A barnstar for you    stylebackgroundcolor fdffe border px solid fceb rowspan styleverticalalign middle padding px   stylefontsize xlarge padding px px  px height em  The Technical Barnstar  styleverticalalign middle padding px  Thank you very much for   Ill be using it for sure        Joseph Kaipayil   Per your decline at WPRPP which reassured me that I havent gotten too easy at AfC  would you mind unsalting the page so it can be moved I dont know who originally salted it since the page history is only for the latest version All the best       Thanks      Do a Snotbot run   I was wondering if Snotbot great name task  could be run on this and this     Sure can do    Running now  Once you see the bot activity stop feel free to mark those categories as done    Thank you      Working on a new tool   If youre interested you can see an early version here  It allows you to perform arbitrary searches through the recent changes database  So it helps with looking for particular types of edits that were recently made  Might be useful for vandal fighters  I still have some work to do on it but its working  Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions  Ill announce it more widely once its more complete      Blocked  Scottywong Ive blocked you for  hours I appreciate you probably feel provoked but this does not justify your comments    Now thats a unique outcome  Dont get me wrong I dont disagree that what I said is a blockable offense I just wonder why when a different editor says the exact same phrase and someone complains the complainant gets told to shut the fuck up and do something useful and stop trying to be the civility police  Was I using the phrase in a different context  Im not looking for an unblock Im just looking for a formal acknowledgement that there is a double standard  For more info see WikipediaANIMalleusFatuorumandCornellier this ANI thread and this AN thread  Id appreciate a response    Id imagine because its a different admin who handled that dispute Id agree theres a total double standard here all I can guarantee is that I dont have such a double standard Ive blocked admins and editors for incivility normally I block the admins for longer because they should know their way around policy if theyve taken upon themselves the role of enforcing it Ive blocked users with GAs and very few content contributions at all I probably cant jump into either of those threads and make anything stick but mark my words if you or anyone else see someone acting as Malleus seems to have done drop me a line and Im happy to block them    If you dont have a double standard then I would ask you to take a look at the situation with Malleus and take any action that you would deem necessary    Looking at it now it seems that frankly it would just pour fuel on the end result would be that some other bugger unblocks him and he wanders off feeling like somehow he was the one wronged If it happens again Ill be there like a greased whippet But right now nothing would stick    What about Kiefer for calling Scotty an Eddie Haskell      Can someone link to the comments in question Id like to see what was blockable given Malleus comments apparently were not    Jclemens you dont seem to have read anything Ive posted above if you think I wouldnt dearly love to block people for the kind of stuff Malleus comes out with    I think Ironholds has got things pretty much exactly right in this case Going out and blocking Malleus at this late stage would be POINTy     here is the diff see the edit summary       Unblocked   I keep getting ecd trying to post this above  Blocks suck as a discussion tool  All that was said above could have been said without the block  Drmies has been unblocked not by me it doesnt make sense to keep this block enacted Scottywong youre aware I dont hold your judgement in high esteem I suspect the reverse is also true so I doubt this will have the intended effect but lets all dial it back a notch OK ps let me know if theres an autoblock    You got to it before me Ill second everything above Scotty   majestic titan  I fundamentally dispute the idea that blocks suck as a discussion tool  or rather I dispute the idea that because we want longterm editors to discuss things we shouldnt block Were meant to maintain a consistency of standards shifting the duality from content contributoreveryone else to longterm contributoreveryone else is rarely helpful     BTW admin accounts have IPBE as part of the sysop bit so autoblocks dont affect them