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 (16)

I am a newbie. All I can say is that my talk page kept changing in ways that not only were not my changes, but kept clobbering my changes. Either the software was doing it or another user was doing it. I was definitely not doing it. My own changes kept getting overwritten.

These kinds of things often happen with newbies. When a person is unfamiliar with a computer environment, he or she does not notice telltales that would reveal to a more experienced user what is going on. Newbies can misunderstand a user interface and unintentionally cause weird things to happen, especially if the system is also new and not thoroughly tested.

I saw enough viewpoint hostility on the part of admins here that I have no faith whatsoever in the editorial objectivity of the people who administer this environment. Given the information that I have, I am convinced that some administrator who knows how to cover his or her tracks intentionally sabotaged my talk page during the ten days in which I was trying to set it up, figure out how everything works here, and respond to Ms. Hale's unreasonable demand that I apologize for saying something that I never said.

I am willing to persevere because I think that you all are doing something very important and something very "new school". I am old and very "old school" and I am quite intrigued and want to understand the new ideas that appear to seem common sense to you but are quite strange to me.

Ms. Hale, please restart your conversation with me on my talk page, and let's have a pleasant conversation there. If the conversation disappears, please be assured that it was not I who deleted/blanked it.