I seem to remember a certain admin suggested banning me (not just
blocking, you note!) a few months after I got started at WP. This was
after I had discussed all my ideas on the appropriate policy
discussion groups (which were not that easy for a new user to find, as
it happens) for several months, and started carrying out the consensus
amongst those who frequented them.
Now who would that have been, I wonder ;-)
On 3 Jan 2010, at 15:23, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I do know with absolute certainty that if some admin
had blocked me in
error early in my editing my response would have been to forget about
the site and not attempt to edit it again for many years, if ever.
This has nothing to do with information and everything to do with the
fact that people editing for the site are giving a gift of their time
and effort. If we treat it as something they should be grateful that
we permit, then the site will preferentially attract the kind of
people who should be grateful that they are allowed to edit (e.g.
spammers). I don't think we want that.
[I edited articles for some time (over a year, I believe) without
bothering to make an account and only bothered making one when I
wanted to make some argument about project policy; I wish now that I
never had— the project would likely have gotten a lot more useful work
out of me if I'd continued just anonymously improving articles.]
Of course, I agree with the sentiments expressed here - but it is hard
for a member of a clique to look outwards or appreciate how someone on
the outside experiences WP.