The "user is blocked" message says: "If you believe that our blocking policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the WikiEN-l mailing list." This does not mean you have the absolute right to disrupt the mailing list by spamming it with numerous demands to be unblocked.
As usual, there is a lone voice bleating away about administrators being 'rogue' and being "more interested in hiding what they do and preventing users from reporting them than they are in following policy". Of course, we could be authoritarian and point out to these users that nobody has "the right" to edit Wikipedia, except where allowed by the Wikimedia Foundation. We could point out that it is the administrators who, day in, day out, have to delete the tonnes of vandalism, block the spambots and deal with petulant wankers with too much time on their hands and decide to pass the time by disrupting Wikipedia as much as possible. But people probably wouldn't care.
Wikipedians don't take kindly to insults, against ourselves or against other decent users. Enviroknot has blown his chance to get any sympathy or recourse from the mailing list by making wild accusations and failing to address the actual reasons behind his or her actual block.
~Mark Ryan WikiEN-l administrator
On 5/31/05, Cranston Snord enviroknot@hotmail.com wrote:
Well, there's a vote for Wikipedia policy meaning nothing.
I bring complaints to this list because it is my only recourse under Wikipedia policy. The fact that you are talking about blocking me off indicates only that you are a Rogue Admin as well.
She broke policy. Good-faith edits are never reverts, and she knows that, but she did it anyway because she intends to persecute me.
-Enviroknot
From: Matt Brown morven@gmail.com Reply-To: Matt Brown morven@gmail.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: slimvirgin@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] cool it Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:16:11 -0700
On 5/30/05, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone who wants to check this block is welcome to do so. The details are at [[WP:AN/3RR]] under [[User:Enviroknot]].
I truly hope that the only reason he is being permitted to mail to this list is because of the amusement factor. I seriously doubt anyone, except the usual suspects, is giving his accusations any serious consideration.
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