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Ever wondered how Wikipedia gets rid of unwanted conservatives? They have it down to a science. Liberal editors will harass the victim until he reacts. Then they use his reaction as the basis for a complaint to Administrator's Noticeboard/Incidents (ANI). Established liberal editors rarely get sanctioned for harassing a conservative, the situation has to be resolved somehow, so the result is often a "topic ban" for the conservative. At this point, Team Harassment smells blood, and more people will get involved. They accuse the victim of violating the topic ban so he can be banned from Wikipedia altogether.   

Ever wondered how Wikipedia gets rid of unwanted conservatives? They have it down to a science. Liberal editors will harass the victim until he reacts. Then they use his reaction as the basis for a complaint to Administrator's Noticeboard/Incidents (ANI). Established liberal editors rarely get sanctioned for harassing a conservative, the situation has to be resolved somehow, so the result is often a "topic ban" for the conservative. At this point, Team Harassment smells blood, and more people will get involved. They accuse the victim of violating the topic ban so he can be banned from Wikipedia altogether.   

I can't say what exactly I did to tick off Team Harassment in the first place. I participated extensively in a forum called "requested moves," so many editors were aware of my opinions on a variety of subjects. My views on diacritics, climate change, gender issues, and the use of disambiguation all provoked emotional responses. But I was well-established editor with tens of thousands of edits, and I was able to outargue Team Harassment in several ANI discussions. It took a year-long campaign of harassment to get me banned. Every time I logged in there was a new post denouncing me for something or other.

I can't say what exactly I did to tick off Team Harassment in the first place. I participated extensively in a forum called "requested moves," so many editors were aware of my opinions on a variety of subjects. My views on diacritics, climate change, gender issues, and the use of disambiguation all provoked emotional responses. Team Harassment got a topic ban for another editor named Goodday and then came after me. So there is no obvious link between the campaign against me and something specific I did or didn't do. I was well-established editor with tens of thousands of edits, and I was able to outargue Team Harassment in several ANI discussions. It took a year-long campaign of harassment to get me banned. Every time I logged in there was a new post denouncing me for something or other.

Finally, my case went to an admin named Ponyo. She is apparently high enough in the Wikipedia hierarchy so that she doesn't need to issue warnings before blocking or follow the other procedural safeguards. She imposed a a two-week block on me for "edit warring." Even her note explaining the block doesn't take this pretext all that seriously. It is mostly about other incidents that occurred months earlier. The only way she would have known about these incidents is if she had been recruited by a member of Team Harassment. Ponyo is a feminist, so she may have gotten involved in response to [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | this essay]]. I assume many of the issues used to harass me were just pretexts. After all, who gets excited about diacritics or Sino-Vietnamese characters?  

Finally, my case went to an admin named Ponyo. She is apparently high enough in the Wikipedia hierarchy so that she doesn't need to issue warnings before blocking or follow the other procedural safeguards. She imposed a a two-week block on me for "edit warring." Even her note explaining the block doesn't take this pretext all that seriously. It is mostly about other incidents that occurred months earlier. The only way she would have known about these incidents is if she had been recruited by a member of Team Harassment. Ponyo is a feminist, so she may have gotten involved in response to [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | this essay]]. I assume many of the issues used to harass me were just pretexts. After all, who gets excited about diacritics or Sino-Vietnamese characters?