ago though  Steel                       I find this recent thing of many editors who should know better interpreting Assume good faith to mean turn off all of your critical facilities and never act against people who are acting in bad faith to be a somewhat disturbing trend Nandesuka                             Thanks for the needless insult Personally I find the inability of many admins to behave in a remotely civil fashion a somewhat disturbing trend CBD   edit  Reblocked  Okay I reblocked him If you look at his RfA where someone tells people not to encourage him then he replies flippantly Please vote your opinion counts this is just classic Pay attention to my trolling stuff Then after his comments on his talk page after the block I mean come on this guy is clearly playing us for attention and shows no sign of stopping and the block was widely endorsed Lets not keep feeding him Wmarsh       Seems like an improper block and wheel warring to me The user has been saying that he was going to run for RFA following suggestions that he do so and preparing the form for about a week Nothing surprising here Nobody told him no do not do that nor should they have Someone should not be banned from submitting an RfA just because they often vote against other users CBD           No but if the RfA is obvious trolling its not good that we sit around and give him so much attention its exactly what he wants Wmarsh               This is a good block Hes not being banned for submitting an RFA Hes being blocked for trolling Nandesuka                   Semantic flimflammery If this was such a heinous thing then someone should have said so when he announced repeatedly that he was going to do it Not waited until it happened and then blocked him for doing what others had encouraged him to do CBD                       I think the people on WTRFA and whatnot may have assumed his RfA was going to be a serious attempt at adminship rather than the attempt to troll which it turned out to be  Steel                   after edit conflicts reply to CBD Uh I didnt know he was talking a