Tom Haws wrote:
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
I had to join this mailing list (which honestly I'd rather not have cluttering up my in-box) to get ANY communication with the community.
This seems somewhat self centered. How do you think the list enjoys being cluttered? Yesterday was oh, so nice and quiet. It is rather disrespectful when users hijack the list for personal grievance airing.
That seems somewhat self-centered. You want a public forum quiet while people are being denied their rights? I have to do my business where I must, and then leave.
I was able to send "user email", but have as yet received zero response, and expected none from people whose intent was to railroad me.
I know that we have said we don't want to encourage shopping for admins. But in a case like yours, I think the best course of action is to shop for an ombudsman admin rather than to take your personal grievances to the list. We need to do something to make this clear to blocked users so this list doesn't continue to be bloated with internecine bickering about wars that should be resolved on talk pages.
As I've pointed out, "ketcheh-twenty-two". This is the only place to get a soapbox once the block is in place. If it were a message board it would be hierarchically organized and we wouldn't have to act to delete threads we aren't interested in. That it's still a mailing list implies a great deal of slothful acceptance of the status quo.
--Blair