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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | to go with the beer from ]. I've been away for a couple of years and on my return I'm dismayed to see that RfA has never changed its spots. I thought that the new monitoring policy was designed to reduce the toxicity, not stoke it. I stand by your comments and I'm glad to see you're still around. It's been a long time. ] (]) 01:19, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
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:Thanks. I'm not nearly as active as I used to be, but do stop by from time-to-time. I was pretty surprised to see people think that oppose was a policy violation - I wasn't expecting to have so many edits today... ] (]) 01:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
::Good to see your plain speaking again TB. And you haven't lost the art of cutting to the chase. Kudpung's right though, WP:MONITOR is slowly—not yet, but gradually—looking like a tool for "civilty policing" rather than ]ing. ]'']''] 11:30, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
:::The removal ] than the comment would have gotten initially so there’s that. My bigger concern is that they’re just ignoring the emerging consensus that my comment didn’t violate any policy. I took it to their talk page and we’ll see how it goes. Not worth taking to AN, but a big enough concern that it’s worth asking about it on their talk. ] (]) 12:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I stand by you 100% too, btw. ] (]) 15:20, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Did you get an answer? ]'']''] 22:17, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
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==Io Saturnalia!==
Thanks for the rights restoration. Doing it all in one go has saved lots of individual requests.


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:*Tony, may I ask about the template editor user right? It doesn't look like BrownHairedGirl had granted herself that right in the 13 odd years she was an admin, which brings up the question whether she would need it at this time. -- ] (]) 15:03, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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:::Admins have it on their own. It’s included in the bundle, which is why she would never have had it. ] (]) 15:08, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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{{re|Crouch, Swale}} Thanks for jogging my memory. That is what I had in my mind when I sent the original message. I had just mixed up my user rights. Thanks a million! -- ] (]) 15:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC) |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. ] (]) 15:29, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
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::Okay, I don't think I have every said you turned off pings in the past (I think I tried to ping you, someone told me you had turned off pings, and maybe I asked you on your talk page if you had turned off pings) -- are you confusing me with someone else again like ? Moreover, I wasn't even talking about you specifically; I mentioned that I "know" you turned off pings merely to indicate that I have heard that it is possible to turn off pings, something I have never considered doing myself but since I heard that you had turned off pings I have tended less to treat them as a reliable method of getting someone's attention. There's no need to make a big deal out of it anyway: now that I know you don't like people saying that at some point in the past you turned off pings, I'll just say {{tq|''I know it's possible to turn off pings''}}. ] (<small>]]</small>) 03:34, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
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Tony, this editor is starting to harass me and they know it. I never cited bite when I started an ANI discussion on them. So why the hell are they mentioning me here except to harass and this editor has a history of it and been warned never to do it again.
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Tony, I ask that you block Xray for harassing me. He ignored the above warning not to ping me again. On top of that, he refactored my ANI post. He also refactored a 2nd time.


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A cheeseburger for you!

to go with the beer from Drmies. I've been away for a couple of years and on my return I'm dismayed to see that RfA has never changed its spots. I thought that the new monitoring policy was designed to reduce the toxicity, not stoke it. I stand by your comments and I'm glad to see you're still around. It's been a long time. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:19, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm not nearly as active as I used to be, but do stop by from time-to-time. I was pretty surprised to see people think that oppose was a policy violation - I wasn't expecting to have so many edits today... TonyBallioni (talk) 01:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Good to see your plain speaking again TB. And you haven't lost the art of cutting to the chase. Kudpung's right though, WP:MONITOR is slowly—not yet, but gradually—looking like a tool for "civilty policing" rather than honest brokering. SerialNumber54129 11:30, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
The removal drew more attention to it than the comment would have gotten initially so there’s that. My bigger concern is that they’re just ignoring the emerging consensus that my comment didn’t violate any policy. I took it to their talk page and we’ll see how it goes. Not worth taking to AN, but a big enough concern that it’s worth asking about it on their talk. TonyBallioni (talk) 12:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
I stand by you 100% too, btw. Therapyisgood (talk) 15:20, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Did you get an answer? SerialNumber54129 22:17, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Not yet, probably should follow-up in case they didn’t see the talk page message. TBallioni (talk) 22:30, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Serial Number 54129 Since you were curious. TBallioni (talk) 09:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

Io, Saturnalia!
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:29, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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