On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:29:11 -0800, wikiuser@cyber-rights.net wikiuser@cyber-rights.net wrote:
FURTHER He's blocked me, and 350 other computers, for a month with no justification whatsoever.
Which "350 other computers" do you mean? Do you mean that you are behind a proxy of some kind, and that other people will be using the same IP address as you? This is an unfortunate consequence of the technical nature of the Internet, and there is little the management of *any* website can do about it: if it allows anonymous or near-anonymous contributions, and wants to block genuinely undesirable users (including those cases more blatantly anti-social than yours), it *will* end up blocking innocent users behind the same proxies from time to time.
for mis-using his position, and the $50,000 donated,
In what way does blocking a user make use of any of the donated money? Do you mean that the donation of money gives everyone the right to use the Wikimedia projects in any way they see fit? This is not an experiment in anarchy, it is a serious attempt to create something, so regardless of whether they are applied "fairly" (and in this case, I see no evidence that they were not) the use of rules, and a social and technical structure for enforcing those rules, is not only *compatible with* but *essential to* the cause for which people have donated money.
[I know: cue accusations of troll-feeding, but I was interested to work through the logic of these accusations.]