"Disable the User"?

[Stephanie Bryant]

On 6/28/07, Geoff Hart <ghart at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> The question is what you're actually doing here: Does this prevent
> the user from logging in? In that case, some variant of "disable
> logins" or (if you want to avoid the D word) "block logins" or
> "temporarily suspend access to the system".
>

Oh, please don't use "block" for this type of activity! Then you get clumsy
wording like "user blocking" and "user blocks" which asks the question: "Is
it a block of users, or a block on a user?"

Also, in crafts, "block" is used as a verb to mean to set the size and shape
of something, and the multiple meanings make this a very troublesome word.

--Stephanie