Blair P. Houghton said:
I couldn't, for example, discuss the accusation of 3RR violation at all
in the fora on which it was being discussed.
Yes, it would be nice to have the degree of granularity necessary to block
a user from, say, article space edits, but permit him to go to Wikipedia:,
Talk: and User talk:, where such things are commonly discussed.
I had to join this mailing list (which honestly I'd rather not have
cluttering up my in-box) to get ANY communication with the community.
Well, that was not strictly necessary. Most sysops receive and read
email, I should expect. It's part of the job. There are about 400 of us.
I do think we should have a mailing list of our own, though, so we don't
clutter up Wikien-l with stuff like this.
Blocking someone based on a knee-jerk reaction to n biased accusation
is a very bad policy, IMO.
So it would be. You have to admit, though, you've hardly been respecting
Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The way I see it, the block has
given you a chance to consider what you had been doing wrong--if you
choose to take it.