Just what is Meta for, anyways? Options

[Tarc]

Not technically "Wikipedia" related, but WMF in general. Its kinda nuts up there, as our dear WR contributor Mbz1 is using Meta's RfC process as her sole remaining battleground from which to fire salvos at Gwen Gale; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_fo...mment/Gwen_Gale

I called for the whole thing to be shit-canned but they quickly shat upon that idea and shuffled it off to a sub-section of the RfC itself.

Mbz1's formerly "voluntary indef" on en.wiki has been made into a real one, due to harassment of Gwen at....ding ding ding...Meta. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hmmm.gif)

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[mbz1]

OK, the trolls have spoken.

Now it will be really interesting to hear what smart ones are thinking about the validity of reblock itself.
Here's the situation. I have been blocked on English wiki since July of 2011 by my own request.
My very last contribution to my own talk page was 2 months ago.
I had absolutely no intentions of coming back to English wikipedia.
I had never expressed any wish to come back to English wikipedia, just the opposite.
Yesterday I was reblocked on English Wikipedia for alleged harassment of gwen gale that happened on Meta.
Blocks are not punitive, they are preventative, so what this block suppose to prevent?
RFC at meta was not deleted so far.
Was arbcom trying to scare me?
Honestly I got an impression they are afraid themselves, I wish I knew what they are afraid of.

[Tarc]

Yesterday I was reblocked on English Wikipedia for alleged harassment of gwen gale that happened on Meta.

Since you're on Meta complaining about stuff that Gwen Gale did on en.wiki, isn't that pretty much the circle completing itself, then?

[mbz1]

Yesterday I was reblocked on English Wikipedia for alleged harassment of gwen gale that happened on Meta.

Since you're on Meta complaining about stuff that Gwen Gale did on en.wiki, isn't that pretty much the circle completing itself, then?

It is actually a funny response, and I like it (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
But the thing is that in this case the block becomes punitive,and it should not be punitive.
So, IMO this block is unusual and so far I was not able to understand the purpose of it, but I love it.

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[Tarc]

Yesterday I was reblocked on English Wikipedia for alleged harassment of gwen gale that happened on Meta.

Since you're on Meta complaining about stuff that Gwen Gale did on en.wiki, isn't that pretty much the circle completing itself, then?

It is actually a funny response, and I like it (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
But the thing is that in this case the block becomes punitive,and it should not be punitive.
So, IMO this block is unusual and so far I was not able to understand the purpose of it, but I love it.

Mila, did we just have a moment?