On 11/08/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
From:
"Armed Blowfish" <diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:02:55 -0500
On 11/08/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/08/07, Armed Blowfish
<diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Also, as a banned user, I must ask you to not
imply that
banned/blocked users 'deserve' to be banned/blocked.
You are not a banned user - you are a user who chooses not to use
access methods other than ones that are blocked with strong reasons.
That TOR is blocked is unfortunate and a pain in the arse, but that
doesn't make you a banned user, because you simply aren't.
- d.
Technically, only users who do not have ipblock-exempt are blocked
from editing via Tor.
I asked to be given ipblock-exempt... the community said no... I am
still not seeing how that is not a ban.
Armed Blowfish
Because we are not prepared to break the rules for you, because we believe
in playing fair. It is not a ban because you are able to edit the minute you
drop the open proxies. If you look at our other "banned" users, none of them
has such an easy (well, I don't know that) way back to editing. Ergo, you
are not banned.
Now, for the love of God, please stop going about this. It's fricking
tiresome. We're just going round in circles here, and we're not going to get
out of the circles, seeing as you're blatantly in denial.
C More schi
Another analogy: A guy has obsessive compulsive disorder, which he is
open about. (He does not, however, state the reason for his obsessive
compulsive disorder, which is that he was beaten many times as a
child.) Being obsessive compulsive, he keeps changing British
spelling to American. No revert warring, never on the same article,
but he does this many times. He can't help it - he's obsessive
compulsive. Aside from that, he does good work - he's written some
good articles and helps other editors as part of the Editor assistance
program. One day, he is indefinitely blocked for his continual
changing of British spelling to American. He appeals several times,
eventually up to RfC, but the community will not unblock him unless he
agrees to stop changing British spelling to American. He closes the
RfC early, being very depressed about it. He feels hurt that, in
spite of all the work he's put into article writing and Editor
assistance, all some people care about are his mostly harmless
spelling changes.
That's okay though, he'll get over it. Except people keep yelling at
him even after he is gone. They want to know why he is obsessive
compulsive, they say obsessive compulsiveness is bad. A lot of his
memories of getting beaten up are brought to the surface, and he can't
handle reliving those memories. Additionally, it feels to him as
though people are saying it is his fault he got beaten up. And for
some reason, because of his prior work in Editor assistance, people
keep asking him for help, even though he is banned. He is confused
about how it is possible to be a community mother and a banned user at
the same time, but he does his best to help them anyway. When he
thinks things have finally died down a bit, he asks for some page
blankings, but some people give him hell over one of said blankings,
and he feels like Wikipaedia will never leave him alone.
Subsequently, his head goes BOOM!
Would you say that he is not banned merely because he could get
unblocked if he merely agrees to stop changing spellings? Would you
say it is his 'choice', because he could stop changing spellings, as
though obsessive compulsiveness is something that can be turned off at
the flip of a switch? Or how is this situation significantly
different?
Armed Blowfish