On 18/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That depends how you go about appealing. If you post hundreds on {{unblock}} tags to your usertalk page, and email wikien-l hundreds of times, yeah, people are going to react against you. If you send a calm email to an arbitrator explaining your case, they will open an arbcom case for you and you'll get your fair hearing (you will probably even be unblocked so you can participate directly - just don't abuse it, whatever you do).
(Note: That's the way to deal with bans, not blocks - if you're just blocked, arbcom is probably overkill.)
How often do you see an ArbCom case where the participants are *not* attacking each other?
File an RfAr, and you may never get it off Google, which is bad if you have revealed your legal name or a long- standing pseuodonym.