[WikiEN-l] Hardblocking usernames

[Joshua Brady]

RFC 1149 is IP over Avian Carriers not Carrier Pigeons, and is uselss
as RFC 2549 has QoS for IPoAC ;)

-Josh


On 8/11/07, Tracy Poff <tracy.poff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/08/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> A better example would be editing via the protocol set by RFC 1149: IP
> over Carrier Pigeon. We don't accept carrier-pigeon-editing from any
> editor, but that's no reason to say that Armed Blowfish is banned from
> carrier-pigeon-editing--everyone is, after all.
>
> > I still feel banned.  There is more than one option available to
> > unblock individual Tor users.
> >
> > I am, however, uncertain if I should feel complimented that people are
> > trying to convince me otherwise, or hurt that people said I was lying
> > about this.  : /
> >
> > 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.
>
> In some situations, "I still feel banned" would be the important
> issue. However, you were supporting a change to the way we notify
> blocked users based on an argument of 'I am banned, and this would be
> bad for me,' when you are not, in fact, banned; since the community
> uses the word ban to mean a certain thing, and since that particular
> definition was important to this discussion, it does matter that you
> use the same terms as everyone else.
>
> Tracy Poff
>
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