On 5/10/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
We currently instruct blocked users to contact the
blocking admin by
e-mail if they wish to dispute the block or find themselves blocked as
"collateral damage". For such people, finding that the admin who
blocked them refuses to accept e-mail is adding insult to injury.
Do you agree with me that email is not necessarily a quicker way to
reach certain admins? I can't be the only editor who checks my
Wikipedia mail more frequently than my email? :)
I agree that, for admins who never block users and
never perform any
even potentially controversial admin actions, an e-mail address is not
absolutely necessary. I do believe that's a rather small minority.
A simple solution: if a user complains that they couldn't reach an
admin because he hadn't validated his email address, *and* that admin
had already been warned about it, then punishment (desysopping,
temporarily or permanently) could be discussed. Otherwise, it seems
excessive.
Steve