On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, David Gerard wrote:
Admins make decisions which affect the whole Wikipedia. Replace 'contains a Z' with 'contains a BADSITE' or 'has a spoiler warning' or any other global change.
No, you should definitely replace it with HITLER. That's a much more realistic analogy.
The question was "why should I care about blocking if I just work on articles"? The answer is "because admins may make rules that prevent you from working on those articles in some ways, under penalty of blocking". How exactly is that so bad (or so redundant) an answer that it needs to be dismissed with Godwin's Law?
(By the way, it's generally agreed that you can't invoke Godwin's Law by deliberately mentioning Hitler.)