User:JBW/OPENTALK

There's a very effective way of making talk page access available to innocent non-autoconfirmed editors while shutting out the person who made protection necessary. You just create a second talk page, with some title such as User talk:YourName (Open), and put an edit notice on your normal talk page telling editors who can't edit here to go to the other page. You might expect that it wouldn't work, because the vandal who made the protection necessary can just go to the other talk page too, but in practice they never do. I can only assume that there's no fun in trolling if it isn't likely to be seen by most people; but whatever the reason may be, I've known it to work time and time again.