User talk:Davidy22 - Revision history

172.70.162.34: /* Admin */

2025-04-15T15:44:16Z

‎Admin

Xnerkcd: /* too much downtime */

2025-04-15T09:06:05Z

‎too much downtime

Lettherebedarklight: /* Confirmation Emails */ new topic

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‎Confirmation Emails: new topic

42.book.addict: /* Confirmation Emails */ new section

2024-08-22T16:59:24Z

‎Confirmation Emails: new section

42.book.addict: Undo revision 337607 by 87.bus.rider (talk) unnecessary edit

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Undo revision 337607 by 87.bus.rider (talk) unnecessary edit

87.bus.rider: /* hi */ new section

2024-03-18T15:06:17Z

‎hi: new section

Jupitale at 12:03, 13 March 2024

2024-03-13T12:03:35Z

Jupitale at 12:03, 13 March 2024

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172.70.86.165: /* Inappropriate content */

2024-02-15T20:22:13Z

‎Inappropriate content

Dtgriscom: /* Inappropriate content */

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	== Admin ==		== Admin ==
	How do you know if you're an admin? Is it just if you have the ability to create pages? And what do admins do? --[[User:Xnerkcd\|xnerkcd]] ([[User talk:Xnerkcd\|talk]]) 09:06, 15 April 2025 (UTC)		How do you know if you're an admin? Is it just if you have the ability to create pages? And what do admins do? --[[User:Xnerkcd\|xnerkcd]] ([[User talk:Xnerkcd\|talk]]) 09:06, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
		+	:If I may presume to reply, here (you ''might'' be a while getting a response)... The short answer is that if you have to ask if you're an admin, you're probably not one.
		+	:As to what they do, it's more than creating pages (you can do that, as you have discovered), but different layers of adminship may have different things they can do. Again, don't worry about it. If/when you get to be any type of admin, you'll have more idea of what can/should be done. But that's not guaranteed and I'll hazard a guess won't be for some time even if it happens. (Most things here work well enough without admin-specific interventions. Which is nice.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.34\|172.70.162.34]] 15:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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	== too much downtime ==		== too much downtime ==
	there have been too many 503's, search google errors, and loss of session errors when i try to edit. also, load times are noticeably longer. can you check on the servers? [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 02:19, 19 September 2024 (UTC)		there have been too many 503's, search google errors, and loss of session errors when i try to edit. also, load times are noticeably longer. can you check on the servers? [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 02:19, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
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		+	== Admin ==
		+	How do you know if you're an admin? Is it just if you have the ability to create pages? And what do admins do? --[[User:Xnerkcd\|xnerkcd]] ([[User talk:Xnerkcd\|talk]]) 09:06, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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	Hi Davidy22. I’ve seen your message on the Technical Page of the Community portal in regards to confirmation emails (hopefully you still remember 10 years later). I have a reason for you to add confirmation emails. I use my email a lot, and I would like to be able to see when the pages on my watchlist (talk page, community portal, etc.) are edited. Kynde had recommended me to you, as you’re on of the more technical admins. Could you please kindly advise? Thanks. [[User:42.book.addict\|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict\|talk]]) 16:59, 22 August 2024 (UTC)		Hi Davidy22. I’ve seen your message on the Technical Page of the Community portal in regards to confirmation emails (hopefully you still remember 10 years later). I have a reason for you to add confirmation emails. I use my email a lot, and I would like to be able to see when the pages on my watchlist (talk page, community portal, etc.) are edited. Kynde had recommended me to you, as you’re on of the more technical admins. Could you please kindly advise? Thanks. [[User:42.book.addict\|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict\|talk]]) 16:59, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
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		+	== too much downtime ==
		+	there have been too many 503's, search google errors, and loss of session errors when i try to edit. also, load times are noticeably longer. can you check on the servers? [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 02:19, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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	:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.		:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.
	:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	== Confirmation Emails ==
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		+	Hi Davidy22. I’ve seen your message on the Technical Page of the Community portal in regards to confirmation emails (hopefully you still remember 10 years later). I have a reason for you to add confirmation emails. I use my email a lot, and I would like to be able to see when the pages on my watchlist (talk page, community portal, etc.) are edited. Kynde had recommended me to you, as you’re on of the more technical admins. Could you please kindly advise? Thanks. [[User:42.book.addict\|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict\|talk]]) 16:59, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

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	:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.		:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.
	:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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−	~~== hi ==~~
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−	~~[[User:87.bus.rider\|87.bus.rider]] ([[User talk:87.bus.rider\|talk]]) 15:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC)~~

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	:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.		:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.
	:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	== hi ==
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		+	[[User:87.bus.rider\|87.bus.rider]] ([[User talk:87.bus.rider\|talk]]) 15:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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	:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.		:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.
	:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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−	~~==beetels==~~
−	are egmenn walruses or are wulrusses egmen? that guy who is 11 and used to be jupitah and is now jupitale because jupitah got banned and wishes you could change your username in this, SIGNING OUT WITH A LIKE A WEIRDO! generated at 12:09 PM mar 12 2024 12:03, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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	Hi I saw inappropriate content being added by the ip address 172.69.195.23 at 17:29 15 February 2023 (UTC) (an image of porn). Could you please ban that person? --[[User:1234231587678\|1234231587678]] ([[User talk:1234231587678\|talk]]) 18:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		Hi I saw inappropriate content being added by the ip address 172.69.195.23 at 17:29 15 February 2023 (UTC) (an image of porn). Could you please ban that person? --[[User:1234231587678\|1234231587678]] ([[User talk:1234231587678\|talk]]) 18:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
	: Unfortunately, there are currently no active admins, so there's nobody that could ban users like that. -- [[User:Dtgriscom\|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom\|talk]]) 18:20, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		: Unfortunately, there are currently no active admins, so there's nobody that could ban users like that. -- [[User:Dtgriscom\|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom\|talk]]) 18:20, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
		+	:: It's not so much that, but 'that person' being an IP (much as I am, though I'm not them) adds other complications. While actual admins don't tend to ban IP(-ranges), that's mostly because a combination of the current main monitoring 'Bot and the rest of the community quickly handle these sort of issues. As in this case... the 'bot restored from one or two attempts, named users did a subsequent restore before/instead of the 'bot seeing the next attempt, and I also helped out when I noticed something overlooked by the prior username who helped out.
		+	:: This is not the first time such things have been done (that image has been used before, and clearly the instigator has picked up tips and tricks to refine their vandalism, as we've picked up on how to counter it). Totally locking out vandals from this sort of thing is never going to be as easy as simply banning a user (or IP), although such suggestions then also cue up the obvious discussion of "update the wiki, then add this/that/the other mediaWiki extension" (with various pros and cons).
		+	:: Personally, I like the current setup, where we don't need a group of active moderators to whitelist everything, because we have a good community of users who can rectify (most) issues as they happen. Even restricting to registered users only wouldn't help much (we've seen enough usernames spam-or-vandalise the site, and yet there's also already good reason to praise the background systems that intercept almost all the spam-accounts).
		+	:: I think the current balance works well. Yes, it'd be nice to have a bit more active moderation. That some of the few registered accounts that go onto spam haven't been banned indefinitely is hard to accept, but the fact that these ones (that got through the main anti-spam protection but then got sorted out by the community/'bots reverting again) have seemingly not even ''tried'' anything else (either not been as lucky to get further attempts to work or the script behind them had 'moved on' to its next fake-username) seems to suggest that this balance is working well enough.
		+	:: Preferably, none of the idiots who do this sort of thing would do it at all. But we have seen that we can get past these occasional issues. You (@1234...) are fairly new here, but take it from me, with quite a few years lurking (and posting) here. It's a different contribution scenario to the xkcd fora (where I was originally far more active, until they finally fell over for unrelated technical reasons that yet shows how full-username interaction has its ''own'' potential issues), but all the problems here over the last decade-or-so have generally been dealt with promptly. With top-level moderators intervening when ''really'' necessary.
		+	:: Still, horses for courses. This is my assessment of both the recent incident and all the rest I've been around to help deal with, but YMMV. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.165\|172.70.86.165]] 20:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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	Hi I saw inappropriate content being added by the ip address 172.69.195.23 at 17:29 15 February 2023 (UTC) (an image of porn). Could you please ban that person? --[[User:1234231587678\|1234231587678]] ([[User talk:1234231587678\|talk]]) 18:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)		Hi I saw inappropriate content being added by the ip address 172.69.195.23 at 17:29 15 February 2023 (UTC) (an image of porn). Could you please ban that person? --[[User:1234231587678\|1234231587678]] ([[User talk:1234231587678\|talk]]) 18:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
		+	: Unfortunately, there are currently no active admins, so there's nobody that could ban users like that. -- [[User:Dtgriscom\|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom\|talk]]) 18:20, 15 February 2024 (UTC)