QUOTE(NotARepublican55 @ Fri 5th March 2010, 10:20pm)
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.
Contrary to EricBarbour's claims, he's not a pedophilia POV-pusher. Years ago he stated that they are "very welcome" to edit, but it appears his own editing was not that of an advocate; he seems to have focused his own editing on
removing subtle pedophile POV. This was not a well-researched block. Shot from the hip, no attempt to aim was made until it was challenged.
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And either way, Viridae did leave an explanation and the block was reversed immediately, so no harm done and much ado about nothing.
You mean, he left an explaination on ANI 3 hours later,
after the subject inadvisedly used self-help to reverse the block.
But like I said, there's a capricious quality to such sanctions. Durova was admonished for blocking User:!!, which she reversed herself in less than half the time it took for Viridae's block to become undone ("no harm was done," as she could tell you). On the other hand, many others are not sanctioned for bad blocks.
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