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User:Arepticous

Hello,

Could you please take a look at my talk page? There's a message on there from this user regarding an unblock that you made 5 albert square (talk) 21:34, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apology

im very sorry mate about my sons behavior he used my phone and i looked at my phone and saw it,can you forgive me mate? DasisNietgut (talk) 15:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

15:37, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Im not joking im telling the truth DasisNietgut (talk) 15:59, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why do think im lying? DasisNietgut (talk) 16:39, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar

Dealing with unblock requests is tough. It was my main activity for a week or two, but I eventually gave up on an ever-increasing backlog and enormous amounts of time spent per case, just to be rewarded with people continuing to do what they did before the block. Thank you very much for your patience and frustration tolerance in preventing CAT:RFU from breaking down. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:00, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ToBeFree: Thank you. It's reassuring to know that someone appreciates something one does, obviously. If it's of any interest, when I first became an administrator I made reviewing unblock requests one of my main tasks, but after a while I gradually came to do it less and less often, because I find in several ways it's very frustrating. I still do it reasonably frequently, but I am certainly not one of the administrators who do most of the unblock requests. JBW (talk) 21:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I didn't know you've done this since the beginning. I didn't dare for quite a while, I think.

Regarding frequency, heh.

Yamla needs a barnstar too, for example. I hope it's okay if I copy yours; you gave me the idea! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:01, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ToBeFree: You seem to have found the main ones. It's an alarmingly small number, hich is why there's always a huge backlog of unblock requests, with blocked editors frequently having a very long wait, which is one of the reasons why I still sometimes help out. JBW (talk) 09:33, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fluddsskark / Carpetdoor12

Hi! I noticed something strange about Fluddsskark (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). The user caught my attention by posting a comment[1] that I thought might be the Dave Plummer Troll.[2] My conclusion was that the accusations are different so most likely not the same person, but the filter log is interesting.

Looking at your comment here[3] and the block log[4] It looks like the promotional name issue was resolved by renaming User:Fluddsskark to User:Carpetdoor12 in October of 2023.

However, it looks like the name was changed back to Fluddsskark[5] In July of 2024. I don't have the right permissions to view the "(per request)" link in the above, so I don't know why it was changed back. Could you please take a quick look at this? Somehow I suspect that I am missing something and might be seeing a problem where there isn't one. --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 12:58, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fluddsskark here, I only wanted to talk about Dave Plummer because I saw a Twitter thread about him, but I didn't know there was some sort of unrelated warfare on there. Anyways, I only asked to remove the Carpetdoor12 username because it was my personal email's name, and my current username is my permanent username, not some promotional name. Fluddsskark (talk) 13:16, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy and Fluddsskark: A very quick glance at the links isn't enough to tell me much, and right now I don't have time to do more than that, but I'll try to remember to have another look when I do get time. However, Fluddsskark, any edit which contains a sentence beginning "In Twitter, it has been discovered ..." is likely to be very questionable, to say the least. There is absolutely no reasonable way of regarding Twitter/X as a reliable source. JBW (talk) 13:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Take your time. The username issue is either a minor issue with no hurry to address it or not an issue at all. Also, just to be clear, I don't believe that Fluddsskark is an any way related to the Troll who has been attacking Plummer for years. The only connection is that the troll's tireless efforts to paint Plummer as a criminal are the reason why Twitter threads like that exist. --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 20:28, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]