[WikiEN-l] Re: "block" considered too harsh a word?

Tue May 10 16:49:12 UTC 2005

Let's make a contest for political talk :-)

I'd say... in comparison to the usual "you can edit !"

make it "you can not edit !" :-)

Ant

Timwi a écrit:
> 
> As we have seen numerous times in the past, users who are new to the 
> Wikipedia tend to vastly overreact to being blocked. Some people throw 
> quite a fit even when they're blocked for a mere 24 hours.
> 
> A friend of mine suggested that perhaps the word should be changed to 
> something more euphemistic and something less harsh than "block". I can 
> sympathise with this thinking, because if I saw a page telling me I'm 
> "blocked", not knowing what it means I would probably interpret it to 
> mean "blocked indefinitely", and as we know people don't tend to read 
> the entire message and hence don't notice where it mentions the time limit.
> 
> Unfortunately, he didn't have any ideas what to call it instead. So I'm 
> wondering what everyone else here thinks?