On 13/08/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/08/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Okay, so I am banned for using Tor and running a Tor exit node, right?
So can I pretty please qualify for emotional protection under [[Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Dealings_with_banned_users]], where it says, 'Wikipedia's hope for banned users is that they will leave Wikipedia with their pride and dignity intact, whether permanently or for the duration of their ban. As such, it is inappropriate to bait banned users or take advantage of their ban to mock them.'
You're not banned;
The community had a choice - they denied my appeal. However, that's okay. I got over that part.
you're not being baited or mocked. You're *voluntarily choosing a course of action* which leads you to get responses that you construe as being a) banned, and b) baited or mocked. If I chose that same course of action I would get the same responses.
There isn't a switch I can flip to turn of my paranoia - it isn't a matter of choice. And yes, there have been hurtful responses, and they continued even after I withdrew my RfA. It doesn't actually matter if they were meant to be hurtful, in fact I don't think they were, but they were hurtful all the same. 'for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.' -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Folio 1 (1623), lines 1295-1297
I am not the first to point this out.
We are here to write an encyclopedia.
Is it worth driving people over the brink of sanity just to avoid courtesy blanking pages that are not in the article space?
We are not here to spend hours endlessly adjusting the processes for each and every person who feels they can't work with the processes we have. There are ten thousand active and committed editors on enwp; why do we have to bend over backwards to accomodate the fact that you, alone in those ten thousand, feel you don't have to abide by our normal standards?
I have not attempted to circumvent my block/ban. And some courtesy blankings and deletions hardly qualify as bending over backwards - arguing about them on-wiki, as some have done, is severely hurtful to me and does nothing to help the encyclopaedia.
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Armed Blowfish