Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-4544033-20150107013258

Cosmicsilver wrote: I know I'm not really a contributor here, but I will still drop my two cents on the issue.

The Block Policy doesn't clarify this, so I thought I'd point it out. Are users allowed to post to their own talk page, even when they're blocked? Because, in my opinion, all users should be able to post to their own talk page so that they can give their side of the story about their block, regardless of offense. Unless this user is just spamming messages to their own talk page, I don't see a reason to disallow the ability of using their talk page while blocked. The entire Block Policy also contradicts itself because some rules state the length blocks should be, and then guidelines for blocking are posted below, basically stating that that's how most, if not all, blocking instances should go. If you're going to have specific block times for every offense, they should be clearly posted, not just generally stated that they will be "short term" or "long term" blocks, since each of those can mean something different to every user. A person should have the right to make their case, both wiki's I run allow editors to edit their own page after a ban unless they abuse that as well (cursing and scream and the like).

I also agree we need to be clear, any murky space and be interpreted incorrectly and we should avoid every problem we can. The reason I liked the warning and ban templates is they forced the admin informing the wrong doer what they did wrong and how long they are blocked.

We all should be on the same page as much as we can, I doubt we will ever have a point where we all agree 100%, but even if we disagree, we can't risk room for error.