The question being discussed there is:
"Should a user's own talk page be considered differently? There has
been discussion in past as to whether a post on a user's talk page,
often in reply to a hostile poster, should be treated more leniently
than posting elsewhere on other discussion or WP pages where dialogue
occurs. Please indicate views below."
That is different from the question here (which is a subset of that
one), which is how to treat blocked, or recently blocked, users who
are venting on their talk page at the injustice of being blocked.
I would add that in this context, the "hostile poster" is sometimes
the blocking admin making inflammatory remarks, or other users
arriving to comment where they should stay away (I've been guilty of
the latter, sometimes). There may be no hostile intent, but the
blocked user can sometimes see the posts to their user pages as
hostile, especially if they have just been blocked and are angry about
it.
Carcharoth
Even so great a personage as Larry Sanger got hostile if you posted
anything too critical or argumentative on his talk page. Some people are
just that way. Better not to fight human nature. (Also better to never
give them the mop)
Fred
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM,
Durova<nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, a current poll is running 38-18 in
favor of treating talk
page
incivility the same as incivility anywhere else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility/Poll#Should_a_user.27s_own_…
-Durova
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:58 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Such an approach may be better than
extending the block, since it
prevents
them acting up while blocked"...
Better: *"Such an approach may be better than extending the block,
since it
prevents them acting up and creating a spiral of increased problems
for
themselves while they are blocked." *
In simple terms, the aim is that users who would talk themselves out
of a
mild heated point into a major division and hardened stance, should
not be
pushed in the latter direction by punishing their ignorable anger at
the
block.
At the same time the preventative/deterrent purpose of the original
block
(intended to say "you can't act that way here") should equally be
respected,
and if their response is not so ignorable that should be respected
too.
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