User talk:BadCatMan

03:50: Tue 20 Dec 2011 17:52: Thu 22 Dec 2011

Unblocking
Hiya :) Sorry that you got caught by our abuse filters. Looks like you triggered two of them simultaneously, and they behaved properly. Since you've not edited with us much -- and since it's been a really long time since your last visit -- lemme try to explain what happened.

We prevent non-admin from using z-index, period. We had some problems with people doing nasty things to other people's user pages by z-indexing away certain things and creating bizarre messes that most users couldn't understand. As I recall -- though it's been a long time -- we also had a case of someone editing someone else's personal CSS file with heavy z-indexing, and thus creating a crazy mess that only the victim could see. So we put an end to z-indexing. Since the monobook.css you were attempting to create contained z-index statements, and you were trying to put them in the user namespace, it was disallowed. More than that, it's viewed as an active attempt to vandalise: the abuse filter blocked you.

Simultaneously, your CSS contained a number of all-caps statements, mostly in the remarks. This appears to be my code so, in a way, I guess I'm responsible for you getting stuck by a second Abuse Filter. We had a number of users who were going around to user's pages -- not just user talk pages, but user pages as well -- and creating a lot of angry statements in all caps. So we instituted a zero tolerance policy towards "shouting". And the general civility of our conversations rose.

So your solution here is just to scrub this CSS snippet for those two problems and you should be good to go. It's been a long time since I've looked at this old version of the Monobook.css code, so I'm not sure what the effect would be of removing the z-index statements. It's probably not going to be a heck of a lot, because I'm not sure I really understood z-indexing way back then. My guess would be that a lot of the z-index statements are unnecessary or ineffectual. Still, if you find a few that you can't live without, lemme know and I'll add the code for you. 03:21: Tue 01 Nov 2016