[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 11 Aug 2007 at 12:23:40 -0500, "Armed Blowfish" 
<diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The community denied my unblock-auto request, which makes it a
> community ban.  'If not one out of 1,298 administrators is willing to
> unblock a user, the user can be considered banned.'  See
> [[Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Decision_to_ban]].

But it's not your username, or you as a person, that's banned, it's 
merely the IP addresses of the proxy servers which are the only means 
you choose to use to access the site.  Thus, although this 
effectively prevents you from editing, it's not actually a ban of you 
personally.

If somebody is such a strict vegetarian that they won't eat anything 
prepared in a kitchen where meat is prepared, or somebody is keeping 
kosher so strictly that they won't eat anything prepared in a 
nonkosher kitchen, then such a situation means that there are many 
homes and restaurants they are unable to eat in.  This is not the 
same as saying they're "banned" from those places, however.  (Shades 
of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi.)

Perhaps it's even a matter of necessity rather than choice, as when 
they're severely allergic to peanuts and must avoid any food that 
even has a chance of having touched something with peanut residue; 
this may impose severe limits on what they can eat, and where their 
food may come from, but it still wouldn't make sense for them to 
claim they were "banned" from places that use peanuts.

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