The question being discussed there is:
"Should a user's own talk page be considered differently? There has been discussion in past as to whether a post on a user's talk page, often in reply to a hostile poster, should be treated more leniently than posting elsewhere on other discussion or WP pages where dialogue occurs. Please indicate views below."
That is different from the question here (which is a subset of that one), which is how to treat blocked, or recently blocked, users who are venting on their talk page at the injustice of being blocked.
I would add that in this context, the "hostile poster" is sometimes the blocking admin making inflammatory remarks, or other users arriving to comment where they should stay away (I've been guilty of the latter, sometimes). There may be no hostile intent, but the blocked user can sometimes see the posts to their user pages as hostile, especially if they have just been blocked and are angry about it.
Carcharoth
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Durovanadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, a current poll is running 38-18 in favor of treating talk page incivility the same as incivility anywhere else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility/Poll#Should_a_user.27s_own_t...
-Durova
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:58 AM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
"Such an approach may be better than extending the block, since it prevents them acting up while blocked"...
Better: *"Such an approach may be better than extending the block, since it prevents them acting up and creating a spiral of increased problems for themselves while they are blocked." *
In simple terms, the aim is that users who would talk themselves out of a mild heated point into a major division and hardened stance, should not be pushed in the latter direction by punishing their ignorable anger at the block.
At the same time the preventative/deterrent purpose of the original block (intended to say "you can't act that way here") should equally be respected, and if their response is not so ignorable that should be respected too.
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