On 10/11/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
The problem here is that a lot of people "are blocked" who really aren't specifically... anyone at AOL who hasn't already created a WP account and consistently logging in, for example, is blocked from editing a significant fraction of the time, due to rolling AOL vandal IP blocks.
Telling them that they're blocked if they click "Edit" is fine; that's a clear positive action intending to edit something.
A lot of requests that come in to unblock-en-l are AOL people who had clicked on a redlink and thought they'd been blocked from reading.
Any message for an AOL block should make it 100% crystal-clear that the block has nothing to do with them, will be very temporary, and will only stop them from editing, not reading. If it doesn't, change the block message.