QUOTE(everyking @ Fri 5th March 2010, 2:52am)
QUOTE(Viridae @ Fri 5th March 2010, 9:29am)
Tax evasion is still tax evasion. It is still a crime. In this case, a compromised account is still a comropomised account. He was blocked because he had apparently intentionally shared his account password (explicitly not allowed) any further investigations into more serious allegations were immediately handballed to arbcom. Doesn't change the fact that the account appeared to be compromised. If that hadn't been the case no block would have occured.
(Nine days clean)
When you start talking about being "clean" because you haven't edited, I think that's the beginning of the end.
Yeah I know - God created man and woman for the sole purpose of editing His Free Encyclopedia 9 hours a day, 7 days a week. When one of God's Children claims to be "tired" of editing His Encyclopedia, that is a sign that the End Times are upon us. (IMG:
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QUOTE(One @ Wed 3rd March 2010, 11:56pm)
If, say, JzG had blocked a user for (1) a bad joke (2) indefinitely, (3) without warning, (4) without talk page explaination, (5) for reasons that were demonstrably false, I doubt WR would have the same reaction.
If the user had made pro-pedophilia comments on WP and a "joke" about being arrested and court ordered to stay off the internet, then I doubt anyone would care if the blocking admin was JzG, Viridae, or Brad Pitt for that matter.
And either way, Viridae did leave an explanation and the block was reversed immediately, so no harm done and much ado about nothing. And now Viridae is getting slammed just for making the best call he could. Sad.