It is not literal lynching (as in throwing stones at a person), but I am not the first to use the word in that manner. Substitute lynching for character assassination, if you will.
He was told (in 2017 and 2019) to completely avoid interacting with her and her content. The notice Fram posted himself was quite clear - don't report her content, don't edit her content, don't interact with her in any way.
That's quite serious. How does someone get a warning like that from WMF?
Your comment is problematic for responding to because it is not clear if it is asking a question (and which question) or is it trying to say something between the lines. But I will try anyway:
Essentially you are trying to say that Fram is a harasser because he got a warning from T&S. But that is not how T&S works. They (as far as is publicly known) react to any reports of misbehavior with (without investigation) trying to deescalate the situation by asking to stop interaction between concerned parties. Usually this only applies to Wikimedia staff, contractors, participants at Wikimedia events, etc. The fact that Fram even got a "warning" from the T&S is quite damning for T&S because they usually do not meddle in such stuff as was happening between him and LauraHale (for the uninitiated, she was writing a lot of, let us say it bluntly, crap articles and edits [0]; and he was, as a good editor, trying to fix those edits repeatedly), because of the implicated power that you can have over the Wikimedia communities by knowing someone on T&S and/or the Board.
[0] She was writing duplicate paragraphs and mistranslating from a language she does not speak in an absurd manner.
Edit: I deleted unfounded speculation I made against LauraHale. Sorry.
Cherry picking lines out of context. A poor counter-argument.
The statement before the one you posted was quite clear. Do not interact with her in any way. At all. Nothing. Don't even contact other admins and ask them to do it.
Then why did they clarify specifically that this was not an interaction ban.What was the purpose of both lines if they thought Fram did harass her and thus wanted to impose a interaction ban?
The problem with the accusation of cherry picking is that I don't have an issue if you would include the full text. In context it is pretty clear that what they wanted was to prevent any further friction between the two editors. If they thought it was harassment and they intended to issue a punitive action then they would have done that. WMF is quite cable to call out harassment without needing to wrapping it up with false statements of "To be clear, we are not placing an interaction ban" and "We remain convinced that it was not intended to intimidate or make her feel uncomfortable".
> who do not know anything about the case calling him a harrasser.
I know what I've been told by WMF, which is that he was a harasser and that en:wiki failed to stop his harassment.
I know also what I've read in the fram-gigantathread, where a bunch of admins describe him as kind of an asshole, and say that it's being going on for years, but then go on to excuse that because he makes a lot of edits.
> I know what I've been told by WMF, which is that he was a harasser and that en:wiki failed to stop his harassment.
There is another thing wrong with your comment: how could the English Wikipedia community attempt to stop Fram's alleged harassment if no harassment is known. Whether you want to sanction someone or just improve that someone's behavior, you have got to give an indication of what is wrong with their behavior.
> I know what I've been told by WMF, which is that he was a harasser and that en:wiki failed to stop his harassment.
> told by WMF
No comment.
> I know also what I've read in the fram-gigantathread, where a bunch of admins describe him as kind of an asshole, and say that it's being going on for years, but then go on to excuse that because he makes a lot of edits.
The truth doesn't matter anymore, they think we won't remember that time they joined in the free-for-all to say whatever terrible thing possible about the guy.
There is a war on between the truth and the sensation of the high horse.
