slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
No neo-Nazis or pedophiles have been blocked because of who they are. A neo-Nazi was blocked for posting on Stormfront a list of editors he thought were Jewish. Another was blocked for posting on his user page an enormous photograph of himself in a uniform making a Nazi salute. Some have been blocked for anti-Semitic abuse. And someone has been blocked for posting a pedophile user box on his user page. These are all provocative acts that have nothing to do with writing an encyclopedia. People are being blocked for provocation, not for who they are.
That seems a false distinction to me---you're defining "provocation" as "stating who they are", but only for certain classes of users (saying you're a Satanist, Republican, or gay is ok, saying you're a neo-Nazi isn't).
In any case, do you consider any of these provocative? They certainly offend me, and are completely unrelated to writing an encyclopedia:
-- [[User:Striver]]: Numerous attacks on the United States; a bunch of 9/11 conspiracy theories
-- Many of the ~200 users including the userbox [[Template:User freedom]] ("This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned")
-- Explicit attacks on others' beliefs, such as the ~20-30 users attacking "Randroids" in one form or another, often accompanied by an X'd out photograph of Ayn Rand, a bunch of anti-Scientology users, and so on.