Thread:Comments:Gun background checks a no-go in US Senate/The mission of the U.S. government is not to keep the people SAFE; it is to keep them FREE/reply (14)

You should have engaged me on this topic on my talk page, not here.

That is not true, and I can prove it. I made snapshots of both my user page and my talk page immediately after making changes, so I have a complete record of the changes that actually occurred. During the interval in question, I also took snapshots of the revision history page. I have several of those snapshots that show a revision history that lists ONLY the creation of the page, which is contradicted by the other snapshots.

I am a newbie to this system. I think that someone who has admin privileges, who is hostile to me for expressing the viewpoints that I embrace, and who is willing to abuse his or her admin privileges intentionally vandalized my talk page.

During one of the vandalisms, all of the posts from Laura Hale and you and everyone else was deleted with no trace on the revision history page. I had snapshotted them, so I manually restored the conversations. When I checked the next morning, the page had been reverted to another incarnation that I had created in response to a prior vandalism. This kind of thing happened two or three times, in which I would repair the page, only to check it after about 10 hours to see that my repair was gone, replaced by an earlier incarnation of the page. I finally got it more or less the way that I wanted it and gave up on trying to use it.

Either I was vandalized or there is something wrong with the software. At this point, being a newbie, experiencing unmistakeable hostility from both admins and other users, and being forced to use a wiki technology that presumes a level of trust and goodwill that is clearly not realized here, I have absolutely no confidence that I will ever be able to communicate effectively on my own talk page. My plan is to not touch it until someone posts a conversation opener and then to respond to that person while carefully documenting exactly what I do and what, if any, vandalism occurs to sabotage the conversation.