Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jbhunley/Aux01

Copy of my last attempt to deescalate in the WO thread // Wikipediocracy Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:46 am

Collect,

I have not worked with MrX or any of the other participants in that case in years. If you would like to discuss things or comment on my on-wiki behavior I would be happy to engage with you on a talk page on Wikipedia. The civility norms there will help keep a lid on things; we will have diffs so we do not need to rely solely upon our years old recollections; and so anyone who is interested can follow our discussions on-wiki.

I was truely only responding to your implication of antisemitism here. At least two posters here found those accusations to be serious enough to comment on and one wanted a specific denial so I do not believe I was misreading the accusation behind your comment.

As to the other stuff, my apology for not cutting you more slack in the past was sincere. I know now more than then what a terrible ordeal that must have been for you and the unimaginable distress you must have been dealing with. If we could roll things back a bit to that apology and move on from there it would be great.

I remember the forumy (in a good way) discussions you used to host on your talk page and I enjoyed them a lot. We bumped heads, argued and even became angry but, usually, got passed it. I found the topics interesting and your commentary inciteful even when I totally disagreed. In particular I remember one that focused around some Princeton (I think) professor and his theory of 'reverse-authoritarianism'. I likely never would have been introduced to that, to me, utterly fascinating topic without your thread relating to it.

I am sorry things blew up and spun out of control so fast and for my part in that. The 'overwrought bitter asshole' comment was too far. We disagree on basic facts of our past interactions but those were years ago and I, personally, see no reason why that should define our interactions now or going forward.

I am getting a lot of blow-back at RfA for this thread so I am going to step away at a minimum until my RfA is over.

To the other forum members, I am not ignoring your questions and I will answer the still relevant ones once this all over, whatever the outcome. I hope you all enjoy the remainder of this nice Summer week... I am not entirely sure I will :)

-- Jbhunley