<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Andy Mabbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10 May 2015 at 11:40, Grant Slater <<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Consulting with a few other users, I have gone ahead and blocked the user.<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=Xxzme" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=Xxzme</a><br>
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</span>In the absence of blatant vandalism or base abuse, I would have<br>
expected, first, a recent, clear and unequivocal warning on the user's<br>
talk page, with a suitably direct subject heading ("Warning: you may<br>
be blocked from editing", or suchlike), and a statement of what the<br>
user should do differently, or not do, in order to avoid the bock.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Xxzme had plenty of warning.</div></div></div></div>