[WikiEN-l] Do NOT appeal bans, for your own sake (was Re: Admins who do not have email this user enabled (list inside))

[Nick]

Why are the list moderators a) still allowing boring diatribes from Armed
Blowfish and b) allowing 2 day old boring diatribes from anybody through all
of a sudden.

On 16/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/09/2007, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Everything can be undone, any block can be appealed (including to the
> > unblock mailing list).  I agree that your scenario might be grossly
> > insulting if it were true.  But it's not.  Blocks are easily
> > appealable.
>
> Come to think of it, appealing blocks of
> any kind can often result in being attacked.
> Therefore, my advice to blocked or banned
> users who have disclosed their real name or
> a long-standing pseudonym is this:
> DO NOT APPEAL.  Simply request any
> courtesy blankings / deletions you want,
> hoping that by not appealing you don't
> become 'notable', by some odd defintion
> that Wikipaedia uses as a justification for
> destroying the online and offline reputations
> of banned users, and then go poof!  Unless
> your requests for courtesy blankings and
> deletions are refused, or worse yet
> responded to with more attacks, in which
> case I guess you are screwed.
>
> And by poof I mean leave Wikipaedia
> altogether.  Do not attempt sockpuppetry -
> you can easily get caught and then things will
> just get worse. There is more at stake here than
> simply being able to edit Wikipaedia.  If you
> have disclosed your real name, imagine what
> future potential employers will think if they
> Google your name and find something about
> you being banned from Wikipaedia.  And even
> if you haven't, if you have a long-standing
> pseudonym, you probably want to protect the
> online reputation of said pseudonym.  (If you
> have not disclosed your real name or a long-
> standing pseudonym, I guess you are okay.)
>
> If it's a short-term block, it depends, you
> might be better riding it out and archiving
> your talk page when it ends.... And by
> archive I mean history link archive, so the
> blocking notice is hidden from Google.
>
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