User talk:Just Step Sideways

Welcome to my talk page

I prefer to keep conversations in one place in order to make it easier to follow them. Therefore, if I have begun a conversation with you elsewhere, that is where I would prefer you reply and is probably where I will reply to you.

If you have a question or comment about an arbitration matter it would probably be better to post it at the relevant case page or the ArbCom noticeboard unless it is specifically about my own actions.

I am an oversighter, but I will not be very active in that capacity during my term on the Arbitration Committee. If you need to request oversight, following the process at WP:RFO is the best route to getting your request handled in a timely fashion.

Do you actually want to be blocked? I'll consider your request iff you meet my criteria, Click here to see them.

Insight

I think I may have told you this one time, but I am interested in perhaps being an administrator someday. But I wanted to ask you this: Is it a stressful job? Do you come home from work assigned to a second, possibly more stressful job as a WP administrator? — Confession0791 ^talk 00:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are certainly times when it is like that, but admins are as free as anyone else to simply go do something else if WP is stressing them out. I can tell you that WP:RFA is probably more stressful than actually being an admin. It is sort of a torture test, if you can get through it you probably have thick enough skin to be an admin and put up with people being hypercritical of everything you do. Each admin's experience is colored by what area they choose to work in. For example, if your focus is on purely technical maintenance work you are or likely to be "under the radar" than an admin who deal mostly with behavioral problems at WP:ANI or closes lots of discussions such as at WP:AFD. Several of my colleagues at WP:ARBCOM are of a more technical bent and the least three months have been a sort of baptism of fire for them as to what it is like to work with/around highly problematic users. They seemed more upset than I was when a banned user threatened to have me killed after breaking all my bones and removing my genitalia. Having been a admin who has dealt with the full spectrum of behavioral issues over a period of about five years it was just another day at the office. So, it's highly variable. Some admins will take a break from admin tasks for a month or two and concentrate on content work, or their own real lives. It's all about what choices you make. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:28, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose this is where not giving a fuck comes in handy. Otherwise it would be too stressful for me. :) — Confession0791 ^talk 20:20, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discretionary sanctions 2013 review: Draft v3

Hi. You have commented on Draft v1 or v2 in the Arbitration Committee's 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions system. I thought you'd like to know Draft v3 has now been posted to the main review page. You are very welcome to comment on it on the review talk page. Regards, AGK [•] 00:23, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DrChrissy's Censorship case was closed shortly without outsider comments

I reported DrChrissy and her gang's censorship to DR, but it was closed shortly without any outsider comments. what is the next step?124.170.231.48 (talk) 06:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]