JzG's "private block template", just drips with self-importance Options

[Miltopia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG/blocked

I thought of this idea a while back and was wondering who would be the first to think of it on WP and implement it. I should've known it would be Guy Chapman, the man who considers rampant instability and self-gratifying lectures to be assets to adminship.

Just LOOK at it. He is so fucking full of himself, it's infuriating! I've never seen anyone with such gall, anyone so convinced they're entitled to play Daddy with everyone they have power over.

I could care less about Guy's sysop bit at this point; I'm more concerned about the fact that this man is raising real live children, and I say that with absolutely no humor. I hope someone drums up a policy to forbid transcluding userspace in block messages (though since the idea originated here, it'll probably never happen :-D).

[Lar]

Lots of people have their own custom templates. Here's mine ... I haven't used it in ages, it seems a bit "silly" now. I prefer to just write someone a note directly.

I do not think that casting aspersions for having a block template is really all that useful. In reading over JzG's I'm not seeing the big problems that others do. Editing IS a priv, not a right, and contrition DOES work better than bluster.

[Kato]

Editing IS a priv, not a right, and contrition DOES work better than bluster.

Editing is not a "privilege" - sometimes it is a necessity to correct outrageous misrepresentations foisted on the world by your site.

Whatsmore, your site states that it contains content that "anyone can edit". People like Herschelkrustofsky, Moulton and Poetlister cannot edit the site. Your administrators singled them out and prevented them from doing so via nefarious means. Ergo, the site is advertising under false premises.

Lots of people have their own custom templates. Here's mine ... I haven't used it in ages, it seems a bit "silly" now. I prefer to just write someone a note directly.

Some templates are probably helpful such as yours, some templates are obnoxious such as JzG's. Especially if one considers the personality and obvious failings of the person lecturing others with the template.

[Proabivouac]

Some templates are probably helpful such as yours, some templates are obnoxious such as JzG's. Especially if one considers the personality and obvious failings of the person lecturing others with the template.

Yes, JzG's template is high-handed ("so I have withdrawn it") and snarky ("your mileage may vary").

I find it amazing that he's even designing any block template at all, given the ongoing (?) RfC. You'd think he'd have resolved not to block anyone at all for awhile, or at least only the most obvious cases, but this template suggests that he hasn't.