On 5/30/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/30/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
When people ask me now what they need to do to prepare for adminship, I invariably have to tell them to do the vandalism thing, which they shouldn't have to if they're mature candidates and good writers. Then they risk not getting promoted because they blocked a vandal without using the right tags ...
That would be quite impressive. Generally it is quite hard to block people before being given an admin bit.
It's actually remarkably easy... [[WP:AIV]] gets good results 24x7 for deserving cases.
Indirectly blocking by bringing to someone else's attention after proper procedures are noted may not be what you had in mind, but I was the initiator for dozens and dozens of blocks there before ever setting fingers on an admin-enabled bit...