[WikiEN-l] Improper block redux
Kurt Maxwell Weber
kmw at armory.com
Wed Dec 21 15:24:56 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:56, Brock Batsell wrote:
> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Anyway, karmafist has now placed another indef block on me (because he
> > "didn't see it on the logs". This is getting ridiculous.
>
> I have discussed the block with several administrators and there's more
> history there than I realized. Your edits were disruptive, as I said
> before, and you had been blocked twice before for the same reason.
Yes, I have been blocked twice before for the same behavior. I resumed it
because, both times, after giving the involved admins plenty of time to
explain why my behavior was wrong, I got no answer; thus, I made the
conclusion that they had conceded defeat. I'm aware that karmafist has
accused me of simply "gaming the system" and trying to make him look bad; you
should be aware that he cannot read minds and has no way of knowing my actual
intent or motives.
I do dispute your claim that they were "disruptive", but that's neither here
nor there.
> Since you ignored the first section of my e-mail regarding the validity
> of your use of the word deletionist
The most recent email made no mention of that as far as I can see; the one
before that (which was received early Monday morning CST) I had simply
overlooked until now.
Anyway, if all that is necessary for a user to be blocked is for a particular
admin to assert that certain behavior is unacceptable, without having to
explain, then I am willing to put up with that. The lesson learned here has
been more one of how Wikipedia really works than that my behavior was wrong
(you're the only one who has made any attempt to explain why the latter might
be so, and you actually have a good point, although I have some issues I
would like to discuss with you in private if you don't mind).
If this is the system, I will work within it. Fair enough. In the end, it's
Wikimedia's property, and they get to set the rules, however arbitrary and
nonsensical they may be. The remnants of my earlier period of irrational
Peikoffism blinded me to that, and I alone bear responsibility for that. I
simply have to decide whether or not those restrictions are worth the
benefit. At the moment, they are.
--
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>
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