User talk:Squeezindiva

April 2010
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June 2011
Hello Squeezindiva. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Mad Maggies, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we must insist that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on User talk:Bwilkins. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 02:24, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion
Yes, you're right, they're nothing more than bullies. No, there's not really anything that can be done about it; there are too many of them. I suggest you give up on this place; we have no desire, and no incentive, to treat humans with anything remotely resembling simple respect. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:12, 26 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Squeezindiva,


 * Depending on how you interpreted my comment above, I might owe you an apology. What I meant was that this site is pretty dysfunctional, and admins generally get to treat users poorly without consequence, and I was expressing my frustration that it is not likely to change.  But I'm now worried it looks like I was saying I didn't want you here either. That's not the case; I just fear you won't be able to overcome the dysfunctionality, and it's so ingrained that I don't know how to help you.


 * I don't know if this is how you interpreted it or not, but if so, I apologize for my poor choice of wording.


 * So, let me rephrase: Yes, you're right, they're nothing more than bullies. No, there's not really anything that can be done about it; there are too many of them. Many people here seem to have no desire, and no incentive, to treat humans with anything remotely resembling simple respect. If you're interested in continuing on here in spite of that, let me know and I'll try to do what little I can to help. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, lots of notes: --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:56, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The claim that this is you was a red herring. Note on User page fixed.
 * 2) You may not have noticed, since you haven't used the account in 2 years, but User:MadMaggies was blocked the other day. The note at User talk:MadMaggies says that account was blocked for a username policy vio, which was the right thing to do (see here), if rather abruptly done.
 * 3) The block log for User:MadMaggies is much harsher, calling it a "spam username" block (see Spamusernameblock). If you don't care about the block log wording, I'll leave it alone.  If you do care, I can switch the rationale in the block log to match the rationale on the talk page.  That account will still remain blocked; however you've said you don't plan to use it anyway.
 * 4) I've removed the socking accusation on User:MadMaggies, and removed it from User:Squeezindiva as well.
 * 5) User:Squeezindiva is not blocked, not sanctioned, and you're free to log on and edit from this account.
 * 6) The IP you've been using the last day or two is not blocked, not sanctioned, and you're free to edit just as an IP address if you want.
 * 7) However, you might want to consider logging in for all edits because:
 * 8) *It's easier for others to communicate with you, f.ex. I don't know whether to leave you this message at your IP talk page or your account talk page. And since you're evidently on a dynamic IP, you may not ever know you've got messages on an old IP talk page.
 * 9) *People with suspicious natures are going to think you're somehow "up to something" if you edit the same article with an account and several different IP's. While you don't technically have to log in because of this (caveat: see below), it's probably not worth the headache of dealing with suspicious people.
 * 10) If you're editing without logging in because you were autoblocked when MadMaggies was blocked, that shouldn't have happened, but I think if it did you should now be able to edit without that happening again. If not, let me know and I can try to clear that block.
 * 11) If you decide to keep editing without logging in, or you bounce between logging in and not logging in, take extra care never to make it look like the account and the IP are different people. The "Squeezindiva" you've been appending to the end of your signature is fine for this purpose.
 * 12) Finally, I'm not around a whole lot, but feel free to ask if this is all Greek to you, or you need help, or if you have questions.