Wikipedia:Shoot yourself in the foot

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This page in a nutshell: Sometimes, getting yourself blocked from your own ANI report is very helpful for the rest of us.

On numerous noticeboards, particularly the incident noticeboard, editors open up threads about someone else, when really the original poster is at fault. Most of the time, this ends up bringing sanctions against the reporter instead of the reportee. This is often advised and warned against; however, doing something like this is sometimes a good thing.