Well, actually, they'll know they are blocked when they read their user talk
page and see the notice, except in the unusual case of being blocked while
in the middle of an edit (and saving without previewing.)
On 8/10/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Except put the template in the blocking reason slot, not the user's
talk page. Users do not find out they are blocked by reading their
talk page, they find out when they try to edit and they see the big
blocking notices ([[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] and
[[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]]), which display the blocking reason.
Someone really ought to change the background colour on the
Blockedtext to lavender (the pink is quite stressful), and get rid of
all the stressful red Xs.
Armed Blowfish
On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had a quite surprising experience a couple days
ago; I noticed a
[[CAT:RFU]] for one [[User:Badassfatass]], who had been
username-blocked. As
is common in such cases, he yelled CENSORSHIP and
HOW DARE WE. I pointed
him
to our username policies (the original blocker
had neglected to put the
username block template on his page), and he said "Fair enough. I will
make
a new account with a reasonable name".
I guess the moral is, "at the very least, please put up the uw-ublock
template if you're going to username-block someone."
--
--jpgordon ∇∆∇∆
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