Your block will soon end and, provided your posts to
the list do not
continue to harp on being banned. your mail will go through and all
will be back to normal.
So let me get this straight, I'm not allowed to talk about the thing
that was my whole purpose in e-mailing this list in the first place?
Considering that 'blocked page' directly refers to this list, it would
make no sense to then censor discussion about blocks. Gotca, the
whole referral to this list thing was really just a farce to lure
users into the false sense that there might be justice for
malicious blocks.
You are also missing the point completely, it's about the block being
unjust and in not in accordance with wikipedia policy, it doesn't
matter that the lbock will "soon end" (which is actually 12 hours now
since the bug or whatever it was extended the ban wrongfully). But
hey, even if an admin overstepped their bounds completely, it doesn't
matter if the block is gone, right? And who cares about censorship?!
I also find it curious that not a single person has defined what
constitutes a personal attack yet. I think the admins knew all along
that they were acting in error, which is why I've never received said
definition or any clarification of any kind.
What do you call it when someone in an authority position enforces an
undefined rule?
I wonder if that will even come close to being addressed. It seems
doubtful since the arbitrators really don't actually care about being
just or enforcing the rules properly, it's simply a matter of how many
people you don't like you can get away with banning without a
significant backlash against themselves.
I say that in all seriousness true, the admins/arbs really don't seem
to care at all about justice, but rather saving their ass when they
act in prejudice. I think there is some sort of sense of infallibility
coming from the fact that their positions are pretty much ensured,
especially for arbitrators. I expect this to backfire severely in
about 5-10 years as Wikipedia gets more popular and more of the
general population becomes aware of this and people are forcibly
removed from their positions due to public pressure.
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Nathan J. Yoder
http://www.gummibears.nu/
http://www.gummibears.nu/files/njyoder_pgp.key
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