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| − | <center><b align="center" style="width: 70%; background:#000;color:#eee;border: 4px gold solid; font-size: 40px;">SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD</b><br><br><br>'''This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless.'''</center> | + | <center><b align="center" style="width: 70%; background:#000;color:#eee;border: 4px gold solid; font-size: 40px;">SELECTIVELY EDITING</b><br><br><br></center> |
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| | + | ::In the past, my announced status has been things like "RETIRED" and "SEMI-RETIRED, BUT NOT DEAD", with explanations like '''"This user is no longer active at Conservapedia. God Bless."''' and "I do not edit here very frequently, because I have to log in from a college that I don't get to very often. Be patient." |
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| | + | ::The "retired" status came about from frustration over the number of times I have been blocked for bogus reasons. Some of them were false socking charges. After one of my returns, someone<ref>User Conservative, affectionately called "Cons"</ref> took it upon himself to vape this page and my talk page. The "semi-retired" notice was an attempt to keep that from happening. |
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| | + | ::I no longer log in from a college; I use my own home internet connection. And I no longer use proxies. The avoidance of my home internet connection came about because, at one time, admins used "checkuser" to look for sockpuppets, blocking any people who seemed to come from the same place on the internet. This occasionally caused people to be wrongly blocked for coming from the same ISP node as another. I didn't want to cause some innocent person using my same ISP to be blocked. This kind of blocking no longer takes place. My current ISP shows a location in Lowell, Massachusetts. I don't live there. |
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| | + | ::At present, I make edits to those things that I believe I can improve (mostly science and math) and stay away from those things that are utterly hopeless (like evolution, creationism, and why year 20XX is going to be the worst year ever for evolution or atheism or whatever.) I also (believe it or not, and some people don't) try to encourage well-intentioned new users, and try to make this a more orderly and friendly place. I also engage in a lot of good-natured banter with Cons. I also occasionally find myself amused by the way [[User:VargasMilan|some users]] seem to [[User_talk:SamHB#Apology|stalk]] [http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page&diff=1110822&oldid=1110821 me]. |
| | <center>'''Anyone who wants to contact me may do so at sam4557@gmail.com.'''</center> | | <center>'''Anyone who wants to contact me may do so at sam4557@gmail.com.'''</center> |
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| | Proper way to welcome a new user: <nowiki>{{welcome|sig=SamHB}}</nowiki> | | Proper way to welcome a new user: <nowiki>{{welcome|sig=SamHB}}</nowiki> |
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| − | I do not edit here very frequently, because I have to log in from a college that I don't get to very often. Be patient. | + | In addition to the email above, I have accounts, all under the same name (SamHB) at Wikipedia, Wikiversity, <s>Ameriwiki (I am an administrator)</s>, and that other place that rhymes with "national picky". |
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| | In addition to the email above, I have accounts, all under the same name (SamHB) at Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Ameriwiki (I am an administrator), and that other place that rhymes with "national picky". | | In addition to the email above, I have accounts, all under the same name (SamHB) at Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Ameriwiki (I am an administrator), and that other place that rhymes with "national picky". |