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Happy editing! Operator873^CONNECT 14:35, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism warnings sent to browsers hoping that a logged IP addresses is sufficient to excuse it.

As I was browsing an article I received a wiki vandalism warning in a box which popped up in my browser. The warning was about vandalism done to a Jimothy page.

Using IP addresses to target and attack those you suspect are vandalising a page is very wrong on many levels. The address you attacked is in the EU. This type of attack may possibly breach legislation trying to protect the individual.

No one in your organisation knows who vandalised that 'Jimothy' page. You admitted all you have is an IP address. To use that IP address to attack everyone using it is tendentious, possibly unlawful and incredibly unethical. IT IS WRONG It is very disturbing to be called a vandal on the basis of zero evidence. This is why what you did was an attack instead of a welcome as your IRC Huon seems to insist.

I have attempted to find a person who would be held accountable for these attacks All you provide as an avenue is an IRC page. On that I was trolled and invited to join the organisation.

cf IRC exchange between KhakiAlpaca48(myself at that time) and Huon

Apparently you could not understand that your actions can be interpreted as attacks. You clearly do not hold anyone accountable. And you will not give me contact details of anyone who is legally responsible or at least may respond in an adult manner.

I'm not going to engage in another trolling session with another wiki cultist but I'll illustrate the point with a little history

Go back ten years or so and image that someone using the same IP address had downloaded a pirated film. Imagine you a MPAA staffer (Motion Picture Association of America) hired to bring pirate film downloaders to justice. Please refer to your own pages to see how MPAA fared when it used IP addresses to make claims as to who had pirated that film.

With what you have done today, is exactly the same as the MPAA and every other abusive, exploitative organisation had done all those years ago. Do you get the issue now?

and. You have no permission, consent, approval to use an IP address as a route to defame people or make allegations you have no chance of proving.

not logged in and after this attack I never will.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.38.155 (talk • contribs) 21:53, November 28, 2019 (UTC)

Please indent and sign your talk page posts.

Well, to start off with, user:Operator873 did not leave the warning you deleted, I did, so there's no point chewing him or her out on their talk page. You would have known that had you bothered to read the signature on the message I left. And if you had bothered to read the message you would have seen the bit that addressed the issue of shared IP addresses. If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices. If you look at he history of edits from this IP you will see the edit that I reverted

Your comments on this page and on user talk:Operator873 are not appropriate. My warning was not an attack, nor was it abusive..It's not true that there was "zero evidence", or that Wikipedia is an "abusive, exploitative organisation". As the message you deleted said, if it was not you who made the edit and you do not want to receive irrelevant messages then create an account. Not creating an account because you are upset about having received an IP warning is cutting your nose off to spite your face.

And finally, please read WP:NLT. Suggesting that my edit might have been a breach of EU.legislation, and calling it defamation is far overstating things, and close to a legal threat. Legal threats will quickly get you blocked. Meters (talk) 22:26, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't post on my talk page again. I'm not interested in anything further you have to say. Meters (talk) 01:04, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 2019[edit]

There is no need to continue harassing User talk:Operator873, User talk:Meters/unprotected, and others over legitimate warnings that are posted to IP talk pages. It has been explained to you enough times already today. If your only purpose here is to complain about warnings that were left to a previous user of this IP address, then you can be blocked. ST47 (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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