Okay, erm, I deliberately didn't say this for fear
of being condescending,
but we're talking about username blocks here.
On 8/10/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Okay, erm, as a banned user, I am quite sure one finds out when one
clicks on an 'edit' link and then there's a big scary red block
message... or a not-so-scary blue block message.
Armed Blowfish
On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, actually, they'll know they are blocked
when they read their user
talk
page and see the notice, except in the unusual
case of being blocked
while
in the middle of an edit (and saving without
previewing.)
On 8/10/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Except put the template in the blocking reason slot, not the user's
> talk page. Users do not find out they are blocked by reading their
> talk page, they find out when they try to edit and they see the big
> blocking notices ([[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] and
> [[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]]), which display the blocking reason.
>
> Someone really ought to change the background colour on the
> Blockedtext to lavender (the pink is quite stressful), and get rid of
> all the stressful red Xs.
>
> Armed Blowfish
>
> On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had a quite surprising experience a couple days ago; I noticed a
> > [[CAT:RFU]] for one [[User:Badassfatass]], who had been
> username-blocked. As
> > is common in such cases, he yelled CENSORSHIP and HOW DARE WE. I
pointed
> him
> > to our username policies (the original blocker had neglected to put
the
> > username block template on his page),
and he said "Fair enough. I
will
> make
> > a new account with a reasonable name".
> >
> > I guess the moral is, "at the very least, please put up the
uw-ublock
>
template if you're going to username-block someone."
>
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