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

Tue May 10 17:40:07 UTC 2005

Holiday or vacation?

Fred

> From: Timwi <timwi at gmx.net>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:05:14 +0100
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] "block" considered too harsh a word?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
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