User talk:Jim BeIl

I notice that only one month after the article 'jim bell' was created, user 'skomorokh' made an amazingly long and nearly uninterrupted series of edits to it, increasing the size of the article by approximately a factor of 10. When I (Jim Bell) finally showed up on December 26, 2009, I attempted to add factual information, and was quickly harassed by a series of 'reverts', done without obtaining the 'consensus' of the public (in violation of WP rules), with the reverter not even providing a consistent explanation of WHY the reverts were being done. Strangely, the 'revertor' involved was repeatedly 'Gogo Dodo', a user who (the 'history' seems to reveal) NEVER made even a single edit to the 'jim bell' article. I repeatedly was harassed, first by 'Dodo', and then by others, all of whom repeatedly disregarded my specific and detailed accusations against Dodo's actions. Soon, Dodo 'disappeared', and so far has not reappeared. It is a fact that I suspect that he was brought in for the specific purpose of harassing me, and impeding my ability to edit the 'jim bell' article. But then, he had to leave, because I continued to make specific accusations against Dodo, of his own misconduct. Other users retaliated against me, blocking me, apparently simply because I continued to object to not only Dodo's misconduct, but also that of other users who appeared (as if by magic) to back him up. (Since my edits to article 'jim bell' had been reverted days or weeks before, nothing that I had edited into that article ('jim bell') was even arguably available to justify blocking my access to article 'jim bell', let alone any other article.) Initially, I presumed 'good faith. But within a few days of December 26, 2009. it quickly became apparent that nobody showed up who was willing to even discuss the possibility that 'Dodo' had done anything wrong. (They could at least have added a semblance of credibility to giving my objections lip-service, but they did not.) The very few edits that I did, which (ostensibly) were in violation of some rules, were not claimed by any person to be 'vandalism', making the use of the 'revert' function (without first obtaining the consensus of the community) in violation of the rules. (I have learned, however, that there are many people who don't bother to even attempt to obtain any sort of 'consensus', even when they 'revert' non-vandalism edits. An example of such behavior is user 'Skomorokh', who seems to rarely seek, and virtually never actually obtains, consensus to do anything, at least on the 'jim bell' article.)  Evidently, the only purpose of the 'consensus' rule is to give some administrators a club with which to whack us ordinary folk over the head:  The 'administrators' never actually seem to obtain consensus for anything. It has become quite clear, however, that the people who showed up to back up 'Dodo' were not displaying 'good faith'. And, I noticed early on that Dodo disappeared, from whereever he came. Given that he was sufficiently uninterested in the article 'jim bell' prior to my arrival on Dec 26, 2009, to not even bother to make any edits at all, it is reasonable to at least suspect that 'Dodo' was 'on a mission' for somebody: This, I understand, is given the term 'meat puppet'. Given his subsequent behavior, and his too-quick disappearance, it appears that he showed up solely for the purposes of reverting my edits, and 'obtaining consensus' wasn't on his short agenda. Dodo arrived to carry out that mission, and he performed that mission, and then he left. So far, never to return. (Why should he? He did his job.) It is interesting to note that Skomorokh DIDN'T revert my edits. (as long as Dodo was around, Skomorokh didn't have to. And once I was blocked from editing, Skomorokh also didn't have to.   Hmmmmm.)   But, given the fact that he was seemingly responsible for perhaps 80% of the text on 'jim bell', quite possibly more, it would have looked rather unseemly for Skomorokh to revert 'all' attempts by me to edit 'jim bell'. Skomorokh couldn't act, at least not credibly: Then 'Gogo Dodo' showed up to do the task. I think that given the actual events since December 26, 2009, it would be quite fair to suspect, and even accuse, 'Dodo' of being a 'meat puppet' for SOMEBODY. Why didn't that 'somebody' do, instead, precisely what Dodo did? Why use a 'cutout'? (spy term). One possible explanation is that Skomorokh had already built up a valuable, long-term 'relationship' with the 'jim bell' article, and it would have appeared too suspicious for him to seemingly be in the business of blocking my edits. He would have ended up wasting a long-constructed 'personality', and there was no other person with that long-term relationship 'waiting in the wings' to take up where Skomorokh would have left off. In contrast, Dodo did the job, and left, perhaps never to return. (There is probably a special term for a 'throw-away' personality, but I can't think of it at the moment.) It is very likely what whomever Dodo was being a 'meat puppet' for, was a prior contributor to the 'jim bell' article. Based solely on 'volume of contributions', both in number and text quantity, the first person on that list was, and remains, Skomorokh. I invite the thoughts of the community. Maybe even a consensus! The way I see it, 'the community' would love, and might even be shocked, to (for once!) be asked to come to a 'consensus'! 71.36.118.206 (talk) 09:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)