[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Durova]

Just adding "on top of everything else" to the end would have helped.
Anything to make it clear that it wasn't a block purely for asking a
question.
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I did say "after repeated warnings" on his user page, which expresses that
the behavior took place over a longer span of time.  The people who spun
this complaint - and I do believe it was a deliberate spin job - simply
ignored any circumstance that could mitigate their assertion that Jimbo,
Guy, and I were nuts.  Some other Wikipedians believed that spin job.
Fortunately, large parts of the community know us better than that.

It wouldn't have much mattered what preventive measures I took, that
group had gotten away with what they were doing for quite some time because
they carefully chose methods that were really harmful in aggregate, but not
startlingly so on any particular diff.

You know how to boil a live frog, right?  Don't drop it in boiling water;
it'll hop out.  Drop it in lukewarm water and slowly turn up the heat.  I'm
not afraid to step forward and shut off the stove.

-Durova