[WikiEN-l] Improper block redux

Wed Dec 21 15:24:56 UTC 2005

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:56, Brock Batsell wrote:
> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Anyway, karmafist has now placed another indef block on me (because he
> > "didn't see it on the logs".  This is getting ridiculous.
>
> I have discussed the block with several administrators and there's more
> history there than I realized.  Your edits were disruptive, as I said
> before, and you had been blocked twice before for the same reason.

Yes, I have been blocked twice before for the same behavior.  I resumed it 
because, both times, after giving the involved admins plenty of time to 
explain why my behavior was wrong, I got no answer; thus, I made the 
conclusion that they had conceded defeat. I'm aware that karmafist has 
accused me of simply "gaming the system" and trying to make him look bad; you 
should be aware that he cannot read minds and has no way of knowing my actual 
intent or motives.

I do dispute your claim that they were "disruptive", but that's neither here 
nor there.

> Since you ignored the first section of my e-mail regarding the validity
> of your use of the word deletionist 

The most recent email made no mention of that as far as I can see; the one 
before that (which was received early Monday morning CST) I had simply 
overlooked until now.

Anyway, if all that is necessary for a user to be blocked is for a particular 
admin to assert that certain behavior is unacceptable, without having to 
explain, then I am willing to put up with that.  The lesson learned here has 
been more one of how Wikipedia really works than that my behavior was wrong 
(you're the only one who has made any attempt to explain why the latter might 
be so, and you actually have a good point, although I have some issues I 
would like to discuss with you in private if you don't mind).

If this is the system, I will work within it.  Fair enough.  In the end, it's 
Wikimedia's property, and they get to set the rules, however arbitrary and 
nonsensical they may be.  The remnants of my earlier period of irrational 
Peikoffism blinded me to that, and I alone bear responsibility for that.  I 
simply have to decide whether or not those restrictions are worth the 
benefit.  At the moment, they are.
-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>
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