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April 2012

Generaloberst

• Generaloberst (talk | contribs | logs | block | IP Check | vndl data | discuss)

Verdict	Incomplete
Action taken	None Yet

I'm making this case for Sexualharrison who thinks the discussion on the bottom of this page is hate speech from my side and that I should be banned. User:Generaloberst/s 13:30, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Stop reporting yourself to A/VB, dipshit. ~ _{16:18, 1 April 2012 (UTC)}

Pretty sure we've ruled that in itself as vandalism before if I recall correctly. -- Cheese 16:35, 1 April 2012 (BST)

Yeah, its the "Shitting up A/VB" rule. Excessive misuse of an admin page. ~ _{16:48, 1 April 2012 (UTC)}

He's already been wrist-slapped about self-reporting on A/VB once. Time for an actual warning? -- Spiderzed█ 16:59, 1 April 2012 (BST)

Considering Arbies is also an admin page. If you put aside the wiki's stance on free speech and just look at the fact that he's used an arbitration case opened to prevent harassment against harrison to further harass him and then consider self reporting on A/VB, I'd say he's up for a warning. Vandalism for excessive misuse of admin pages. ~ _{17:06, 1 April 2012 (UTC)}

Although I'm downright disgusted by the fact that Vapor calls it 'harassment' that I denounce the fact that sexualharrison killed several people (in real life), I want to say that everybody can see the page Spiderzed links to was ruled as not vandalism. So how is it not biased to bring up something like that? It is irrelevant to link to the page, as no soft warning was given. There is no form of 'wrist-slapping'. Same for Vapor, the case on Arbitration was never completed, therefore I never officially 'harassed' sexualharrison. So how is it possible to "further harass him" if I never did so in the first place? So also for you, how is this not bias? I think this is the great unmasking of both Spiderzed and Vapor. Now, I think I'm going to throw up. Go ahead and vote this vandalism. I don't even understand why I debate with morally sick people. You are inferior humans. I'm not going to look at this anymore. User:Generaloberst/s 19:11, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

The linked case was ruled not vandalism because it was deemed not to be excessive by the ruling sysops at the time. A/VB is the page used to report vandalism as defined by the vandalism policy. It is not Generaloberst's personal space for trying to expose bias within the sysop team. A/A is the page used to settle conflict between users on the wiki. It is not Generaloberst's personal space to further long-standing conflicts. I won't even get into A/PM, which I also saw as just another platform for you and your sysop hate. Learn to use the admin pages for their intended purposes or don't use them at all. ~ _{20:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)}

Excuse me, who says I'm making this case to proof that you're biased? I just said that you are. But I wasn't going to read here anymore. User:Generaloberst/s 23:16, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

LOL i think this is an April fools joke. --User:Sexualharrison21:13, 1 April 2012

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