User:McJeff/BlockLog

In the course of my vandal-busting and resistance against POV-pushing, I have put up with various personal attacks by the vandals and ne'er-do-wells. Curiously, a regularly repeated refrain is to claim that I've been "blocked repeatedly".

This page is intended to put the matter to rest.

At this point I'm including no names, aside from the administrator who did the actual block.

Block Log

My block log. It currently reads like this.

12:25, 21 August 2008 EdJohnston (talk | contribs) unblocked "McJeff (talk | contribs)" ? (Shortening per the discussion at his User talk)
04:13, 21 August 2008 EdJohnston (talk | contribs) blocked McJeff (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked, autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of 24 hours ? (Edit warring: 3RR on Talk:Tucker Max, plus removal of valid Talk comments by others)

Please note that the second entry is not a block - it's an unblock.

Meaning, I have been blocked once, and that block was shortened.

Explanation

The block summary is a bit misleading, in that it seems to indicate that I was blocked for revert warring in the article Tucker Max and for removing talk page comments. Actually, the edit war was on the talk page itself, over the removal of the comments.

The specific comment was an IP editor with no previous activity on Wikipedia demanding that the picture used in the article be replaced with a "candid" picture, rationale being "he's not that hot". I considered the post to be trolling and fought to remove it.

Normally users are not blocked for violating 3RR if they haven't been given a 3RR warning first. I was given a warning, however...

The 3RR warning template was about Tucker Max, which I hadn't edited at all that day. The edit war was on Talk:Tucker Max.
The warning editor was the other editor involved - he and I were in a heated dispute at the time. Users are discouraged - not forbidden but discouraged - from warning those whom they are disputing with.
And so I made a poor judgment call and chose to disregard his warning

My unblock request was declined by an uninvolved administrator, who said basically "You should've known better anyway". I agreed with him, left Wikipedia for the night, and when I went back the next day the block had been shortened.