Let's not continue subject tags that imply someone is guilty. Most of the time it's a baseless complaint from someone who was banned or blocked for a very good reason.
I have changed the Subject in the e-mail thread as follows:
- Tag-teaming (was: Fvw's abuse of admin powers)
And when you reply to _this_ message, please strip off the part in parentheses, so it looks like this:
- Tag-teaming
Maybe the next reply can strip it off. By accusing Fvw of abuse I was making a point, and that point was not the Fvw is somehow worse than other admins, but rather to make the point that using a system to implement 24 hour blocks that for a long time has been known to routinely block people for much longer is an abuse of admin powers. Regardless of the fact that some oppose the 3RR rule, when the prescribed punishment is a 24 hour block, putting someone in a system that almost certainly will result in a longer block without careful monitoring and intervention by the admin is abusive. Of course having to track the times to make sure this abuse does not happen is a burden for the admins, and they should not be put in this position. The admins should insist the blocking software be fixed, or refuse to use it, rather than abuse either by intent or oversight. -- Silverback
On 10/6/05, actionforum@comcast.net actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
Regardless of the fact that some oppose the 3RR rule, when the prescribed punishment is a 24 hour block, putting someone in a system that almost certainly will result in a longer block without careful monitoring and intervention by the admin is abusive.
Oh this is surely an incredibly nitpicking attitude. If the block lasts a bit longer than you expected, you can go and read a book or a newspaper or something. Why the tearing hurry to get back to the wiki? The block is there to tell you to cool it.
You seem to be straining so very hard to find admin actions abusive, that you don't consider that the admin actions serve a useful purpose. That purpose is not to measure out time in equal portions, as an egg-timer might do, but to keep people who have been making abusive edits away from the wiki. . Were it not for the editor's eagerness to tear back into the wiki and perform yet another useless revert, he wouldn't have been blocked in the first place.