Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20141013163204/@comment-1207741-20141201185212

SuperSajuuk wrote: The various blocks that WindStar7125 has been requesting are mostly for forum users or people ignoring their talkpage for repeat warnings about image policy. He has given such users several warnings. I do not see indications that he is being hasty in any circumstances that you are claiming and think he would use the block tools appropriately. As I explained to him (this is the block request for Czarjoseph.demaisip, for those who aren't aware) he should give users an opportunity to read the warnings they've received and act accordingly before they are blocked. On this occasion, which was only a few days ago, he was requesting a block for a user who, at the time, had yet to violate the warning WindStar left them.

Similarly, in the Magnet Release article, his only response was to revert the user and, I assume, use the chat room to ask you to block the user despite the fact that the user had yet to violate 3rr. What he should ideally have done from the start was try to modify the article in such a way as to make the user and himself happy.

SuperSajuuk wrote: In fact, in one instance, I seen you going onto the Forum Requests page and telling him off for a block check that was not directed towards you (it was posted to Forum Requests for my attention: if he had asked a sysop, he would have posted it to Sysop Requests) so I don't even know why you told him off, when he was following stated procedure for users ignoring warnings. They are forum requests, not forum operator requests.

Moreover, seeing as a forum operator has no powers that a sysop does not, it is completely appropriate for sysops to be handling forum issues if requested, even if their user group is not specifically engineered for the task.