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2019

Bbb23

Looking at special:diff/876861230 I wonder how many other innocent people User:Bbb23 will continue to accuse. Wishfart (talk) 19:44, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yamla

@Yamla: in response to special:diff/876927439, I urge you to reconsider the appeal of User:FosterHaven's block.

I think he has adequately addressed the reason for the block.

The block is not necessary because that user has never, to my knowledge, disrupted Wikipedia.

I mean, that's not to say that I believe I damage/disrupt Wikipedia EITHER, because I don't believe evading unjust bans simply to contribute is actually disruptive. It is the blocking of well-intentioned builders which is disruptive. In the case of FH though, they are not to my knowledge engaged in any sort of block/ban evasion.

I will admit that Bbb23's suspicions are correct in the case of THIS account, but FosterHaven is a false positive and does not deserve to be blocked, and should not be called a sockpuppet.

Bbb23 appears to be playing fast and loose with "check user" criteria, most likely we share a common ISP node in Ontario and have overlapping interests (Linux, PS2) and that is why. Wishfart (talk) 20:08, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are both checkuser-confirmed sockpuppets of Tyciol. That you are arguing that another checkuser-confirmed sockpuppet account should be unblocked is actually counting against the innocence of either account. --Yamla (talk) 11:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Yamla: I hope you are open to the possibility that however much I DGAF about people who opt to waste time persecuting my freedom to edit, that I can empathize with someone who's not done me any wrong, and don't want to feel guilty about them being punished as a result of some correlation of interests/locality with my own. This mistake shows there is a hole in whatever checkuser process you are using that has led to a false positive.

I have an established pattern of consecutive accounts where I will abandon an old one in favor of using a new one. I haven't used accounts simultaneously, because shared IP address would give me away, and rotating them would be time-consuming.

I'm not sure how you interpret this to be counting against innocence. Do you expect I must be a person who would be glad to take others down in flames? I would only be for that if I had reason to dislike them. I'm sorry if my admiration here is being interpreted as some kind of nepotistic vanity, but I'm honestly not savvy enough with emulation or other software to fake the kind of competence I see in these edits. This should be obvious upon further dwelling. If I had such a long-established account like that, why would I even bother making the recent ones, and why wouldn't it have been discovered earlier? Wishfart (talk) 14:48, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page access revoked. If you wish to be unblocked, go make an unblock request on your original account. Or use WP:UTRS. --Yamla (talk) 15:21, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]