On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Why not go ahead and do the next logical step: Tell people to post their unblock requests to [[WP:ANI]], where they will be subsequently permbanned for "evading" their block and "disruption", and get their user page vandalized by an admin as a follow-up.
If you're blocked, you're not allowed to edit the wiki. I don't see how this is a difficult concept.
Well, you're allowed to edit your talk page (at least, at first). Is the AN/I page a grey area?
No. AN/I isn't your talk page.
Blocking, on a purely technical level, prevents an IP, username, or IP associated with a blocked username, from editing any page other than that username or IP's own talk page. To even edit AN/I, one would have to circumvent the block on a technical level, which in itself is prohibited. If we rewrote blocking so that blocked users could still edit AN/I, fine. But if you're blocked, you're not allowed to circumvent the block, which is a necessary precondition of posting on AN/I in the first place.