On 18/09/2007, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 9/18/07 8:50 AM, Vee at vee.be.me(a)gmail.com wrote:
Oddly enough I actually agree with this. If I was
banned I wouldn't kick
up
a huge fuss fighting it (even if it really was
unfair) because in those
cases people tend to react against you even more and you'll never hear
the
end of it. Best to just drop it and move on.
Vee,
They react against you because you protest being banned!? And simply the
fear of this is enough to deter you?!
Doesn't sound like a very friendly, mature culture!
Marc Riddell
Well, I never have been banned (and therefore not protested against it). I'm
just speaking from what I've seen happen to other people - generally if you
get to the point where you're banned, people are pretty pissed off by your
presence anyway, so if you make a fuss over it, it tends to get used as a
reason to protect you talk page or whatever. I don't know, maybe I would get
a good hearing or whatever, but the chances of that happening are
sufficiently small that I wouldn't bother risking it (and no - I'm not
trying to say that admins are really abusive or anything. Just that people
tend to have very little patience for banned people.. rightly or wrongly, I
don't know).
If you review unblock requests, you'll see the general answer is "uhm
... no", which is entirely appropriate. People don't spend much time
on it.
That said, I've reduced a block for someone I blocked when he pointed
out he didn't get the warning to desist until after all his reverts
(the timestamps were close, and I might've been sloppy). It does work
to ask if you have legitimate cause. Most blocked users simply don't
have legitimate cause to be unblocked, and get told "no".
Cheers,
WilyD