[WikiEN-l] Follow-up on my Ban from Wikipedia (part 2)

[David Gerard]

On 06/09/07, Flame Viper <flameviper12 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On the Wikipedia IRC channel, I have a confrontation with the user Somitho (his IRC nick is Soms). We later become friends, but at that point we were mortal enemies. He says that he is filing a complaint to my ISP. I blank my own userpage (while logged in) and replace it with the text "I AM BANNED FROM THE INTERNET!!!111", linked to Somitho's userpage. It was more or less a sarcastic joke, because by then it had become obvious that my ISP was not going to shut off my Internet.


See, this looks childish ...


> As a result of this dickery on my part,


... but this shows some self-awareness.


> Both accounts are indef-blocked.
> And of course, everyone proceeds to take their free pot shot at me.


And I do appreciate that this really sucks.


- d.