Okay, erm, as a banned user, I am quite sure one finds out when one clicks on an 'edit' link and then there's a big scary red block message... or a not-so-scary blue block message.
Armed Blowfish
On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon user.jpgordon@gmail.com wrote:
Well, actually, they'll know they are blocked when they read their user talk page and see the notice, except in the unusual case of being blocked while in the middle of an edit (and saving without previewing.)
On 8/10/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Except put the template in the blocking reason slot, not the user's talk page. Users do not find out they are blocked by reading their talk page, they find out when they try to edit and they see the big blocking notices ([[MediaWiki:Blockedtext]] and [[MediaWiki:Autoblockedtext]]), which display the blocking reason.
Someone really ought to change the background colour on the Blockedtext to lavender (the pink is quite stressful), and get rid of all the stressful red Xs.
Armed Blowfish
On 10/08/07, Josh Gordon user.jpgordon@gmail.com wrote:
I had a quite surprising experience a couple days ago; I noticed a [[CAT:RFU]] for one [[User:Badassfatass]], who had been
username-blocked. As
is common in such cases, he yelled CENSORSHIP and HOW DARE WE. I pointed
him
to our username policies (the original blocker had neglected to put the username block template on his page), and he said "Fair enough. I will
make
a new account with a reasonable name".
I guess the moral is, "at the very least, please put up the uw-ublock template if you're going to username-block someone."
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