That may, strictly speaking, fulfill the requirements of the GFDL (indeed you could also use &action=raw&ctyle=text/css if you're techy), but it is the completely wrong approach by all principles of UI design and user expectation. (Notice especially that you admitted that, in order to see that link, you have to have your block renewed again...)
You're right about the UI thing, it's expected that things work a certain way--so expecting users to know abot that XML export feature isn't a safe bet (especially when that feature is only mentioned AFTER your block gets renewed). Plus there's the assumption that hitting 'edit page' wouldn't actually renew anything, so since that's the easiest method of getting the source, that's why I did.
He didn't even address the fact that someone may want to read the block page or again and that the person may not even know about the block yet when they hit edit.
I also notice that no one has made an argument for why it should work that way, since it's clearly only meant to thwart block evasion (which this is not a case of).
I don't think he's willing to acknowledge that it's a bug no matter what as he appears to be acting in bad faith. I think it's pretty clear that he's being disengenuous along with the other admins defending the same idea without valid justification (just childish retorts), so really it's insane to reblock me for calling an admin disingenuous when it's not only true, but is a description of their behavior as it pertains directly to the current circumtsance (read:not a personal attack).
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