User blog comment:Sannse/The Zen Admin/@comment-4189499-20141001025411/@comment-24874466-20141003020828

This may as well be a blog post itself, lol. Good job! But I do strongly agree. Blocking should be done very rarely and never without a warning. I have slow comprehension, easily get confused, and lots of bad luck, so everytime I see that I have new messages when I know I didn't message someone else my first thought is always "Oh my gosh, what did I do!" I make many mistakes, which is why I'm extremely grateful to kind admins.

On one wiki, I have two "Image violation" messages on my talkpage. The wiki has a Fair Use Rationale that I didn't add to the images. So of course I got a message when I uploaded a photo. I did this because in the wikis early days it didn't have the Fair Use Rationale. I read through the image rules, but looked at the galleries and saw that the photos (Just the ones I looked at, actually) did not have the template.

I am a visual person. I have trouble understanding things often, but most often when I cannot visualize the topic. So instead of following the written rules, I followed my eyes and made a mistake. I duplicated this mistake when I uploaded more photos, but a different type (The first photo I uploaded was fan art and the second time I uploaded manga panels). I again made the mistake of following my eyes and didn't add the template.

I got another message and fully realized the problem. I am very grateful that I wasn't blocked and that the admin never got frustrated with my slowness. Hopefully I'll never make a mistake like that again ^^