User talk:Anon

Hello, Anon, and welcome to the Official Guild Wars Wiki! If you need help with anything, don't hesitate to add a message to my talk page. I highly recommend that you check out the "Welcome to the wiki" page - it's extremely useful as an initial guide. Best of luck and happy editing! &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  17:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Eloc is that really necessery? Anon, if you want your talk page to be "blank" just archive it at User talk:Anon/Archive 1, and put a link to it on your page. Talk pages cannot be deleted so the delete tag there is redundant. --[[Image:User-brains12-sigicon5.png|Talk|14px]] br12  • (talk) • 19:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well no one is going to delete his page, so why keep a speedy delete tag on it? &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  19:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well instead of changing the tag to an obselete mock tag, just let Anon know it's not possible to delete talk pages. --[[Image:User-brains12-sigicon5.png|Talk|14px]] br12  • (talk) • 19:55, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright :P &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  21:26, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm just going to abandon the account now. Being forced to keep some stupid message on my talk page is stupid.No-on has either told me why I should have to keep this shit here and no-one has pointed to the policy which prevents this shit from being deleted. Anon
 * Just archive and link to it from a period or something . although I'm considering your proposal. I think there's some merit to it- I just want to think about all the implications it would have. - elviondale  (tahlk) 06:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * FYI, the policy is GWW:USER since you didn't know that, Anon. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  07:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually I've been told the policy is Guild Wars Wiki:Deletion policy. Anon
 * Both policies apply, although GWW:USER has the upper hand. It states that things cannot be deleted from talk pages unless archiving them.--[[Image:User-brains12-sigicon5.png|Talk|14px]]  br12  • (talk) • 16:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Could you sign with four tildes ( ~ ) instead of just three? Four includes the date as well, which is most useful. Thanks. -- br12  • (talk) • 16:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes please, with a black sig and no date, your comments are hard to distinguish from the next. --Xeeron 16:12, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

IP
If the reason you registered was to hide your IP, I'm afraid you registered for the wrong reasons. Anyone with any form of server access can, if I recall correctly, read the IP of any contributor to the site. Any admin can find your IP, even without checkuser, by blocking you, telling it to block the last IP you used, and looking at Special:ipblocklist. They only need to block you for a second to do so.

Regardless, there's absolutely nothing anyone can do with your IP here. The worst people can legally do with it is block you. If someone were going to try to hack you (and I sincerely doubt anyone would, as they have no reason to), they'd first have to contend with your firewall (and zonealarm is quite a firewall to contend with - google it for details). If they were insistent on hacking you (more so than simply giving up because you were logged in), they'd also hack the server for your IP, so logging in doesn't protect you much. Your real protection comes from the fact that humans do nothing without a reason, and you've given no one any reason to hack you. (You'd have to push people pretty far to do that.) Armond 03:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think it much matters if he makes an account just to hide his IP. It's always good for an account so that you are able to get a Watchlist and stuff. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  09:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * He specifically stated on Gaile's talk page that he only made the account to hide his IP. I wanted to clear him of the illusion that it worked or was necessary. Armond 20:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The difference between checkuser and the current system is currently there is no way for someone to access my ip without an obvious abuse of power. No reason to hack someone? Like Raptors had no reason to vandalise? It would be an abuse of sysop power to obtain my ip that way and would prompt some kind of retribution against any sysop who did it. Anon
 * Not really. Anyone with server access could look up your IP without abusing power. A one second ban isn't really an abuse of power - in fact, I doubt anyone would notice it, and even so, what are they going to do about it? It's over before anyone notices. And Raptors vandalized for lolz, and vandalizing for lolz is far easier than hacking for lolz. Armond 23:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't wanna be a killjoy here, but it's "lulz". not that i would know for any reason besides watching you tube or anything. --Lou-Saydus[[image:User Lou-Saydus Hail Storm.jpg|19px]] 18:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)