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::So, technically, that diff was a tiff of misunderstanding fixed within a few hours. It never happened. So I imagined, naively.
::Nope. It was precisely this one diff that, some weeks later, was cited as proof of my incivility in my permaban. The Arbcom editors looked at the diff, and ignored the whole subsequent discussions on several pages which led to the cancellation of my block. All this was done, amicably. The lesson I learnt that, even at the highest levels, where diffs ripped out of context, can eventually create an ostensibly impressionistic pattern.of ‘aggressive’ conduct, an editor’s log can begin to function as a [[The Scarlet Letter|scarlet letter]]. So that, at a glance, (no smoke without fire) exceptional lapses can give the impression of congenital 'aggressive', 'uncivil',
(5) I thought arbitration was to analyse past behaviour. In the meantime, as deliberations ensued, I wrote up the page on Susya, esp. on the synagogue there. As soon as I touched the documentary evidence for the eviction of local people 4 editors stepped in and edit-warred. Two turned out to be the same person, socks of each other and were permabanned just a few months later, though informally the fact was well known.
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