Wikipedia:The best way to avoid ever being blocked
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The best way to avoid ever being blocked is to make yourself involved with every single administrator on Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia policy, involved administrators "should not act as administrators in cases in which they have been involved. This is because involved administrators may have, or may be seen to have, a conflict of interest in disputes they have been a party to or have strong feelings about". So the only thing you have to do is start disputes with every administrator, and then they would not be allowed to block you.
Flaws
[edit]- If you miss one administrator to start a dispute with, and this one blocks you, there would be nobody to unblock you. That is because only uninvolved administrators are allowed to act on unblock requests.
- One of the incidents you create in order to involve administrators may end up getting you blocked.
- Even if you do succeed at starting disputes with every single administrator, one of them will block you. You may complain that the blocker is involved, and you will be right of course, but at the end of the day nobody will sympathize with you and so you will remain blocked.
- There are currently 846 admins in English Wikipedia, and although this is decreasing, the huge number of admins makes this task seem nearly impossible. Also, you can't start a dispute with inactive administrators! They might be sleeping, but they have the administrator rights, and can block you if needed.
- However, even if there is no admins to help, stewards could come around and block you. Because there are no local admins with the ability to block you, stewards are now allowed to.
- In a case of you doing blatant vandalism, you could be blocked as well because the policy also states that most administrators, even if involved, would have no differences in identifying obvious vandalism.