Keitei wrote:
On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:42, geni wrote:
Editors are people. Being blocked hurts. Haveing your work deleted hurts.
Why does being blocked hurt? If a block is just what happens when you do such and such (like revert three times), why would that be a blow to the ego? You wait it out, you can edit again, no big deal. Ideally, you don't do anything which would lead to a block and nothing happens.
Being blocked hurts simply because it is a slap-in-your-face message that someone doesn't like you, and uses force to keep you out of somewhere. Many users get blocked but don't realise that they were violating some policy. Many users appear to regard the conflicts they get into as a mere disagreement with some opinion, and then if they get blocked it easily seems like the person is using their power unfairly to enforce their opinion and to suppress the user's. If you were a new user and you were to get that impression, I'm quite sure you'd feel hurt.
Timwi