How does one post when an EMERGENCY BLOCK IN PLACE?

Question

Being too efficient - Help for the challenged!!!

Concerned for those who are too efficient with quick thinking skills and fast accurate typists.

No WARNINGS

PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN UPDATING STATUS TOO QUICKLY. 

RE:  EMERGENCY BLOCK IN PLACE!  

►My first experience in receiving the above, took me out of last weeks' Challenge of the Week.  And, sadly was unable to regain access to my WikiTree account till it was lifted.  

Thinking of this experience reminds me of a time when a  false and undeserving ban block was issued to me on one of my typing teams.  Actually, the block was on me, the captain, representing 50 experienced well skilled children who love to learn and have fun type racing.  When the block was put into effect it caused my team to drop from 1st place all time greatest teams to 3rd.  Being that's it's an online site, no one could help.  The serious effect it caused was that the participants each lost 2 million and the 1st season title.  After the ban was lifted and apologies came, we regained strength to reach 3rd and each earned $500,000. with title. 

Makes the experience and your inner being stronger!  There's a reason for everything.  Bless this site and hope the EMERGENCY BLOCK IN PLACE!  doesn't happen to you while your destined to reach your dreams.   

Comments

Please don’t use fonts like this. They are quite difficult to read. A simple black sans serif font, with a reasonable size,  is much more legible.

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You're entitled to your opinion, but this font is perfectly acceptable to use or it wouldn't be one of the G2G editing choices.

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Adding my voice to George's.   I can't read your post.

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Perhaps there is a browser issue.  It's clear to me in Windows/Chrome.

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Kerry, what's clear to you may cause serious issues for others. Since there is no particular reason to use multiple fonts in multiple sizes in colors then the best approach is to use a standard font at a reasonable size without color.

If the point of posting is to get people to read, then one should be willing to make it readable for a maximum number of people. Not everyone is 25 years old with 20/20 vision able to see the full color spectrum. It's about being considerate of your reader.

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These fancy fonts render differently in different browsers and on different platforms. On my laptop, Paula's post appears in fonts that are mostly legible, but annoyingly difficult to read due to a cute font that's hard on the eyes. On my Android phone, it appears in various mostly-cursive fonts in a bizarre mixture of sizes and colors, some of which are mostly illegible. Highly slanted cursive lettering is nearly unreadable, especially in pink, and the attempt to highlight the "NO WARNINGS" has failed miserably because it's barely legible.

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Indeed. I am reminded of a saying ... “just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.”

My view, if there is an important point to be made, make  it as clearly as possible. I still have not read your post, perhaps my vision is not as good as others, since on my iPad it is too hard for me to read.

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I'm only sixteen years old (one of the "iGeneration" ! *cue eye roll*), and this was extremely difficult even for me to read. Although I do wear glasses, I am shortsighted and I rarely—if ever—use them when I am working on my laptop, and so this would have no effect on my up-close vision, and yet I agree wholeheartedly with George, Jillaine and Deb that this is extremely difficult to comprehend. My browser has no issue with discerning the font in that regard, but the combination of comic sans with alternating colours is truly too much. George's initial comment, to me, was perfectly reasonable; simply using bold or italic or underline to highlight key points of your topic would have worked fine.

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Ditto what Ellen said. I couldn't read it at all on my phone.

Answer 1

Hi Paula, 

I've had that happen to me - and usually doing Data Doctor challenges 

I have to admit I panicked just a little the first time. 'No WikiTree?!' I thought to myself 'how will I make it'  (ha ha). If you email info@wikitree.com they are pretty quick in resolving the ban. It is put there for the protection of our wonderful global tree. 

And thank you for wanting to participate in the challenge and make our tree even better!!

Answer 2

I think many of us have experienced the emergency block, and no one is very happy when it happens of course. 

Sometimes it can happen because of an issue with your computer or when things or maybe just the screen is freezing up while you are trying to save an edit, what often happens is that you just keep clicking the save button but nothing happens, until finally it works...and that's often when members discover that short after this there's an emergency block and they no longer can work on WikiTree...

What happens is that even if for you things look frozen, the system does notice these clicks, so now for the system it looks like you perhaps are a bot and perhaps harming our WikiTree...saving ten or more edits per second isn't humanly possible..so all the clicks to try and save while for you the window looked frozen, now cause the system is putting you on emergency block. 

So if pages look frozen when you are trying to save an edit or something....whatever you do....don't click too quick and often, it's better to just wait or try again in a new window..

Of course we have an emergency block for a reason, but I agree there should be a better and quicker way to get the block removed, this sometimes just takes too long ...