[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Timwi]

Keitei wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:42, geni wrote:
> 
>>Editors are people. Being blocked hurts. Haveing your work deleted  
>>hurts.
> 
> Why does being blocked hurt? If a block is just what happens when you  
> do such and such (like revert three times), why would that be a blow  
> to the ego? You wait it out, you can edit again, no big deal.  
> Ideally, you don't do anything which would lead to a block and  
> nothing happens.

Being blocked hurts simply because it is a slap-in-your-face message 
that someone doesn't like you, and uses force to keep you out of 
somewhere. Many users get blocked but don't realise that they were 
violating some policy. Many users appear to regard the conflicts they 
get into as a mere disagreement with some opinion, and then if they get 
blocked it easily seems like the person is using their power unfairly to 
enforce their opinion and to suppress the user's. If you were a new user 
and you were to get that impression, I'm quite sure you'd feel hurt.

Timwi