On 11/4/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Geni is to be commended, not "suffer a penalty"!
Well, Geni seems like he's just a kid and I didnt mean to pick on him. I would prefer to have just let the issue go, but hes basically claiming that:
'I dont need to give due attention or make intelligent discernments when I take upon myself enforcer duties -- I just need to robotically respond to requests on WP:AN/I and hope that people are equal in tattling on each other.'
It's a pretty safe assumption. I've run across two cases where it was not the case (if we exclude false reports which are really a different issue). If you belive you could do a better job than me on inforceing the 3RR you were free to do so (technicaly you still are however I don't think it would look too good if you tried). A less robotic aproach doesn't help your case because I could take the following into account:
You are an admin and should know better You reverted more times The page is protected so CJK can't revert it anyway
Result? Well logicaly I should block you for longer than CJK.
Like you said 'the violations were minor' -- is this all because I argued with an improper block, one which Geni himself said was done improperly, and done under "time constraints", and limited only to "reported violations" (which was never in any 3RR draft that Ive read/edited):
I stand by my initial block under the 3RR. Yes I should have blocked the other party but it wasn't reported and due to time restriants I only cheak reported violations. I was contacterble by email for as long as the block lasted. Geni 10:08, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
You didn't argue. You pull the block. You could have contacted me by email. You could have contacted almost any admin by email (if you know of any any admins who can't be contacted by email please tell me so I can leave polite notes on thier talk pages). In fact contacting another admin to unblock you is probably the best move since I don't know of any case where an admin has not has thier block pulled early as a result.
Well, sure -- the case system is, just like Geni's inerpretation of the blocking system, means singling people out.
Singleing people out? I've probably carried out over 100 3RR blocks
And even though there were other policy violations, those can be overlooked because my lack of "gracefulness" tips the scales in your view. I'll go run and consult the Virgin. (Why not just add sarcasm to the charges?)
Because useing test would have to be outlawed.
-- geni