Hi, On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heya, > > [+Dscho] there, fixed that for you. > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.aharoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have accounts on dozens of wikis and i am an admin on a few of them. >> I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user >> page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i >> do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest >> way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that >> other people wrote. It's not so different from filling in the >> "website" field on the profile page on GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn or >> any other website and it's pretty normative. >> >> On the Git wiki, however, the user page i created was deleted for >> "link spam" and my account was blocked for "Spamming links to external >> sites". I asked on the deleting admin's user talk page what is wrong >> about putting a link to my blog. The admin didn't reply, but deleted >> my question with the comment "Inappropriate abuse of the Wiki as a >> messenger, as well as abuse of the admin". On all the wikis i know the >> whole point of user talk pages is sending messages between users and >> with all seriousness i just can't understand how what i did >> constitutes "abuse of the admin". >> >> It is possible, of course, that this wiki has different rules. For >> example, you may want nothing but technical pages and no personal >> content whatsoever. Although it is quite contrary to the wiki idea, it >> is legitimate, but you should at least write it somewhere. Wikis >> usually have a "Help" or a "Community portal" page - i couldn't find >> anything like that on yours. And if you don't want user and user talk >> pages to exist, just don't allow people to edit them in the first >> place. >> >> I would be glad to have my account, Amire80, unblocked. I can open >> another one, but i happen to like this user name. > > See also the rest of the thread on gmane [0]. > > [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152861 > > -- > Cheers, > > Sverre Rabbelier > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html