[WikiEN-l] Do NOT appeal bans, for your own sake (was Re: Admins who do not have email this user enabled (list inside))

[Vee]

On 16/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Come to think of it, appealing blocks of
> any kind can often result in being attacked.
> Therefore, my advice to blocked or banned
> users who have disclosed their real name or
> a long-standing pseudonym is this:
> DO NOT APPEAL.  Simply request any
> courtesy blankings / deletions you want,
> hoping that by not appealing you don't
> become 'notable', by some odd defintion
> that Wikipaedia uses as a justification for
> destroying the online and offline reputations
> of banned users, and then go poof!  Unless
> your requests for courtesy blankings and
> deletions are refused, or worse yet
> responded to with more attacks, in which
> case I guess you are screwed.
>  blah blah
>

Oddly enough I actually agree with this. If I was banned I wouldn't kick up
a huge fuss fighting it (even if it really was unfair) because in those
cases people tend to react against you even more and you'll never hear the
end of it. Best to just drop it and move on.