Requests for Comment/Review exception to LP ban and reban them

As the Miraheze community is aware, we had a longtime problem child named Lawrence-Praries who turned out to be a long time troll from Wikipedia who impersonated authority figures, disrupted the day to day operations both here and there, proved to be hungry for power which was then abused to make changes that would compromise the security and privacy of Miraheze for their own personal preferences, sought changes in policy that would effectively insulate them from consequences, and often claimed harassment and personal attacks when they or their sockpuppets were accused and later proven to be abusive, with their final attempt at trying to remain under the alias "Amanda" was defeated and they retired the field before they could definitely punished under that alias as well, at least in any permanent sense.

This previous RFC has all the details. What spurred this RFC can be found here.

It bears mentioning throughout the previous RFC that all actions that defined the abuse of LP and all actions they took under that name and various aliases to deter or avoid consequences have been demonstrated by "Amanda" to date, and thus their stories of being separate people on the same IP range are highly suspect at best.

After that ended in ignominious stalemate, LP launched a sustained campaign of harassment and abuse against the Miraheze service, including repeated and sustained assaults at this wiki, abuse of services like Phabricator and GitHub, and essentially committed digital terrorism to force a rescinding of being made to pay for all the nonsense they pulled under their previous identities.

Eventually, against what appears to be all common sense and reason from my view, the decision to allow the identity of Amanda back was allowed, and since then they have been absolutely nothing but the same pain in the backside to the wikifarm they were under all their previous identities, which contrary to all these protests to the contrary, are entirely consistent with the behavior of LP and their aliases on Wikipedia to date, and they have resumed the same pattern that led to their expulsion before, just with minor attempts to remain slightly more subtle about their previous foolishness, which include:


 * Demanding unreasonable changes to security procedures and attempts to compromise security of Miraheze to suit their own paranoid whims.
 * Abuse of other people's comments and talk pages, often removing commentary they did not like despite repeated attempts to tell them to stop by both users and staff.
 * Open and repeated attempts to seize power at any and all levels and to "backseat moderate", even though this has been met with condemnation from both users and staff.
 * Making arbitrary attempts to force changes through Phabricator and Github and reacting capriciously when they were challenged, which included various attempts to weasel around rejected attempts to try again, open contempt for certain users and even staff despite the legitimacy of their concerns.
 * Repeated establishment of wikis that appear to be little more than stubs at best which they guarded as jealously from view and arbitrarily blocked users from for personal offenses, and which before their attempts to block myself and other users as deliberate payback for anything they deemed fit (even if it was opposing them on certain measures others reasonably believed harmful to Miraheze), it can be determined they acted in the exact same manner under both previous and current aliases, which is to say paranoid, power hungry, and controlling.
 * It should be further noted some of their wikis here host content that has high overlap with content that got them banned as I Love Bridges, which is now not viewable to me as a direct consequence of my pointing this very fact out with evidence to back up my concerns.
 * Desiring to do everything in their power obfuscate their internet protocol address and other technical means of identifying themselves to establish they are not associated with problem users, even though their excuses for doing so have remained inconsistent and have merely served to frustrate any technical analysis of their contributions to prevent malicious use, even though the practical result of the tenures of LP and their aliases and the current one of "Amanda" have a very high overlap in function and intent, despite protests they are separate people, and they have provided no means, even in the strictest of confidence with Miraheze Staff, to allow for a reasonable determination of fact.
 * Attempts to restructure the rules and functions of Miraheze have remained consistent between all aliases, all with the goal of effectively rendering this user under all known aliases from immunity to consequence for their actions, especially attempts to deny and undercut the police power of any user or staff who might wish to restrain them for any number of reasonable purposes as determined by policy.

For the above and other reasons, I contend "Amanda" is but "Lawrence-Praries" under yet another guise and should thus be banned, definitively and irrevocably for the safety of the service and the harmony of the community, and this decision should be final and binding for now and in the future, no matter what terrorism may result from that action as a result, for which it can always be curbed and controlled by Miraheze Staff using current infrastructure.

I further contend all their excuses to the contrary of this belief do not add up for both technical reasons nor for those analysis of data both here and on Wikipedia would argue otherwise, and that their explanations for any discrepancies have been but fabrications and misdirection in order to continue using this service for ends at odds with the general spirit, intent, and purpose of Miraheze as a whole, and they should thus be stripped of any power, even as a regular user, and permanently barred from this service for life.

Their wikis should be closed and removed, and as a courtesy I would be in favor of allowing them to obtain dumps of their content (owing to their small size) for archival and rehosting at other services more willing to suffer their presence, but any largesse past that point should be nothing.

Overall, I believe this user to be nothing but a net and gross negative to the staff, community, and service of Miraheze, and I seek community consensus they should be expelled once more, this time with much more finality than before, and this time it should be made much more binding.

Support

 * : As creator of the proposal, for reasons outlined in the preamble. GethN7 (talk) 11:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)