Someone having a personal grudge against Arcturus does nothing to invalidate his actions.
Here comes one of my oh-so-popular analogies:
"I hate the person who murdered my friend's family on a personal level because of what he did." "I am sorry, you have no right to express negative opinion of that person because you are biased against him and I am going to have to ignore what you told me of his history simply because you aren't completely detached and coldly calculating to the situation."
Yes, there are a lot of people who do come across as if this is a personal gripe with the guy. The fact of how many people seem to take letting him back based on his history as a personal offense does MORE to discredit the decision to unban him.
Mr. Cullen said:
Would anyone who has strong personal feelings against arc, agree to someone else being a white hat instead of arc if they had done similar things?
I don't know Arcturus or any of the people I tend to disagree with personally, so I can't have personal feelings against them, but since I'm generally credited as being motivated by a personal grudge against some people I'll respond to this.
I have strong personal feelings against Arcturus' ACTIONS and HISTORY (since I can't have strong feelings personally against someone I don't know OTHER than what they have done).
I would be just as against making anyone a white hat who has gone to even half of the trouble to hinder this community that Arcturus has.
Acting like personal feelings have any bearing in this discussion, or quibbling over which of Arcturus' innumerable offenses are confirmed and which are not is just diverting the attention away from the facts of the matter. He has admitted to hacking the site on numerous occasions. Within the last WEEK he hijacked an Admin account and banned a user for personal reasons.
Any argument that he is trustworthy or has done anything to
deserve this community's forgiveness is stupid.