[Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola
> <aaron.adrignola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the
>> English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse <! --globally
>> locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >".
> 
> These local blocks are made when the account has been globally locked
> by a steward (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SH#lock ). There can
> be no further undermining of local community autonomy, because the
> local account is blocked with or without an explicit local block. The
> local blocks are implemented automatically as a way for local
> communities to know the user is blocked, since there is no other local
> indication of the implicit block. 

I'm ok with those block, but if this is all you want, why isn't a short 
block enough? It would leave a trace in the local logs, although it 
wouldn't be displayed on [[Special:Contributions]].

Nemo