Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:15:02 +0100, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Given that this massive influx of annoyed complaints plainly demonstrates that users are much more commonly and much more seriously the ones that get annoyed, and supposing that the argument #2 is applicable, doesn't it follow plainly obviously that the admins are doing much more significant wrongs?
No. Because almost without exception the ones who complain loudly and bitterly are the ones who are *absolutely determined* that The Truth (TM) be told about some person, incident or whatever, and they are kicking back at the janitor who locks them out of the room in which they are trying to start a fight. That's my experience, anyway.
Oh, and what do you think makes them so determined? Could it be something they genuinely perceive as a wrong? Could it be that they are trying to be genuinely productive, and that from their point of view it is the admins who were "starting a fight"?
There are very few genuinely productive editors with a significant history of blocks.
That's a tautology. Someone who is blocked hardly has any chance to be (and, in most cases, any interest in being) at all productive. What percentage of people that are blocked and never return, would have been genuinely productive if they hadn't been blocked? How can you tell?
Timwi