Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:14:51 +0200
From: [name_redacted] <[address_redacted]>
To: [furnet users mailing list]
Subject: [Furnet-users] Complaint regarding IRCOP behaviour

An open letter to the Administrators and Users of FurNet

I'm writing a complaint in regards to the behaviour of the IRCOP 
ZetaWolf on Furnet. Today, I was issued an akill ban from FurNet for 30 
days on grounds which are unknown to me, although I have my suspicions, 
and through a third party, have determined that I 'was issued a warning 
and failed to follow it'. I made an attempt to contact ZetaWolf after my 
ban to confirm that he is the issuer of my ban, and to ask why it was 
given. Important to my point is that I am certain that ZetaWolf issued 
the ban, and that no reason was provided.

Therefore, I am going to write my personal deductions and conclusions 
for your consideration.

Today, I gave a 1h channel ban on #maleyiff to a user "Deek", for light 
behavioural misconduct. It was a mutual understanding that the ban would 
be lifted automatically by my authorised bot (Woofer) after this period, 
and that it was approved by the channel owner (L0ne_W0lf). I am fairly 
certain that this is the reason for ZetaWolf's banning of me, for it is 
I who issued the ban command in the channel. Furthermore, no discussion 
or warning was issued by the IRCOP that my actions would consequently 
cause a network ban, today or previously (although I was 'warned', read, 
threatened, several times in SecondLife for unrelated matters).

To my knowledge, it is FurNet policy that IRCOPs do not interfere with 
channel politics. I am hereby accusing ZetaWolf of:

- Not adhering to FurNet policy which as an IRCOP he ought to be 
responsible for upholding, as expressed on 
http://www.furnet.org/index.php?page=Furnet%20Code%20of%20Conduct%20for%20IrcOps
- Petty personal vendetta, bullying
- Abuse of administrative rights
- Unfair, prejudicial and immature treatment of other users in matters 
that are of no direct concern to him.

Additionally, this is not the first time this has occurred. I was also 
issued a 30 day ban from FurNet in 2006 by the same IRCOP for reasons 
that are similar to the above.

ZetaWolf has a personal dislike of me for drawing attention to his 
tyrranical behaviour, neuroticism, and irresponsibility in areas inside 
and outside FurNet. He has misused his administrative rights in other 
communities where he has acquired responsibility, possibly to other 
users beside me (shortly; anyone who disapproves of him is childishly 
erased from the area as a form of punishment). ZetaWolf seems to think 
that it is his right and duty to belittle, patronise and intimidate 
others in his role as an IRCOP based solely on their personal 
relationship with him, and that in punishing someone by banning, he is 
exercising an objective sense of justice - when quite simply, he is 
casting his puerile revenge on me through his proud and egotistical 
aggression and clear abuse of his privileges. Furthermore, his 
incompetence in issuing these bans has inadvertantly denied the access 
of other unrelated users to FurNet (others accessing through 
huskion.net, or, as in 2006, any one of a dozen or so users on tpnet.pl, 
the most popular ISP in Poland).

Quite simply, my concern is that ZetaWolf is a *bully* and I am 
exhausted by him. He has no place being in charge anywhere.

My requests are as follows:

I would like ZetaWolf to be removed from the ranks of IRCOP and any 
positions of responsibility he may hold that would allow him to wreak 
his repeated disgraceful illegitimate transgressions towards users 
acting fairly, respectfully and in dignity.
I would like my access to FurNet restored quickly, and to have some 
reassurance that an incident like this will not take place again without 
good reason. I am not a troll nor am I a wrongdoer or a pest, and I have 
no intention of disrupting the network's services, so I am of the 
opinion that this should not be a problem. How I operate in a channel in 
which I have been given a position of trust by its owner should not be 
the concern of an IRCOP who is not present in the channel. There are 
users on FurNet that can vouch for my positive behaviour, with names 
upon request.

In conclusion, I invite you to investigate this situation and to come to 
a decision that is ultimately fair to the greater majority, and I invite 
anyone else on this list who has any qualms about this particular 
IRCOP's behaviour to speak up.

Yours respectfully,

[name_redacted]
hostmask ~[address_redacted]
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