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My RfA

Hello Dragon's Blood. I was wondering if you could elaborate on your neutral vote at my RfA. I appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks. --Fang Aili 16:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If you would like, I can go through your edits to give you some examples of how you assume that certain people have less than honorable intentions, but if we can agree on that point then the issue becomes, "Do some people have less than honorable intentions?" In order to answer that, we have to define "honorable intentions." It is my position that an honorable intention is defined by the person who is taking the action in question. If my position is true, nobody else could ever assume less than honorable intentions in another person; we would always have to give the other person the benefit of the doubt.

This is something I have learned as an administrator over the course of two decades on other web sites and bulletin boards. When I stopped trying to hold back the river, and instead channeled all of the currents to where they could do the most good, a little more work upfront made for a lot less headache in the long run. I don't expect you to believe me, and in fact I've never seen anyone truly come to believe this except through experience, but some day you might look back and realize that the people you considered evil today merely had a different but valid way of looking at the world.

I recently wrote an article on Von Neumann's catastrophe about how one of the greatest physicists in history demonstrated mathematically that no two people can share a common view of the world, but how both views are entirely accurate. The funny thing is how long it takes us to accept that ours is not the only accurate view.

I have great faith in you, and I know that, with a little more experience, you will be able to channel all of the currents yourself by working with them instead of against them. When that day arrives, I will wholeheartedly support your nomination. --Dragon's Blood 17:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome. --Dragon's Blood 17:35, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I'm just wondering one thing: how can you have such an intimate knowledge of Misplaced Pages and my contributions to it if you just registered yesterday? --Fang Aili 17:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If you were to assume good faith on my part, how do you think I could know such things? --Dragon's Blood 17:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you edited anonymously for a while. --Fang Aili 17:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Good! I think you're getting the hang of it. I also heavily research any site before contributing to it, or before supporting or opposing a nomination. --Dragon's Blood 18:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

For what its worth, I wrote Tawkerbot2. Tawker's involvement with it is in the administrative and creative departments. joshbuddy 17:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on a good piece of programming, and thank you for the information. However, I was referring to statements like this: "I would be using to deal with blocked proxies (see WP:OP) either blocking or unblocking depending on scans (the proxycheck script on the OP page is hosted by myself)." --Dragon's Blood 17:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey there

Hey, I live in Rhode Island too ^_^ Warwick, actually. Glad to see another fellow RI editor! — Deckiller 20:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

And I see you are a Star Wars fan too. It's good to meet you. --Dragon's Blood 21:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hi there! Could you please write a bit more elaborate edit summaries? While everyone might know what rvv means, shortcuts such as ansagf, anslook, ansenl, nomupd, ansnor, ansadvr take quite some time to decipher/guess without looking at the actual diff. For some people they even might appear as complete rubbish. Writing few words instead won't hurt the servers. I also made a layout tweak on your userpage. Hope you like it! Cheers, Misza13 14:08, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Sure I can write more elaborate summaries. No problem, and thanks for spiffing up my user page. --Dragon's Blood 02:35, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RfA. I really didn't think people appreciate my work here that much, but it's nice to see you do: my Request was closed with 66 supports and 4 opposes. I'll do my best not to turn your confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. --Dijxtra 12:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

The WP:SOCK page

You might be interested in taking part in this discussion. --Dijxtra 12:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Types of alternate accounts

Thank you for the information about the new table. It seems much clearer and intuitionally distinguishable.--ComSpex 06:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

While we're about it, there are actually 5 categories, not 4, and I'd do the table this way:

and I'd add underneath against the "legitimate but frowned upon" that:

"Due to their potential for abuse, editors should avoid these where possible, and may be directed to cease usage or declare their use if (suspected) multiple accounts cause other editors concern."

FT2 (Talk) 09:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the newer table above is almost same as what I had tried to express.--ComSpex 02:12, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Master Jay's RfA

Thanks bud for your support at my recent RfA. If you have any concerns, please voice them here. Regards, Jay(Reply) 02:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought that too...

I was a little concerned over the copyright status of my name, so I asked an Admin (Redwolf24, since very less active) if I could use it. He said it was fine, so I didn't think much of it since. I think since I am not really pretending to be the actual character, it's fine. Somewhere there was some discussion about copyrighted usernames, and I think it was deemed that Internet handles do not technically fall under the copyright restrictions. If I can find that discussion, I'll get back to you (I think it was on AN). Thanks for your input on my RfA. See you around, my friend. --LV 16:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I find your lack of faith... disturbing.

Dear Dragon's Blood,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your comments and constructive criticism, for every bit helps me become a better Wikipedian. I've started working on the things you brought up, and I hope that next time, things run better; who knows, maybe one day we'll be basking on the shore of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 22:08, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much for voting!Thanks so much for voting on my request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your constructive criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.