User talk:Justbc

Suspected_sock_puppets/Natster237
It is inappropriate to continue any back and forth conversation on a sock puppet report. If you have anything to say to me, please use my talk page. As for your question, I invite you to review Resolving disputes and Requests_for_mediation, although if you read the policies, you will see that they state very clearly that such measures are intended only for cases in which all alternatives have been exhausted. That is clearly not the case here. There is a simple alternative: stop posting insults and threats. The only thing I ever did to you was to accuse you of being a sock puppet, and I have evidence to back that up. Even if I am not correct, I have taken the correct steps by filing an official report and putting this in the hands of administrators. So that leaves my only supposed "antagonism" toward you as one comment, accusing you of being a sock puppet (before I filed a formal report; it took some time to read up on proper sock puppet reporting). If that was a mistake, it was still nowhere nearly as egregious an offense as your overtly hostile and threatening comments. So here's how this gets resolved: you can stop posting insults and threats, as I have not said anything that could be regarded as hostile since initially accusing you of being a sock puppet, so there is no provocation and certainly no justification for your continued hostility. I think this is a fair request. If you accept it, then we should have no reason for further problem. If you ignore it, I will be forced to report you to administrators. In the meantime, the sock puppet case is in the hands of admins, who know what they're doing better than I do. Feeeshboy 23:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Although I can not close the sock puppet discussion myself, I have asked the investigation to be withdrawn. I'm really tired of your baseless accusations and continued insults, even after I made it clear that no further hostilities were coming from me. The sock puppet investigation may have been a mistake, but based on the evidence, I really was convinced that another editor was posting from two different accounts. That accusation was hasty, but it was not an attempt to manipulate any result, nor were the "rules" you claim I have set. I asked you to bring the conversation out of a public forum and onto talk pages, and you did not, hence I continued to defend myself publicly against your vitriol. Given that you were brand new to the site when this occurred, you have probably not had a chance to read up on Wikipedia's guidelines, and you clearly felt provoked, so I forgive your continued uncalled-for insults provided they do not continue. In future postings, please mind the following policies:


 * The five pillars of Wikipedia


 * WP:Etiquette


 * WP:Assume good faith


 * and a fun one, No angry mastodons


 * Part of proper etiquette and "assuming good faith" is accepting that editors make mistakes from time to time, and that just because I may have failed to assume good faith once does not justify your repeated refusal to do so. You say that you intend to make positive contributions to this site; I hope you do, and I hope you find that the wikicommunity is full of a lot of great people, none of them perfect. Feeeshboy 00:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)