On 11/21/07, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
"You can still read pages, but cannot edit, change, or create them."
"Them" seems right, since we're looking at a plural noun... I think, but I make my share of grummur mistakes.
That's not what I was getting at. I just find the juxtaposition of "read" and "create" odd - because in the second case, the page doesn't exist, so how could you have read it? It's like "can you put the lights and the cat out?" - to some people it seems really strange, other people find it ok.
When I read it now, it seems less strange than it did before, so it's probably ok.
One other thing that may be worth discussing, in the "Oops! You are currently unable to..." -- the "Oops." Good idea, bad idea? I personally like it as an opening, it's not entirely professional, but that gives it a personal appeal, it's disarming and alerts people that something is out of the ordinary. Can see why people might object (and at least one has).
All that is good - though not necessarily consistent with our tone elsewhere. The downside though is that we're really using it to mask our ignorance: we actually don't know whether we meant to block this user or not. If possible, we should be very upfront about that.
Perhaps a frowny face :( would convey a similar idea. "You're blocked, and that sucks" kind of idea. Because it *does* suck, either because they were naughty, or because they weren't.
Steve