[WikiEN-l] Improper block redux

Mon Dec 19 03:31:51 UTC 2005

G'day Stephen,

> On 12/19/05, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:
> 
>> karmafist has now re-blocked me, this time indefinitely.  He and
>> David Gerard both base their actions on totally baseless
>> assumptions about my psychology, motives, and intentions.
> 
> <snip all the ranting>
> 
> You don't seem to have been blocked indefinitely: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3AKmweber
> 
> Unless your IP was blocked for trying to circumvent a block. If you 
> want to dispute the block then take it to the proper channels, don't 
> try to get around it.

Difficult as it is to defend Kurt, I was under the impression that this 
*was* one of the proper channels.

Don't we tell people, if you can't get a different admin to unblock you 
probably deserve to be blocked?  Seems a bit unfair to then say to a 
blocked user that he shouldn't have come to a list he knows 
admins-other-than-the-blocker read and ask to be unblocked.

-- 
Mark Gallagher
"What?  I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse

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