On 12/19/05, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Stephen,
On 12/19/05, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
karmafist has now re-blocked me, this time indefinitely. He and David Gerard both base their actions on totally baseless assumptions about my psychology, motives, and intentions.
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You don't seem to have been blocked indefinitely: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&u...
Unless your IP was blocked for trying to circumvent a block. If you want to dispute the block then take it to the proper channels, don't try to get around it.
Difficult as it is to defend Kurt, I was under the impression that this *was* one of the proper channels.
Don't we tell people, if you can't get a different admin to unblock you probably deserve to be blocked? Seems a bit unfair to then say to a blocked user that he shouldn't have come to a list he knows admins-other-than-the-blocker read and ask to be unblocked.
It is indeed a proper channel; it appears that I've been fooled by a lowercase k: It seems Karmafist blocked User:kmweber (with lowercase k), whereas I had only checked the logs for User:Kmweber (with uppercase K). You can't even check the logs for lowercase k, it puts it to uppercase for you. I don't even know if blocks still work when the capitalisation is wrong.
Anyway, since User:Kmweber was not blocked indefinitely, I presumed that Kurt must have had his IP autoblocked for trying to get around a block. That would have meant that he was trying to do something he shouldn't have been doing (evading a block) rather than engaging in constructive conversation.
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com