Actually, I was under the impression that our "policy" was essentially the opposite -- I certainly wouldn't tolerate a long rant about a block on a user's talk page. We tell blocked users to make their unblock requests succinct and neutral, and we disable the option to post to a talk page if the user continues to abuse their editing privileges, as Fred noted. In fact, countless MFDs have set a precedent that userspace isn't really to be used for rants or attacks of any sort.
- GlassCobra
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.comwrote:
I had thought we'd formally policyized the "please leave blocked users alone on their talk page and don't block them if they vent about the block (short of making threats against people, etc)", but I can't find anything on-wiki that has it in writing.
I know I've had discussions with people about it before and there was a general admins consensus that it was a good thing - but it does not appear to be written down in policy, guideline, or an Arbcom decision I can find.
Am I missing something, or did we really never write it down?
If we did not, we probably should rectify that, and I'll SOFIXIT - but I wanted to ping out to other experienced people first to see if anyone could remember where it might be written that I just haven't found yet.
Thanks!
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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