People need to put a valid reason in the box when blocking someone. All too often I see someone blocked with a message like "vandalism". How is a user, especially a new one, going to know what they did wrong if people are so unclear about it?
I don't think "block" is a harsh word at all, but the difference between block and ban needs to be explained more clearly in the help pages and the fact it's just temporary needs to be emphasized when blocking.
--Mgm
On 5/11/05, Deathphoenix originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Tony Sidaway (minorityreport@bluebottle.com) [050511 02:42]:
Joseph Reagle said:
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:16, Jim Redmond wrote:
Hmm... I can't come up with a single word that does better than "block". What about "administrative review"? "Temporary leave"? "Enforced hiatus"?
Sabbatical, mini-WikiHoliday?
"Crushed by elephant" works for me.
Or, for those blocked from wikien-l, "crushed by autofellatio". Or was that the people who subscribe to the non-digest?
You've been a bad widdle editor, and you have to sit by the wall.
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