[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[Christiano Moreschi]

>From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames
>Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:49:37 +0100
>
>On 11/08/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/08/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> > I still feel banned.
>
>
>That's entirely up to you. Your continued use of the term remains
>inappropriately hyperbolic and fundamentally inaccurate, and you know
>it.
>
>
> > Does it really matter, though?  It could easily be a year before I'm
> > sane again, so I may as well be banned for a year at least.
>
>
>Wikipedia is not therapy.
>
>
>- d.

No, it isn't. The discussion as to whether you are banned (or not) has been 
going on for quite a while, and probably too long. It's getting boring. A 
community ban is when an admin blocks an account indefinitely and no one is 
willing to reverse that. Your account is not blocked. What has been blocked 
is a certain type of IP that we do not permit. Doubtless you have excellent 
reasons for using TOR, none of which interest me in the slightest. But you 
are not - quite definitely not - banned.

C More schi

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