[WikiEN-l] Indefinite Bans with No Oversight

Thu Sep 15 20:00:18 UTC 2005

A number of people seem to be missing the distinction
between a "block" and a "ban."

Any sysop may impose a block, but those blocks --even
if they hold up indefinitely -- are never "bans."

SV

--- Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a general note, regardless of the rightness or
> wrongness of a ban,  
> nobody who says""This
> place is a joke. It's too bad, because it had
> possibilities before  
> all you fucking Jews came along ..." will ever
> actually strike me as  
> worth the effort of loading the webpage to unblock
> them. Which I  
> think remains the best test for a ban against
> policy. If nobody cares  
> enough to fix it, it must have been right.
> 
> -Snowspinner
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