Thread:Algorithmz/@comment-188432-20170320161916/@comment-188432-20170321163053

If I can say so, I think you're making a mistake. So you got two tiny, little blocks on two non-EN community centrals on the same day. Big deal. It happens. People get blocked all the time around Fandom. You can either stress the negative or learn from your mistakes and keep on goin'.

You've said to my PT- and ES-speaking colleagues that you think it'll "look bad" on your "record" to have these blocks. But once these very short blocks expire, it'll be damned hard for almost anyone, including staff, to discover that the blocks ever existed. Your account doesn't carry around some easily-found badge that says, "Hey, this guy was blocked." Block lists are specific to the community on which you were blocked. They aren't globally available for all to see.

The key here is simply to understand that you should speak with local admin about whatever plans you have to improve a site -- until they come to trust you. It's especially important that you do this on communities in languages you don't natively speak. Ask for things to do. Do those things, and nothing more. Eventually, you will gain their trust. They'll be less inclined to block you when your edits go outside the limits of what they'd prefer. And, in any case, you'll be making increasingly fewer of these kind of editing errors.

We do need your help around here. But the more collaborative your efforts -- the more you work with local administrators -- the better.