User:Legacypac/AR

Worst admin in my experience

Although I long held the old patroller right, I happened to be inactive when NPP rights were grandfathered. I was invited to apply for NPP on May 29 [1] so I applied and Swarm granted NPP an hour after the invite [2].

In an ANi I filed about stalking I was experiencing [3] Arthur Rubin, on June 8, posted supporting a topic ban on me "Needs more work, but generally Support. Those moves I've checked are mostly clearly inappropriate and are mostly not adequately cleaned up. Unless it is appropriate to request deletion of the drafts, they shouldn't have been moved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthur Rubin (talk • contribs) 22:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)" though enacted due to comments like Rubin's the topic ban fails to be evidence based User:Legacypac/Promotions and is a more a punishment for speaking up about the harrassment I was suffering.

A few minutes before he also voted against an Iban in my favor "Oppose, generally per Lugnuts. I might have more to say about Legacy's edits, but that would be appropriate for another section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthur Rubin (talk • contribs) 22:02, 8 June 2017 (UTC)" the Iban was later inacted as a two way iban, when the harrassment continued.

These shadowing negative comments made him WP:INVOLVED.

Then June 11 Rubin revokes my NPP with absolutely no discussion or warning. He did not notify me in any way, I had to go figure out why the tools stopped working. He did this as an WP:INVOLVED admin. I question this and discussion ensues [4] where he refuses to provide evidence of wrongdoing. To each request for evidence he responds with more unsubstantiated attacks. Instead of supporting his attacks with evidence, three days later he posts in the ANi thread "Note. I removed his "new page patroller" bit as the bit was originally added as a "non-controversial" addition of the bit as a regular NPP, without noting that his actions as NPP were questioned at the time (in a different forum). I won't object if the bit is restored, considering his current activity. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:03, 11 June 2017 (UTC)"

There was no discussion elsewhere or in the ANi thread about my NPP abilities or competence before he took the right away. Therefore AR's post was a falsehood. As punishment for attempting to require WP:ADMINACCT Rubin wrongfully accused me of deceit at ANi in seeking the right, with zero evidence.

Also User:Swarm, who had granted me the NPP user right, commented extensively in the first ANi thread, so if Swarm made a mistake in granting me a right where there was some alleged cloud (he did not) the person to talk to is Swarm. AR did not restore the NPP himself, but based on his falsehood filled post, I requested NPP again via WP:PERM. My PERM request was denied on June 13 (see logs at NPP PERM if interested) User:Kudpung and User:DGG got involved and after a bunch of back and forth to explain and clarify over at PERM and AR's talk page my NPP request was changed to "on hold" and finally regranted on June 14 [5]. Massive waste of time. The last post in the AR talk discussion challenges AR to justify his accusations but he archived the thread without accounting. Any attempts now or in the future by him to attack my editing are just harassment. Based on this episode and prior interacts where he acted like a complete jerk, he's burned every bit of respect he may be due as an Admin from me. Further, based on his standards of proof for accusation, anyone should be free to make any nasty statement about AR with no expectation of needing to back it up. Seems only fair.

A few days later Rubin was inexplicably the only editor to oppose an interaction ban I wholeheartedly supported to end ongoing stalking [6] which screams Admin incompetence to me. Given his failure to substantiate all the baseless accusations before, we should not accept any explaination now. He's burned any chance he has to explain his WP:INVOLVED actions, and Personal Attacks without any basis.

I've not gone digging deep but my recollection of my only other interactions with AR was that several years ago he acted like a complete ass to me, with unsubstantiated personal attacks over some issue I was dealing with at ANi, so I was not at all surprised to see him attacking me in June 2017. He does not work on anything I work on, so these interactions are the only thing I know about his activity. He's an Admin though, so as a regular editor I felt it useless to take the issue to ANi so I could be abused some more. When I saw a report of Rubin abusing The Rambling Man in a similar way was I realized perhaps it was not just an issue he had with me but a pattern of abuse unbecoming an Admin. I also discovered WP:ADMINACCT and other policy right around that time which I was unaware of and see his treatment of me hits 4 out of 5 reasons why Admins have been sanctioned or lost their tools, which now gaves me a better basis to speak up. Legacypac (talk) 07:42, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

With the Arb case was accepted, I've proof read the page. Legacypac (talk) 05:11, 30 August 2017 (UTC)