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Hey, Sorry for putting words in Sakurai's mouth. I think I'm taking the sources too seriously, however there is something wrong with my edits: Misconceptions, but everyone makes mistakes like this sometimes. I'll remember that there is only ONE case of a character replacing another one, like [[Lucas]] replacing [[Ness]] in ''Melee'', and Ridley was no way heavily considered for ''Brawl''. I won't do this again.
Hey, Sorry for putting words in Sakurai's mouth. I think I'm taking the sources too seriously, however there is something wrong with my edits: Misconceptions, but everyone makes mistakes like this sometimes. I'll remember that there is only ONE case of a character replacing another one, like [[Lucas]] replacing [[Ness]] in ''Melee'', and Ridley was no way heavily considered for ''Brawl''. I won't do this again.
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== [[SW:QDV]] ==
[https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=User_talk:50.5.129.75&oldid=1679744 Edits like this] just to yell at a clear bad faith user/IP is unacceptable, all you're doing is wasting your time and giving them needless attention that they're probably after. As the policy states, when dealing with vandals and other bad faith users, exert the minimum effort necessary to handle them and do so quietly, i.e. just revert them and alert an admin. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 00:06, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
:I apologize if I was acting out of line. Had this been an ordinary vandal or troll, I would not have responded at all, as per SW:QVD.
:However, while my tone was certainly stern, I carefully worded my message to avoid sounding like I was "yelling", harsh, or overly antagonistic towards this editor. My goal was to help, not to hurt. Because despite their repeatedly poor behavior, I do not believe that this particular editor is a vandal or an attention-seeking troll; I still believe in good faith that they sincerely think they're making good, constructive edits and are understandably getting angry and frustrated when those edits are undone. And it seems to me that you must also believe this to an extent, because I don't see why you would give a repeat offender "bad-faith user" a mere six-month block (instead of indefinite) unless you believed that there was hope that they could still change their behavior for the better.
:I wanted this editor to know that they do not have an upstanding reputation, and it is up to them to change that. I wanted them to know that there is no reason to obsess over the wording they are so hyper-focused on, and that they are better off spending their time doing something else rather than making the same mistake over and over. I wanted them to know that it's okay to just let go and move on with their life. Because I would want someone to tell me this if I needed to hear it, and so I'd do the same for someone else.
:And if they chose to shun my message, ignore the opportunity for healthy self-reflection, and continue down their current path... well, then I would have known that I at least tried to get through to them, and that's all I could do. --[[User:PeabodySam|PeabodySam]] ([[User talk:PeabodySam#top|talk]]) 17:42, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
::IPs don't get indefinite blocks as IPs can change, resulting in someone who had never done anything on the wiki being unable to ever do anything through no fault of their own. They had just come off of a 3 month block, 6 month is next in line; hopefully long enough for them to either mature or forget about targeting this wiki. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 18:02, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
:::I see. Thank you for explaining that. --[[User:PeabodySam|PeabodySam]] ([[User talk:PeabodySam#top|talk]]) 18:16, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
::This person has been making the same clearly dumb edits with inflammatory edit summaries between multiple different IPs after several bans, with no other positive contributions, they have long since passed the line of reasonably assumable good faith. And the point of my message isn't about you being "overly harsh" or "antagonistic", it's about not wasting your time with bad faith users and not give them the attention they're seeking. Regarding not permabanning the IP, what Canvas said is right, IPs should never be permabanned (this person jumping between different IPs already demonstrates why permabanning them is a bad idea), and six months is about the longest they should be banned for, with a year being the absolute max for particularly severe cases. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 18:46, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
:::Yes, I'm well aware of this person's history. I've even been the target of their insults on multiple occasions, simply for reverting their edits and explaining in a calm, professional tone why I did so. And I honestly doubt that if they'll learn their lesson if they haven't already. But I still see their edits as hyper-focusing on a single issue that is probably born out of a misplaced desire to use "correct" terminology, instead of trolling or vandalism. If that's true, then I can at least understand where this editor may be coming from, since I too have a tendency of hyper-focusing on smaller issues, such as specific terminology. And if I'm focused on something I shouldn't be, then I may need someone to tell me to snap out of it.
:::Case in point. Here, I focused more on you telling me that yelling at another user is unacceptable, since that wording came across less as "hey, don't bother wasting your time, that's why we have a policy against it" and more as "you're in big trouble for flaming" (hence why I felt the need to defend myself as acting in good faith), rather than focusing on your intended message.
:::But you're right, I'm probably just wasting my time trying to speak to someone who doesn't want to listen. --[[User:PeabodySam|PeabodySam]] ([[User talk:PeabodySam#top|talk]]) 19:33, April 22, 2022 (EDT)
::::"''But I still see their edits as hyper-focusing on a single issue that is probably born out of a misplaced desire to use "correct" terminology, instead of trolling or vandalism.''"
::::If the person had a genuine interest in helping the wiki and really was just hyper-focused on this one dumb term absolutely no one else uses, then they would have took this issue to the talk pages, stopped after their first block, and/or make other positive contributions in the meantime, instead of flagrantly ignoring the reversions and their constant blocks, jumping on different IPs to evade their bans (to the point of forcing us to do a [[Special:Contributions/174.207.0.0/16|range block]]), and making inflammatory edit summaries all the while. Assume good faith and all, but there's a point where you have to recognize a troll is a troll. Also generally it's never productive anyway for users to leave a talk page message to someone that was blocked, if something needs to be said to them about their behavior the admins will do so.  <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 21:35, April 22, 2022 (EDT)

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