Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3184244-20200117005313/@comment-14250-20200123190037

Love Robin wrote: Before I'd tagged 20 pages, I was blocked as a vandal, albeit not by the same admin. Took me 3 days to clear that mess. 6 months later I was an admin there myself. Looking at the log, one spot where AustinDr could've helped is in filling the 'reason' field, which they eventually did when unblocking you :)

One thing where I would give Austin credit is in allowing you to retain the ability to continue editing your message wall, which I assume (I'm not going to go through all 52 pages... though I bet it would be super easy to find if it was a talk page) was used to appeal/resolve that. One thing I look down on is admins who are too quick to restrict the ability of users to edit their own talk pages or message walls, restricting their ability to make on-wiki appeals. That should really just be a last resort in extreme situations where that privilege is only being done to spam recent changes or only inflict verbal abuse without addressing talking points.