Cyanide3 came in and blocked me, for no reason. I guess his job is boring and he has nothing to do! How do I lift this block and get him/her/it to stay away from my wiki page?!
Cyanide3 came in and blocked me, for no reason. I guess his job is boring and he has nothing to do! How do I lift this block and get him/her/it to stay away from my wiki page?!
It's possible you may of been caught in a range block or open proxy block, meaning you weren't directly blocked. To see what the root of the issue is, please try contacting Cyanide3 in a polite manner or you can wait for another vstf to check your block log and see what's going on. Otherwise, another option is contacting Staff in Special:Contact/general.
There is a global block information that is only accessible to Staff / Helper / VSTF so if Ylviswiki was globally blocked, we would not be able to see it.
Good to know, but what about the ability to create pages while blocked?
Global blocks are the same thing as a local block (cannot edit, comment nor create pages) except it's across the Wikia network. So if you're caught in a global block, that means you may not edit any Wiki until your block expires. Note, that some global blocks last for infinite and you cannot ever edit again under that account name.
Oh an you can tell when someone is globally blocked. It'll say on their profile header "BLOCKED" just like it does locally. When you go to their contributions page it will say "This user is currently blocked across the Wikia network" :)
Thing is that Ylviswiki has recently made changes to the User namespace which is generally not possible (I think) under a global block.
Is this in reference to another user or account, Ylviswiki?
If you get the message that you're blocked, it should include a block ID. Include this when you talk to Cyanide3.
@Ylviswiki: as Tupka already pointed out, please provide us with the block ID or a link to the wiki where you have been blocked, that way we can verify the reasons of the block. However, considering you just found yourself unable to edit at times, likely receiving a message you were globally blocked for spam or vandalism, then that means that you were likely caught in an IP block. This means that your account wasn't blocked -case and point by the fact that you're still able to use your account- but just the IP you happened to use at that time.
That said, I'd like to point out that we -Wikia Staff, the VSTF, Wikia Helpers, and basically any other person that has the ability to issue global blocks- do not have personal vendettas against anyone. We do not occupy ourselves with randomly selecting a user to block because we are "bored". As such, it would be a kind thing to do to assume good faith in regards to our actions.
Sure that's my every day. When I am bored I block randomly people. (Gonna drop some buckets of irony in case nobody noticed that.)
We check people everyday and (sadly) have to block several ones them, because they are spamming or posting advertisment or have to block them for doing vandalism on a Wikia. It might be that I blocked your IP accidentally but not your account and I would remember that because for blocking accounts globally you have to vandalize really hard or posting massive advertisment. I apology for the situation here but it can happen everytime when you are getting an IP from an already blocked user.
Like Lady said, if you have an ID of the block then post it and we will lift the ban.
Edit: And I know you might be angry, but this isn't necessary at all. Usually I am 24/7 online and as you can see you got several anwers on the thread here. Vandalizing my page isn't that nice and doesn't make things better.
Cyanide3 07:37, November 25, 2015 (UTC)