Pete Bartlett wrote:
Arwel wrote:
I agree that all admins /should/ to have a valid
email
contact address, and really ought to be de-adminned if they don't
provide one.
Once again assumes that the set of all admins is equal to the
set of admins who get involved in contentious actions.
We really must stamp out this false assumption.
There are many many admins who never do something sufficiently contentious
to warrant the use of email. I personally have made admin actions numbering
in the hundreds and have _never_ been emailled about them.
We currently instruct blocked users to contact the blocking admin by
e-mail if they wish to dispute the block or find themselves blocked as
"collateral damage". For such people, finding that the admin who
blocked them refuses to accept e-mail is adding insult to injury.
I agree that, for admins who never block users and never perform any
even potentially controversial admin actions, an e-mail address is not
absolutely necessary. I do believe that's a rather small minority.
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Ilmari Karonen