User talk:Pod Bay Door

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Vandal Patrol

Hi!

I saw your attempt to get 212.219.250.35 blocked. I have to say I agree with you on this one. I suspect that some admins do not realize how rampant vandalism has become. Given the rules it's actually quite hard to do something. You have to catch somebody, give a warning, catch him again, and all that within 24 hours. Somebody who vandalizes once a day would never be blocked.

Given that, in my experience, given that you stick to this simple rule, will block an ip that you report. (Tough when you do get somebody blocked, the blocking time vary wildly, from 25 minutes, to 6 month. There is no apparent relation between the offense or history and the blocking time. But that's a different story.)

Anyhow, I just wanted to say, don't let this discourage you and continue with patrolling. (By the way, I would have used the test3ip template for situations like this, it looks a bit friendlier, but has the same effect. After test3ip I continue to apply for blocking just the same. I reserve test4 for extreme cases.)

Bye, Sander123 12:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I echo Sander's comments. Dont get discouraged. We need more recent change patrollers — Lost^(talk) 13:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words. I came back to discover that the same IP had vandalized more pages (surprise! surprise!) after I got frustrated and left a sour comment at WP:AIV. I went back to WP:AIV and made another attempt to get a block, and it worked; the IP is blocked for a month. I'll think I'll keep at the vandal patrol, and that's largely due to you both giving me some words of encouragement. Thanks again! - Pod Bay Door 00:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

delivered by hman0217

Why did you delete my fix to the arab-israeli page ? Why can't I remove this biased statement about muslims fomenting hatred ? My replacement statement is much more verifiable. Please do your part to allow non-biased free press.

Thank you for the edit

I didn't realize that it was against wiki policy to link to Amazon. Thanks! Ancjr 04:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

yo, whats up dude. sorry if i caused any problems with my vandalism. Just having some fun. Anyway see you. --WarAdamEarl 23:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not buying it. You accused ME of vandalism, after I reverted the nonsense edits you were adding on a vandalism spree. - Pod Bay Door 23:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]