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Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Example of a user who should have been banned a long
From:       "Akash Mehta" <draicone () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-09 21:41:36
Message-ID: 913fe40a0609091441x42a010f6w1cbca10324f6b6e9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ok, thanks for clarifying that. In that case, what if Jimbo just asks
another sysop to block? There are always sysops on IRC when I'm on...

On 9/9/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> G'day Akash,
>
> [top-posting, context fixed]
>
> > Jimbo Wales wrote: [snip]
> >> people end up on the "list of people banned by Jimbo"
> > There's a category/list for that? That should be AfD'd/prodded :) It
> > practically encourages activity leading to indef block by Jimbo,
> although I
> > can't think of anything that would warrant such attention besides
> > other sysops not noticing.
>
> No, there isn't a category/list for that (well, there might be, but
> that's not what Jimmy meant).  The essential problem with J Wales
> blocking someone, as Jimmy himself pointed out in the bit you snipped,
> is that it's not treated as a standard block, and can invite hysteria
> from other admins and in extreme cases, the press.
>
> People look at it and say, "Wikipedia's founder himself blocked someone!
>   That's an unusual situation.  What sort of message should we take from
> this?  How may we better serve him?"
>
> This would be distressing for any number of reasons, not least that
> having people latch onto you like that can be very embarrassing if
> you're not the sort of person who likes being latched onto.
>
>
> --
> Mark Gallagher
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> - Danger Mouse
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