User talk:172.70.86.44

Could you explain what you mean by your edit summary for your edit on my talk page? Vandalbane (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

That's me, though it's likely this post's IP won't match. I'd have talked on your Talk page if you'd have asked there (same way I noticed your addition here), but if you'd prefer otherwise...

Basically, see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Vandalbane&diff=next&oldid=276074

That edit, signed "Special:Contributions/172.70.178.95|172.70.178.95]] 21:53, 23 May 2022 (UTC)" looks to be a taunt. I was poking around cleaning things up that had been messed with and thought you'd have no need to return to see that. Although maybe I didn't realise you wouldn't have understood my (rushed) edit-note.

Whether or not the lowercase-t thing works/worked or will work in the future, against scripts, the edit I removed showed that it did nothing at all for the manual editor who wished to do things.

At best, I left you at a status quo, but maybe I shouldn't have interfered. But I was in the middle of reacting to the remnants of various vandalisms and it seemed valid enough at the time. Apologies if I got it wrong or overstepped the mark in any way.

(And you can probably remove this whole messy conversation once you have read it. Not really a useful not of historical value that mustvremain and cannot suffice only in the page history. Entirely up to you, or the next person who wishes to edit this page.) 172.70.85.211 00:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

You didn't overstep at all, and I do thank you for reverting the vandal on my talk page. Have a good one, Vandalbane (talk) 00:52, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

...Cheers for the absolution.
But I'm serious that you should clear the above (and now this) away. Talk:IP pages aren't useful communication mediums. Most of those affected will probably never read them (I'm an exception) and most of those who do read them will be disinterested parties to the original issue (again, I'd be an exception) either as general nosy-parkers or because of long enough separation in time to have never been affected by (as an example from another quarter) an accidental IP block being apologised for.
And, in case you haven't noticed already, it looks like someone else 'commented' by edit-summary. Not important, but FYI: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Vandalbane&diff=prev&oldid=276776 172.70.85.177 07:54, 24 May 2022 (UTC)