[WikiEN-l] Policy inquiry - slack for blocked users venting on their talk page

[Alex Sawczynec]

Actually, I was under the impression that our "policy" was essentially the
opposite -- I certainly wouldn't tolerate a long rant about a block on a
user's talk page. We tell blocked users to make their unblock requests
succinct and neutral, and we disable the option to post to a talk page if
the user continues to abuse their editing privileges, as Fred noted. In
fact, countless MFDs have set a precedent that userspace isn't really to be
used for rants or attacks of any sort.

- GlassCobra

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had thought we'd formally policyized the "please leave blocked users
> alone on their talk page and don't block them if they vent about the
> block (short of making threats against people, etc)", but I can't find
> anything on-wiki that has it in writing.
>
> I know I've had discussions with people about it before and there was
> a general admins consensus that it was a good thing - but it does not
> appear to be written down in policy, guideline, or an Arbcom decision
> I can find.
>
> Am I missing something, or did we really never write it down?
>
> If we did not, we probably should rectify that, and I'll SOFIXIT - but
> I wanted to ping out to other experienced people first to see if
> anyone could remember where it might be written that I just haven't
> found yet.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
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