User blog comment:-Algol-/Of policies, admins and the community/@comment-217683-20130129082243/@comment-217683-20130129231203

Isolationistmagi - the former. She specifically contacted people who had previously opposed similar proposals but who had since either gone inactive from the wiki or simply not bothered to take part in the discussion and vote. While she made no attempt to directly persuade them, the fact is that she only contacted people who were likely already inclined to support her.

-Algol- you first provided a link to one particular type of canvassing. Then, when another definition of canvassing was presented, you responded with "That is NOT the definition of canvassing. That is not what canvassing is. Check the link I provided earlier." So yeah, you did insist that any other definition of canvassing was not "the" definition of canvassing.

As for the FVAP reference - establishing that I do have some specialized experience in the field, specifically dealing with the type of canvassing your link referred to. Also, tooting my own horn.

As for persuasion, she went to someone inclined to side with her, someone who hadn't taken part yet, and said "I think you will want to see this". Now, do you genuinely think she only expected you to go look? Or do you think she knew you would go vote? Subtle persuasion is still persuasion, even if you don't realize you're being persuaded.

As for informing people a vote is ongoing, the issue is that she specifically informed only people likely to vote the way she wanted based on their past comments and votes. If she'd just told a random bunch of editors who had voted different ways on this issue in the past, it wouldn't be an issue. She deliberately attempted to sway the vote her way by bringing in folks from other sites.

I have answered your question as to why you aren't banned. You passed it along as requested by another user, with no clear pattern (that I can discern) of trying to inform only people inclined to support your position. You seem to talk a lot though about getting banned. Do you want to get banned? I mean, near as I can tell, you've done nothing wront, but we have banned people by request before. It's rare, but every now and then someone does ask us to ban them.