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I saw your RFA and mention of your ban. It is very easy to say "the ban was right", "I was wrong" when you are running for RFA. It is very difficult unless you have a death wish and want to lose the RFA to say "the ban process is not so good because of .....". Is the ban process and effect perfect? If not, what are the problems? If you wish to discuss this privately, you may. I have a beef about the block process because I've seen it used as a weapon and unfairly used. It happened to me 2 years ago. Adminstrators that I wrote to 2 years ago either ignored me or said the equivalent of "fuck you". So I can identify several problems without even thinking, one being incivility. [[User:Chergles|Chergles]] ([[User talk:Chergles|talk]]) 18:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC) |
I saw your RFA and mention of your ban. It is very easy to say "the ban was right", "I was wrong" when you are running for RFA. It is very difficult unless you have a death wish and want to lose the RFA to say "the ban process is not so good because of .....". Is the ban process and effect perfect? If not, what are the problems? If you wish to discuss this privately, you may. I have a beef about the block process because I've seen it used as a weapon and unfairly used. It happened to me 2 years ago. Adminstrators that I wrote to 2 years ago either ignored me or said the equivalent of "fuck you". So I can identify several problems without even thinking, one being incivility. [[User:Chergles|Chergles]] ([[User talk:Chergles|talk]]) 18:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC) |
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:Discussing it here is fine. The whole ban/block process is a social system, and like any system like that its not perfect, never can be, and never will be. Was my ban good? I'm human so part of me (same as anyone) will want to say no, but at the time it was a good block. Maybe not the duration I would have liked, but once the chips were set for better or worse in that RFA I made no secret of saying "I was done with it", which wasn't exactly helpful or my finest hour in mid-2006. I think the wording in the subject of the edit when I decided was pretty obvious. I went from being 'me' to saying something like "the hell with it" and [[WP:NPA|launching hand grenades]] as fast as I could to get myself blocked. Which worked quite well, at the time, as we saw. |
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:Does that mean the entire system is FUBAR? Not at all. The problem is just people. We make stuff work good, or fantastically great, but we're also really good at making stuff not work so good, or fantastically bad. The more that people get involved in any big system, and not just involved, but engaged in it, the better it works. It's that simple, and thats not a Wikipedia thing (we think in our bubble too much which is honestly dumb). It's like that in government, business, family, friends, or any complex social situation. The more people aware of things, and ''caring'' enough to see them done right... the better it works. Visibility is always the key thing. Visibility, visibility, visibility, visibility, visibility, visibility, visibility. One of my favorite quotes is from [[Louis Brandeis]]: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant". |
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:It really is true. Be it a ban/block policy, shady business practices, government being out of touch or out of step, or finding out that your good friend has had a drinking or smack problem for years, but no one knew it since they were "functional". Unless the light shines in to let people see, no one will know that something, either a big system, or some dark tiny corner of it, isn't what it should be. If someone tries to keep that light out, then the problem probably isn't the ''system'' itself, but the person trying to keep shady. And that makes it a really easy problem to fix, then, at least in that given case. <font color="0D670D" face="Georgia, Helvetica">[[User:Rootology|rootology]]</font> (<font color="#156917">[[Special:Contributions/Rootology|C]]</font>)(<font color="#156917">[[User talk:Rootology|T]]</font>) 19:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC) |
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