Arcane Wizard

[Weregoose]

Regarding this post, I increased Arcane Wizard's warning level for the following:

[AlienCC]

Arcane was also banned from IRC earlier today for his behavior. IRC Log is attached, please refer mostly to 4:42:15 PM through 5:21:16 PM, and Arcane as user "krisk" if you would like to read the log.

[Weregoose]

A series of PM's (was I out of line, and if so, where; I already regret my last line):

[AlienCC]

I've sent a PM to Arcane in hopes that he will listen to me:

[alexrudd]

Who is Zeromus?

I'm going to suggest that someone other than Weregoose deal with aww. NOT because Weregoose is incapable, but because he and AW have had some friction between them lately. Further interaction will just make him more bitter.

And personally, I find the signature funny but agree that the custom title should be changed.

[Weregoose]

Zeromus (a.k.a. CDI) is the author of programs like Theta Fourteen and Metroid Pure.

The friction, as I perceive it, is his unwillingness to see or admit err in his
behavior, and he only clashes with me each time I attempt to address it.

[DigiTan]

I think Zeromus is Fred Sparks but I don't know what forum handle goes with that. The sig is pretty funny. The custom title; a little over the top.

[AlienCC]

I agree that Arcane has thus far not been very respecful of Weregoose by his actions of contempt and non-compliance. That is why I sent him the PM a few hours ago asking him to change the title. Normally I would change the title myself and send a warning but in this particular case I feel that would make things worse, and decided to give him one last opportunity to correct his behavior.

If Arcane doesn't comply with my request, then I sincerely doubt he will respect or comply with any staff members. One thing we don't need is another member who lacks any respect for those of us who are running the site.

[Weregoose]

[Darth Android]

He's using proxies to get around the bans, which means even as a server admin there's not much I can do. He can easily change his nickname, ident, hostname, and realname, which means ban evasion is easy if that's his goal. To actually keep him out, it would likely require we switch from inclusion to exclusion, simply telling the server to only allow registered people into the room. While that's easy enough, the trouble arises in (1) registering all of the members currently here and any new ones, and (2) automatically logging them in from the java chat, or allowing them to find out their password if they desire to use their own chat client. (2) can be done fairly easily, say, if we simply use the password that they used for uti, but this would entail sending the password plain-text embedded in the html (for the java chat, it would have to be passed as a parameter for the applet), which could be sniffed.

While weregoose's current method is semi-working (Arcane Wizard can't talk, except by changing his nickname, which is limited by flood protection to 3 every 5 minutes or so), it requires that there always be someone active in the room to voice (/mode +v <nickname>) anybody that enters the room

[Weregoose]

We can't compromise passwords, so keeping it this way is a fair solution.

I'll be sure to voice people as often as I'm on and it's needed.

What a cruel game for a previous staff member to revel in.

[Darth Android]

I feel the same. In the meantime, I'll ban the proxies he is using, one by one. It's a lot less work to ban a proxy than to find one, and hopefully he'll decide that it isn't worth it.

[Weregoose]

If that's equivalent to what I've been doing, then count me in to continue.

[Darth Android]

It is. I'll be using server-bans though, as ban-evasion is breaking a server rule

[AlienCC]

I had a chat with him about his recent behavior, we should see improvement now.

[alexrudd]

I'm not surprised by his decision to dodge the bans, but what did he have to say?

[Weregoose]

Update: Read this and below.

I don't think I was unreasonable with him.

[DarkerLine]

I think by now you're both unable to think straight about the issue, and equally blind to what the other has to say. Maybe Arcane is being unreasonable, and maybe you're being equally so.

Take a step back. As a staff member, you have the responsibility to make the wiser decision here. It is therefore you I appeal to, to stop this vicious cycle of arguments. WHY must you instead argue the semantics of the words "a" and "asshole"? Can't you see you're doing the exact same thing you're berating him for?

I feel confident that you can be fair in this situation. But the next time you post something you know will provoke a vicious argument between the two of you, please reconsider. Given the history between the two of you, you will both have the tendency to see each other's remarks in the worst possible light. Try to avoid doing this, while making allowances for Arcane Wizard's dealing with the same issue.

[Weregoose]

I'll take your advice and criticism. The best thing to do is not confront him for the little, diluted drops of poison that he leaves at places, and yet I have probably lost the approval to do anything at all if it gets worse than that. My problem: I've never had any training to deal with the sort of people who will say, "Stuff it," and then go back to whatever it is they were doing. Or worse, to go further and begin to deride me as though there is no validity in what I have to say. So, I did take it personally, and yet I am sorry for it; he left a real venom stewing inside of me, but I'll take what blemishes I have given myself and not approach this matter any further. (I'll be swallowing at that lump in my throat.)

[AlienCC]