User:J.delanoy/protection

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I have been asked quite a few times why I don't get my userpage semi-protected. Here is my reasoning:

In my mind, protecting my userpage does two things:

It lets the vandals win—"He warned me but he's scared I'll fight back, so he has his userpage protected."
It lets the vandals let out steam.—"I got blocked, but I sure told him off..." Since I don't care what vandals think about me, I just let them spew off. If my page was protected, the vandal's anger could build up and they could turn themselves into another Hitler. I know that's probably a stretch, but you never know.

The reason I have made my main userpage's coding such a mess is to force vandals to work if they want to vandalize my userpage subtlely . Unless you know HTML and wikimarkup fairly well, you will not be able to figure out what is going on with my userpage. So basically, the only thing they can do is blank the page and/or add content that will be obviously out of place. Or they can add stuff to that banner, which I could quote to you in my sleep...