On 11 Aug 2007 at 12:23:40 -0500, "Armed Blowfish" diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
The community denied my unblock-auto request, which makes it a community ban. 'If not one out of 1,298 administrators is willing to unblock a user, the user can be considered banned.' See [[Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Decision_to_ban]].
But it's not your username, or you as a person, that's banned, it's merely the IP addresses of the proxy servers which are the only means you choose to use to access the site. Thus, although this effectively prevents you from editing, it's not actually a ban of you personally.
If somebody is such a strict vegetarian that they won't eat anything prepared in a kitchen where meat is prepared, or somebody is keeping kosher so strictly that they won't eat anything prepared in a nonkosher kitchen, then such a situation means that there are many homes and restaurants they are unable to eat in. This is not the same as saying they're "banned" from those places, however. (Shades of Seinfeld's Soup Nazi.)
Perhaps it's even a matter of necessity rather than choice, as when they're severely allergic to peanuts and must avoid any food that even has a chance of having touched something with peanut residue; this may impose severe limits on what they can eat, and where their food may come from, but it still wouldn't make sense for them to claim they were "banned" from places that use peanuts.