User talk:69.181.42.100/Cyberbullying

This edit made on 21 February 2010 is the last edit made by user Proofreader77. After this the involved admin removed his talk page access. She did it during the request for arbitration in which they both were major parties, and that was initiated to discuss prior unwarranted and overturned blocks of this editor the very blocks that were imposed by the very same admin.

The user is still blocked. Do you believe it is a case of cyber-bullying? 69.181.42.100 (talk) 16:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cyber-bulling is usually activity where new or relatively inexperienced editors are intimidated by more experienced editors through use of dismissive tone, sarcasm and a knowledge of Wikipedia policies and guidelines. The diff you posted above is waaay outside what I consider cyberbulling. This is a complicated situation and involves complaints at AN/I and arbitration along with five separate blocking incidents over a six week period. And this happened four years ago! The situation involving Proofreader77 occurred over multiple forums and involved a variety of admins and ARBCOM while the cyberbullying that I have seen usually involves content disputes among editors on specific article talk pages not these kinds of battles. It sometimes spills over to arbitration if it involves articles on particular topics (like pseudoscience or the Israel-Palestine conflict) but is normally confined to a topic area.

I don't have the time to go through Proofreader77's contribution history and see what set off this fighting with admins and claims of disruptive editing and even if I did, I don't think that would be very productive as it appears as if the door was slammed shut on appealing his indefinite block. Of course, every year there is a turnover on the AC and he might have better luck appealing the block in 2014 than he did in 2010.

I can't say whether all of the blocks were fair or not but, at this point, it's part of the user's history. A block log can't be changed, even if another admin believes a block to be unwarranted and immediately lifts the block, it's still part of the user's block history. I can only recommend trying another appeal but ARBCOM is not known for lifting many indefinite blocks, they are pretty conservative. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:24, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Proofreader was blocked by a heavily involved admin. Isn't that everything one has to know? Yes it happened a long time ago, but he's still blocked. It is not about punishing the admin. It is about making it fair for Proofreader77. 69.181.42.100 (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]