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 | This page in a nutshell: A common, but not well-known, strategy to avoid sanctions is to "fly under the radar" by seldom—if ever—actually talking with anyone on Wikipedia. |
Wikipedia is a huge project, created and maintained by tens of thousands of people. In any such endeavor, there will sometimes be problems; new people may not know the rules and their content is removed or deleted. We hope that when this happens, the user can understand the reason and improve their contributions. We hope they will engage in dialogue so they can learn what kinds of content are appropriate.
But this is not always the case. Sometimes, they freak out and yell. Sometimes, they get mad and quit. And sometimes, they just keep doing what they are doing, ignoring every message sent to them, even ignoring short blocks intended to make it clear that they need to stop what they are doing. Often, such users have never used a talk page of any kind, or just stopped replying to any message at some point when they realized that people generally get bored and move on if they don't reply. They may move from one content area to another when there is an issue so the pattern is less apparent, but they don't discuss what they are doing and don't ever collaborate with other users.