Your block will soon end and, provided your posts to the list do not continue to harp on being banned. your mail will go through and all will be back to normal.
So let me get this straight, I'm not allowed to talk about the thing that was my whole purpose in e-mailing this list in the first place? Considering that 'blocked page' directly refers to this list, it would make no sense to then censor discussion about blocks. Gotca, the whole referral to this list thing was really just a farce to lure users into the false sense that there might be justice for malicious blocks.
You are also missing the point completely, it's about the block being unjust and in not in accordance with wikipedia policy, it doesn't matter that the lbock will "soon end" (which is actually 12 hours now since the bug or whatever it was extended the ban wrongfully). But hey, even if an admin overstepped their bounds completely, it doesn't matter if the block is gone, right? And who cares about censorship?!
I also find it curious that not a single person has defined what constitutes a personal attack yet. I think the admins knew all along that they were acting in error, which is why I've never received said definition or any clarification of any kind.
What do you call it when someone in an authority position enforces an undefined rule?
I wonder if that will even come close to being addressed. It seems doubtful since the arbitrators really don't actually care about being just or enforcing the rules properly, it's simply a matter of how many people you don't like you can get away with banning without a significant backlash against themselves.
I say that in all seriousness true, the admins/arbs really don't seem to care at all about justice, but rather saving their ass when they act in prejudice. I think there is some sort of sense of infallibility coming from the fact that their positions are pretty much ensured, especially for arbitrators. I expect this to backfire severely in about 5-10 years as Wikipedia gets more popular and more of the general population becomes aware of this and people are forcibly removed from their positions due to public pressure.
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