Rick wrote:
Do you people not understand how much disgusting (pornographic, name-calling) vandalism goes on on User pages? It's one of the main reasons for blocking anons. The Talk page is for editing. The User page is for a person's philosophy, who they are, what they are. Why do you feel the need to do that? What's wrong with just editing the Talk page and leaving the User page alone?
I think for some people, protecting the user page is a reasonable choice. You would likely fit into that category, because you've done so much work to fight vandals (which is very much appreciated, of course), that you're now a target from a lot of very dimwitted people.
But there's no reason to do it for everyone, and no reason for people to do it unless there's a major vandalism problem.
--Jimbo