Corbett: they blocked the wrong sock

LOL, “holiday socks”.
This Crow’s Nest person on Wikipediocracy is an absolute riot:

[T]he only known long term sock to have played a significant pat in the saga of Eric, is George Ponderevo, his own sock. Or to give the official version, his roommate. Who just happened to have the same interests, the same associates and the same problems….

It is only now I look back at that sock’s stats, am I reminded what a wonderful escape for him it must have been…. He got blocked no less than seven times during the period that sock was active.

Not to mention, the sock had 22,958 edits, including 18 articles, in almost 2 years.

Yep, just like “protecting the wrong version”, they “blocked the wrong sock”.

The Corbett problem is really a piece of cake. And an SPI isn’t something that is easy to wiggle out of.  Corbett is undoubtedly socking somewhere right now, it’s the obvious answer to why he has been quiet so long.  And I bet they know exactly which one it is.  All they have to do is block the Corbet account and let the other account roam free.

Sure, Corbett is an interesting crank.  Who hasn’t really wanted to howl at the moon the way he does.  And he’s been single-handedly keeping the arbcom and the AE in business, with countless hours of popcorn, for ages, which would justify at least twice the salary they’re getting now.  Not to mention the constant stream of enablers, that must make for a fascinating case study of codependency.

But at this point he’s got to be miserable. It’s time to set him free.