On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:37:51 -0500, "Parker Peters" onmywayoutster@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, plus, blocking is preventative. Is there a potential problem to be averted? Will blocking and then discussing on the user talk page be a better result for the project than letting them edit?
In the case I quoted, there was no "blocking and then discussing on the user talk page", there was instead "blocking and chain reverting the unblock template and then getting someone to block them for supposed template abuse."
Name names. If it was a Zephram Stark sock, for example, then that is absolutely as it should be.
Guy (JzG)