Thread:Sannse/@comment-1251315-20160606142915/@comment-1251315-20160606181228

Sannse wrote: If you contact someone here, they are going to see a notification of the message, usually via email and the bell notification at the top of their page. I would say it's uncommon for someone to be left a message here and not notice it. So it's safe to assume that they are choosing not to reply. That's possible. The sysop I messaged is very busy and is very unlikely to be able to keep up with everything though, it was a struggle just for me to get a response from them on the wiki in question before. I may try messaging another admin who I know responds to posts, but the blocking sysop has made it very clear that they consider it illegal (and block evasion) to contact them on CC about a wiki matter (how they can call it block evasion I will never know, given they've taken my ability to edit my own talkpage).

It's true that you are risking the admin's being annoyed by your message and extending the block. Especially if the block was for something like leaving a harassing number of messages, refusing to drop a topic the admins felt had gone too far, or something else that would make it likely they didn't want to hear from the person again (including a direct message of "don't contact me again") The blocking sysop was basically pissed off just because I was trying to improve the wiki (in a way they personally did not like: other sysops I contacted either had no opinion or supported my reasoning), even bringing up irrelevant blocks and actions on other wiki's and not listening when I explained to them they were taking the blocks out of context and didn't understand what those blocks or actions were for, given they had never edited these other wiki's.

When I defended myself in this manner, by fully explaining everything, I was immediately blocked without any warning at all (and infinitely for that matter) for the most ridiculous reasons possible. The sysop even tried a veiled threat towards the crat whereby they would leave if the crat didn't block me (though the threat was useless as they just took it upon themselves to make a "unilateral action", something they claimed I was doing).

Personally, given the sysop's rash behaviour and their clear unwillingness to listen to an alternative viewpoint, even suggesting that I was "inventing rules" that were nothing more than common sense, it is clear to me the sysop was way too personally involved and could clearly not make a decision in a neutral manner. They were flying off the handle for such minor things and making a big issue out of anything they could.

Staff allow you to use the message wall here, but that doesn't mean that admins can't block you for it. You need to use your common sense as to whether it's wise to make use of the walls here. Given that they have revoked my talkpage editing right on the wiki (which means I cannot defend myself at all on the wiki, where I'd have preferred to have done so), this is the only manner in which I can contest the block.