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

[Armed Blowfish]

On 18/09/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> That depends how you go about appealing. If you post hundreds on
> {{unblock}} tags to your usertalk page, and email wikien-l hundreds of
> times, yeah, people are going to react against you. If you send a calm
> email to an arbitrator explaining your case, they will open an arbcom
> case for you and you'll get your fair hearing (you will probably even
> be unblocked so you can participate directly - just don't abuse it,
> whatever you do).
>
> (Note: That's the way to deal with bans, not blocks - if you're just
> blocked, arbcom is probably overkill.)

How often do you see an ArbCom case
where the participants are *not*
attacking each other?

File an RfAr, and you may never get it
off Google, which is bad if you have
revealed your legal name or a long-
standing pseuodonym.