On 6/30/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
I created it to see what would happen if I kept increasing the font size. I kept it around because I found it amusing.
The moment something outside the encyclopedia space which you merely find amusing becomes disruptive and annoying to other editors, there's little justification to keep it around. Certainly disk space is not one. You could have demonstrated maturity and blanked the page yourself. Instead you reverted the MFD notice, put a big "jajaja" text on your user page, and commented on MFD itself: "If it crashes Firefox, maybe you should use a non-broken browser. "
Don't get me wrong. It is legitimate to experiment and try to determine whether there are HTML instructions that might crash or freeze common browsers. This should be done in a subpage clearly designated for that purpose, such as [[/Browser crash test]]. If you then can reproduce certain behavior, you can report a bug -- either for the browser, or for MediaWiki to filter these instructions.
Asking community members to help you with such an effort to test problematic browser behavior is a positive way to contribute on the technical level. What you have demonstrated, however, is not mature behavior, and I support the (one week) block being upheld for the time being, at least until you acknowledge this.
Erik