User talk:Svartava

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 06:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

A little question

Hello,

I'm curious―in general, why can't I talk my way out of a block, as Chuck Entz has mentioned here? Especially when it comes to what he mentioned here? (Think of it this way: if one doesn't want someone else to be clueless or act in a clueless way, then one must explain things to them in a satisfactory way.) Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 23:21, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Also, I forgot to mention the points mentioned in this 2012 article about online film piracy.
Specifically this: "If you don't make your product available legally, guess what? The people will get it illegally. Traffic to illegal download sites has more than sextupled since 2009, and file downloading is expected to grow about 23 percent annually until 2015. Why? Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero. That's right: Hollywood is actually encouraging the very practice they claim to be fighting (with new laws, for example)."

Do you think it's a good parallel to my block evasions? Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 23:46, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

I’ve been quite busy and have much less time in recent times IRL which is clearly reflected by my on-wiki activity. I am clearly not the best person to approach for this matter as I am least likely to get into any of this and also I cannot say that there is any meaningful comment I can add to the related discussion(s). As I have also stated before, I know nothing about the languages you primarily edit in and hence it’s not possible for me to say something on or judge them. Svartava (talk) 12:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

About that stuff: Maybe you could ask Fytcha about all that.
But right now, I want to know this: if I gave my Wiktionary username and password to a bunch of people around the world, and asked them all to log in (hopefully all within the same 24-hour period), and then I evaded my WT block using a local IP to start another editing spree, do you think the admins running CheckUser would be quite astonished at the fact that apparently I was now in several different IP ranges simultaneously? Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

CheckUsers won't be running it on your account as it is already blocked and you can't edit from it. In that case, your IP can be blocked based on behavioral evidence. Svartava (talk) 03:15, 12 January 2023 (UTC)