At last!

Tonight, I bask in the rays of joy and happiness that flow from my monitor, for Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick has been blocked at long last.

The day started with relatively new user Arny saying that he supported a block on EtOT, because he believed EtOT was more responsible than The Great Deceiver for all the arguments we have seen lately. You will never guess what happened next... EtOT got upset! In a post with an edit summary of "Arny, your suggestion is ridiculous", EtOT tells Arny that he "should keep out of such debates".

Arny replies, and points out that EtOT should already have received a block for his persistent violations of policy. EtOT obviously thought about this carefully, considered his behaviour and replied in a calm, thoughtful manner that.... oh who the hell am I trying to fool? He vomits a mass of diffs over the page, accusing Arny of playing the ''ignoratio elenchi'' game (irrelevant thesis - and BTW, EtOT, I thought one of your arguments was that only TGD and I use Latin?) then adds Arny's name to his insulting list.

At this point, the Powers step in. Timenn had warned EtOT before about dismissing the views of other users so gives EtOT an official warning for doing it. EtOT reacts with his usual politeness. Timenn replies and EtOT whines some more.

Meanwhile, Michaeldsuarez pops up on the Administrator Noticeboard talking about EtOT's record on Wikipedia. EtOT feels he has to respond ("How does my WP behavior have any bearing on this matter?" Answer: because you were a dick there and you're a dick on UESP too), and MDS replies.

MDS then makes a very good point that EtOT is acting like Dr. Jones, who once had an insulting list of his own. EtOT misses the point, and MDS points out that Dr. Jones was blocked, largely because of the list. EtOT tells him to "GTFO" before moving the debate to MDS' own talk page and telling him to "stay out of it".

Then, we have the golden moment. Nephele blocks EtOT for a week for "Repeated harassment of other users despite being warned just hours ago to stop". She then goes on a cleaning spree, removing all the nonsense EtOT has added during the day.

So there we have it. The whole process has taken far too long and it should have been done some time ago, but he has finally had his block. Something tells me we haven't seen the end of Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick, but at least we don't have to put up with him for a week.

S'drassa for Patroller?

So far, GK's nomination of S'drassa (static link 'cos it'll be archived soon) looks like going through but not without three "no" votes. Let's take a look in, because I feel like it, reverse order.

ModderElGrande stated that S'drassa doesn't have the experience, but that's not the reason. MEG tried to post his own mod on the site, with no discussion and in totally the wrong way. When he started whining about this, it was S'drassa that stepped up and slapped him for it. This led to MEG posting this on S'drassa's talk page and then the official oppose. This oppose, in other words, is motivated by personal dislike.

Next, we see serial annoyance Michaeldsuarez step up. MDS is obviously dedicated to detail. So much that he can't even be bothered to look at S'drassa's user page and so calls him "she or he". MDS is a serial troll, both on UESP and elsewhere, largely caused by his previous rejection from UESP. Another oppose motivated by personal reasons.

Lastly, we have Elliot the Thick. EtT's post is a classic from that user. First, he acknowledges that the rules that let him (EtT) become a patroller are ridiculous, then he says that because of this, S'drassa should be prevented from joining the gang. EtT's entire justification seems to be that because EtT turned out shit with so little experience, everybody else will too.

Well there we have the current state of play. Currently, S'drassa is sailing towards Patrollership with only those three "Oppose" votes. UESPwatch's own opinion is that any user that can even get TGD and RtV on the same side has got to be pretty good.