I asked the admin who blocked the guy for his reasoning, and on my talkpage, he wrote the following:
--- It's a username that promotes illegal activities and can be seen as an invitation to vandalize the site. Also closely resembles the disruptive "let's vandalize wikipedia" and "let's fuck and rape admins" accounts which are typically blocked automatically within seconds of creation. Basically I'd block anything that started with "Let's" on general principal, because it's probably another sockpuppet of the same select few individuals. Mar. 5, '06 [07:00] <freakofnurxture|talk> ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anittas&redirect=no
It looks like Mr. Jimbo hired cops to go after Wikipedians that promote "illegal" activities, tho I'm not sure where these illegal activities are illegal. USA, Netherlands, the Moon?
Anittas.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anittas"
--- Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
On Mar 3, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Bacchante Maenad wrote:
Almost immediately after creating account for what
would be my
first time editing wikipedia an admin blocked me
indefinitely.
username : Let's Get High And Edit Wikipedia IP : 69.60.118.148 Reason given "stoner..." by
"*Freakofnurturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Freakofnurture"
This admin describes himself as pissed off and
also proudly displays a
widget that says he does not do any drugs. I had
the impression,
perhaps wrongly so, that wikipedia was supposed to be more
of an open
atmosphere where there isn't such a heavy hand with admin
powers. In other
words, a place where someone's first visit isn't met with
an insult (stoner) by
someone claiming to be angry, pissed off and a
judeofacist
(whatever that is, but it doesn't sound too nice). I really do
not see what the
problem with my username is. It is silly, perhaps, but
not offensive.
Thank you
I'd like to take this opportunity to admonish Freakofnurture for biting a newbie. That said, I don't think his user name is really that offensive or problematic either, but I don't feel strongly enough to think we should accept it. Still, username aside, we definitely need to do something to make this user feel comfortable and welcome again.
-- Philip L. Welch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch
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