Mod Jabberings Hollers [up][up] Locked, pinged, planning to nuke later.... More Mod Jabberings Namespaces for Animated Works I can see the merit, but at the same time it could get thorny when you're dealing with anime since certain titles include both films and series, like '... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am not entirely convinced that it's a problem yet, but re: [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=102301&type=att this]] AskTheTropers thread... More Mod Jabberings Hollers 0 overlap on Puppet check.... More Mod Jabberings Jimquisition / Moderation discussion I've never had any patience for foolishness and I make no pretense about that. It's been part of my style since I first became a moderator.... More Mod Jabberings Jimquisition / Moderation discussion I'm absolutely putting a mea culpa on the tone and submitting to judgment on it. However, what is going on right now is that Odysseus, Gaon, and others... More Mod Jabberings Jimquisition / Moderation discussion Today I am trying to get the Master thesis finally wrapped up, so only a few quick comments: * I am just not convinced that we can host political debates... More Mod Jabberings Pending and Resolved Suspension Cases I'm experimenting with this. Rules: * Open suspension cases are listed in the OP with a link to the user restraint page. The basic restraint issue is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/restrain.php?troper=bobby4ize bobby4ize]] is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/restrain.php?troper=slordoshoes slordoshoes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I've succeeded in knocking down the backlog significantly. My hands are going to complain for a while but there is a lot less work to do now.... More Mod Jabberings Hollers Edit: ...and mod-reverted.... More Mod Jabberings Hollers Thumped Fourthspartan for personalizing the discussion. I am kind of inclined to agree with nrjxll that filibuster discussions in the US politics thread... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Mod tools: ![[green:Forum-related tools]] !... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? * tvtropes-mod-tech: Here we discuss technical issues and requests with the site owners. You'll get to know them.... More Mod Jabberings New Account Approval Workflow and Instructions Basics # New account approvals are done through [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/mod_central.php Mod Central]].... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring If crazysamaritan is willing to jump in as a full mod, I'm down to offer the position.... More Mod Jabberings Hollers I think Marq's overboard for sure. I had a negative reaction to that information as well, but he's way over the top.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Great! I recommend that you favorite the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=dwo41irwgtuzrbgl41vb0y29 Hollers]] thread. It's where all... More Mod Jabberings Hollers [up] Thumping anyways. Everyone's already moved on.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info ... More Mod Jabberings Hollers [up] Yeah, looks bugged. Edit: Okay, let's see if removing the decimal from the URL helps. Edit2: Removing the .48 fixed it. I'll alert the admins... More Mod Jabberings Hollers Did some of the things on this page, but need comments on the following: * Kkutwar (the subject of War Jay's holler) keeps making problems in the character... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding the dispute between 43110 and Drake Clawfang in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=94274&type=att this query]], these are the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All things, Karxrida is too opinionated and unfriendly to be a mod in my honest opinion.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Wanted to bump this; I'm coming around to Kappyclastica as an option for an engineer position in IP instead of [=WarJay=]. They've been doing a lot of... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info ... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Also found this screenshot of the ancient mod tools◊.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I put a TLP ban on Troper 3 for his incorrigible TLP behaviour. Issues: * Rushing [=TLPs=], incessant bumping and badgering posters for examples in... More Mod Jabberings Hollers Because it's basically true. At this point, it's impossible to excessively insult Republican Trump voters, and this website will not be party to false... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, the Wiki Talk stickies list is an eyesore. In fact, moving the English thread to FAQ can probably be done straightaway, plus notifications for the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also agree that the English thread should be moved to FAQ.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I had a look at your idea, Septimus, (between here and Slack) and I agree that FAQ is a woefully underutilised subforum. New threads don't really see much... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I went through the FAQ forum and found a plethora of one-shot questions that were answered and often should have been posted in Ask The Tropers instead... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got some more PMs by Monsund complaining about lu127's version of events. I told 'em that I don't see anything wrong with lu's interpretation and that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's true, we can't make horses drink but we can still try to make the water potable. That way we can refer folks to FAQ when questions arise. The bigger... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's not a bad idea. However, the major problem with FAQs isn't what they contain but getting people to read them in the first place.... More Mod Jabberings Compilation of TLP wishes for the admins Announced this a while ago, but forgot to actually make it, so here goes nothing. This opening post is meant to list all requests for updates to the TLP... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been wondering for a while how we could render the two TV Tropes pages FAQ (Administrivia page) and FAQ (forum). Some folks in the Outdated Pages... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll freely admit that I should not ever invoke mod powers to win an argument. However, the argument in question was really stupid.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, this guy keeps complaining about years old events and I got him to stop PM'ing me mainly because I stopped replying.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Monsund is still pestering me over this. I have made it clear to him that all parties involved in the incident have been dealt with as I see fit and that... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I can be the conciliator mod for the time being (plenty of work experience there...) until the admins come up with some sort of supervisory hire for us... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And your language should be softer. I have replied to Monsund as cordially as I am able, but he has been a low-key annoyance for ages now. I have P Ms... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oi. I just took a gander at the prior suspension list and they have a lot of notes already. And they have been inactive since their suspension... That... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Monsund has PM'ed me about the World of Warcraft incident as you instructed him, Septimus. I am not sure what he expects me to do - it is impossible to... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring moving and renaming threads (which are relatively minor privileges they seem trustworthy enough with) while the TRS and IP engineers would get access to mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Parking a list of tropers which call themselves lolicon or shotacon on their troper pages: BT Isaac (apparently banned since 2012 for - mostly? - unrelated... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Agreed all around.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I am fine with you being the "conciliator" and also with making the tech thing an emergency request. Judging by the backlogs I saw today in locked pages... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm fine if you want to act in that capacity, Lu.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Monsund can STFU about that. The entire thing was started by him using the thread to complain about WoW.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Apparently that was the Warcraft thread incident [1]. Monsund said that thy found the experience traumatizing and are afraid of the three strikes principle... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Doublepost because Monsund sent me a PM with complaints about Fighteer, apparently thinking that I am the right person to refer such complaints. nombretomado... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm curious about which incidents they are referring to.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Double-posting to note that I talked to both Maddie and blackcat and neither was interested in coming back in serious mod capacity; Maddie cited lack of... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring We definitively should be asking for this. And throw in 5P on the pile, too - if we can't get consensus on a replacement for that system in a timely manner... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Well, the first question would be: does anyone on the active mod team want the job?... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I think we need to discuss who will be "conciliator mod". That is a great idea but we need a candidate for this.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'd love it if we could assign engineer rights in a modular fashion and also if we had control over it as moderators. Maybe we can ask for that.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Dear lord, that thread is bad. note  Both sides are actually wrong. Phonetics recognises the /sh/ and /s/ as distinct phonemes that cannot alliterate... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring 'tis is the topic that you think of, I suspect. Regarding videos ... frankly, I haven't ever cared too much about them and it seemed like chronic problems... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I don't like saying this, but if it's going to be a general package (i.e workshop tools plus locked pages) then I'd be comfortable only with Macron Notes... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm good with those to start with, but even with multi-area capability, are there no other candidates for the areas outside of IP? Edited by Willbyr on... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring So, can we safely say we have consensus for the following engineers: TRS: Macron Notes IP: Morgenthaler, Synchronicity War Jay: Video-related stuff... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Should probably add the pagemoving thing to the locked pages package. There have been some requests in the thread about page moves. Anyhow, putting aside... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'd love custom packages, but it all depends whether the admins are able to do that. If custom packages are not possible, we should go for a generic one... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Just checking in: Did we agree to having just one permissions package or do folks want to have more than one (like these I proposed on the previous page... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring The idea of having a mod "supervising" a team of engineers makes sense.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I have no objections to any of those.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring 'tis a pity. I did remember something about Synchronicity. I recall a disagreement in a recent TRS about whether a wick check is required before we open... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I don't see any reason not to ask them what's up, unless they'd be incredibly offended by it or something.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I admit that I have never been fond of Morgenthaler's habit to swamp IP with "x was downvoted any other suggestions?" threads. I don't know much of the... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I am proposing that someone be appointed (even an existing mod) specifically as the mod complaint department.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm good with those engineer nominations, willbyr.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Those threads that Morgenthaler makes are a standard part of processing the crowners in the Image Suggestion thread; any suggestions that don't end up... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm in complete agreement with Septimus on all points so far. From what I am getting, we do not have enough information on what the admins are planning... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring But that's in part personal practice - I tend to work through these lists which catch the mod forum as well.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Well it sure as heck can't be me. Eddie played that role (when he wasn't the problem), and Madrugada was the other person who could be counted on to keep... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring dedicated venue is needed, I'd probably go for a 5P-like solution i.e threads that are out in the public but are marked as "Engineer/Cutmaster/[whatever]-and-mod... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I'm friends with both Madrugada and blackcat on Facebook, I can contact them through there if need be.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring ~Fighteer just posted the following in the Slack channel: I just spoke with @drew directly. Without giving away details I'm not qualified to discuss,... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring For IP, the people I'd immediately nominate as engineers are Morgenthaler, Synchronicity, and War Jay 77. The former two have proven to be willing to... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Dealing with disputes in the mod team or with complaints against alleged moderator misbehaviour.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I like both the idea of using this subforum more and would float an even more radical solution, to retire the mod-business Slack channel for all things... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I take this relates to this ATT. mouschilight's queries have always been about intricate work-related issues that one cannot properly adjudicate without... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This review shows up as flagged but there is no flag anywhere - ATT or Hollers - I can see.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I've been trying to start the conversation. I'll keep going.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring In my perfect world, we would get a checkbox where we can tick an engineer's specific set of tools and customise each engineer to have exactly what we... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Quite frankly, items obtained through doxxing have no reason to be on display. The fact that people somehow think that the information has suddenly become... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Yeah I think that works for me.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring It's kind of silly to "ban" cross-forum roles for us. I think we would obviously chip in for every forum. We would need to encourage engineers to stick... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy (Technically, the discussion mostly stalled on the question of how to determine consensus in case we had a discussion) Regarding new members, we did consider... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring One question about lu's set up: Does it imply that the general moderators are expected to not act in the area of another one? For example, if Willbyr focuses... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I think it's quite feasible for us to have cross-forum roles. Berrenta often steps in and helps out in IP when I'm not able to take action for one reason... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy A short while ago the idea of dismissing the P5 entirely and going with consensus voting was proposed and shot down. Given that, our only option is to... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I seem to mostly be hanging around in OTC and the media subs at the moment. Used to spend a great deal of time in the RP board but haven't been in there... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread I'd like to give a prize to Macron Notes for tirelessly working on the various wick and trope maintenance backlogs.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Megabump! Since we are thinking of restructing large parts of moderation, it's perhaps due to also discuss the 5P. There are a few problems here: There... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring You have the right idea, Septimus. As Fast Eddie once said, this isn't going to move unless we make it move. But it seems we are quite demotivated ourselves... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring So it looks like we all agree on these points: We need more specialised moderators/engineers We need to find a way to enforce the focus whether technically... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Flagging ~Fighteer to this as they are the only ones who have not commented. Someone in the appeal to the moderation thread mentioned the video approval... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, I've thus enacted the edit.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I've provided the Appeal to the Moderation thread with an update. I don't think lu's idea was to create a rights package for each Engineer individually... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You mean to add punctuation and such? There's never been any formal rule about it that I'm aware of.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A question about work link formatting: Should potholes be used to format work page links when they are red links and there isn't thus anything custom-titlable... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring We definitely need to get some more mods, but new mods or no, I'm all for bringing back engineers. Even one in IP would be very helpful, although I have... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring I definitely think there is a cause to work on our accountability to the user-base as part of this.... More Mod Jabberings Restructuring Re: Team Leader: I wouldn't mind being one for TRS as Septimus suggested, since a lot of my edits nowadays have been involving TRS in some fashion, and... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Canned this review on VideoGame.The Last Of Us Part II from Xilinoc, for reviewing the reactions to it, and not the game itself:     ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've suspended Jamie Shush for edit warring on Characters.Overly Sarcastic Productions and arguably being wrong about it as per this ATT. OSP Blue may... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Bashing reviews from AntiLegacy98 and DarthCaesar:     AntiLegacy98  For Legacy Naruto: TRASH: Skip this garbage   ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, in these two posters we see extreme ends of the spectrum. Nuup is obviously a right-winger, and we've forced them to tone down their posting style... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was wondering if we could have a discussion about Robrecht. And of Nuup-Kangerlua. Without drowning out other issues in the Slack channel hence I am... More Mod Jabberings Requests for large queries Found out that this Google thing can get you a list of pages with "this troper" on it.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Parking this here so that we have a record on it. I was thinking that trope-like pages could have the following classification scheme: "Trope": Allows... More Mod Jabberings Cleaned-up list of locked pages Anyhow, this is a lot of pages. Many of them aren't listed at Locked Pages and Permanent Red Link Club. I wonder if some kind of mass update of the former... More Mod Jabberings Cleaned-up list of locked pages So, after unlocking a number of pages that were locked as "page was cut", it seems like TV Tropes has the following list of pages locked for other reasons... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker superluccix left the following comment on this page, which I've deleted: "If you're going to insult someone's proficiency with a language, it's a good... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Zapped this review on Wiki.Crappy Games Wiki by maddox121, who has serious issues on this page documented in ATT. I really hate this wiki. I really do.... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff testing URI processing: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/mod_central.php?ip=2600:6c5e:547f:e703:816d:6695:cebf:8629... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Deleted this review on Percy Jackson And The Olympians by ToBeContinuedYes, as they were suspended for bashing and, instead of addressing it in EB, is... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Deleted this review on Horndog by ironhorndog: Horndog is a pro-America, patriotic comic book, so the left has done everything they could to smear it and... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Zorched this review on Literature.The Clique. Troper was already suspended for political bias, just not noted in reviews until now: A lot of pages on this... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Zapped this review on WesternAnimation.Teen Titans Go by Forceofnatureandcorn. The line about Down's Syndrome at the end puts it over the top. To clarify... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker some highlights from the bounced fmcboi: I\'m always consistently reminded how autistically retarded a lot of tvtropers are whenever I read reviews on... More Mod Jabberings OTC OTC's longer-running problem is that a subset of very opinionated users tend to run roughshod over everyone else's views, drowning out other opinions and... More Mod Jabberings OTC I tend to enjoy some, but not all of the discussions there, and I too have learned to recognize certain posters whose entry guarantees a derail or flame... More Mod Jabberings OTC I just came back to this discussion because of something that Eddie just brought up. Self moderation. That's probably what we need to work on most.... More Mod Jabberings OTC Self-moderation, very much so. We can't be the Thought Police of On-Topic Conversations.... More Mod Jabberings OTC There's something I'd like to hear your thoughts on. OTC's definition is pretty open, but wouldn't the "Could someone help...etc" thread be more appropriate... More Mod Jabberings OTC I'm just naturally very suspicious. Many elements of the story seem like a reworking of Charles Dickens. That does not mean I am right. It just means I... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I don't think any of the mods are looking to build lists of explicit rules. But "Don't be a dick" is evidently far too vague.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Let's take a slightly different tack and examine this in terms of objectives. What are our objectives here? Improve civility in OTC? Reduce the site... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I feel pretty strongly that discussion of SA and ED should be zapped on sight. Hosting it just encourages them. They rant about the zappage, of course,... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules It seems to me that "can't understand why a moderator action was taken" is often "won't understand why a moderator action is taken". There is a big difference... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules What is happening, I think, is that there is a tendency to regard complainers with suspicion, as well as, on a number of occasions, a failure to explain mod... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Yeah, that SA thing is just text. No doubt whatsoever that people from that SA thread come here, instigate crap, then go back to SA and brag on it.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Might be worth noting that when some goons came over here that one time and tried to get Troper Tales deleted, their thread on SA was shut down by a mod... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Oh, OK then. I'll admit, I haven't been following them closely. As far as I saw all they were doing was sitting over there and lobbing insults. edited... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Well, my list is more like why I no longer enjoy the forums very much. BC's #1 re piles and pissing. BC's thing re sense of entitlement. The general... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I do have to admit the response to that was disheartening; the tropers there acted like schoolkids being exhorted to rat out their classmates.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I'm in the same position as Fighteer, only with midterm studying taking most of my attention. I should have something coherent this weekend.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules What I'm rapidly learning is that if things aren't stated outright, you can't trust tropers to assume them, no matter how obvious they might seem. If... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I have to agree that it probably should be explicitly stated. I recall that people were astonished astonished, I say, that they weren't supposed to be... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules It becomes far too much of a scoreboard, but it would be useful to have one on the back end here for us. Our banlist only really works for the old system... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Eddie knows I've pushed for a searchable ban report rather than a handle-specific lookup. I'm really of two minds about the public banlist thing. I know... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Media: "The most quiet and least intimidating in my experience." Uhh, I guess you haven't responded to Hollers on My Little Pony and Mass Effect discussions... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I think they fall under "controversial work" and "deranged fandom". But really, I've never faced problems in media threads, other than the occasional... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I would like to paste these phrases in my sig line: But if I were forced, by compulsion or out of assumed moral obligation, to allow others to use Popehat... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I saw that post a few days ago — the guys who run that blog are heroes in terms of their advocacy for people who are being bullied for their speech... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules That's a good idea...I don't have much going on at work today so I'll mull that over and try to come up with something as I get time.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules nice.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I forgot about that one; it's added.... More Mod Jabberings The Ventrilo Server Yeah, we let the ventrillo paid services run out, since it wasn't getting much use. With stuff like Skype and Google+ hangouts, there should be a way to... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Awww. That's nice.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Funny how that works, isn't it FE?... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Just got this PM: Put this in whatever method you moderators use to communicate among yourselves... I am a user of this site, and I want to congratulate... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Cool. We need to be careful about giving SA any ink, though. They love it. Even thought I've lost it, myself, over their crap. It would be much better... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: It made me smile and squee.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I just couldn't resist myself, and I know that that's something I sometimes did before I became a mod.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Yeah, it was great.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think if I got a webcam, you'd all be pretty shocked with how young I look. xD... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: It was fun talking with all of you. :D... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: you'd all be pretty shocked with how young I look. Well, how young are you, then? (You've probably mentioned it somewhere but I can't recall it right now... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think Bobby is in his early twenties. I do think the mix works really well. It is weird that Madrugada and I both happened to major in theatre as undergrads... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I can't find it anymore. I think it went something like Janitor Fast Eddie Blackcat Me All in our 50s Fighteer Morven Camacan All in their 30's Meta... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'm 22, which is old for a 2nd year undergrad but I guess not for a TVT mod.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'm short, too, so I guess I can be, like, the mod team mascot. =P... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: 6'2"-ish, depending on when and how you measure.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Ah, yes, the U.S. and our backwards imperial measurements.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Fighteer is about 1.9 m (2 m is 78 inches, or 6'6", roughly), Shima and I are both about 1.78. 'Trika gets between 1.5 and 1.6. Better? edited 7th Mar... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'm a bit shorter than Mad and Shima but taller than the other little bits.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Indeed. Always good to get the appreciation.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I just got a PM from Doctor Thunder regarding drama in the RP subforum. He ended it with: In any case, thank you very much for all the time and effort... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: That thread does need a cool down.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I checked those posts. Calling them ridiculous and flamey is putting it mildly.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I didn't know that, thanks for the tip.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Yuanchosaan sent me this: Until it was mentioned by you and a few other mods recently, I didn't realise how little the mods are thanked for the awesome... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: *shudder* PS: I have no problem if you want to post this on the mod forum or forward it to the other mods who were part of that debacle conversation... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I got a PM from 32 Footsteps, with the headline "Sigh." So that sounds bad, but read the message: I wanted to send this to show sympathy with you and the... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Answered a query from Libris Dedita, got this in response which I thought I should share: Thank you for your time (and all the mods are acting with near-saintly... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Got a PM from Sir.Orc after the conversation with him in Edit Banned this past week: hello! Sir. Orc here, just sending you this message as thanks for... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: ... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Isn't it? I've been grinning all morning.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I got a great PM from Best Of: I don't know how much you value input from the Tv Tropes community regarding the work you (the mods in general) are doing... More Mod Jabberings Rules question Looks legit to me, too, for OTC. Probably a good idea to pop right in as soon it starts to mention that we don't want it all to go pear shaped. Fact of... More Mod Jabberings Rules question All right, I'll tell Ian that. Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings Rules question I don't see any problem with telling people about a thing to vote on and then having people decide on their own to go vote on it. That's straightforward... More Mod Jabberings Rules question Danke shoen.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode What a maroon!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I don't think this monitor does the subtle color well, but For Science.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Mod mode button not checked.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Oh, hey, I like the "In Moderator Mode" custom title.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Testing... The reason I'm going to use this the most is calling and locking crowners honestly.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Meta's good. He shopped mine and 'cat's. edited 15th Jan '12 8:52:56 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Yeah, they used to look more aggressive when they first came out, but now they don't. The black hole was intimidating a lot of people, I think, and didn't... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode It definitely does. It's easily the coolest avatar I've seen on the fora.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Whoohoo, I have a hat!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Now to find the damn thing.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Do spoiler tags work in pink posts? How about Potholed spoilers? Huh! Spoilers don't work in pink posts. edited 14th Aug '12 5:59:10 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Well, they work, but they aren't properly concealed in the sea of Pepto Bismol-colored background. White-on-pink is a great recipe for killing our users... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Welp, this one works. Whatever happened here?... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode She seems to have one already.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I see. Ninjas!... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Why is "damn it" spelled incorrectly in the title Were Still Relevant Dammit?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined It's a legit variant. Kinda like "gonna". Or "kinda".... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Getting a request from nuclearneo577 to degrammarcorrectify Love It Or Hate It, and I am declining that mf so hard like you wouldn't believe. But alas... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Um... fuck. Sorry, blackcat, I approved those earlier this afternoon. I forgot to check the forums first.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined No reason for any apologies I didn't know that H 2 G 2 was an appropriate prefix, so I was mostly just asking.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Ah, yes, you're right. Just checked. I tend to only hear that abbreviation in reference to the wiki-like site — but that probably reflects my personal... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined a request to change Lucky Star from "Lucky☆Star" to "Lucky Star" on the basis that the name is written with the star on the actual cover... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Vulchak wanted to rename Main/Repair the title as \\\\ To: It's always Redhead, Red Head is like Red Skull's head. edited 10th Aug '11 4:53:45 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I've been declining custom titles requests for pages that don't exist. I ask people to make the article and then request the title. Today I sent Res Nullius... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Thanks FE!... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Annoyingly, the custom titles approval page doesn't seem to always follow the same rules as display on the Wiki; you don't know if something appears as... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined When I get a funny looking request I decline and ask them to resubmit and the second request usually looks right.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Trying to decline a request to change Samus Is A Girl to "Samus is a Girl" ("is" being a verb and conventionally capitalised).... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I just declined a custom title request for the Kampher page because there was no troper handle in the "requested by" field.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined fixed... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Good. Declined.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Zapped it. That decline function pos-def needs some fixin'.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Just got a pm from Dragon Quest: "I hope so. At least on my browser (Chrome on Windows XP), the page title is of on the work page, and the link text is... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I don't believe that so. It was only going to change how links to that page would display. I can't see why a troper's own page shouldn't reasonably match... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined a request to change the Home Page to Ho-mey Page. Face Palm... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined a request to change Tropers/Rickied to d &#9679;&#9679;&#9679; ...I have no idea what that's supposed to be.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Mine was from St Fan, too. Have to look closer at his requests from now on.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Is One-Sided Battle supposed to be compound? Another St Fan request...... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Nope. EDIT: Declined three requests with the word "if" arbitrarily demoted to lower case. The pages were Science Is Wrong, Science Is Bad and ... Damn.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Um, is there some problem with the custom titler and special characters? There's a request to custom title Lucky Star, with what I imagine to be a star... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Okay, the custom title bugs are driving me batty. Fate Stay Night will not show up as Fate/Stay Night no matter what I do. I've submitted and accepted... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Wasn't that a short lived retitle though?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined the following because incorrect wiki words. Ninja The Mission Force Welcome To Ponyville Videogame/Wet This one, I don't know Tyke Bomb or Tykebomb... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined It doesn't matter how you format it on the page. It's the custom titler that's the problem. When you submit a request, the namespace needs to be one word... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Yeah, so I fully admit I was wrong about that, but the pages already seem to be structured like that, unless I didn't look at enough of them?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I'm waiting for Star Sword to get back to me on custom titling "FX" to "f(x)". I'm pretty sure that conflicts with at least one other work.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Thought I would just start stacking the bodies here so that FE knows where to find the info. 71.119.18.241 wildheart... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre kirbyharris 86.177.106.6... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre pt4me2014 75.200.228.252... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre bjackson kirbyharris jlyell wildheart F Miller 732 pompapah Have all been edit banned. Most of them for at least the second time. Duh, me. edited... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Banhammered teddyballgame in the forums. No wiki history.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre SamSafeauto 112.202.84.128... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Yup. Our primary advantage is attention span.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Buildblog 110.55.248.177... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre JOHN Ypiraltaz 121.54.22.249 Carl74sd 50.10.174.194... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre annac 124.106.46.94... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Right, I forgot about that. Umm... now we're back to my "greylist new accounts" idea again. Dammit. Whitelisting URLs would be too much work.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre What happens when they try? Might be informative if people start asking. Or to guess the spammers' next tactic.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Hah, you got 'em faster than I could.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Grr. Something is broken in the new accounts-posting-externals filter.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre rankinanks 72.46.129.107... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Oh. Nuking the thread would have removed any posting history.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 7spain 95.122.55.166... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre cowanubeda 24 190.110.180.145... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre blueclcl 94.3.229.71 deehege 90.208.70.86... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre That last one, in Moonlight Lady isn't good. It's a spammer, but not on a Tropers page where they have been clustering. I don't suppose we could get a... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre livinlargeinthesun 96.24.55.0... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre cameroon201 — forum spam: Cameroon-Tribune : Le Quotidien National Bilingue du Cameroun. The Cameroonian Bilingual Daily News. L'information sur... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre salim2001 117.201.69.140... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre smushed... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre bounced... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I thought I had already posted this,but forum banhammer has also been applied.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre They tried to, but the system rejected the posts. <pats good boy system on the head />... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I read a story not too long ago about a woman who was stalked for years by a person from a calling center that she had hung up on. Some people are just... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I guess the first step is to require an email address and to mail them a verification link. Guess I should get on that. Doing something about it or not... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre surfacetogokumissile 69.9.210.13 My Little Pony Vandal... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre FE: Baba's running amok again, see this page of the Hollers thread and Ask The Tropers. We need to determine where this information goes so Eddie can see... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Email for verification is only a temporary roadblock, and for casual vandals at that. You might say that we are now catching up to the late 20th century... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Ob Oa Ob Oa OGAR Oeeb O 210.107.100.251... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Fricking baba's running amok in Ask The Tropers Ib Ia Ib Ia IGIAIR Ie Ie Ib I is one handle, there are others. Ib Ia Ib Ia IGIAIR Ie Ie Ibl Ibla Ib Ia... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Are you hitting these with both hammers, 'cat? Wiki-side and forum-side?... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre yep, it's just that I'm also making a time sensitive dinner and have to going away... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I'm on it, 'cat. Go cook.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre jajamkiii has used these IP addresses in the forum: 77.65.19.35 All tropers using those addresses: jajamkiii... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Do the handles even matter with this guy? Or should we just focus on the IP's?... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I figured as much.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I changed the allowance back to one per IP yesterday.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre fisherhag 195.64.149.87 (yup it's baba).... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre lbeeRAGababl has used these IP addresses in the forum: 94.46.3.195 All tropers using those addresses: lbeeRAGababl... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Yup.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Neat. Another thought for hellabanning: make it a rolling buffer so they can see their last X changes but older stuff gets chucked. Keep from keeping an... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre If we do decide to implement hellbanning, certain users will take it as another sign that we mods are unfathomably capricious and that we engage in cloak-and-dagger... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I'd support something like that as a way to deal with Ilmurov, baba and their ilk, but not as a general-purpose ban.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Yeah, they are not advisable as "normal" bans. Very easy to get wrong. But they can potentially waste a vandal's time, as they have a harder time realizing... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Given their efforts in getting around the blocks, behavioral-based methods are probably more effective. Which I understand we already do to some extent... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre yvilen 178.1.143.228 178.1.147.190 84.61.105.178 While technically not a spambot did necro this [1] thread to plug his website. Locking the thread.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre From the wiki side, here's one I just nabbed: MichaelVaughn... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre tantrikbaba was spamming liveblogs.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre toyswill spamming at liveblogs.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Is this a thing to do every time a spammer is caught? philipwalker (113.203.170.95) advertised newamericanjackets.com on Film.Guardians Of T He Galaxy... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre "Rosegcox" (182.186.245.174) spammed an advertising thread.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre gmdisha and sumalatha are both liveblog spammers and have been booted.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Debby Wilson 21 211.174.117.240 is a liveblog spammer.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Xeniroy1 (104.152.45.5) was caught spamming in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings Acritdy The edits on DMOS do look to be out of line. He's taking out substantial sections, that in some cases change the complaint completely, for example changing... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod I've noticed some situations resolve themselves and really don't need intervention. Other times, it helps if they know you are standing in the doorway... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod When a non-mod does something that defuses a situation — PM them and say "Thank you!".... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod My impression is that their ego cannot stand the concept of someone else liking something they dislike.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod And crowners can't be unlocked.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod Bumping this one for the new guys.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod Now that you're a mod, clicking on a troper's name will not take you to their userpage, but to a page kind of like this.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod I suggest you add that to the thread with the mod tools. It looks like a very, very useful feature to have.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod K.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering You may want to d/l the css_<color>.css files. They are more current. I want to eliminate as many rountrips as possible, so the aim is to have one... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Thank you. So, we currently have css_white, css_pink, css_black, and css_tan? Actually, a CSS compiler such as LESS is looking appealing here. The factored... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering I've been fiddling with the liveblog and reviews styles. The background image for the CC license link has been added to the wiki page template. The namespace... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering I've just been placing things I'm unsure about into a scratch file for easy access. Or if they really feel crufty, just deleting them. Yay version control... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Thought I had answered the earlier item. Must have neglected to post it. li.ymmv will only be used on wiki pages. li.changebullet and a.subpagelink are... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Finally got a chance to look into this. The button appearance differences, is there some reason they need to be that way? I'd have to say the present-production... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Template.css is used by 31 scripts. The most active one is Recent Edits. Good point on that menu thing. Though I thought we could cover a wider number... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering We're both on Central time, yes? What time works? Any point from 8 to 12 should be doable for me.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Yes, we're both in Central. Actually, it might be better to do it tomorrow. I've got to crunch out some stuff for the paying gig and will probably be beat... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Let's shoot for Tuesday. I'll give you a shout after 7pm, unless you indicate that you'll be otherwise engaged.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Threw together a couple of editors for css and template development. Here they are. The main thing they provide is distribution of the code to all the... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering True... wrapping the whole button in the link might fix that, though blocks aren't supposed to go in inline elements. (Why couldn't html just let you put... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Removing the hover state on the buttons would solve the inconsistency problem. For mobile, I think what we could go with drop-down menus, as long as we're... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering That's an option. For the Javascriptless, we can duplicate the menu at the bottom. Though I suppose most devices without Javascript aren't going to be... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Is there a way to trigger that view mode?... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Here we go. Add ?fauxfone=1 to the URL. That will kick into smartphone 320 mode.... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners There's also the matter of mod availability; I know I've more or less given up on policing TRS because it moves too fast.... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners I don't think that it's so much that they're being made too early, as much as it's that there are a few people who expect too much of them or don't realize... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would it be out of line of me to request that he (at the very least) either start showing other tropers the basic courtesy of typing properly - with a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His disregard for the rules of English make me want to hit him in the face with a banhammer. Twice. That is all.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Truthfully, Fast Eddie I don't know that any of us is entirely comfortable with that yet. I think that is why we are all hemming and hawing about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think he should go. We are not intended to be therapy, and he is a drainer; he takes away, rather than adding, to any conversation he inserts himself... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've seen it, too. Haven't PM'd. Probably should have.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Robbierotten is the subject of a discussion in Ask The Tropers regarding his edits on a page. I pm'ed him asking him to give edit reasons and to not trim... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Everyone, what do we collectively think of this fellow: Crion87? His main contribution to the site seems to consist of adding stories about his violent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Isn't that business as usual for Troper Tales? I see that some of his edits have been deleted for nattering on main pages, which is much more concerning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The web series ThisTroper recently made videos mocking two users on this site, Lucky Revenant and Made of Meat (the latter has been banned, but still),... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for the heads up Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I though you had already heard of that series. Yeah, somebody clearly needs a better hobby. At least Lucky's only reaction was "two years ago? seriously... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Any indication it won't just be more of the same?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wish I could say I am surprised and/or disappointed by the decision to ban Cryptic, but I really can't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Troper Mechanical Pencil is making bowdlerizing edits as reported in Ask The Tropers. It looks like all he is doing is changing God to gosh and shit to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also notice we might have an (unrelated?) rash of spambots. Vanguardst 121.74.128.39 GlodUoxe 66.90.104.57 danielsmith21 50.41.176.210 All recently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All on anonymized routing services, too. Those guys are getting paid. If the page doesn't get cut after a day, you'll see it bloat up with those ads to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What form would the limits take, though? Would we obtain a blacklist of suspect URLs and filter new posts through them? My thinking is that if someone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More spamming: Isabel P 7 78.105.153.67 Backpack Theresa 122.161.57.115 Sizzel 76.205.178.110 aircardmifi 115.87.73.110 Mr Kool 119.155.24.14 I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ I'm thinking more of the fact that a complete block would prevent them from providing any kind of documentation from off-site in an OTC, or offering... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We could make exceptions for known "okay" sites like You Tube, Photobucket, etc. Sort of a URL domain whitelist. Also, I have to wonder if enforcing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 2.102.151.107 onlynenz Posting links in edit reason. Claimed to not be a bot on page. Forum banned and edit ban. edited 3rd Jun '11 9:21:45 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also Kevinsousa 96.237.141.55 allan26 217.217.18.173 It looks like the trail of bad troper pages dries up after a day or so — it looks clear back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wish I could stick around longer but I need to sleep. Good night everyone. Good luck.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How do lost password requests get handled now, then?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Same as always. Use the reset account tool. It will make sure the IP address used for account registration is made available again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: resetting account passwords. There was one of these yesterday in Ask The Tropers. They couldn't log in to make the request via the password thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounce installed cutting profiling intruder... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edit to add: OK Edit again to add: Just checked page history [1] was there a person named Pentadragon? Last time I'm editing: Nope no one on the contributors... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't really see why Welcome To TV Tropes needs to be unlocked. In fact, I locked it just now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just warned neoYTPism for trying to turn another OTC thread into an exploration of his issues with women.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread neo has made many contributions to the wiki over the years. I hope he gets over this problem.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh for Pete's sake.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I need some opinions. I may be being unnecessarily thin-skinned, but this troper's handle can't be something we encourage, right? We got on someone's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Del Diablo PM'd me asking why he was banned. I pointed him to this post, and he inquired as to whether I had a broken sarcasmometer. :\ edited 11th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Corection: not Arcadiarika themself; but as present during the various episodes of drama in the WAOA role play. ^^ Could be. It's just an itch in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Requesting a Google Bounce on Ukonkivi. The PM he just sent was one of the vilest, most racist pieces of trash I've ever had the dubious honor of being... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think this trope is capable of having criteria that mean the same thing to everyone who applies them. It just doesn't work. It's one of the worst... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: Sleet Wintergreen. He's answered my concern about attacking a real-world person by adding 'em to Lack Of Empathy. In his words: "I simply put a Real... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. I'm getting tired of the mentality that tars the entire wiki with the same brush.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't have a LJ account but I did let Zelda Queen know we bounced him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread [Supplies faith-in-humanity-corset] edited 24th Jun '11 7:36:16 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Animeluvva nee Mohammed Wu is back as: yudowsky 67.220.201.197 I repaired the wiki-side damage from that attack and edit banned him. He then sent a bunch... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, cool. Thanks for the vigilance.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FoRKS found its home in Darth Wiki. Can we just move 'em all over there? edited 27th Jun '11 7:07:55 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer, I just was the hard-ass moderator saying "no" to lifting 9Darthmaul's edit block. If I stepped on your toes, I apologize.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ivy is MtF and strongly prefers feminine pronouns. She also is a hardcore Democrat and has multiple times asked us to ban Major Tom essentially for being... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread With blackcat on this one - Ivy does have this "I know what's best" thing going on, so given the wording of the PM, this sounds much more like a sincere... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay so SF 100 wasn't waring, he was failing to read and understand the article before slapping in X Just X examples. I admit I jumped to conclusions after... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got some confusing / confused PMs from Animeking1108. I think he was saying when he read the requirements for Kick The Dog in the edit reason I gave... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspended The Kang Lock for questionable edits edit warring and yelly edit reasons and got this in reply: fuck you. I made proper edits you pricks! all... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Not sure why you wouldn't want a bounce for this elvie item. edited 15th Jul '11 6:16:52 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting tired of MagBas. He keeps getting into disputes and turning up in Ask The Tropers. I've told him in ATT and in PM to resolve issue with the other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, we have a troper trying to log in with the handles TheFreeman and GourdonFreeman who is getting blocked by the bounce code, which is triggering... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Vandalism alert: abcdefghijerk — needs full ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe somebody will help me understand why Love Happiness needs any more self-hanging rope? This is a guy with 24 thumps. edited 19th Jul '11 3:34:51 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Summertime. O, how I love it when the wee kiddies are all at loose ends.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread disrupter is the latest.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounces installed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought that wiki edit bans prevent people from adding or commenting on reviews. That's a hole.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh sorry, context.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IDK. I don't normally read photos. It probably isn't any different.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, I see you banned Jackerel. I'm in two minds about this guy: on the one hand some of his edits are reasonable. On the other I'm seeing bad cuts... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting an unpleasant vibe off nahbios. I don't really understand his reply to Fighteer in the ban thread. His edits to Touched By An Angel and Pedophile... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know. Not happy about the idea of letting him back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This might be a "just me" thing but anyone who takes otaku as a user name is ALREADY in the to be viewed with deep distrust category. There is a big ol... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a bad idea. I'll see about that after today's paywork.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Well, then, I don't feel so bad. Either he was really a dick, or he decided to become a dick because of the forum ban. Either way, we don't need him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Strike that. Just got one from him. Basically, 'Ooooh, I didn't know, I won't do it again.' Given that the rest of his posting history isn't bad, I'm going... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been forum banned once before and got privileges back for a short time before blowing it. He doesn't understand playing well with others. I would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I see Witch Beatrice is stirring up trouble again. This is the author of an ugly "hate fic" called Debt, created with the sole intention of offending fans... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think there stopped being more cool people online than uncool people the minute DARPAnet went public (or AOL got started, one of the two). You can't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think the idea is that more editors = broader content. TV Tropes remains very focused on popular media, and in particular media with geek appeal. We... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How is he getting through? He barely breaks stride anymore when he's banned. edited 6th Aug '11 6:59:01 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a bad idea.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There isn't a review comment limit. There probably should be, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Situation I don't know what to do about; I need some outside brains. I just got a PM from Vorpy, that someone has stalked her over here from another site... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Even if he isn't a sockpuppet of Raw Power, if he doesn't clean up his act soon he'll be banned right? And if he does clean up his act, then what's the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bans notionally attach to the person, not the handle. Otherwise a ban evader only has to "reinvent their forum persona" to get away with it, and that's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But as Morven said, if they're only "pretending", sooner or later they slip up. If they've genuinely changed their behavior, we'd never know unless they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I see it as, "You screwed up once, here's another chance on the promise that you learned your lesson." Permanent bans are allocated on the "Fool us twice... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be more than a little uncomfortable about allowing Raw to ban evade, if that's really what's going on here, because he lied about it before. I think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's referenced stuff that she did under different usernames. When she posted on IJBM she used the name "notwithstanding". Pretty sure it's no secret... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Discar has been annoying me for a while in TRS. He consistently derails topics with rules debates, and tries to use the "it's working" rule as a conversation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't recall hearing about him again, and it looks like he went unnoticed because OldManHoOh was fixing the bad edits almost as soon as they were made... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently Love Happiness has been bugging people over PM. He's advertising something about Touhou, but he's sending it to people who aren't interested... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jackeral (Formerly Jack Mackeral): Didn't we have a go-round with him about wiki editing before? The only thing I can recall is that he lost his old account... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (Nevermind this post, I was showing my bias as a literature student, I think) edited 14th Aug '11 7:03:09 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's been a vandal persistently attacking the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic pages over the past few days. So far he/she/it has used the handles... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Move Article threads to it's own subsection and have a general forum ban not affect that section? That would be good. especially if a second hammer is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Historically one could edit the Wiki without having to access the forums at all, if one were so inclined. This is changing, though, because we're making... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread itwasadarkandstormynight went off on a fast-moving vandalism spree removing Harry Potter material. Referred to Eddie for a bounce. edited 17th Aug '11... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ I'll be happy to. Is there a thread I need to check first to bring me up to speed on what needs doing? Maybe we're doing this the wrong way. Eddie,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not enthused by either the unwillingness to talk when he gets into conflicts or the rudeness-to-the-mod-trying-to-sort-it-out bit. edited 21st Aug '11... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Put Troldtog on the watched tropers list. He's made three edits in as many months and two of them were not problematic. The only problem is that on his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was Marq reprimanded in the past for over-analyzing stuff? I think it's only an issue if he refuses to back down from his position if arguments and consensus... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Yes. And that's what these things almost always seem to dissolve into. It doesn't matter what is said or how many reasons are given, or how many explanations... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you like. I don't think they are going to get over their issues, but I suppose there is a chance it could happen, this one time. Maybe.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like, but I did it. Also sent Miku a PM repeating what I said here and elaborating on the unwisdom of unrestrained political agendas in view of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye on legato, wiki-side. He's been editing two bad examples on Everybody Remembers The Stripper, and P Md me accusing Freezer of having a vendetta... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just edit banned dirtywhore. New account one edit on the Furry Fandom page. Not a nice one. I have to admit the handle is what made me look.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baff: Troll or simply clueless? Discuss. Evidence for "clueless" Evidence for "Trolling" edited 3rd Sep '11 4:50:24 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dropped an edit ban on a vandal called eatme earlier, probably merits a bounce, same MO as dirtywhore a couple of days ago, blanked the Furry Fandom... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You hit him forum-side, I'll hit him wiki-side. The Fast One can decide if more is needed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fuck him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His wiki edit history was not just Troper Tales. TT was all he saw fit to come to the forums about.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Something Awful is hardly the only external site to criticise Troper Tales. But if he was an established troper, not from another site, I don't see that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Trashing reported via mod flag: asked reporting troper to go with ATT next time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Grr, USAF 713 is such a fountain of CONCENTRATED STUPID IGNORANCE, wrapped in that typical teenage conviction that they know it all. This is why OTC is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I only go in there if a problem crops up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread yeah, I was.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lets keep in eye on Oggytwo. Started a Nick Two thread that looked like spam and I nuked it. Then I did a search by troper and found that he had started... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Silly asses.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What I get back is no apology or agreement to not do further bad edits but a claim I'm abusing my mod powers by telling 'em to keep to one trope per bullet... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Justice Man is contesting the thumps. Got this gem: "I can still make abrasive comments while remaining within the moderated guidelines, otherwise they're... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread When I'm drunk, forgetful and sleeping in the back seat, life's circle will be complete. Of course, first time around I could get drunk on red cordial.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maddy and I were talking about how cool it would be to do a mod meetup. If we start planning now we could probably swing something for 2013.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Will bounce. 85.224 is essentially all of Sweden, which is a biggish readership to kick out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...eye color. Eye color! How is this worth fighting over in the first place???... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Scarface is following through on his earlier promise to be passive-aggressive. "Have you ever felt like you're the Only Sane Man?" "Do you even know what... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread New antvas handle, Onion Knights, admitted. Wiki suspended and skullfucked in the forum. edited 15th Sep '11 11:47:44 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Holy crap. What is wrong with that guy? Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Choushin is the latest antvasima handle, posted in Ask The Tropers but has no wiki edits.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Damn. Account created on the ninth, no activity until today. They've started aging their accounts. Monkey zits.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have also threatened bannage to anyone in the False Accusation of Rape YKTTW [1] who can't or won't act like a grown up when discussing a sensitive issue... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Damn straight. Bastards.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We do work together well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread her simply misunderstood what she was saying, then when it was mentioned on ATT deleted comments on the review on her own hook instead of waiting for a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I remember correctly she is one of the people who claim Asperger's Syndrome. I don't think it is an excuse but it may explain why she doesn't get it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am getting sooooo sick of hearing "but I've got Aspergers/I'm OCD/I've got issues", accomodate me." edited 17th Sep '11 9:57:40 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread    I KNOW   ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have PM from Signed asking why posting was turned off for them. I don't know. Anyone?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They were banned. According to the ban list: "generally annoying in OTC, regularly complains the teenagers in animated softcore don't look young enough... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I recall, this is not the first time they've been banned, either. If they keep PM-bugging you, I can bounce 'em. edited 17th Sep '11 6:48:18 PM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, on the bright side, she's making it obvious that you did the right thing by banning her.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There is that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's OK Ironeye, I hadn't noticed any bitchiness but then I don't visit many threads unless hollered. Don't beat yourself up too much, sometimes the hardest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not really.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sorry, Ironeye. I hope it doesn't screw up a real-life friendship. On Signed, it does sound like rule-lawyering — he didn't say that Muslims... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yah, "fairly well-known whacko" was being extremely kind.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Those two bounces installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh boy, grade-A lunacy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspended kyfhv for agenda-driven edits. Guy hates lolicon and appeared to be making bad edits as part of a campaign. That said — where to do we... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's not as if I don't sympathize with kyfhv — it's more that they seem like an angry Single Issue Wonk. Guys with an agenda are a dependable source... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, I only have one thing I want to say, and I add it only because I think it's a piece of information I think is relevant. I strongly believe she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's pertinent information. Thank you. Check your inbox, please. edited 22nd Sep '11 11:36:46 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He initially said the new handle was so he could access the forum from the library computers rather than from home. For about a week, he was switching... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think there is a tendency to confuse "fair" with "equal". I think that the moderators try very hard to be fair when dealing with most of our population... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We do want to minimize paranoia where possible. Issuing earlier warnings while behavior is still away from the line might help? Or else trigger hostility... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just re-read the OTC thread on self policing. I am bothered that when asked to be more self-monitoring the solution is to add moderators rather than... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We might have to resort to stitchwork:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Reading what wave said, he's been clening up the edits before he added them. But that, and the apparent assumption that having antas in the forums is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, Scarface / Red Shark has now earned his bounce, as far as I'm concerned. What an ass.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed and forum banned both handles.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would support Kraken returning, because I've seen him around for a long time and remember him being a good poster. I suspect he let real-life crap get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe we need to start using an Evercookie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And bounced. Good chance it was that jack guy who just got bounced. He also sent me three PM's questioning the species involved in my ancestry.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He sent me nasty PM's as well. A sterling example of humanity.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow, I'm sorry that happened. I hate it when people spew vitriol because they fucked up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gee, I almost feel left out... I guess I can comfort myself in the knowledge that at least Ukonkivi thinks I'm a racist white-hating misogynist on a power... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fat R 1 appears to be Fat R ban evading. Their edit warring matches up with Eddie's Dec 2010 ban reason, plus the name. Can't know for certain-certain... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread clash of opinions about ships on the page and I think that we need to take aggressive action because the behavior is not changing despite warnings and mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It would be good if an edit ban automatically released the lock, or if there was a lock-busting mod-mode thingy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can you point out a thread containing this?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's one [1]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's one of the more overt examples, but pick any post of his outside Forum Games that isn't railing against political correctness or advocating the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You still have to set the last good version as the current version. Setting the others ineligible doesn't actually back out their changes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aha! What does setting them ineligible do then? Remove them from the edit history? edited 9th Oct '11 6:09:23 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woops. Yup, I should fix that. Reversion should at least leave an edit reason in the history explaining what happened.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another attack by the baba vandal, caught by the ever-vigilant Deadbeatloser22, banned between me and Maddie. Presumably need bounces. (Earlier on there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It got zapped because it couldn't go three posts without a personal attack. Nothing to do with the crack-brained immigration theories.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh. But that is a neo-Nazi site. Can I at least warn him? ninja'd edited 10th Oct '11 10:17:38 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Schichi's been warned before, and he's been a problem for quite a while. Ban his ass.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fuucking Fuuck Monster: vandal, needs a bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got him and the five socks he had lined up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kino sent me a PM saying that he received the following message from Loid: Fuck you. I keep seeing your posts, hoping that I hit the bottom of the barrel... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is not energy that will dissipate. It is pathology. Compulsive, for real. Right now, I'm thinking at least it has been moved to the forum. Next, a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Please let me know their response. How long has this person been around? Ima gonna do some rooting around. OK as Bunnypop and rosemaryblood this person... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maddy got it. Sometimes a pair of fresh eyes makes all the difference.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Grumpy fox... ouch. I don't know if you saw, Madrugada, but hellobyee is another sock of bunnypop/rosemaryblood. No recent posts, though. Wiki search.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lots of IP overlap. Good work Maddy, I did not spot the connection.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, what is Savage Heathen's deal? He seems to interject his own agenda into discussions. Is this an accurate assessment?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I also posted it in the Pyre... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba vandal: pootehpanda This one only posted a bogus review. (Hence no IP from Troper IP History.) Does an edit ban stop a sock posting reviews? Or does... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bloodfall is Vulchak ban evading. Kept a low profile for a bit then started up with page blanking and the crazy crusade to tell the world the truth about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More: Yousuke Hanamura is Dracosketch again. Maddy forum banned her but she PM'ed me saying she wanted to be able to send PM's. I am not going to reply... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread allhailonme (Baba vandal) went wikiside after the forum stuff. Got stopped quickly. I dropped the reporting ATT thread and PMed the tropers involved since... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My problem with the practice is that asking to be banned makes the person who does the banning the responsible party.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread brony99 continues to pester me over PM's about his ban. He might try chicanery.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd like to suggest ruling out editing for Joesolo and put and end to the kerfuffle in the edit banned thread. My sense is that he would continue to make... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Man, I'm sure that ATT incident has done nothing for troper-mod relations. Feeling pretty bad right now. edited 31st Oct '11 11:37:04 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Don't feel bad. She's the one who looks bad there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's been mod-moding all over the place. It's annoying to say the least. And she has been warned repeatedly.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Joesolo stopped posting in edit banned — so I'm gonna hope he lets the matter rest. Doesn't seem to be anything to gain by spelling it out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Man, I don't know... I suppose we could let Ekuseruekuseru try again. He'd better behave though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is a tough job, being stooges of the Jewish Japanophilic Conspiracy, but somebody has to do it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread brony99 has continued his Complete Monster Personal Dictionary crusade on the discussion page for that article. I am cleaning up all his posts there now... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe. I guess we can continue keeping an eye on the situation, but our only means of detecting a discussion page vandal right now remains having someone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been spending a lot of time lately de-natterfying Cheese Dog X's wiki edits. Has anyone else noticed this? He ignored my PM on the matter in July... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread brony99 98.114.151.156 Been edit banned and forum banned, now insistently pestering a troper via PM about the Complete Monster page examples they are obsessed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned Korodzik for making a nuisance of himself by PM about the decision to cut examples from Perverse Sexual Lust.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lifted the ban on Korodzik after a convincing email.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Red Voltron appears to be brony99 ban evading. It got taken care of on ATT but he also posted in the Complete Monster cleanup thread in Special Efforts... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban hammered Red Voltron. "I don't want to get banned again"? It's someone ban evading and given his obsession with Complete Monster, Brony is a safe... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a troubling troper as such, but I found this response from Rondomi on being pulled up for using This Troper / self-inserting in an example was enlightening... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The informality thing is a good point but we can't run a major wiki that way — it's been tried. There are a lot of people who still think that's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you try lifting the IP ban via the wikibanner and see if (s)he can post? That name is showing up as a "banned handle" on the bounce report not a bounce... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread " "You have been banned" in big letters and a little message about contacting the mods." What do you want to bet the "little message about contacting the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got word from Becca that Anno's bounce was a mistake that should be fixed now. I'm seeing the handle commented out in the bounce report so I've asked Anno... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Truthfully Camacan I thought his last one was, I find that kind of objectification irritating as hell. But, after a while it just became an abstraction... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I always figured if he wants to look like an ass that's his problem. It's a bit distasteful, although I think I've seen others as about as bad (e.g. Mapi's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was a bout of IJBM one-upmanship that got out of hand, IIRC. Some thread about NSFW avatars or censorship or something dumb like that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread heheheheheheh. Sorry, having a Beavis And Butthead moment.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, he doesn't strike me as stupid. Glad he seems to get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Theatrical And Proud has a posting history that goes back 14 days. I have admonished him in thread and via thump twice, both times because there was a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a pm here from USAF that he has been banned again, anyone know what's up?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's able to be a good contributor. It's just that he's also kind of a dick sometimes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Further on the USAF713 the vast majority of the thumps are "Off-topic"s. I've looked back through OTC and most of those are that he followed a discussion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Posting history goes back to November 19 and she is posting in the same threads. Fetishes, Cuddlepile. Draco was often really transparent about the fact... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM from joesolo that scythemantis is bothering him via PM's. The context appears to be related to this thread. The contents of the messages that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned him from posting and PM. Also booted secretist. edited 7th Dec '11 7:34:48 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We can ban any accounts that are found to be doing it. That would at least discourage the activity. What was that website that was used to share public... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bugmenot Yep. Suspend those shared account things right away. edited 9th Dec '11 8:38:58 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's just the category they put it in. Lord knows corporate IT doesn't have to make sense.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wasn't nuking them. I never saw anything but the debris either.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Same problem here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I deleted that liveblog. Yes, you can delete comments. There is a little icon in the upper right corner. edited 11th Dec '11 11:44:18 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I placed Fusionman on a forums ban which I intend to be temporary.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anyone have any reasons why Joyflower should be allowed back? She was forum-banned for hauling her religious views into threads where they were off-topic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I never saw any redeeming value in Joyflower. Not only was she keen on starting fights, she couldn't argue her way out of a paper bag and couldn't spell... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it's Professional Wrestling and it's a Wallbanger page doesn't that technically count as People Sit On Chairs? I mean that is what Professional Wrestling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've realized who Pink Heart Chainsaw reminds me of — Chagen46.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, but without the insane persecution complex or the odder fetishes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's a Ministry album name, not that it makes it nice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, the little #$@!(* isn't even original? Fuck that noise. Sorry, it's finals week and I'm getting a little real.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been trying to understand this trainwreck of a Writer's Block thread. I think the shit starts here. Yeah Bro, who seems thoughtless and willing to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Even after mod intervention. At any point anyone of them could have walked away and they didn't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Works for me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a pm here that Uberwitch may be a sock for Shichibukai. There are shared IP's [1]and Uberwitch appeared about two weeks after Shichibukai was banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd love a solution to the Moron Problem that doesn't require us to all become snarling assholes. If someone is sitting on an idea for how to do that,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know. It just depresses me. What I would like, what I think would be great, would be if there was some way we could just make people a little... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread When I have dealt with similar things in real life I have always found the statement "and why are your opinions/feelings more important than mine?" or... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think maybe a four thumps and you're out policy will put a little more teeth in the thumps that we do have. Seeing people with 30 and 50 thumps tells... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Fighteer said it better than I would have.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In the forums.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not at all happy with tropers right now, but I think Morven's right insofar as the forums could be a lot worse. I like blackcat's idea of a Code of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm finding even the small amount of rightside enforcing I do more than a pain in the ass. I just don't know I have what it takes to impose basic civility... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We should beware automatically assuming they are wrong about everything, though. Or, at the very least, they are wrong given the information they possess... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Morven I understand your position but I am soooooooooo tired of extending courtesy and reason to people who don't feel that I deserve it back. I think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't annebeeche accumulate a fairly impressive thump collection? I guess we can make it temporary, but I've tried not to step on other mods' toes about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Look, if annebeeche or anyone else wants to go over to SA to complain about us, that's their problem and not ours. We don't give a crap what SA thinks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I posted before your last posting, when it sounded to me like you were going to push a button and nuke the whole thing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Examining the reasons behind thumps is good, but I'd be very, very wary of imposing some rigid system for determining who's in or out. That seems to me... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, this is the kind of thing that worries me: Sigh. If anyone who likes literature and doesn't remain silent about the site's current flaws in analyzing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This kind of strife is going to occur in any environment. It's what we humans do when the numbers get too big. Usually what happens is the imposition of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread #1062: Well, for that , first we have to define the areas that we want members active in, then puzzle out how those areas work and fit together (or that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As far the engendering good will from the userbase goes, this will be a disaster.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have serious reservations about the overall effect of invite-only. Hell, no. First: It creates an almost completely closed community. The only people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's a plan: Announce that OTC is going invitaion only, expressly to make it a place populated by people who can be friendly about their disagreements... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Whew. Glad that's over for now. I hope. Off until tomorrow.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Me neither. And the idea of reading all the threads with impenetrable titles to see if it is about porn is daunting. There are a Hell of a lot of impenetrable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Same here, but even I know what "hentai" means. Kodomo No Jikan... I'm going to zap that one, too, just to be safe. Alright? It might not be porn, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's not a 180, but you just know they're going to call it that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I tried very hard not to explicitly state that the attacks were from SA, but they bore all the marks of organized trolling.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Whether or not it is obvious is really not the point. The point is the conversation goes something like this: "SA is trolling us." "No they aren't." "Nu-huh... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know. It's the fact that it wouldn't surprise me if some of them are hentai that worries me. But nah, I know we aren't going to delete the whole board... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, so, question time. This thread and this one. Acceptable? I'm not happy with the idea of discussing pedophilia even as art, and the rape culture... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll agree there. Not with this bar and this crowd.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're right about that, Bobby; in theory, the idea of OTC is a good one. If we don't get rid of OTC, we have to change it. We have to change that way... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wouldn't say she's been NOTHING but trouble, but fundamentally she no longer feels a part of the site's community anymore and is only likely to edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't get the anti-intellectual, anti-academic thing at all. I wish someone would explain it to me and point out the evidence. I've seen a lot of posts... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Given that he toned it down a lot in that thread, I'm going to give him one last chance. I've modified his watchlist note to indicate that he is to be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, he's outta here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Enemy Mayan PM'd me asking if he was in trouble or at risk of getting in trouble; some other troper told him that he was the kind to get in trouble with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was thumping whale for something and noticed the 18. It tipped the thump over into a ban. I'm not cruising the list looking for high counts. Getting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, OK. Could you drop a message in here when you do that? I'd never found whale to be that much of a dick, just a prolific chatter.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thefran is a eugenicist, homophobe, apparent rape supporter and also kind of a tool anyways, so I banned him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. <hug>... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread :( [[youtube:xB1cx98UB98]]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This thread? Eddie proposed a solution in that thread. I'll see if she agrees to it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ Madrugada: I PM'd Hidden Faced Matt announcing my intention to ban him. He wants a chance to improve his behaviour, but would like to know which aspects... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On Hidden Faced Matt: primarily what feels like a heavy reliance on "I don't like this" or "I find this offensive" type arguments. However, I have to admit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FWIW, what I got from that email: Apparently in denial about making a personal attack. Calls another troper "a piece of shit" and then somehow finds something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for staying ahead of these guys.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've wondered for some time if Yeah Bro et al is a sock for a troper in good standing who left because he was mad but is protecting his original persona... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was contacted by Uber Shy Guy via PM. He had been temp-suspended by Camacan for making some spammy posts in the Mass Effect 2 thread. Uber Shy Guy had... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah I got back to Uber — just my usual daily on-off cycle. Guy made ten bad posts in a row, posting junk in an effort to shut someone up. I wasn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kris Mahai: While I understand the reasons behind banning those who ragequit, I don't agree with that. What frustrates me, however, is that I feel like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's very mild for a ragequit. To me a ragequit needs to involve some, well...rage.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was in a long string of flounces. Maybe I read more into it than it deserved. As it is, she has wiki editing and PM available. I suppose she could reach... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, think I figured out the ban thing. Hope I did that right. edited 15th Jan '12 10:50:21 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like you got it figured out. The OTC ban checkbox doesn't seem to want to work. But that may be that Eddie is still working on it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nothing I can see. kay4today tried to make a dodgy TRS thread to debate whether TV Tropes has too many sex related tropes. Now they are asking me where... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There isn't a proper place for it, because Kay doesn't appear to be interested in a debate. They appear to be trying to stir up another witchhunt like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's what I told him. He was asking why edits were reverted. He thinks that they were good edits that were reverted simply because they were made by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Your call. Reverting them is easy enough, but the guy is not receptive to subtle messages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You must really love the wiki to edit it by phone; I recently got my first touchscreen phone, and sure, it's a lot better than the phone I used to browse... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are you killing them? A quick review of TRS shows only one thread created in the last day or so that fits that description. There are some bumps of older... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess we need a way to talk about this issue without getting a profusion of TRS threads. I'd say kick off something in Wiki Talk and redirect all discussion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of course they will. This is goon sponsored, in case you couldn't tell. All the language is there. Their "don't touch" dictum is in tatters. I say, again... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of course it is and of course it's going to end badly. I just wanted people here aware of it so that we can nip it in the bud. I'm working on routing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would say to go ahead and lay about as needed to restore order. But I'm one of the more aggressive with the thumpstick when I get worked up about something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Go ahead and thump. If you made a polite request and they ignored it, break out the thumpstick. That's what it's for.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Current list of new baba socks: 8a8aGAR33b Hindu8a8a GA R33b Final FAJ shimaspawnIsAnIdiot I choose to take the last as a compliment all things considered... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You aren't a full mod until you've dealt with a baba invasion. Good work keeping on top of it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK but part of the reason we booted tnu what ever the hell his number was, was because of his bad posting style. And the fact he was a raging asshole.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we really want someone like that around? What reason would he have to afford us any respect?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know. Pretty much the Rand Paul position on drugs and the party line for a lot of libertarians. As long as it isn't going into full on toss-a-molotov-cocktail-right-NOW... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He should at least be banned at the OTC for that. It is a very disturbing post though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, yes. I wanted to ban him quite a few times.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have the basic rule: attack the argument, not the poster. The problem comes in when you have to write a rule about good arguing style: it creates a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I'm not saying we should have a rule about proper debate. I mean, what if someone simply lacks the experience in debate etiquette? It would be, as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If we restrict this guy's PM abilities, will that also restrict his ability to read PM's? Yes, a PM ban prevents the troper from accessing their inbox... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So we can go ahead a turn off PM for him. eta: I added the full suite of restraints. Internet Tough Guy edited 20th Jan '12 8:40:49 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sure, sometimes we need to step in and use the MOD VOICE and all, but those instances are not the ideal we strive for.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In many respects this job is like my day job, that of a sysadmin; ideally, we wish to never be noticed at all except at raise time, where we point out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dude came in, told everybody to get fucked, then left. I can't imagine how you get from there to being someone cool to hang with.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup, sounds like he deserved it. And from his reply to me, I don't think he's coming back. (I told him that whatever he said, it was likely so bad from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He'd been hanging out in that thread for the last week, without being obnoxious. Looks like he was having an angst attack about something and folks were... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In that case, ban evasion seems probable. They post in the same topics about the same things with the same tendency for rudeness and abrasiveness. The... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Theatrical And Proud has been on my list for a long time. I was afraid that I wanted to punch him in the face because of his name. The "theatre is my life... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, Tedofg's trying to use the whole hacked account ruse: The Santa incident was actually a result of my neighbor hacking into my account. He got a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And now Tomu is whining at me in P Ms for daring to be human and too tired to comb through the thread for specific instances in which his tone was off.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hidden Faced Matt desperately needs a break of some kind. That Prison Episode thread is just asking for a ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I applied an OTC posting ban to Savage. (braces for backlash)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got someone reported in Ask The Tropers who seems to have a hard-on for rewriting Super Robot Genre and Real Robot Genre to his particular tastes. I suspended... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a PM from The Sollerod Fascist, who says he wasn't looking to cause any trouble last night and that he was just upset about something and made the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok by me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agree. That thread was ug-glee. Let him wait out his week. If you feel generous, make it a five-day (workweek) week instead of seven. But that's all the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's why I like ey/em/eir for those situations. It's clearly derived from they/them/their, so...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You can read the trollthumped posts by editing them. That user who claimed to be autistic and whatnot had a rage quit pity party explosion, implied a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you're pretty sure he's a reincarnation of a banned user, ban his ass. If you're not sure, let him hang himself first.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Problem is that Trotsky wasn't wiki banned; he was forum banned. Ah, well, I'll take a look at it again later today and see if the hammer really does... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Masonicon wasn't already banned?! The #Tropers dA group has been getting... well, weird, messages/requests from him asking other people to edit his pet... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was talking about the anti-gay churches. When you have church groups that are anti-gay telling kids gays are bad, kids will treat them that way. Without... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Then, when they contact someone, copy the relevant PM's to that Mod. Or post everything here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Without the anti-gay churches telling them that, you wouldn't have the bullying. I'm tempted to suggest pointing out how naïve this is. Because it really... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. Antagonizing posts on the forums and no wiki edits isn't a good sign.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I dropped the full range of hammers on them when I noticed the lack of an edit history.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think he needs a warning and if a mod tells him not to respond to PM DQZ even if DQZ P Ms him first he'll probably do it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's why I'd ask Rodney for the P Ms that the ones DQZ gave you were in response to. My past experience with Rodney is that he takes some real pushing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is a post I wrote shortly before I became a mod. It pretty much sums up the line between debating in good faith and debating in bad faith.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that looks one-sided. Seems like Rodney should be banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No rock stars on either side of that exchange. It does provide further evidence that DQZ just will not let the littlest thing go. It really is tedious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, if I thought he was actually trolling it would be easier to deal with. I just think it's him. I think he's not fun though and he's honestly getting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How about a TRS-specific ban for posters like Hidden Faced Matt and Dragon Quest Z?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is years before I became mod, back when [AOD] and Matrix were the most prolific posters by a large margin (in part because there was a decent chance... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread January 15th. That list goes back to September. Note that Anne is also on there, and goodness knows how long she's been gone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why am I not surprised >_<... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread edited 12th Feb '12 7:11:02 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He understands that he'll be banned for good if it happens again, and that his post was admittedly very cruel.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What complaint group? Also, more importantly, what's an affiliation request? I know what the words mean individually but put them together like that and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shima, in reference to Routerie's request in the banned thread — he also has a bad habit of half-assing page renames. I recall a particular one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I chucked Flyboy out of OTC, since he couldn't act like an adult there. I think Maddy was more than patient enough with him in that Tea Party thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't say I didn't see it coming, except that then I would have to accept that there might've been something I could've done about it (not that I didn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Same here. It's a pity, because at one point I really thought he was improving. If anything he seems to have gotten worse in the last month.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That extended rant against the West that he's been on for weeks was one of the most boring things I've yet seen in my time on the fora.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds fair enough. We can always ban him again if needed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, lift the post ban first so we'll get to see how they behave in the Edit Banned thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose it's a habit from teaching. Give 'em a chance after they've fucked up and let them hang themselves. Sometimes I'm surprised.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In those cases you just need to look at their restraint page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/restrain.php?troper=Fusionman... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm having a vague recollection of a problem with him and another troper in an RP. Something about him having a crush and the other person not reciprocating... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Whoops, I should have checked that first, sorry. From the way the PM was phrased, I assumed this was an ongoing appeal, but we definitely don't want... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ You aren't misremembering, 'cat. That was it — fooforraws in R Ps.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I also note that the RP drama that I banned him for involved him getting weird and obsessive with one of the female tropers involved in the RP, to the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Word. Anyway, I told him he's not coming back. Or rather, I told his friend who PM'd me, and the message has been passed on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anybody remember when the kerfluffle between Weissritter and Haven was? I would like to verify my memories of what went down, and how... edited 25th Feb... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think anyone involved in that incident acquitted themselves well,, but I thought it was just history by now. Has the problem recurred?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Haven popped up (after "leaving" about a month ago) in Absent People to tell Lolacat not to bother reporting it if someone was creeping on her in P Ms... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I will also note that to the best of my knowledge, Haven is highly responsible and has never been a disruptive or abusive person. This is my impression... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Preemptive restraint put on new account fetuscockslap. Just because. If you think I am too hasty, I'm fine with that, it's one of those names...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Umm, yes. That is a good idea. We've banned accounts before on the basis of their handle, no questions asked.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I believe I have been unfair to Weissritter. I don't think she deliberately tried to manipulate me. She is, however, very wrong about Haven, and she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've seen the PMs. They're not that dickish. Haven read them as vitriolic, but they read to me more like Weiss was very, very upset, and took Haven's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldstone is being an idiot over the color of a dress on the Brave page. I have stepped in on the page and asked them to stop the edit war and have pm'ed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Since the discussion has moved on to other things in Absent People (and thanks for the derail, Morven! that was neatly done.) and Appeal to the moderation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Obviously you're a mod...which if I may give ANOTHER objection, would be nice knowing before getting into an argument.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, yeah, I did that after you did yours. I added some Bait thumps to the people who responded to him as well. He seems to be able to be civil in the Blaz... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Let's see if we get a complaint from Flyboy. We are under no obligation to host an insult to the community from someone who got banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Da Gr 8 Gokulio (whose banning was discussed above) has rather politely requested that the avatars in his gallery be deleted. Would this be possible?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No. We don't have a way to do that. That, and they were uploaded to this Creative Commons site. The notice appears on every page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I asked Lolacat about the person she claimed got away with pedo stuff. She linked me to a thumped post by Flash of Sonic about a scenario where one was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I all ready wiki banned him, but he seems to be on one of his destructive kicks again. He was being helpful for a while there, but the past week he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's definitely been more confrontational lately. And prone to jumping to conclusions and setting up opposition to a position that hasn't been stated.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cider, frankly, is an ass. 9 times out of 10, if he posts in an IP thread, it's going to be either "leave the pic" regardless of reason to change/remove... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, Then it's not just me. I'll PM him that he's treading very close to a forum ban for being a dick in IP and TRS, to go along with the wiki ban for copyright-related... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban them both.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Feel free. I think he and I are talking past each other. He thinks I'm specifically concernd with what he said. I'm trying to get him to see it's how he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe they think they're doing everyone a great service by starting conversations that they themselves don't necessarily want to participate in. That whole... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gave him an OTC ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's continued the PM exchange with me. It does not get better. This is where the one that started yesterday went this morning: Him to me: "So you're... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh. No need to keep this up if he's not going to get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "It wasn't rude. You can't be racist against white people. " Buh, wuh? To quote an ad: "That's one dumb dude." edited 15th Mar '12 11:44:35 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am continually baffled by the level of obstinance it takes to have multiple people tell you the same thing about your behavior and still not get that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's just about the only place he's posted, except for a gush for himself in Gushing and a writer's block thread about how to write a character from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've dropped the whole array of restraints on him. Consensus in the thread is "Don't skullfuck his posts; leave them for context and because he was getting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby, several of the GLBT posters in the thread pointed out that it wasn't just the straights he was offending — that they were offended as well... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was too hostile, yes. He was certainly too hostile, and too obstinate. But he wasn't likely to stop being hostile when tropers were still misrepresenting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread While I think you both have extremely valid points I feel compelled to point out that Woodhouse was not terribly respectful of the culture of the thread... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Unrelated "heads up". There was a problem with Pacific Mackerel this morning in the Ask The Tropers thread. I sent him a warning pm and on my way back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have received a pm from Pacific Mackeral apologizing for his behavior on Mass Effect and stating that the page has become a natter magnet and needs serious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One of the regulars in the MSPA thread is wondering if/when Chrisiscraziest (who was suspended for repeatedly posting table-breaking text in that thread... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For me, that would rest on (a) whether he's willing to admit he was wrong to behave the way he is and understand why we prohibit it, and (b) whether he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The account was created within the past week because I noticed it on the new account tool. He created two of them, one of them misspelled. I suspect this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here [1] Link is on the pinned thread under the Hollers thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "Yeah, that's not going to work." I'll try the link from that thread. EDIT: Nope, still can't use it. edited 17th Mar '12 10:51:43 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they had called some random troper in the thread a brainless [whatever-]hound or some such, I'd be advocating for a ban. I got a PM from that guy. "... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Making a huge mess that others have to clean up, especially if she's rewriting tropes to suit her own definitions without discussion (which is what it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Basically, you'd have to be pretty sure that removing the ban is a good idea before you'd do it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone called Dicktator PM'd me. The title of the PM was "You wait until ANONYMOUS gets a load of this..." and the full text: "THEY ARE GONNA FUCK YOUR... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well yeah, bounce him of course. That is the kind of shit up with which we shall not put.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Weird that we would get a new account today called Afor Anonymous.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, so that guy is back again and severely in need of an IP ban. This time, they returned as Best Of is an asshole. PM: "Ban me all you like. You can't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Reference. Do we need to give Cryptic Mirror a break? This is going too far; we can't have a civil conversation when he's being nasty and spiteful like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am probably not remembering this correctly but I think Cryptic Mirror earned a temp ban about a year or so ago during a dustup over something in TRS.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just got a PM from Mirror, all bent out of shape that Arcades' post hasn't been corrected, and stating that she "knows that it was deliberate" because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His inability to keep quiet about what he's doing makes him more of a annoyance than anything.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Most of the dedicated vandals know to use proxies so they can avoid the straight up handle-IP lock. Remember that we still have a one handle per IP rule... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seems every mod gets their turn in a vandal's spotlight. Depending on my mood I either dread or eagerly anticipate the PM banner.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I got Baba pissed at me once, but that was because I was winning the vandalism fight. Not that it was easy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, I locked the Mass Effect 3 thread because it's a mass of complaining and personal attacks. Discussion from the thread is wandering elsewhere now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is also why they can't have anything nice. If it continues I'd start doing timed lock downs, 24 48, so long suckas. Or something like that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tell me about it. It seems like over half my time is spent babysitting the Mass Effect 3 pages. -_-... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It came out March 6.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does anyone know why Goldstone was banned? All I got is "page blanking", and I haven't found it in his edit history. Eddie, I loves ya and all, but more... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I asked Eddie for more reasons earlier, too. I couldn't find anything on Ask The Tropers, either. Goldstone's repeated spamming of the thread isn't helping... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I deleted this post from Robert Mc Nair on the Heartwarming.Mass Effect discussion page. Cloaca would be ccoa which is just one of the many reasons I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All over someone else putting leather pants on the Big Bad of Mass Effect 3 and calling his death heartwarming. Someone needs perspective. -_- Not that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The message by Apple that I banned them for was some foul stuff, the kind that we wouldn't tolerate from a mod, let alone someone who's in the middle of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread &Oh, you silly you! edited 27th Mar '12 6:24:39 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's changing proxy IP, password, and even browser between attempts. Hard to bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Colonel McBadass was banned for being yet another incarnation of Rorschachwasright. Seems that the PM route was left open, though; I got a PM in response... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So have deathpigeon contact the authorities.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently Aiko's legal name is Thomas Davis. I've pm'd deathpigeon with the information about Aiko's IP addresses and encouraged him to call the police... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hey, Eddie, is the posting ban for DJ Bidoof permanent? He's been asking me about it, since I thumped him shortly before he was banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's more damn drama in the RP subforum, so I'd really appreciate input from anyone who knows more about the history there. Alright, this and these... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That wouldn't be a bad rule. RP drama is always hard to sort out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he's only made the new account to appeal and explain, that's different.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For those of you involved in the Moerin/Ragna stuff, Moerin just went emo drama queen on another RP.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Arguably, couldn't that kind of huffy guilt-tripping count as incivility? In other news, a friend over on Heapers' Hangout brought this to my attention... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thump it. I'll add a line or two to the Get Known page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A lot of the folks in the RP section seem to have formed their own little insular community, with PMs flying back and forth. It's how we get things like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe it's me, but I see the potential for all kinds of abuse in that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Short of blocking private messaging, there's not much we can do to stop people from sending private information to each other. And as long as the RP section... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think you are. Private means private.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Loid hollered regarding Hydronix (28 years old) having invited Awesome Zombie (a 13 year old boy, and only 12 at the time) into her "chat" so that they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Inclined to agree. Eddie, can you zap the chat link in his sig?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some New Guy, banned for his behavior in the Nightmare Fuel cleanup Special Effort thread, sent me this PM titled "Sorry..." from an alt account: Look... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You could lift it. Let him/her know that tantrums do not improve things.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hydronix sent me this: You misunderstood. I'm not going to have a good life. I'm killing myself. I have absolutely no reason to live anymore. My offline... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he was going to go all suicidal about being kicked off this site, why was he behaving in a way guaranteed to get him kicked out if it was discovered... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't get one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're not the only one. The PM I mentioned left me thinking that Hydronix didn't actually know the age of the troper in question. Still, this person is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say ban Rhyme Beat as well. We are under no obligations to put up with that bullshit. If you're going to blackmail us with suicide threats — yours... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think what makes Loid's worry kick in is that Hydronix has repeatedly and vocally argued against things like age-of-consent laws and in defense of e.g... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can accept that. Maybe I'm being too lenient again, but I have seen the kind of lasting damage that can be done by assuming the worst about someone when... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding Rhyme Beat: I have had some experience with her in the forums. She does not seem malicious, but she is overzealously defending of things she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. I have PM'd Rhyme Beat, no reply as yet. Irene/Hydronix is still alive, apparently (from the sounds of it deathpigeon managed to talk her out of it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it's a person with poor spelling/grammar and an obsession with Playing With pages, it may be another Com sockpuppet. edited 11th Apr '12 2:36:40 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She and she has been obstructive for quite a while. Paid extras, embarassing crap and now this. I don't know what to do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I sometimes tick that one when I'm giving a full range of bans, and when I notice that I did it I always feel silly - much like giving someone an OTC ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That way, if they do it again, some other mod will know it isn't their first offense.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Great tip! I've been using the review button for that purpose.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's his second "rude" thump today - I'd say give him a temp forum ban, at the least.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gave djmaca a forum suspension. Ccoa, I think three days will do. I would have no objection giving whale some cooling off time. I think we need to have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you think so, I'd say do it. Let's give them both something like three days to cool down. Agreed. What we need most I think is for Eddie to set the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was just unbanned and he's already at it again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Compulsive disorder. Actually useful for rename wick-hunting, though. If we can stop him form getting started with the cutlist, he won't feel compelled... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So I clicked your handle, Eddie, to see if there was a new box for a cutlist ban (as you said, though, it's not as if we'd be likely to ever need it) and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ccoa, is that idiot in the ANF discussion still giving you shit? He has only three edits and his complaints basically boil down to "I DIDN'T KNOW OKAY... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The fact that she said she didn't invite anyone, yet she kept advertising it on her signature worries me. Unrelated: is "inserting constant bile on Audience... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I quote: "WOULD YOU PLEASE RESPOND?? PLEASE?"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Might be. 4 day old account, posts verging on incomprehensibility. Eddie, is the IP address checker hooked up to the new ban system? I ran his address... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they can't, they stay banned for all of me, although if another mod is feeling more merciful, I won't object to a ban-lift.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently, he is really creative at creating dups. And yet he seems almost unbelievably obtuse about it being wrong to do so - every time he creates... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, new account question: what do you guys think of the handle Magpie Rapist? I got a note on it and I am keeping the thread new until I get some feedback... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Edit Banned thread usually works best when one mod takes the lead on any particular case, although your input is of course welcome at any time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Whale is going through the fairly early stages of transsexual realization, and this is likely to cause someone to be rather unstable and emotional in my... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's something that has been bothering me for quite a while. With my limited experience of Lolacat in the forums, I found her a nice girl. A while back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was surprised by that post, too, but since I don't recall anything being brough to our attention, I assume the person who made that post was mistaken... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There is some chance this is someone trolling us by pretending to be teenage girl hyper alert to anything that could remotely be viewed as sexual.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread True, they would've had to keep up the charade for over a year. I think she/he's a bully and a goon. And no loss.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh god, Lightsaber is back with his hysteria. He says he was working on an article that got cut. Eddie, any idea what's going on here?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm... I take it we don't have a way to stop banned users creating new accounts in the first place?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I'm starting to think Wacky Pancake is a creeper. This bothered the entire Pokemon thread (I've been keeping an eye on it), and now that person is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Doesn't sound like an overreaction to me. Pancake looks to me like either a dyed-in-the-wool creeper, or a troll pretending to be a creeper for the reaction... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For the sake of clarity, Nizbel's posting privileges were suspended, he retains everything else. The thumped post was an unnecessary contribution to the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess we can let her back in, although her obssession with the site really worries me. I scanned for new accounts today and someone named Ter Ter shares... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Ruby Quest was fairly popular here, so the article is probably legit. I'd be astonished if it wasn't the same guy ban evading, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been asked for clarification on why Megamagikarp received the full smash for what is listed as Abusive PMs.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Rodney's learned his lessons on the PM. Can we just remove the ban? He's not always the most politic, but he's done a lot of the wiki in terms... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Skullfucking at this point is going to incite a panic...a sternly-worded mod mode post or PM is probably the safest thing we can do, although I'm not sure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know that there are certain people I can PM into submission on certain topics. I've been using that to my advantage. Still, I went out to dinner and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Not sure about your name, but you just addressed each issue plainly, matter-of-factly, point-by-point and non-confrontationally, which was fantastic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You guys rock! ALL of you guys not just the Troper Whisperers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And we still have no idea what Google considered unacceptable or why it went back on its previous understanding after the LAST incident.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thing is, we weren't running Google Ads on the page. To me this means that either Google shoots first and asks questions later or there were a large number... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned him. He went and P Med me asking what was wrong with edits of the last dup I reverted. I cannot believe this level of stupidity can exist in a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What do we make of this?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread WTF? Why are we getting all these suicides lately?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you so much. I've been wondering that too...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread RainehDaze and AnnoR I know have been a real pain in the ass about such things. I don't know the other names as well. edited 16th Apr '12 8:48:13 AM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heads up. condottiera is stirring the pot. Medinoc says he was PM'ed into going to the NLNP discussion.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She is truly repentant for what she did and wishes for a second chance, but was reluctant to send a PM to a mod, so she came to me for advice and support... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban evading, yes. Already posted in Hollers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Since you didn't respond, I assumed you were offline; but then you made a thumpable post in the Wiki Talk discussion, and another mod banned you because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Argh, Masonicon's back under XX Chobhama XX. Does that guy have no life? Thankfully, he only made one crappy edit before I banned his ass again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Casper's Wish claims that his PM was taken out of context and that it was in response to racist paedophile-apologia. I've temporarily lifted his PM ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh... I guess so. Banning djmaca. I know people think I'm lenient, but I do honestly feel that a statement to the effect of "You can't be Asian or you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From djmaca: Please clarify: I don't get the word "apologist". And what I said is "I seriously doubt your Asian", because he was mocking ... Asians. Maybe... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Perhaps it was a misunderstanding. It looks as though CW thought djmaca was saying "lolicon" meant "little girl" when they both know it means "paedophile... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does Wikipedia tolerate using its comments areas as platforms for complaining about the staff? I don't go there so I don't know. I mean, I'm very much... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I took that the same way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The issue is not and has never been actual child porn; clearly if someone's writing articles about that, we've got a major problem. The issue is literary... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, OK. I won't use the word in future. But I honestly thought it was obvious what was meant from the context. That's what's annoyed me so much about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...I'm not sure I want to hear that. Either way, I think lebrel is worth reinstating at some point. She may not be good for the current situation, where... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that a lot of people are being very prickly right now and there's a lot of tendency to overreact, which we should expect and be somewhat lenient... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, umm, I know we have far more serious issues on our hands, but I've got a strange situation. So, Monsund starts an argument with Saiga here about a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see anything really bad in that thread other than exporting drama and a potential sock. No name calling or incivility. I'm rather skeptical of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can we add your guidelines in the opening post? I'd hate to edit someone else's post.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did a sweep of open issues in the Edit Banned thread. If anybody has any other comments to make, please chime in. I want to be fair to A Groupie but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's a good post, but A Groupie sounds to me like a real troublemaker, or at best somebody who really doesn't get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Warned Medinoc to stop making stupid cutlist requests on pain of banhammerage.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, what the fuck. Medinoc cutlisted Romeo And Juliet again, even after I warned him. I already warned him before, Bobby. He's done it again. edited 20th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 72-hour ban?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm telling you, he's jealous cause Shakespeare was a rosbif. That'll be what this is really about. ಠ_ಠ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rosbif is a derogatory term used by the French to refer to British people.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I told him to appeal the ban in Edit Banned. Shima, mind if I remove the "new user" restraint in case he wants to edit his post there?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, go ahead. That was a misclick more than anything.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Medinoc thought it was a good idea to do this stupid thing on the wiki as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TVT anorak, maybe? So long as he learns to follow the proper systems in place (e.g. the hollers) I don't see that being a problem. edited 20th Apr '12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we might need to bring Medinoc in for a chat then if he's doing that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Go ahead.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm under the impression Motor-Runner is being an idiot and hasn't got a clear grasp of what the hell he's saying. How old is he supposed to be? Tomu..... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I edited my post in Hollers, btw. I misremembered slightly about Tomu re:Tongpu. But he is a moral relativist. And he is friends with paedophiles, on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread PM exchange with Motor-Runner: Motor-Runner I'm sorry, Bobby. I was not trying to start a war or a fight, I was trying to be clear. Obviously, the way... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he is himself a child, he may, like many children, believe himself old enough to make those kind of decisions, and apply that same standard to others... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Motor Runner sent me a PM, asking me to let others know his handle in some other forum (I don't know about it, it's called "conceptart" apparently.) Should... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd recommend a warning PM rather than a ban. Octo's the type that'll react properly, or that's my hunch anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The pony thread and Librarian are seriously getting on my nerves. And Arromdee. He seems to have some Single Issue Wonk with banning Tenchi Muyo. We do... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread shima dropped a span of blocks on himm but not for posting...he might show up in the edit banned thread...and if he doesn't, good riddance. edited 24th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No point in talking to someone like that. Full ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At a guess, I'd say he's pissed because we cut Night Shift Nurses, a page he started.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was wondering how long it was gonna take for him to do something banworthy... edited 24th Apr '12 10:17:26 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They were not banned for that. They were banned for being colossal dicks about the process, deliberately trolling us by bringing up inoffensive works... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, I'm not talking about that. This PM is from yesterday, and this guy claims to have been banned before and let back in by Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Antvasima and many other handles. The restraint tool needs some kind of search feature as I can never remember what all his handles were named.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edit bans page + Ctrl F gives me: tavas, Squall Lionheart, Natsu, Designated, Cutthbert, antva... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "Like, totally, dude." Wait, that's dudespeak, not valley girl. Oh, well, I fail at pop culture. Also, this response made me laugh. edited 24th Apr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone who does that without doing the research to see if it was cut for a reason is not someone we want editing the wiki. He had to have noticed that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I have forum-banned Librarian, because this can only be seen as more trolling.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tropers/Crazymatt333 has been suspended for replacing the content on random pages with that of Moral Guardians. Methinks we've got another person trying... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm pretty sure TINSTAN is locked. EDIT: Yep, it is. edited 25th Apr '12 10:04:58 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or an organised protest.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye on Enemy Mayan. He just compared the site to the Klan for daring to exclude people with sick sexual fetishes. edited 25th Apr '12 11:38:37... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also, the sickest sexual fetishes (and the most disgustingly detailed discussions of said fetishes) pale in comparison to the atrocity of censorship.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Depends; are they keeping it clean?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Double post! I am such a rules-flouting rebel! We had a sock vandalize the Homestuck page with the edit reason "From /b/". We may have 4chan trolls incoming... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A while ago, I banned Tyrlyym after having given them a second chance. A while later, I noticed that someone called Myrlyyt was posting in the same threads... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is that Hidamarii character in the 5P recommendations thread trolling or not? There's no posting record other than in that thread and he's taking what... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did we decide to give djmaca PM privs back? Edit: Raso has been consistently on the defensive whenever issues related to anime/manga come up. I get that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's up to Eddie, but I'd be okay with him coming back after a time-out so long as it was made clear he needs to stay the heck away from the 5P business... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do think we need more forum-specific bans. Besides content policy, I'd like one for TRS and one for IP (you can argue it could be an all-workshops ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I get the feeling that that's the only way some people are going to get the message. Of course, some people will never get it, so...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm just waiting for the first "Lolita was restored. Why can't I have my thing about pole dancing eight year-olds back?"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, how about less logic and more one less rallying point? :P... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they've rallied they've rallied and we just have to smash 'em till they're gone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Honestly, I wouldn't mind to have Raso back either, as long as he's specifically told to not get into the 5P stuff. That and his weeaboo tendencies aside... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hah, my discussion with psycher continues like this: Me: If you want to call it bias, then do so. It's a policy instructed by the administrator and agreed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would full-ban from the wiki right now, with that attitude. No way he's being helpful or productive.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say allow Raso back — he does intend the best for the site even if he makes me want to choke him at times, and he works hard.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Septimus has control issues, in and out of the P5 stuff. While I appreciate his zeal, he seems to unnecessarily complicate things at this point.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say leave the forum ban but lift the PM ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is up with the utter obstinancy to change images we told them are not leaving? Trope Eater made two threads on I Call Her Vera, even though I said... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know if he was allowed back intentionally or what, but I just wanted to let a mod know. Did we allow this person back on purpose?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sure I'll also be able to catch more assholes with this tool.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In case eternalsquire comes to appeal their suspension and I'm not around, this conversation took place in a discussion page: eternalsquire: I think this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe send them a warning about being a dick? And a reminder that they don't own the stuff they write here?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, it turns out Librarian of Babel is a regular in the SA hate thread. Not regretting that ban, I'm not.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's obvious that at the time of the ban, he'd already decided he'd join whatever hatewagon he'd find. And I'm now contemplating if Firebert is worth keeping... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of course, my only point was that some of the folks in that thread weren't actually bashing us, based on the page or three that I read, and some of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, he did join the thread before he was banned as Eddie seeing his comments there was entirely what led to his banning, so I think she just has her... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso's a she? Okay, that makes the Pretty Cure obsession make a little more sense. On-topic: Maybe we could tell her to only work in IP? Would TRS... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Trolling and spamming an image of TE's ban in Absent People. It's a mess. They basically decided to act like ten-year olds, even after four moderators... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know, Best Of. And I was asleep the whole time! And before I go to school, I see absent people in a war state! I honestly wanted to slap them in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe send him a PM to let him know what's up? At the moment, he doesn't understand what went down.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @2464: "Cockslurper"? Really? That sort of language is grounds for being tossed so hard that your ass hits your teeth from behind. Edit: That was in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^Full ban. Not somebody you want to have around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is OBD, anyway? I'm experiencing ARF * Acronym Recognition Failure. edited 2nd May '12 7:16:38 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow. Sounds like someone set out to purposefully build a site for maximum flamefest density.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, can we unban That One Guy Named X? Judging by this, you said he wasn't banned, but I see he has a posting ban. He already sent us a holler with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That One Guy Named X posted that he wanted to quit TV Tropes. I looked up That Guy Named X when looking into the X sitch. Don't waste any more time on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dunno, maybe he just meant he wanted to quit the thread nonsense at that point? He's tried to appeal, and he does seem to want to improve. Octo has taken... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why did I think it was Tomu? I have this image of them all running around with bandanas on their heads fists in air shouting "Attica!" "Attica!" "Attica... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We missed Mazoku? He's been causing trouble around this matter ever since we had a thread in Special Efforts. And he's been already skullfucked. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anonymous User sent me a PM titled "The posts that Lola was hit on." The text: "I know they're kind of old, but can something be done about the offending... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looking through the lolact stuff, I'd ban T Paradox. Asking an obviously teen girl for photos of herself in a swimsuit or out of one is not behavior that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought that was just a joke. It didn't look as if he really wanted those pics.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to suggest something that is going to cause an uproar and a shit storm. I think we should do a thread purge. That people are digging around looking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Given his edit history, he has very similar interests to Pacific Mackerel. I'd say a another sock. Can we get a bounce, please? edited 3rd May '12 9:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread People apparently lack foresight. When you're in an Internet debate and you feel you can no longer contain the RAEG, the best thing to do is step back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lifted his bans and let him now he's on his last chance.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, there's a good point or two in Catbert's wall of text, but I get why Martello is finding it hard to roletare having to read that crap a zillion times... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He reused a password for some of them, so those will bounce. Locking the article was a good play.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Took a look through new accounts and found Fast Eddies Little Helper. Has done nothing, but am I paranoid for finding this handle too suspicious at this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that this Aiko person should be shown the door. I realize that they are very unstable but I don't know how allowing them to post crap like that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Let's wait for next time. Would be kind of silly to ban them now that this situation is kind of over with. Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen and they'll... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. On another note, is anyone familiar with Tidal_Wave_17? I suspended them from the wiki for this edit on Cast Full Of Gay: This site. There are... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember that hysterical Lightsaber Guy? Not A Llama seems to be his third attempt to ban evade. Can we get a bounce?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well I don't really care, it's just that it felt like there was a loose end when I directed that person to the thread and they never showed up. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My current policy on Con is just to revert everything he does and thump any posts he makes. Even if it's a rare good edit. If he can't make a permanent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She does have a point, in that djmaca seemed to be attempting to lure her into a flame argument, but she's too aggressive and emotional. We need to make... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What annoys me is that she keeps insisting that djmaca said things he didn't - such as that he got the definitions from anime. I know the kid has terrible... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe she means this part? No real asian would say he/she is ashamed of his race. That, by far is what I know. I am Asian afterall. Sorry. But in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose if you really held it sideways and squinted, you could take that to mean "I learned this all from anime and manga".... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He sent a PM to Tiamatty about their edit on Internet Backdraft. Here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The sheer lack of anything resembling a life that his obsession implies is amusing, in its own way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, we have an insane vandal who's set on either bowdlerising everything they find objectionable or prove we're all moral monsters. Handles include... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's not Raso. Raso shares IP addresses with a bunch of other people. Also, Self Aware's first action was to try and censor the mention of panties. That's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. I've developed this instinct of IP checking new troublemakers, so sometimes I'll mention a connection that sounds important 'cause I remember the handle... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I will eat my shoes without sauce if Cauis turns out not to be our vandal. That 1183 answer was far too pat. He was nasty in the reviews here: Their standards... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think even if he isn't we need to have a word with him about his behaviour.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And check this amazing edit on Broken Base: Retarded fuckers like Anfauglith would like to believe that everyone hated the Mass Effect 3 ending. They... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's already back. I just caught "Anfckerbtch" vandalising Anfauglith's userpage.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we have enough on this guy for a bounce? It's clear he's not going to start being constructive any time soon.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Never underestimate how far a troll's stupidity can go. They always end up proving you wrong.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh. He's not bad guy? I'll make an exception for him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *sigh*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Where was this? -_-... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you log on a banned account you cannot view the forums at all, as I understand it. I suppose Anfa could get unknown and then view the forums as read-only... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I told Anfa not to do it. If he wants to view them while logged out, that's his call. Mazz has a point and is making a good argument about what we can... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The following users are all sockpuppets of the same rude jerk who's been banned on three occassions: Justice Man Agent Rook Code Robin Tagoph Should... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you; I've been trying to put my finger on what it is about him that's been bugging me and that sums it up nicely. edited 15th May '12 1:11:22 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Check the puppets: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/puppet_check.php?troper=JusticeMan That like, what, a 100 IP addresses?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Duck's over on ATT trying to appeal his ban with the "public network" excuse.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think getting assigned the same IP as five trolls on a public network os one hell of a co-incidence.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread CANNOT UNSEE.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dunno, but I think I ran into another sock of his. Nothing on the radar but he's acting the same way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Swing the judgment hammer!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I threw the book at Xomni4.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was definitely him, if there was any doubt. He sent me another PM asking why I told him to go away. ...He really just does not get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that ended peacefully. I hate idealistic nihilist anarchists. :P EDIT: You know, it's sad that there's enough of those out there that I can actually... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Having read that person's troper page, I know that if this was my site, I'd ban them and if asked, the reason I give would be "self-admitted asshole."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I had a similar thought. It does come across as somewhat schizophrenic on our part, even if we state correctly that we might have suspended him, regardless... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like Rodney, but he does good image work. DQZ on the other hand, is at the top of my too-much-of-a-pain tropers. Are the people in Absent People... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like Rodney, either. I don't hang out much in IP, but he's been a pain in every thread there we've both participated in. DQZ is a mixed bag.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh god, now we're evil because we haven't evaluated Flyboy's behaviour as a whole. I'm curious, when did he show such good behaviour? All I remember of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread getting in trouble at all, and the only trouble I got in recently was due to a silly misunderstanding I had planned to rectify until you, or some other mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wanted to go on a whole rape discussion even after everyone told him we'd sidelined it. Made a post which seemed to imply someone's a paedophile. Here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who is this hartbreak guy? I caught another sock of his today. Seems persistent.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Calling us all sexist assholes isn't exactly civil.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Most of the replacement I saw was actually "bitch" -&gt; "jerk". edited 18th May '12 2:17:43 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My personal opinion is that this particular word is admissable for a trope which is meant to be negative. That's why we have Rich Bitch. Now, if something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jerk also doesn't imply cattiness. Cattiness is important to the trope. The words have different connotations. Yes, the word is slightly sexist, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Went ahead and nuked this thread by Bames Jond in Wiki Talk: I just can't be the only one who thinks this. I just can't be. T Vtropes was originally the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah we need to kill those. Evidence has shown they never go anywhere good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread None of the commonalities we can use for a bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, The Handle now (so we don't clatter hollers). Hollered post. It was a horse sex video, and the thread wasn't happy. Of course, it's a pony fanfiction... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I certainly called for a timeout in the holler thread, but I'm not so sure now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Get the bat. They're done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dropped everything on tsslutens ME vandal. Add Fix Em Up to the list. edited 21st May '12 7:51:36 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *sigh* Is this seriously how childish this one's become? "This guy stood up to me; imma make an account that's a vaguely insulting take on his username... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Took a look at Kingdom Hearts Villains. Let's see Drake Clawfang's edit reasons. It goes like this: -somebody adds Benjamin Diskin as the true VA- -removes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't like that PM, either, but as I said, I don't have the time to go over this in detail right now. (I'll have more spare time tomorrow.) Do whatever... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope. Ban away, no regrets.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We also had a new account named "bitch" with the password "bitch". This one makes me wary. Newest Mass Effect vandal(s): Mew Mew Meow Meow deadbeatloserindeed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From the Skype chat, I'm agreeing that Cider may need a forum vacation if, from his latest posts in IP and TRS, he evidently can't tell what a trope is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Really suspicious new account: Christopherhart, went and changed the page for Chris Hart into an advertisement. I'm not sure if I should drop all bans.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What do we do with Amazing Lagann? The people in ATT said he left an insult on Kaiser Mazoku's page, but Final Starman just had to cutlist it before we... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fagtheer is the latest troll sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aaand now he's posting "reviews" himself, as the late Math Mute.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspicious. Waiting on solid evidence before whacking.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba returned as Haggy. Banned with every hammer, all posts skullfucked, no Wiki edits, no IP overlap with any other handle. Account was 130 days old.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The ME troll is in. Along with baba. At the same time. We're in for one wild night.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nevermind, I was goofing up the handle. edited 25th May '12 8:22:00 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for taking care of my page, whoever it was. By the way, the restraint page for gettingknownagain currently looks hilarious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I bet his jaw is mighty sore by now...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gangbang: one of mankind's first hobbies. edited 25th May '12 8:46:13 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *goes to get the Brain Bleach*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's a character from Lamento-BEYONDTHEVOID, apparently. I stumbled on it randomly. edited 25th May '12 8:55:45 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's sad that Baba is an instantly recognizable ban reason.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I give someone a verbal warn, I usually just leave a note on their restraints page and see what happens rather than banning immediately afterwards.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cute just sent me this PM: I was PM'd this today: "you fucking worthless hypocrite." The PM's subject was "leave." It was from this dude named Blitzwing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shall I go ahead and do it then?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Blitzwing made a ban evasion account before trying to appeal. Full range of bans on both accounts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I didn't feel comfortable saying yay or nay to that request myself. I know that personally I'd let him back, but I'm rather softer on banning than... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfa just made a third thread on his crusade aganst fanservice and sex-related tropes. I think he needs a cooldown. EDIT: Talked to him. He's calmer now... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm good with kicking A Groupie to the curb.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anybody care to offer a second opinion here? I don't think he understands that antagonising people and calling something godawful on the very same page... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted their posting ban this morning. I'm not sure I should have lifted their P5 ban, but uh, I'll show some faith. They should show up in Edit-banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was ban evading, but it sounds like he was ban evading on stupidity and not maliciousness. I was trying to sort that mess out before Origins and failed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have suspicions that basd is going in the Pokemon thread just to troll. Apart from his thumped post, we have: After getting a thump, he implies the games... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At this point, he seems likely to just be a troll, especially with that ASCII art post.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is it even meant to be, anyway?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread After I thumped him for the first time, I got this: Be sure and wear a condom, I guess, whilst you're "thumping" my post...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread penis for any reason other than medical Of course, we can't read the history on deleted discussion posts, so we now have only his word for it unless the mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure why we would want such a person around. Mother of god, that's beyond infuriating.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned basd. Vandalized pages. Also banned dsab. edited 4th Jun '12 7:42:58 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For whoever decides to handle madfoot in edit-banned, I have reservations for his unbanning. While his post right now says "Fine", I managed to see it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a gut feeling new account diax is basd, just based on the four character lowercase username and the "lol" password, but the account hasn't done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, so I've got P Ms from both Matt and DQZ. Matt's trying to argue that his Wiki Talk thread about the IP question was legitimate, and DQZ's asking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why lock this thread (from a couple posts above) instead of nuking it? There's 0 content.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, now we have it as evidence. He said something about Wikipedia admins when he bitched about the namespacing, too. edited 5th Jun '12 1:10:13 PM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keeping stupid threads like that serves as evidence when people ask whats and whys. Especially when it's a user who shows a continuous pattern, not just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You know what's really fun about a Wiki? Not being able to find shit. Not being able to do anything because everything's every which way, now, that's some... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The ME troll is back as Sincerity Elcor. Already said goodbye.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I temporarily locked the Content Violation thread. That allfornot2 guy stinks of SA troll.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's been some discussion in Absent People about Feotakahari. I vaguely remember what his ban was about, but would someone who remembers it better like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't remember if it was hardcore that or just anti-censorship, though. (edit) Strikes me, reading his last few dozen posts, he's one of those "anti-censorship... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Midna sent me this PM. I'm starting a dialogue. Hydronix has informed me that creating a new account to appeal is well within the boundaries of our rules... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. First of all, tell Westerner not to respond to any of this person's pm's and to forward them to you. And if continued efforts at contact continue on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Claims not to be Raw Power on their own page. Raw Power once came back as Good Guy Greg. I remember he was into rape apologia and lolicon, but can't say... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just banned Rawpower EX 2.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Welcome back, we missed you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't we say we were going to ban Aiko the next time she caused trouble?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe wait for the next misstep. I mean, it'll probably be in a week or two, and if we wait until something happens again, we have something to point to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As someone who recovered from a very serious case of depression, I can openly and honestly state that I sometimes hate emotionally broken people. There's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's troubling. Rpgingmaster just sent me a PM asking me how to create a new handle and delete his old one. Based on this, I suspect a deliberate effort... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say we at least kick them out of the CV forum. Saving the database is their business, but their involvement in the CV forum shows they are just trying... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned rpgmaster. Couldn't locate anyone with the other names in your post.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose, but if they're on a program to sabotage the wiki, it's just not worth having them. Unrelated, re Cherry_Lover: Since when has protesting about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Since our site content is under an open license, we can't stop people from wanting to take a copy and do whatever with it (so long as they attribute properly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back on that little forum get together of our ED foes, they now think we are banning them merely for posting in that thread. I'm not sure how to deliver... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nah. Unless he breaks a rule (exporting drama or using a spider), then I would say don't ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got this message; anybody else see it? So lately I've been on the LGBT thread and a new guy called Kalloon white came along. I have reason to suspect... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The asshole follows kay4today's posts. Mostly stalking the Naruto thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got this back from Nicknacks: I believe I said that I wouldn't discuss what was going on, but I confess that your reply leaves me concerned. Sure, I can... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM about Pannic in the Fallout Equestria thread. That's two people complaining about his random whining on the fic and making fun of it. Is it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I'd say that's probably a good move.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like we can all post again. Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned Xzenu from YKTTW and discarded the three entries of his that I found. Hidden Faced Matt is trying to get around his IP ban by proposing images... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I read the thread by Radical Taoist that was locked - the one about blasphemy law. I didn't see any reason to punish RT for it. I didn't see the thread... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We should put him on the watch list.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Funny, he's also misquoting me: I never said distributed denial of service. I just said that spidering the wiki with a script could cause a localized... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What a colossal waste of time. All this makes me want to delete all these petty reviews and lock the ME thread. \But then, I'd be giving him what he wants... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Radical Taoist tends to make very hot-button topics. In a recent one, he expressed surprise that it'd been opened and remained civil, which I thought wasn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He frequently posts in ATT. We just tend to delete them less than 2 minutes later. He also posted a troll review and several trolling comments on other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How did this account get created with a blank password? Eddie? I did a quick sweep of New Accounts and found the following: vexew: Preemptive ban for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For the love of god.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A great demonstration of why she won't be unbanned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For the record, the only reason that I know what was in those self-thumped posts (that is to say, the link itself) is that I asked for info on it and Drunk... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I said we might let her back after a long time if she gets help. I've changed my mind. I have exactly zero interest in seeing her back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The best way to find out that actions have consequences is for the actions to have consequences. And the best way to find out that emotional blackmail... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The link was not a good idea. At most they should PM it to us as relevant to her ban. Making it public is in very poor taste.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Last time, he epically fucked up some namespace wicks and chainsawed a WMG page before I whacked his ass. What a waste of time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Uses the same password. Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On the contrary, that edit makes the account doubly suspicious. You see, it's an edit on Het Is Ew, on May 23rd. That's the exact same day Martello opened... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's enough of a body of circumstantial evidence for me to agree on a hammer drop.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should we let "her" stay because it's easier? It strikes me as wrong to keep someone in order to prevent more vandalism. I did ban a couple of the vandal's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I so wanted to put "No, don't go! We'll miss your witty repartee!" edited 26th Jun '12 1:58:41 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ....I am going to say that I think that Brit person is waaaaaaaay overreacting. I mean yeah, that was rude, but s/he feels to go on a harassment rant?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure if Brit needs a wiki timeout as well, but after re-reading the exchange, I'm definitely thinking P Ms. I'm going to give Death a 4-day wiki... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know we're not the only ones annoyed at his confidence/persecuted attitude.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you. I gave gingerninja666 a forum ban after he decided to go on two ALLCAPS I'M PISSED posts in the Fallout Equestria thread. This is really the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Retracted; in support of a full ban. edited 28th Jun '12 3:43:52 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm leaning towards not letting that person back at all. I have the impression that they've been warned a bunch of times. I know I've warned them once,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, and they've accumulated quite a few thumps for essentially the same behavior.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep him banned. It's the kind of nonsense we can't and shoudln't tolerate, and it'd be giving favoritism to someone because they're popular.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread To be fair, the emotional blackmail isn't from ginger. I would only allow ginger back after a suitable timeout if he can do the following: Apologize to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd add "never have anything to do with any thread related to MLP again," but that's all he's ever done, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see why someone needs a third chance into the forums when he's demonstrated zero improvement over what got him banned the first time. Also, the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Masonicon, being the highest point of intellectual trolling, is trolling YKTTW. With conspiracy theories. -____- edited 2nd Jul '12 8:18:08 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How ... confused. And not even interestingly.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh, the above creeper came back as Lady Gina. Fast Eddie, please bounce her. It's really creeping me out. >__> As an aside, anyone buy The 136th's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently, Mass Effect is the single most important thing anywhere and not getting Your Opinion heard is a sign that we're all oppressive evil bastards... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfauglith also posted one of Octo's rants from the spin-off forums in the ME 3 thread. This is his second importing/exporting drama offense, since he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's been coming. His behavior regarding Mass Effect 3 and the vandal, in particular, has been borderline ban-worthy for a while. edited 2nd Jul '12 12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Were you the godawful evil no negativity bastard? (I am highly amused none of them have realised I did the digging on the Octo socks. Apparently, I'm too... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As if we're now gonna cry in a corner. Pffff. I'm going to leave Mogglewoogle's bowdlerising about "god" to whoever drops by edit-banned. I'm too sleepy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we actually want to have a rule that if you know someone's ban evading, and don't report it, you can get banned? There's something about obliging people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree; going beyond simply knowing to active collusion should be grounds for a ban. Being stupid enough to do it in a publicly visible place on the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moerin has gone drama llama before. That was very shortly after Meta started looking into organized bullying by that set—he can probably give you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I couldn't find the threads in the RP forum I had to intervene in (I think the games died and were locked then purged), but I note that in my followup... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So far we have: The Doctor Thunder kerfuffle (where none of those three are exactly shining) Raineh had a weekly suspension by Bobby Anno R was the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Am I being paranoid about getting an uneasy feeling from this thread, even though it's closed?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You are not. I got it too, although I didn't want to say anything in the thread itself lest I provoke something. That smells like the "copy TV Tropes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In short, if we get one of those "Eddie only" things, it's probably best to put a mod note to that effect and lock it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think we need to be all that worried about someone copying TV Tropes — and we explicitly give people permission to do so, given that we release... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's had a few other obsessions too, I'll grant.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, sorry, that wasn't very mod-like. Let me try again. Uninvite them from the forum for dickish behavior.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hear, hear!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. Ban them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Boot 'em out the door and lock it behind them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm announcing it. If I get a flood of shit, maybe the people who send me it will be much less shitty after a half a day or so, when I return.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you guys notice the Holler about the banned person returning? It was Anfauglith, and I of course dropped the hammers. Anfauglith's final message to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nothing to go on. The post has been blanked then thumped. What did it say?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread JHM sent me this PM in regards to the suspected Blitzwing sock: So, another Blitzwing puppet has surfaced, specifically darkdrake, a name which he used... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, for better or worse, it's sent; I added in at the end: "Now, in this particular case, making that change without approval would be frowned on, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now you've made me curious what the thread said.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Something about etecterism... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I sent a PM to Lightice about his edits on Headscratchers.Mass Effect 3. He and King Zeal have been arguing over an example, and he was drifting away... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ccoa, Lightice was also Edit Warring over YMMV.Mass Effect 3, even after Lrrose took the exampe to the discussion page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave Zeal a 3-day wiki suspension and a semi-permanent one to Lightice. I should delete the whole damn thing on the headscratchers page, but then Lightice... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, here's DC's reply. "I apologize, but with the recent bannings and stuff, I am really worried that I'm on the edge of getting banned. It's just...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it might be time to pull the plug on Miku Angel Voice. They have a tendency to rewrite entries as more hyperbolic. They changed an image without... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not inclined to give Random Chaos a third chance. Anyone feel differently?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nah, doesn't make me feel too sympathetic.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting increasingly worried with Orihime. There's a very recognisable underlying voice in her edits that screams about shipping, the poor treatment of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm behind her when it's removing mention of disturbing fan reactions, especially when they're not actually documented and may be simply in the mind of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thorn14 is seriously getting on my nerves. The sexism thread is now going around his personal issues with sexism in video games. This is after the same... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't we throw a numbskull at him for that one then? Although it looks more like he needs the strawman thump. "OMG ALL GAMES R SEXIST WE SHULD GO BACK... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, he was bragging offsite and mentioned they had exchanged PMs which would help me do some digging. Thanks for checking. The jerk strikes around this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Imma build a block pm sender facility today.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Password reuser. Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Will the YKTTW search engine show launched drafts if I search his name? I thought it only presented results of active drafts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It turns out that the latest BS on Final Fantasy VII Shipping Wars are all coming from this board. They're even encouraging them to bring in their friends... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some days I want to delete all the shipping "tropes." How much is directly proportional to how much time I have spent around the Avatar, Final Fantasy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...that password actually makes some sense.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, kill it. There's plenty of precedent for deleting unpublished work articles posted by trolls.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He can't remake it if it's locked. :3... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Those Take Thats look scary. Celebrating an actress's death? If he's just here to celebrate about things he hates, edit ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Both accounts suspended.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspension on Material Defender for this lovely piece of grammatic nonsense on Crystal Spires And Togas: * Modern Architecture tends to be unfunktional... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Then it really doesn't look like he's importing drama. It looks more like he's trying to smooth ruffled feathers. At least in that linked thread. His... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Even those are more just getting frustrated. He seems like he's trying. Just... not very well. I don't think it's his goal or intention to import or... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did anyone think to point them towards the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment as why the stuff got removed?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I zapped it. Those weird characters were indeed a hack attempt. There is a php function that will decode a base64 string into operational code, if the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we have any idea where it came from?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they accept our policy, I don't see why we should retaliate.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Make it clear that we are not interested in engaging people on the distinctions. If you want to fight the "prejudice against people with deviant sexual... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldstone came back as Silver Gray White. Full range of bans in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fast Eddie, it appears you have preemptively banned someone named Troll Brutal for "trying different items in the access log". They sent me a PM as Troll... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He pm-ed me, too. I lifted the restraints.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Has anyone warned Light Arrow about his behaviour in that thread about his friend not being responsive? He repeatedly called her a bitch and a cunt (because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Two griefing threads in IP about the pic on Fight Scene Failure from Heart, whose pic was changed out for the current one. I PM'd him after the second... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed; the suspension's in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding Lee M's edit suspension, I think I know why Shima banned him. His edit on Oglaf was linking to this. It's pretty NSFW.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just gave a wiki ban to chochlik for leaving Repair Dont Respond natter anywhere he sees inaccuracies about guns and science, while leaving edit reasons... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heart is starting to spazz out in the P5 page restoration thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not specifically (I thought there was), but Eddie and Maddy both voted "keep" in the old thread and I considered that close enough to an "admin keep" at... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A number of issues have risen in this review. After the comment that the review had been taken down, awesomesauce makes this comment: People are actually... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Those comments are more than a year old. Kay is a bit of a troll when something annoys her. edited 25th Jul '12 3:50:00 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Krystoff formerly known as MONEYMONEY is being a problem in the Complete Monster cleanup effort. Relevant holler. I do think he keeps jumping the gun and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He makes valid points but his overall attitude is extremely antagonistic to a measured, consensus-based process. He thinks everything needs to be resolved... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What in the world is up with people on Ask The Tropers shilling CDRW? Edit: I get it. He's a big participant in the Goddamned Pony thread. edited 27th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's possible he didn't mean it seriously, and it just came out so very wrong.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rich Reeders went and sent Applelight Limited this◊. I've decided to turn off PMs after this.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread DIARHHEA (46.59.74.15, 146.185.23.179 ,173.254.216.68) is a vandal with 5 edits and posting nonsense on ATT. It's the same persistent troll vandal also... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, the ban reason was "gibberish". I've lifted the bans and warned him that if he starts posting nonsense again, they're going back on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's more drama going on YMMV.The Legend Of Korra. [1] -__-... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ranonamis is approaching stellar levels of obtuse-ness (if that's even a word). His original account, Ranonamis, was suspended for being generally bad... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended Herr Wozzeck for acting like an entitled idiot over Mass Vexations and freaking out over a pothole to Fallout New Vegas. Blasted ownership issues... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, you turned off PMs for Light Phaser for getting into a spat with The Freeman. That was a while back. Think he might have gotten better now for another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have no idea about Light Phaser.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned Sun Luna for being Goldstone returned. The OCD is unmistakable.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's some ridiculous wonking over League Of Legends on TheyChangedItNowItSucks.Video Games. I already warned them to knock it off with the FUCK YOU... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended Colme for adding this to deboss's discussion page: Deboss quotes: "I've read Shakespeare. It's shit." "Anyway, I think if Dungeons & Dragons... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was going to post something snappy like "what you just said is a very roundabout way of saying 'Best Of did all the work here'" but that wouldn't be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His script-based wiki cleanups are useful but occasionally go crazy and damage an article. This... I have no idea.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How about customizable banners on the edit screen? Clearly, the additional natterfy messages are useful but we shouldn't need to rely exclusively on active... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, indeed. Tropes are not owned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm fairly certain that Queen Of The Sirens is our Mass Effect vandal returned. After 5 days, he's removed several entries from YMMV.Mass Effect 3 for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's a spammer who's been putting ads on the discussion page for Disney Animated Canon. DespieBrothers8688Redux and Derekdespiegmailcom are two of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And he uses Tor, too... >_> Ok, we've got a queue in edit-banned: Classy Myths: This guy has a PM ban for dragging arguments in PMs and then reporting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From SquadalaGuy- I know how to be nice and non-trolling, honest! I really really (non-trolling) really need your help trying to un-troll me before it's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So I looked at that person's posts. Fuck that noise. No mercy from me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was so lame I can actually see a crutch in the post. I think you mean the gene pool..or at least don't contribute to it. edited 13th Aug '12 12:09... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended nathandoe 2016 from the wiki and YKTTW. He has an absolutely horrible YKTTW history, cannot use spelling or syntax properly, and is apparently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just banned Matthewtheman for problems with natter, punctuation, spelling, and wiki formatting. He's also a rather rabid Cloud/Tifa shipper (yay, more... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is probably petty of me, but I really, really wanna give Alex Sora 89 the boot from the workshops, mainly because his posts are mental static-inducing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alex Sora does mean well and did a lot of heavy lifting in the Nightmare Fuel cleanup. He just seems rather immature and clueless.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, who launches a YKTTW with three hats and needs a better name? And when he launces it, botches half the formatting too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looking over his YKTTW history, I can only see a couple of respectable drafts. Some of those date back to November. He's been here that long but never... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The thing with Mr Death (well, the latest thing anyway) was a misunderstanding between him and me. I did not take the time to check up on his other recent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Way too much focus on shipping, methinks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I probably missed the memo, but isn't shipping an audience reaction?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is. The thing is, one of those drafts is essentially Ship Tease Up To Eleven with a bunch of arbitrary qualifiers that may look like a pattern, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you get rid of them?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...And that 8888-whatever thing returned as TVT Offical (dude can't even spell properly) threatening to continue the attacks because we killed Troper Tales... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now the morbid question is: can he outdo a Mass Effect fanatic?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This Cryocide guy is Masonicon. Same non-existent grammar, same tone, trolling about conspiracy theories (he did that in YKTTW a bit back), making acronym... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Double-post: We got a Holler about a possible sock of The Westerner, a banned troper. I don't see anything that would lead me to conclude that this is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, Kay knows Brave is Westy because they talk off-site. As if the flags weren't blatant enough. I think we can dispose of him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna let them try again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay. Yack Fest is driving me batty. Libris Dedita sent this: Sending a report that I discovered the account Brave to be an alt of The Westerner. He asked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do eeet. After a PM exchange with maxwellelvis after his recent personal and civil thumps in the Korra and Adventure Time threads leading to a posting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Isn't this guy point blank admitting he's a Tor user? I want to reply but I'm worried about giving ammo to ban evaders.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's admitting he uses Tor. He's not admitting he uses it on this site. Only that at some point he has used it. That's not much to go on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It isn't a crime, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And that's not even the biggest of that post's problems...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My impression is that we tolerate bad writing in the forums as long as it's not incomprehensible, disruptive and people aren't bothered about it. This... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspended Dj Magic after he was reported in ATT. While the action he was reported for turned out to be benign, I'm willing to bet my hat it's Goldstone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread An editor named Sheora is going around changing work pages' examples header from: This <work type> provides examples of: to Provides Examples Of:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've always preferred the first format.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Vulchak domon Bloodfall presedent Wereworld Goldstone (94.190.193.163, 130.204.136.31) Karolstin Mysticole (94.72.135.234,217.145.84.79) Fast... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If the "this ___ provides..." format is something that was agreed upon at some point as proper page formatting, then I don't see a need to deviate from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye out on Slappy Will Return. Based on IP addresses, edit history, handle and tone, he's the asshole known as AGREAWHITESHARK, Doktor Mario and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding neolightning, there's something odd going on. If you look at his restraints, Fighteer originally suspended him over "Reverting moderator edits... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is why I shouldn't go into Edit Banned when I'm at college and don't have access to Skype. >.<... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm getting rather fed up with Rebochan. She simply cannot remain calm and reasonable whenever people don't agree with her. She won't let issues drop... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm thinking we should post a notice in the Young Justice thread and possibly a couple others he tends to frequent letting people know there is a ban evader... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't speak for you, but her response to Morven's post is pinging my alarms. She comes across as ...well... proud of the fact that she regularly yanks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like her or the endless drama that travels in her wake. However, I know that my response to her is based on over exposure to a certain kind of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, we've been letting her get away with stuff. In retrospect, I know I have let things slide from her that I would come down on harder from someone else... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That kind of reaction might be at play whenever I read something by Starship Maxima and almost thump it. I dislike Starship and the way he behaves in debates... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Once I knew that he'd hamstrung me as a mod, I simply dumped him in the other mods' laps, who didn't have a history with him, and against whom that accusation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ooh! Somebody volunteer! Other than me, that is. He'd see me coming. Anyway. Get control of it so we can shut it down!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was noticing the new flareup with DQZ...if anyone wants to drop the hammer, I'm sure not gonna complain after this latest bit of silliness.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That list is also short of the huge number of thumps he amassed under the old system.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bravefrog was a ban evading account of dragonslip, and, what a shock, turned out just as messy as dragonslip did. Fullbanned, requesting bounce if available... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned Sheba for trolling in the Men's Issues thread; specifically, for telling contradictory stories of How Feminism Killed My Beloved Dad, and thinking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Evidently, Tnu (the guy who was the reason this thread started), wants to come back. Got this from Autumncomet: Someone who was Google bounced from TVT... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread [crossposting (roughly) from Skype] Based on the previous posts about him, I see no reason to be lenient.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got this PM from Hidden Faced Matt: ... I know I'm not supposed to try to post in them, nor try to discuss images in the discussion pages of articles,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just nuked this thread by Agent Redlum in Wiki talk: Subject: Why this Unpublished work page of Masonicon are cut and edit-locked This is Unpublished... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Stupid is what happens when intelligence dies and starts to rot. Things that are dead stink, and that stench gets everywhere really quickly, and the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it seems that the work isn't available anywhere anymore, I don't know if there's much point in keeping the article. Maybe there's nothing wrong with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've blocked him on everything except forum posting. Let's hear what he has to say for himself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's a little too convenient, Westerner. Someone who hacks your account and is apparently familiar enough with you to be a total asshole? Just like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread QQQQ 2 is also ban evading his wiki ban, as QQQQQ had also been banned for vandalism.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Has the second account done anything? If it looks like it'll only be used for appealing the ban, we can't really complain; though I don't know why they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some clown (TheTropeinator2) put Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement on the Cut List. Eddie, we need the cutlist added to the list of things new accounts... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *sigh* This guy just does not take a hint, does he?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Westerner is back as Crow. Anyone want to handle him?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pathological mindsets don't need to follow logic. As I said before, don't engage him, just ban him repeatedly until he goes away.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread noirsicnumber2nd is bad news, and his wonk over TRUE ENGLISH and AMERICAN is even worse. Against letting him run around. He used his new account in YKTTW... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wasn't this one due for a permanent now?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Masonicon's latest sock: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13207659470A51366000&page=2#39. And why was Masonicon himself not blocked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The wiki ban blocks you from the cutlist. The P5 ban makes the content evaluation flagging button disappear.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I smell a troll. If you're feeling generous, PM the account and tell 'em that that user name is unacceptable and to pick a different one. If you aren't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aaaaaaaaand Masonicon is now Big Red Angry Bird and recreated his unpublished nonsense as Giga Crossover Movie. Bizarre. Plain bizarre. edited 3rd Nov... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "AllHallowsDay" seems to be deleting every reference to Cracked he can find. 0 day account, not sure if kosher. EDIT: Shares IP with another account banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban evading vandal formerly known as Circus Circus. Give him the full set.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Canned and cleaned up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's back as NC Hammer. Hammered. Is it possible to IP ban "61.55.141.10", since that's the only one he's done it from, and he's the only one that uses... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, will you please bounce Bocoom, Bocoom2, rafumon, troll, b, Greed Demon and Ass? It's a stupid troll who won't shut up about this Troper and other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Huh? How can he edit posts? He can't see the forums, let alone edit anything. And I don't see any edited posts after the 15th, the day he was banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree on locking and possibly nuking it with prejudice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread hedgehog203 always uses the password 'cybertron'. We can bounce that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That chrischan post is from before the ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I reviewed the last pages of the Tropes vs Women in Video Games thread. Here's what's happened: There was a heated argument until this guy named sifem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This just landed in my inbox: 22nd Nov '12 7:28:58 AM Moerin to Deadbeatloser22: Requesting an appeal As the subject implies, I've decided to just buckle... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a sneaking suspicion (by which I mean I'm 99% certain) that Meeko is Shaggy. The account was made after Shaggy's ban, and he only posts in LGBT... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tsk. The holiday season is bringing the vandals back. I nabbed dugong (112.204.164.63) for vandalising four pages. Doing a spot check on new accounts reveals... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aaaaaaaaaand, he/she/it posted a bunch of comments saying "Troll review" in every review by some Tuckerscreator guy. Hammering. FYI: I'm gonna write "troll... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have a really stupid wonk in YMMV.Smile Pretty Cure that removes any mention of non-yuri pairings and even went so far as to do this: %% %% %%MODERATOR... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This and other puppets put on bounce. Ninja123456 John Hayabusa Hells Kitchen Michael Cole Michael Cole 2 xXxMcKenziexXx Awesome Kong Yes Yes Yes Yes midoriri3... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For the record, I un-suspended Wacky Pancake with the following: I have removed your wiki ban under advisement. You are on probation and this is your last... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm with lu. Spat fight over a topic they disagree passionately one from foundation premises. They can stop talking about it; block P Ms from the other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Posting this for reference. I've dropped a PM block and wiki-side edit ban on HBJP 91 because of it. Good, so here is the aforementioned message: 27th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm glad to see that no one feels like giving in to this appeal. No mercy for ban evaders.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If she'd asked, we might have relented, but deliberate evasion? Nope.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread To be fair, all I'd been able to tell her was that you weren't open to the idea of her coming back. I guess this another thing that's my fault.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned both Magic Laser and Dragon Laser. The latter's a sock of the former, and the former has massive overlap with Blixty on IPs: 204.186.X, where... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspicious he might be back as "Unsaferoth", if this is anything to go by. edited 10th Jan '13 1:05:08 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: randomguy HIM: Hi... I was on the forums about a year ago. I had an argument with another troper and cussed at him. :/ and... I really do regret that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I searched it. On first impressions, it seems like a Pokemon fanverse written by a bunch of twelve year olds who figured out that they can be offensive... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is the first I have heard of it. I'm not even sure where it is, maybe Tumblr? Article is not very enlightening for sure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Before the incident in the Sonic thread his only Thump was for posting a link to a stream of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The rest of the post said... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got the same message. I think we should reply. He's right that he hasn't got a long history of bad behaviour. Prior to his misbehaviour in the Sonic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, whatever. I'd rather we steer clear of trouble. I have a different clusterfuck here. Kay4today reckons A Murder Of Crows is Westerner. I had suspected... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who wants to talk to David?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crows admits to being a sockpuppet. No conversations with Viktorious. Something fishy is up with the Noir-Kay-Vik crowd, as their claims about their PMs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My understanding is that a message disappears entirely from the archives if both the sender and the receiver erase it from their PM folder. So it could... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, if they both delete it, it is gone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That girl is a nightmare and she doesn't learn. No matter how many times she's corrected, she learns nothing. She seems to forget everything we told... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do too. It fits with both AFP's previous behavior here, and the fact that Wardog only posted in the same threads AFP did and only to troll them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I posted about that in the Skype thread last night...I'll get a list of associated handles shortly. EDIT: Here we go: Koo Koo Banana, Horiatio Man Blower... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If that's the case, Eddie, you might want to reply to him in Edit Banned. He's been a valuable contributor and I'm not sure we want to ban him permanently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Twentington has displayed this pattern of behavior repeatedly in the past couple of years. He starts working on a specific issue, makes great contributions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His post was literally hilarious. I cannot stop laughing: Fuck it, the whole text: [10:17:10 μμ] Markus Kangas: HI, THIS IS NATE SPIDGEWOOD.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For extra amusement, look at the signatories of that petition.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fullbanned shadedsun1991; puppet check brought up one connected handle, linaewen, fullbanned by Best Of as an Anfauglith sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does he need a ban, then?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cherry Lover has a beef with AOG, AKA Altima on Beast's Lair, a site where AOG/Altima is a Mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nate Spidgewood really likes a certain IP address these days. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/puppet_check.php?troper=Unknown7777 I also found edits by a sock... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm on a roll today. I recently pounced on a report out of Ask The Tropers that an account by the name of thomwim was adding nonsense entries to Jason... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's one of the common ones. Here's the full list of IPs common to all of his recent known socks. Also, there are no "innocents" on the list. Every... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread God damn, but Nate Spidgewood is dense. He posted on his HBJP91 sock to request an unlock of an article that I locked because he was vandalizing it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aha, figured it had to mean something. Looking at Deep C's associated handles, all of them are active in the wiki and/or the forums, none have any bans... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edit history proves it. Full-banned Treehugger.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They were trading donations? Nice. Anything in treehugger's edit history that we might want to restore? edited 19th Feb '13 10:29:05 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I fullbanned treehugger0124 as treehugger's sockpuppet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seems that Telcontar reverted all of the vandal's edits this time. I thanked Telcontar via PM.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sorry that happened Bestof. It sucks when you get a stalker like that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're expecting this guy to be logical? He's lumping me in with haters for a game series I have never played and never want to play now because of him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm moving my kay communications to this thread. She replied to my warning pm with the following I really don't know what posts this is referring to,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread David the Mouse 14 sent me a PM (as David Q) saying that he's got a PM on his old handle and he'd like to know what the PM says. Should we lift his PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On a related note, I got this from David the Mouse Finale: You're a fool and a faggot I'll simply make more and more accounts I hacked the system just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban evasion just to post spam on the forums? Terminate with extreme prejudice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here is the message I got from Mokona Zero yesterday: Okey-Dokey. I guess whether I am joking or not doesn't matter since I broke the rules. I like it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If people think he's being cute why are we getting the hollers about it? And if he's been cooperative before and changed things why can't he change this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He just learned how?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Forum ban on truteal. He has 15 thumps, most of which involve calling people "pedophile" and "pedoname" out of the blue for no reason. I don't think the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread responded in to him in Edit banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That weird Disney wonk/DVD spammer bizarro named Derekdespiegmailcom keeps making socks. Here's what we have so far: DerekdespiegmailcomRedux DDD1988Redux... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This handle has been launching unfinished YKTTWs like there's no tomorrow. I'm issuing a Wiki ban to bring them in to talk. Feel free to overrule me, though... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I won't be online much (if at all) in the next 15 hours or so. If you want to talk to this guy and settle this I'd be grateful. I have no idea what this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thread in OTC by Melugtahektan, to wit: "Why is that Palestinian refugees are always talked about, but Jew expelled from Arab countries are not?" Nuked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The text you quoted was identical to one of the troll OTC threads I mentioned here. So it was definitely Ilmurov.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If someone is misbehaving it's best to have a Mod remind them that this Wiki is a joint effort where everyone is expected to talk things out politely,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Former user 'Colonel Mc Badass', who was apparently previously banned under different names, has decided to follow me around online harassing me about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Colonel McBadass is the guy who sent me death threats.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got this PM from Blackmoon: Sorry to bother you, but I just received a request from Made of Meat; I'm sure you remember her. In any case, it is as follows... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry you have to deal with that, Best Of. Just ban them and be done with it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't find him particularly scary — he appears to be someone who has an Active Fantasy Life that he pretends is true — but it is somewhat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd ask Kaijo for links to one or two instances where Night has been an asshole. If there is indeed a pattern we'll need to talk to Night. Also, I'd tell... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Spotted nighthawk81 ban evading and bitching about The Green Hornet. Previous handles were dwlow81 and nightowl81, who were, you guessed it, going on about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We no longer have a way to validate old accounts. When's the last time Qube did anything on the wiki?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His account has a password: hypnox63. He probably just forgot it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's no real difference between restting it and giving him the password, since either way, I can't verify if it's indeed the same person. I suppose... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our boy Nate is spamming lots of edits again. I've got a draft submission set up for hushmail.com's abuse box, as follows: An individual who goes by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got an automated reply promising a response within 2 days. I can't wait.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sending Teraus a PM asking him to take a week break from the sexism threads and, when he gets back, stop asking people to debate You Tube videos instead... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Having received several private messages about the Men's Issues thread, I felt it necessary to remind people that threads in OTC are not owned. "Feminists... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The only place where there's supposed to be a degree of ownership is Troper Covens, and I think the expectation there is that they are not places for argument... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should each thread become an insular pity party for its respective side? The idea that men's rights and women's rights are distinct issues that must be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree with both your statements, Morven. Each side does need room to express its issues and concerns, but not by excluding the other. The problem with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What was the final straw with Katsura?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been a lowgrade PITA for a while, mostly shitstirring on the topic of religion. In Quickie Questions yesterday he said all he was here for was the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The release of Frozen has summoned Goldstone back from the pit of crazy obssessives.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We continued to get mod hollers over things.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re chi_mangetsu... Pm from me to him yesterday: Subject: Are you trying to see if I'll forum block you? Or do you not get the concept of On-topic not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And after I dropped the OTC ban on him, he send PM saying "so, are you going to tell me why I was banned from posting in OTC or is that not the kind of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you want. Won't be long.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's posting banned; I'm willing to leave it at that for now, unless there's a compelling reason to dribble him. edited 2nd Oct '14 9:53:16 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good call.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That seems really suspicious to me, too...I dropped a wiki suspension on him to see how he reacts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I could have missed it. He's a weird one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you're going to reply to Afro Warrior (which would be a waste of time but might yeld amusing, if useless, results) you should mention the name David... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pootis Girl seems to be another sock of superluigiglitchy4. Edit and forum banned them as well; shall we go ahead with full ban?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They made another sock, which I full banned. I'll go ahead and implement it for the other socks as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say you're right about both of those and bounce them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good, although as far as I know the clique is a Yack Fest one, not a Roleplay one. Game Spazzer hangs out in Roleplay, though.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings Ah, yes, the Why Did It Have To Be Snakes edit war. For the record, I am someone who is distressed by seeing pictures of snakes, and that will color my... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings ^ Not a thing to disagree with there.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings Looks like there's a solid admin/mod consensus against them.... More Mod Jabberings Unban request OK, fair enough. Permission to pass that message on?... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I figure if someone wants to air their private problems on the Internet for anyone who feels like it to comment on, they get what they deserve. Which varies... More Mod Jabberings IJBM A rule would probably have been a bit much anyway. But yeah, you're right.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM There is no good coming out IJBM. It's poison. I think the thing to do is shut it down and brutally excise people who make themselves a real nuisance about... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Well, I think it is going away, in the sense that there will no longer be an "It Just Bugs Me!" heading on any forums. Moving the keepers out, as Bobby... More Mod Jabberings IJBM The 7th sounds good. And I completely agree that there are some folks who seem to post only in IJBM and only to keep the shit stirred. They will be no... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Without the umbrella of legitimacy that IJBM gives the complainers, it's much harder to justify the kinds of behavior that will undoubtedly start getting... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I don't think there's much need to hack IJAM. Though maybe a reminder that schadenfreude is usually negativity would be needed.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Cool. Answering Tangent's question from Hollers, I'd say, yes, migrating the keepers out doesn't need to wait to the last minute.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I got it for at least the next couple hours.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Looks like it's pretty much calmed down. I'm off to bed. I'll check on it again tomorrow.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I think so. That was what I was hoping it would do when I pinned it in IJBM and it seemed to be working. People will vent frustrations, especially with... More Mod Jabberings IJBM If it's just for "Fridge Logic" stuff, I don't think we need it.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Anyone intelligent will realize: It was just us putting a new forum in so that people don't get as angry It doesn't have enough legitimate content for... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Agree. Do we need to let them know what is going on first?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Added to the big list in post 1. Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Wonder why all those things aren't linked from mod central; would make it easier. edited 11th Aug '11 8:47:37 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Care to elaborate on the letters?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Is there a way that we can look at the voting history in crowners? Someone mentioned the possibility of sock abuse on the crowner for Breaking The Fourth... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Oh, definitely.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Eddie, when you get time, could you build all of the links in the Site-wide Tools list into the Mod Central page that aren't there already?... More Mod Jabberings Thumps This is cool. Probably coincidentally, Deboss suggested something similar on IJBM the other day. He requests that we have a "Brick of Awareness" thump... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Only, I think it's a little unfortunate when tropers who aren't mods use them, because it makes it look like mod action has been taken when it hasn't,... More Mod Jabberings Thumps ^^ That would be awesome, but in that case, we'd definitely need some kind of un-thumper tool. Oh, and that would have the advantage that we could thump... More Mod Jabberings Thumps You will see a lightning bolt showing up with the mod tools. Don't use it, yet. edited 11th Apr '11 5:05:05 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Okay, you can play with it. Find a post of your own and thump it so you can see what the PM looks like. It doesn't actually thump the post, yet.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Cute. Simplistic messages but I guess it's to the point.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Agreed, I like it.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Slick... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Sacrificial Post.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Working on that right now.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Okay, I guess I just need to stop worrying about page formatting issues in IE7. The bar looks fine in 9. Incidentally, IE9 is a clusterfuck of fail when... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Cygan had an idea - how feasible is some kind of mega-thumpinator for dealing with people who make multiple thump-worthy posts on a single page? It could... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Here's a quick-n-dirty: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/thump_report.php... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Hm. Looks like there's little correlation between tone of posts and thumpings as yet. I daresay it'll even out over time.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Really? If the figures hadn't been so low, I'd have been astonished to see OTOH and ccoa up there.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Yes, "it would be nice if" we could click on a total and see detail.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Gotta say, Fighteer, you are firing on all cylinders today.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps I dunno. I think it would be helpful to know that she shoplifts once every six months rather than six times in one month.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps It can matter, I think — looking at the breakdown, all three of ccoa's came in one thread in TRS where things got heated for about 12 hours and then... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Oh, definitely informational rather than incurring some sort of auto-response at a certain number. And I concur with the kudos for Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings Completely secret stuff You saw. You know. It was like an unceasing staccato rhythm played on oil drums, only punctuated by questions.... More Mod Jabberings Completely secret stuff Okay. Maybe I am a saint. Saint Eddie, Protector of the Annoying.... More Mod Jabberings Completely secret stuff My tactic for this is a loud sound system in the car. It is good for the shut the fuck up and let me drive message. If they get really annoying I can... More Mod Jabberings Security My favorite thing is when someone finds a security hole and then announces it to the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. What a freaking moron.... More Mod Jabberings Security Thumped the appropriate posts and did some yelling. Wish I could do my real life voice here, I can be very intimidating.... More Mod Jabberings Security Sorry to reopen this, but I'm afraid it seems that the problem is not fixed. Apparently, the cookie was the least of our worries, although I gather there's... More Mod Jabberings Security This is on editpost.php? test edit testing again edited 31st Jul '11 8:51:16 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. Well, here's a seed. To Whom It May Concern @ Google: Hello! We were recently informed that our site's content on the page entitled "Rape is Love" is... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. That "seed" up there is goon enough to go as-is - or so it seems to me, but of course it's better to have many opinions before we send Google anything.... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. That "seed" up there is goon enough to go as-is Freudian slip? Looks like Eddie already made and sent his own letter. Guess we can scrap this.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children This is in response to talk on the Skype channel. We have a number of tropers who really just bog down the TRS and IP work. They bring up tropes that... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Matt's a pain in the ass, especially in the last coupla weeks. DQZ can be helpful but he definitely causes as many fires as he helps put out.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Matt is a lost cause. He's overly literal-minded and finds issues in the most innocuous things. Along with his really creepy ideas on gender issues and... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Well, I'm just going by Meta's post.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Are either Rodney or Cider obnoxious enough for it? And now that we have it, should we bring Raso back with a P5/Workshop ban? edited 7th Jun '12 1:00... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children ccoa: DQZ was wikibanned as Lord TNK long before the workshop forums were created. A year at least. Maybe more. edited 10th Jun '12 7:51:52 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children We had a conversation on Skype about Septimus Heap and his antics in this thread. Septimus says holler replies are becoming scant. Here's the issue: he... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children So, he needs to be working on threads that are starred for final action and not threads that are still trying to work out what to do.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children And I've been talking to Rodney about playing nice and not joining the fray. I'll be keeping an eye on him. edited 13th Jul '12 4:53:44 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children This is actually more of a fifth chance for him. He's past third chances. I don't think anything is going to change for him in the long run.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children I feel it is not. I rarely close a TRS thread for being finished. Most of the time they get closed because they time out. Or they sit there and get... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children He and Karjam P are definitely the current "trash thread" people.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications As far as candidates go, I think Discar would be better for TRS. He spends more time there and he does work.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications That too. That snippy little reply didn't do him any favors in my eyes, either.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications JHM's is the best, and I can vouch that he's been very well-spoken and level-headed whenever I've seen him post in the Music subforum.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Hooking up Betsy and T then since they have the strongest recommendations on them. Peeking at the other ones posting histories.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Current apps: OTC: thatguythere 47 Media Recs: Jimmmyman 10 Literature: ryzvonusef Western Animation: Yunochan Visual Arts: Mr AHR Mr AHR's is well... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications AHR has had issues in the past with getting overly emotional in disagreements. She's not necessarily uncivil, but I recall her saying that she's unnerved... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications This thread. Here.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Was Flyboy ever officially made a herald? Or was just just ruled out?... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications BTW, since I've seen what you said about me before making me a mod, I'm very happy to know what you thought of me.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications You are correct; we have not solicited community opinion in promoting previous mods, that I am aware of.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I don't have an opinion on Thatguythere. Tomu can get a bit emotional sometimes, but other than that, he should be OK. He certainly is a very frequent... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications No complaints here.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Well, that's a very good draft...... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I don't have any issues.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I have three drafts pending. Fantasy Liver for comics. classifiedzerogoki for Forum Games Game Spazzer for Forum Games. Looking into Fantasy Liver,... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Thanks. Here is the problem with Game Spazzer. Because Chris X is a bit of a Single Issue Wonk with some blazblue character, Spazzer (and his Wonder Squid... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I have intended to create this thread since the meeting a couple of weeks ago. Now, I have a reason. Recently I nuked a section of the discussion page... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting We do nuke tropers insulting other tropers. Why should it be ok to insult the mods when you can't insult tropers?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting The steam letting out/off is a completely understandable phenomena. What isn't is the name calling.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I think that is what Appeal to the Moderation was intended to become.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting How to rewrite the pages on family friendliness so that they're clear what our standards are.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It really bothers me that every time there is a problem and steps are taken to address the problem, the reply is "More Moderators". Not, "I need to control... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I honestly really agree with that. This isn't kindergarten. We're not going to monitor every single person all the time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Everyone in the subforum could ban, thump, and edit like a mod. You could imagine misuse pretty easily, but I wonder if it might level out.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm teaching a class on Saturdays on April 21st, April 28th, and May 12th. Other than that, my weekends are free as of this moment, but I don't know if... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting ...I'd think so.... I have to wonder, how are we going to handle timezone issues?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Saturday or Sunday and I think that the timezones run from UTC/GMT+2 to UTC/GMT-8 if you look at this map [1] Or Uniform through Bravo if you look at the... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm Central.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Greece and Finland do indeed share a time zone. Usually when I pick the correct time zone from a list of cities, I pick Athens 'cause it's at the top of... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting June 3rd is prolly the best for me, but I can do any of those three dates.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I can't promise anything for June, since I don't know whether my exams will be during June or July.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Whoops I should give some reasons for things, I ignored May 13 because it is Mother's Day in the US. Lots of people have moms that they do stuff with... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting much more limited and there would be none of the panic and parqanoia that comes from unannounced bans or ones that people start talking about before any mod... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting OK: Meeting date narrowed down to two: Sunday May 20 GMT 5pm or GMT 8pm Sunday June 10 GMT 5pm or GMT 8pm I prefer the earlier time myself.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I think earlier is just universally better for people from the sound of it.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting You'll get to watch Sunday morning cartoons! ....that's not really consoling, is it?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Mike must be getting uncomfortable by now. Those things were heavy. May 20th works for me. edited 3rd May '12 2:13:33 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Mike Holmes is awesome. He's like construction superman.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I like that time. Is there any one who cannot make the earlier time on May 20?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting That's 11:00 AM CST, correct?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Dug up my Skype account. What time will it be for Best Of and me? I hate timezones too.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting 7pm Greece Finland 5pm England GMT 12pm Eastern 11am Central 10am Mountain 9am Pacific Does this look right to everyone?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting England's on DST right now. So it's 6PM BST.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I thought GMT never changed to DST. That is why I went with GMT even though no one lives there. AUUUGGGHHHHHH.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Or we could just use this.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Probably. I'm working on a list of stuff to bring up once the main conversation topics are over and done.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Here. We need it to be at 7:00 PM. Greek time right? Click this link. Find what time it is in your time zone.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Hmmmm...I guess it is 11:00 for the CST folks, then.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting That was its plan all along. Sneaky little sucker. If you don't think days can be sneaky, just you wait. Sooner or later a Monday will leap out at you... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Oh Crap, not Mondays! They're too scary, 'cause I have to go back to school!... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting One thing we could discuss in the meeting is a new rule: no threads about horrible crimes or about punishing criminals. It sounds kind of arbitrary, and... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Lesseeee, my Skype should be....oh yeah, it's elenafumanchu. Note that I've only used Skype a couple of times. Also, it looks like I'll have to use my... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'll send you a request later.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Fast Eddie, you already responded to my skype friend request, right? Is there anything else I need to do to be available for the conference call? (If there... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I sent you a contact rq, deadbeatloser22. Please accept. Ditto ccoa. edited 15th May '12 12:13:03 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Do you have Eddie on your contact list? If you do, then he should be able to let you in the conversation.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting 11:00 CST was the time I had. Anything from mid-afternoon on would be problematic, and the evening is completely out; my wife and I will be at a Gabriel... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm still on-track to make it, but I will only be able to stay for about 2 hours, which I imagine will be enough time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Actually, scrub that; I should be good for that time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It won't bother me either way.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Finals are scheduled for Tuesday Dec. 11. Weekend work best for those with 9-5 jobs.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting That's a bit early but at least possible.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Counter-proposal, Ironeye?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Saturday the 15th, or any Sunday at the same time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting This Christmas I won't be able to wriggle out of the deal I have with my family and my girlfriend that I have to spend at least every other year back home... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sunday evenings are bad for me, but I'm around until 2pm Central Time in the mornings.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I haven't seen that movie but I know what it's about. The director, Aki Kaurismäki, is easily the most respected and famous living Finnish director. Well... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Holy carp. Looks like we may have a good date. Next trick is the time. I'll be around pretty much all day.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It's Saturday. I'll be unavailable from 11 AM to 2-ish (EDT) due to prescheduled stuff. Otherwise I'm probably good. edited 6th Dec '12 10:04:21 AM by... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Set the Mod Central page as a button on our toolbar in the forums.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting And yet he doesn't manage it flawlessly! I'm gathering some wiki-related repair data from the recent cleanups, so I'll post my thoughts on that during... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I did some foliage pruning on my list.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Don't feel too bad. You missed by only the length of one measly continent.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Deadbeat lives in GMT, right? (He does if he's still in the UK.) I'm not sure if there is a name for the time zone that I and Lu live in. It's usually... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Agenda item: I'd like to do some work on fundamentals. I think we need to get out of the reactive mode we are in where we tell people how to behave. I... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I've got an actual webcam now, so hopefully the mic feedback issues won't be there. I'll have to remember to get some breakfast beforehand...I promise... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Related to the conversation we just had, my sandbox is up: What To Do If You Are Suspended If there is agreement that this is what we want, I'll toss... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Set the Mod Central page as a button on our toolbar in the forums.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I like "Launch Crew" myself. With respect to What To Do If You Are Suspended, before this launches I need to know two things: The proper email address... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It looks nice and clear. I can't seem to edit it. Could we (mods) have the option to turn it on/off when it is needed?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Yes, this will be set on/off by a mod button.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Ok, I'm a dummy and dsidn't think of that. >.> Looks good. No complaints from me. It doesn't look particularly intrusive and if we can switch it... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting What if the header post is a FAQ list, as we have in the Complete Monster cleanup thread? Link. That would make the pages very, very ugly. I suppose I'd... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Whoo-hooo! Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting No prollem. I guess we should let people know this feature is available for them on a Holler.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I still think it needs a border or something. The pink is pale enough that if you're just skimming a thread it looks like a normal post. We want it distinctive... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I set up a header post in the Complete Monster thread and it works fine, after I moved the FAQ to the second post. It's missing a top border, but otherwise... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting There is now a "create PM" link on the postoffice page.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I updated the email address for appeals to thestaff@tvtropes.org, and changed the instructions for forum suspensions to tell people to PM a mod or use... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm looking at Trope Repair Shop, and I'm thinking we could enrich it with stuff from the welcome thread and how to fix a trope. That way, we can have... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm bumping this thread to get everybody thinking about the possibility of arranging a proper meeting with the new owners - would that be a useful thing... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'd be down for that, but with my work schedule being so wonky while I'm here on this trip I wouldn't be able to participate until at least the last week... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Noon pacific is 2 PM for me. I can manage that. I'm generally up by then. Edited because I can't maths this morning. edited 30th Aug '14 11:19:57 AM by... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting As of right now, I have fairly generous availability on Sundays.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Before anyone else starts editing the OP, I'd like to mention that I actually copy-pasted the notes that some of us were making during the final moments... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Please edit notes into the OP please please please... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Edited the OP.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 So, I was cruising around way back in the dim recesses of What's it All About? and found something that might work for the forum side for April Fools'... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I'll put something together to describe the new curator powers and their limits. ^^Engineers are now mods, with a purty badge. I haven't told ccoa or Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 For April Fool's on the forums, an idea I'd had was to pick a random post on each page and reduce its font size. Like this. edited 6th Mar '12 10:30:07... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Ooh, like we all wore each other's avatars? That would be fun.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Ooh, that would make sense as part of the expanded Natterfy system.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Yes please! (I want Vimes. >.>)... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 You can look at the posts for the dates. They are in date order. We don't capture who does the thump.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Yes, please. eta: YKTTW tags are now only zappable by the draft author or mods. Ironeye is hooked up for Cutmaster edited 21st May '12 7:38:49 AM by... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Oh, you don't want me to do that. That said, I'll post the suggestion when I get home (about an hour and a half or so)... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 For the Cut List, it was deemed a good idea to add a field so cutmasters could state their reason for declining a page cut.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Good grief, man! Taking after my writing style, what are you thinking?! J/K I like it for a draft...I'm sure it can be whittled down some.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Actually, considering how OCD our users tend to be, it's probably better to have everything explained in the most drawn-out way you can imagine. Instead... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 This looks very good indeed. Apologies for not making the actual Skype — real life intervened, unfortunately :(... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Ok, since the spoiler policy is in place and the workshop ban is up (thanks, Eddie! ), here's the next issue on the table: the YKTTW quality control. My... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Finland also has DST, so we go forward an hour the same as you do. Finland is GMT+2. The difference between Finnish time and EST is 7 hours. Finland is... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings According to something Best Of said earlier or yesterday or somewhere, Finland does DST too.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Yeah, we do. I think it's observed in all parts of Europe. At least I'm fairly sure the EU as a whole does it; I mean, I don't know how we could not have... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings I did too; you're added.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings 'sokay. I'm all happy now.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) You're probably right. So, should we decide who is gonna swap avatars with whom here? I wanna take Eddie's avatar and Katrika wants to use mine.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) From the other thread: I want Katrika's.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) My avatar's Nova.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Any particular one of 'cat's you want, ccoa?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Lemme send mine to Fighteer. EDIT: Sent! edited 6th Mar '12 4:17:20 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) ^ Good idea. Also, sent. ^_^... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Katrika, I didn't have sharing enabled either. Please try again, with my apologies.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Sent, fighteer!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Got 'em.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think we should. Let's make it as confusing as possible. :P... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Would it be too much to swap titles, sig lines and location with mods other than the one whose avie we are using? I could happily use Maddy's sig, Morven's... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think if we take title, sig, and location from other mods than avatar, they should all be from the same mod. I call Eddie!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I more or less agree. I don't particularly feel like playing mix-n-match.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think it's confusing enough with just one mod you're taking stuff from. We don't want to trip ourselves up.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Or we could all change to the same location — something like "Mod Sooper-Sekrit HQ Behind The Pawnshop."... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Location [REDACTED] Sig: The mods are your friends. Do not resist. Assimilation will be painless. edited 7th Mar '12 9:39:58 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Next year, then...... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Sent.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thankye, sir.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) In addition to the forum gingerbread-swapping, I think a bit of silliness for the wiki-side folks would be a good idea. Here's a thought: A wiki news article... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think mod hats should stay mod hats.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It should.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yippee-skippers... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) And what day and time do we start?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Also Maddy can I have your penguin with the cymbals? I think I'm getting carried away because I want to be everybody but that's show business.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It starts at GMT+14, or Central+18. Six AM the 31st, Central. Or, yes. edited 25th Mar '12 6:19:19 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) And are we swapping signatures and titles too?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Pssst— Other Eastern people, does that mean we go at 7:01 am March 31?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yes, that sounds right.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I thought the deal was you also used the title and sig of the person whose avatar you were using? That's what I was planning on.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) 6 am central time means... 5 am mountain time? Ouch. >.< Probably won't be awake yet, either.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) No, European mods will do it about mid day on the 31st. edited 26th Mar '12 8:12:29 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Well, I could set my alarm clock for 5:50am on the 31st, but my roomie probably would not appreciate that.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It may be the 31st for us, but we're doing it as long as it's April 1st somewhere. It will be April 1st somewhere and we do have Tropers in Australia... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Doing it as an iDay, starting as soon as it's April 1st anywhere. That is, directly to the west of the Date Line. And thus ending only when directly east... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thank you. I need coffee.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) By the way, I removed several that weren't translations of the Main Home page, but were the home pages of namespaces like Laconic (rewritten to be the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Nice. Re-added to the index.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Reminder: i-day April first starts at Oh-god-early tomorrow (Saturday!) for us. Swap out your avvie as early as possible. 6:00 Am Central, 7:00 AM Eastern... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) My caption and signature: dy/dx Sanity is precious. Use it sparingly. (location is Longview, TX, but I don't know if we're swapping those)... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) No title. sigline: Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty. Acceptable: Clear. edited 31st Mar '12 3:34:54 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hey, Eddie - Excellent idea to add the "Somewhere on Earth it's April First" flag on the home page.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think I got it.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Glad to see you back Bobby I hope everything is OK.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Fixed my formatting.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Holy cow, I am not mentally functional this morn. Doesn't help that I'm doing this from my iPad where the copy paste functions are ... limited.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I was just thinking that we were going to have a hard time hitting that note again next year. But, then I thought we were going to have a hard time topping... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) No whining this year, far as I can tell. Will wonders ever cease?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) This has been one of our most successful pranks so far though. I'm quite happy with it.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I have gone back to being me and now I am going to go back to bed.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) While it was fun being everyone, it's great to be back in my own skin.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) No, you're showing up as Fighteer...is that a new account? [/smart-ass]... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hey Fighteer: The avvie swap produced this◊ (screencap) in the introductions thread, a combination of posts from three years ago, when you popped... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) They were? That sucks. But it looks like a minor improvement was also made to BuffySpeak.Home Page, and Chaotic Brain tightened up the Laconic version... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Zalgo... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That page doesn't work for me even after I installed the OpenType fonts that are recommended. Maybe I need a reboot.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I sort of want to do Adalind from Grimm, with her Hexenbeist form as the Mod Hat, but she doesn't exactly look scary in her human form.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I was going to say that maybe the references shouldn't be so obscure that most people won't recognise them, but then I remembered that I picked something... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Do you mean all different image of the same monster? That would be cool.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, one idea I came up with was that someone could have Dr Jekyll as their Halloween avatar, and then the Mod Hat avatar would be Mr Hyde.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Actually... the Weeping Angel thing gave me an idea for a more elaborate prank. Set some avatars to, yes, be Weeping Angels... then have a Javascript that... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I don't recall there being that much insanity last time we did themed replacements.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hmm... works fine in Firefox for me... I think you just got several null swaps in a row, Eddie. The Javascript RNG is kinda weak. IE doesn't seem to apply... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) How many images would it make sense to have in the folder of avatars that the script chooses from? 'Cause if the number is fairly large, I think we might... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, this is quite possibly the best idea ever. And I mean better than vaccinations.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Do we just start this as a mod thing come Halloween, or make another attempt this weekend?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) If we can have an external (to the thread, that is) avatar gallery, with everyone drawing random avatars from that, I think that would be the best choice... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That is doable; said "gallery" would be a list of avatars coded into the script. A few scenarios that are very doable (provided, in some cases, I get a... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) 2... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) So why does it work for OSX Safari but not iOS Safari?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I've added a couple of avatars to HastilyMadeSockpuppet's gallery. More coming soon. edited 29th Oct '12 9:08:56 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, I realized web browsers will happily resize images to fit the size you specify and I was overcomplicating that decision... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Status: home, made the behavioral tweaks (only cycles after being seen once). Making it correctly recognize which images are avatars and which aren't (... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Correct. Made a tweak that makes it work in IE 9 on my mom's computer, at least. Not sure how many forumites use IE.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Confirming broken on OSX Firefox and Safari; images replace with Broken Image boxes when scrolled offscreen. edited 29th Oct '12 3:44:55 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Whoops, correction. works nicely on Vista and Seamonkey. I've got 7 on the laptop, I'll check that later.. edited 29th Oct '12 3:49:58 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That's why I said to view Hastily's gallery before the demo; it hotlinks those images, so they won't load for the demo if they aren't already in your cache... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The images were visible in all browsers, because I did the cache load first as suggested. However, there appeared to be no attempts to swap them in IE... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) If you re-read the previous page of this thread you'll see that some of the avatars are meant to be fun-sized to see if the script can handle it (by stretching... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) As long as the images are in Hastily's gallery, they shouldn't be garbage collected.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I already added an Alien picture. Now we have three to choose from (and who says we can't have more than 1?)... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I can live with 25 not being used. Either 19 or 20 is good for another Alien pic...kinda lean toward 19 because it just looks creepier. edited 30th Oct... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Taking suggestions from non-mods has damped the complaining way down. There are still a few people who don't like it, but on the whole, I think it's getting... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) However, there was a suggestion that the script, or something like it be put on the trope page for Creepy Changing Painting. Personally, I think that would... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'll figure a way to put it in there. The page will need an image, if course.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hastily's password is now "thatponythread" I can put together the widget script/HTML needed for Creepy Changing Painting this weekend; since it's just... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) FE: whenever you come around, we should take the Halloween logo off the front page.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It's not bad...would having an intermediate frame of her looking straight at the reader work as well?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) We should add a stinger at the end of the page. "Scroll back up."... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) There was the idea for all mods to have a shared avatar, so Shima made one. We should find a title, location and signature to go with it as well. Here... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. How's that? May be a misquote since it's from memory; haven't seen that film in a while.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) One question: Is the plan to change everyone's location randomly, or just the mods'? edited 2nd Mar '13 8:46:49 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Here's what's on the imDb quotes page for the character: "The best thing about being me... There are so many "me"s." It's from Reloaded. edited 3rd Mar... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Maybe something simpler like Big Brother Is Watching? Bonus points for being a trope.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) When Eddie comes online.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think yes. Unless we want to have one shared location to make the agent theme spookier.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I thought, from the Skype thread, we're okay with having a Steampunk Halloween, with the tropers being encouraged to "dress up" their avatars ala Steam... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Imma gank that for my avatar, cuz I'm deviously lazy. edited 8th Oct '13 7:27:11 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Beats me.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Guh. My imaging editing skills are weak, made worse by the fact that I lack any software more sophisticated than Paint. I'll upload the image I found... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Fighteer: How about this::... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Oooh, looky what I found:... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think I might use this. EDIT: GAH. edited 8th Oct '13 1:56:31 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Those are both excellent.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Mostly because without an explicit steam engine it's hard to tell if they're clockwork gears or steam-driven gears.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) There is sure to be some drama.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Oooh, oooh, contest!!!! So, how are we gonna set up voting? One thread with a headline and a crowner? Some other super special widget? Judge commitee?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) nvm edited 23rd Oct '13 4:28:43 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I thought it was about celebrating the settlers being too short-sighted to actually bring proper supplies and having to be bailed out by the natives.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The mod tool to add relationship statuses is here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/maintain_relationship_status.php... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Added! Favourite one is "Loves me...loves me not." Are they going to be random, or can anyone pick their own?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) You pick one. It is on your profile.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) How did I miss that? >__> Do we have a Valentine's logo?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Halloween 2014 plans! Suggestions so far: Random eyes, teeth, batwings and/or spiderwebs appearing on the forums. Spider webs slowly forming around pages... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Yep. It's a 419. Shima: I still also have yours, as long as it hasn't changed since March. edited 6th Feb '12 1:54:32 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info It's still the same.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info My email is katrikah@gmail.com My AIM is sproutingDreams My skype is theoriginalkatrika My cell is 952-693-8260, but I'd prefer for that to be a last resort... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info edited 13th Sep '13 8:35:22 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info edited 13th Sep '13 8:35:37 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info I'm assuming this is about last resorts. So that we don't have to resort to what I am now calling the Camacan Stalker Effect. Wherein rational and sensible... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Whatever used to be in the now empty posts is now at the bottom of previous posts by the same Mod.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Not every post by a moderator is a mod post.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Sorry, I realise it's a long list. Didn't realise how long it was going to be until I finished it, actually. My intent here wasn't really to draw up a... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Back from study. OTC regulars are also frequent editors. Rats.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Do we need some kind of maturity filter for OTC?... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion You mean like the paywall you suggested a while back, or making it invite-only? Is it possible that making it invisible to newly registered and unknown... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Hadn't though of that one. Could be worth a try.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Let's start with the one we can go a long way to fixing ourselves: The lack of communication about what is going on. I admit that I don't make as much... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I added that message business for nuked threads. When you nuke a thread now, it asks you for a message to display when somebody clicks a link to the dead... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Storage space isn't the issue, it's bandwidth and processor time. Having each thread be its own table makes processing enormously faster, per Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Ah, OK, that makes sense. Goons gonna goon.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Flyboy is a problem. He was a problem when he was USAF 713 and when he was temporarily USAF 721. This kind of a problem: USAF 713 1 bait 2 civil 43 offtopic... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion My feeling is that he's improved since the handle change. I'll admit that his behaviour in Wiki Talk today did not impress me. He was emotional and irrational... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Yikes. Well, he certainly isn't Herald material. I should have checked the aliases. I have no idea why a person with this many thumps is allowed to stay... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I agree that Flyboy / USAF shouldn't be a mod—he's only digging himself deeper in the Wiki Talk thread.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Not going to argue that he's mod material, though; if nothing else he's over-eager.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion But I'm not sure any of us really had it when we first got whanged on the head by the mod-making stick. I know I didn't.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I don't know if it's a sign of the times, a quirk of the local userbase, or the way it's been for centuries (those with more crowns will have to enlighten... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion ^ You're very right. I've done that, and gotten much the same response, but I don't do it consistently. I'll work on doing it more often.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I very much concur.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I don't have the time to vet them. Increasing the call will just make me get further behind ... What in the world am I saying? You guys pick 'em. This... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion The topic id. For example in this one: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=00000000000000000000005c The long number ending in '5c' is the... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Never mind. OP seems to have changed her mind thanks to the response of other tropers. edited 2nd Feb '12 5:30:28 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion There's yet another thread about PROBLEMS, this time with Trope Repair Shop. Here's what I see as the legitimate issues raised by the thread: Some number... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Are you sure? We often get complaints about a "lack of transparency", or hear about how supposedly the forums are hard to find and a source of mysterious... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Warn 'em, then ban them if they keep it up. It falls under "being a dick".... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Click on the little book icon on the option. That's the edit history for that option. It goes away if the crowner is locked, though.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I did not open this [1] thread. While I think there is a valuable discussion to be had about men's perceptions and women's perceptions of men's perceptions... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Headless chickens: I find the article linked to be questionable (The fast majority of chickens are not force fed, for one thing) and the OP to be apparently... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I told him he could try to post it. I'll be curious to see the OP.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I think it's helping as well. Most of what we're doing is pre-emptive nuking and tweaking. And I think we're getting a lot fewer people just throwing... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads The changes to OTC moderation (new mods, pre-approval of threads and OTC-only bans) are all very helpful.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads This thread about the stigma against men turning down sex by Hiddenfacedmatt hasn't been opened. The OP is fine, but Shima said in Hollers that she doesn't... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Nuke the internet censorship one. It's too broad and almost certainly won't go anywhere except bitching about how awful China is, preening about how the... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads except that one about "itemised deductions" in the American tax system, but I PM'd the OP about making that one work,) but I got a PM from Doma: "Dear Mod... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I'd like to nuke that thing but I don't know if I can come up with a good reason, 'cause they're not gonna accept "I made this call from my gut." Maybe... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I nuked it, as well as the one by Barkey that had the same problems. I went over the OTC front page and nuked a bunch of threads that were Link-Discuss... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Anyone got an opinion on this?... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread A lovely idea Best Of. I hope we get lots and lots of posts.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread There are some tropers who always react correctly when I thump their posts; namely, They Call Me Tomu, El Rigo, and Inane242. edited 4th Apr '12 6:49:31... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Indeed. Martello is a gem.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread I PMed Adannor today about an avatar that was a little more on the risqué side than is really appropriate on the forum. We exchanged a couple of PMs and... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread I'm loving the effort everyone's making on cleaning up the prurient trope indexes.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread 32 Footsteps is awesome, made of win, and is being amazingly helpful with captions and I really really really am grateful to him right now.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Noolie's first ever Wiki edit was this entry on The Lost Lenore page: "Once Upon A Time". Daniel, Regina's true love, becomes this after he is murdered... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread This guy went through all of the wicks of Xanatos Gambit, one of our most popular but misused tropes, and removed incorrect use, sinkholes and replaced... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread I sent a PM to someone who had a history of adding Hey Its That Voice entries to main pages explaining about Trivia. Not only did he apologize, he offered... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread This made my day. We are not alone against the bad indentation problem!... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Yep. I gave 'em an attaboy in the thread.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed. We need to make the user base seem the difference, but they seem to think that Kn J is the same as The Bible.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think that your breakdown is reasonable. The only thought I would add is that we have to consider what our ad providers consider inappropriate. I don't... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think it's fanfic recs, it's people making pages on some terrible fapfic. No one would recommend that Chibiusa fanfic you axed, but someone made... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sooo ninja's and get rid of the fan stuff please... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Are people actually using the lemon/lime/other explicit stuff tags appropriately? I haven't seen them, but maybe that's because I haven't seen a lemon... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So we do appoint a panel to make the call on a case by case basis?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I read/watch a fair bit of anime and manga, so I suppose I could help as well. I wonder, is it possible to put up a restraint where every work page created... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The very best thing would be to have a balance of interests and dislikes, if we can manage it. I'm not wild about anime in general, myself. Although... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And we're not trying to cut the mainstream stuff. We're just trying to cut the stuff that's explicitly loli and shota wank stuff.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy True enough. I understand the feeling. I think there's one way we can rest our case with either side. KNJ was supposed to get an American release, but... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So say we can settle on the panel. How does it work from there? They are to agree that something is fapcrap or it isn't. Once they decide one way or the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That makes sense to me. I agree that Black Bird should be reinstated. It's over 16, it doesn't really show anything. And it is really on par with Twilight... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Buy something with that concession. I think the thing we want most is more reasonable discourse. How can we barter your intercession with mean old Demon... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy You're not mean, Eddie. You were given false information, in one mess of a thread where everyone panicked to hell and back. I think it's important to reinstate... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Alright, I'm going to leave it open.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Martello's bias is that he doesn't like it. He can be very rational in the TRS and he knows he's biased. I think in some ways he'll be a balancing voice... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy But nothing too young, nothing with too big of an age gap, and nothing explicit, basically? Although, to clarify, in the work I'm thinking of the fact... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy My thoughts exactly. Akagikiba is the last person we want involved.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy @ccoa: torture porn is just as unacceptable IMO.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Good to hear.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Or even display it explicitly, whether the text seems to approve or not. Using pictures of nude children in order to lecture about how awful pictures of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sexualized naked children.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we can say "sexualized nude children" and reasonably expect our committee to be able to tell the difference between nudity played for fanservice... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy No sexualized child nudity sounds like a good metric.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This is why I am against rules. You get this endless quibbling about small distinctions. No pedo fapcrap. Hear, hear. Seriously, why word it any differently... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd be fine with any of the people I mentioned in my first set, plus Komodin. Lessee: Cryptic Mirror: 2 Ayes, 1 Nay Discar: 3 Ayes Martello: 3 Ayes,... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The only thing that makes me a little unsure about Hershele is that he is quite vocally anti-censorship - not a bad thing in itself, but he wouldn't have... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Porn as in 'centered on the sex or the sex is a major part of it' or porn as in 'has one or more explicit sex scenes'? I'm okay with either one, but obviously... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Probably the most basic rule-of-thumb would be "Is the primary purpose of the work to titillate the viewer/reader?" If you can answer "yes" immediately... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^ Sounds like a good "if in doubt" rule of thumb.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Don't sweat it, this is tricky stuff. Another good rule of thumb would be, if the work has uncensored sex of any kind, up to and including orgasms, the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We really don't have anywhere near as many pages for Western porn as we seem to for Eastern. Part of that is the fact that Eastern Porn seems to have... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I was talking more to Katrika, because I'm not sure that's a good metric. Another one for the review pile for the council: Rectified Anonymity EDIT: Actually... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy L Mage has struck me as being pretty entitled and immature in all my dealings with her(?). But we probably do need more candidates. Dark Confidant has... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy How about: Martello, Discar, Japanese Teeth, Komodin, and either Catalogue or Hershele? Five means there won't ever be a tie. It also means that if one... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Three I would worry about it going dead every time one of them went on vacation or had a deadline at work or any other RL issue that came between them... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Oh man, I really feel weird with that discussion on wiki talk. I have a question. Are we getting rid of porn because we just don't want it, or is it because... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Officially the second, I think? In practice, obviously, tropers' opinions vary. This, er... might sound kind of sexist, but is the committee all dudes... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There's outrage about everything. I see no reason why we wouldn't pull the group of people to make decisions about the wiki from the group of people who... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Kind of a late suggestion, but what about Triple Elation? Their latest seems to demonstrate the right frame of mind for making this kind of judgement... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Triple Elation is a late comer to the discussion but this post shows exactly what we're looking for. He not only understands what we're trying to do,... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Martello, Discar, Japanese Teeth, Komodin, and Triple Elation? (TE has 4 votes already, if we count Bobby bringing him to the table and Shima praising... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Looks like a good lineup.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Discar sent me an application while I was sleeping. Here you go: I've never been particularly good at resumes, but I figured I should apply anyway. If... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So Catalogue and Hershele would be the extra committee members who serve as replacements when someone can't make it?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Reading through the suggestions thread and I think this format would make everyone happy and still work fairly well. A forum where the committee could... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed on halting cutting works until the committee gets established. Has anyone said anything to those two about cutting all these works?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy could potentially ruin them (tangentially, I believe that such pages in general should be made into an acceptable state first and then be created and mod-locked... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I looked over The Man In Black's posts in the Content thread, and he seems calm and helpful. It would be good to have an anime fan on board, since Japanese... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Vyc is difficult. I like her, and we talk a fair bit, but her standards are odd, and she is incredibly stubborn. I probably wouldn't vote for her either... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Besides, we already had Vyc in the vote earlier and she ended with with negative votes IIRC. EDIT: Not negative, but no votes either way. So now there... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The Man In Black can be a bit of an ass at times. His posts are generally reasonable, but many have an underlying condescension to them.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Oh, don't get me wrong, the rules lawyering runs strong. There are cases, however, where, at least as my gut goes, it seems to be naivety. As for Saya... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Good call, I think. Someone suggested we put a list of works that have already received a petition on in the OP so we don't have petitions for the same... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Is it too draconian to institute temporary "making a point" bans on people who are "making a point"?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Catalogue maybe? Do we have someone who knows anime enough to sort out the crap from the keep?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Catalogue's the only one who has gotten support without strong reservations, so they're definitely the next one on the list.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Tweaked it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Bingo.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Nocturna has pm'ed me asking if it is ok to keep a list of cut work on sandbox and I said OK. If it isn't OK, lemme know. I'd rather look like an idiot... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The sentiment is accurate. I reduced the size of the font, but that message shows on topics we don't want, with the single exception of Lolita, which... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy All that's left is to give them a subforum, and maybe update general announcements. edited 17th Apr '12 6:35:33 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I was about to go ballistic on them when I took a bow from the thread to drive home from work. Glad to see we're of similar minds on the matter.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds good to me.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I see a lot of potential for abuse in that regardless of how clear we are that it won't be tolerated, but let's give it a shot.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds good.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy You're writing it, how scary could it be?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think Akagikiba needs to be banned from having anything to do with the clean up stuff. She thinks we should cut G-rated stuff because she finds it creepy... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, she's listed The Wotch for deletion. There are G rated films that are worse than this comic. But she's squicked by transformation and the idea... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Small quibble: it's Posse for the Prevention of Pedophilia and Pure Porn. I'm still not 100% comfortable with saying "all works which sexualize children... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'll fix that. Because there were several interpretations of the acronym, I wanted to include several (I went with yours, Best Of's and Shima's). What... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That change is made. And thanks.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The Saga of the Heroes of Decency, Five of Them, Whose Great Effort and Sacrifice Makes Our Wiki Safe from Filth?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The Saga of the Five Heroes of Decency Who, Upon Being Summoned by the Lords and Ladies of Moderation, Marched Bravely to Battle Against the Demons Perversity... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I got this PM today: Hi — I'm trying to help with the clean-up of works that no longer meet the new content guidelines (explicit porn/lolicon/etc), but... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yes, although I wasn't going to post that in public until the information regarding Google was OK to release. Incidentally, should that post have its own... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I do think we should not cut any more works. Just put them up for review.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, we cut a lot of innocuous stuff and I've seen a lot of people post things as Porn that had only implied sex on the cutlist and things listed on there... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Thank you!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Eddie, can you enable mod hat mode for General Announcements so I can put the big post there?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy As Eddie said, the list was seeded with stuff that was flagged for mature content after the first Google Incident. That just means a lot of very obvious... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ahaha, I just realised, this means my quotes page has been flagged as a violation. (If it really is deemed inappropriate, I don't mind. The picture it... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed that tropers should be able to appeal. Just so long as they know that 5P get the final say.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^ 100% agreed. I PM'd Glider Guy and oolong and asked them to flag/report stuff rather than cutlist it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Doubleposting again, sorry. Fashion terminology like EGL and Gothic Lolita are OK to stay, right?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Exactly. It's not paedopandering, but it is fanservice. There is a difference between the two. I mean, watching cartoons with my cousins the other day... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy But it was sexualizing. If you'd seen the show, it was clear that it was sexualizing her. Not in a way that made her attractive to adults, but it was... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've received reports that Glider Guy is in fact misrepresenting the material he cites as inappropriate. This post is apparently a misrepresantation of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It appears there's a proposal which is getting a lot of positive reaction. Not recommending for review shows below a certain rating (when there is a US... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Makes sense. Further, I would say that if it appears on prime-time TV in any Western nation, it is automatically exempt from review — similarly... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I like those standards. That would at least stop us from having Sailor Moon and Romeo And Juliet nominated constantly.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy An excellent synthesis Fighteer. Now where do we put it so people read it?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Of course not, a defence doesn't override the council.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've got to finish up their tools. The real world has been intruding into my virtual life a lot. Maybe I'll be able to burn some midnight oil tonight and... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Good luck. I locked No Lewdness No Prudishness since it's currently a magnet for people trying to prove a point. If arromdee makes any more posts about... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I find that rule pretty useless, as actual paedo-pandering works don't use preteen explicit sex, since it's more often than not illegal and cannot be published... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, a lot of works aimed at teens, books especially, have teens ages 14-19 having explicit sex. The characters in every book I've read has been at least... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy While I think this conversation isn't going to end in any productive manner, Best Of, I'll note that many people seem to find our post on General Announcement... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should make up some Administrivia pages on this. Maybe on main page that covers an overview of everything, with smaller pages that can be potholed... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Not sure if trolling.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Trolling as all hell.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Admittedly, yes.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Perhaps we do need to give a reminder or two about it not giving users license to be assholes to other users. Report, don't respond, and all that.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Softening the language would be okay by me.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We might also need a note that if you suspect another troper is a paedophile, don't call them names in an open thread. Holler or PM the mods.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy What do we do with Glider Guy? He listed a compeletely innocuous work just because of the word "Lolicon", even though we told them not to do that. At this... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy At a minimum.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I want that forum-specific ban as well. Here's hoping it comes along when the P5 tools are established. At the moment, arromdee and Glider Guy are on my... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Fighteer, I'd like to ask you to review and edit the GA post by Bobby, adjusting the questionable bits so as to match them with that post of yours. That'll... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'll work on it. May not be right away.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think this covers it, there is a slight voice change toward that bottom when it went from Fighteer to Bobby but I doubt many people will catch the change... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Bobby G is taking an indefinite break? First I heard of it was on a public thread.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy From "What's it all about?" : Bobby: I am sorry if I seemed kind of flaky earlier, and sorry I vanished like that from helping with the Ask the Tropers... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm gonna double-post because this is a total change of subject (back to the topic.) Now that Triple Elation is taking a break/leaving, we need a new fifth... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy By all means. I'll axe Raso right now. Anyone else who is trying to bring the pedotrash back by wearing everybody down on the topic is equally welcome... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Is it cool if now that the sandbox is locked, I cut all the PG rated stuff off of it? I mean the stuff that's mainstream, normal, rated as less than M... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Would it be too extreme to start slapping full bans on anyone from here on out who posts something for review/removal/cutlisting that's obviously trolling... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy According to ATT, /a/ has taken notice of the matter and are quite possibly planning a massive trolling attempt. We'd best get ready for the troll invasion... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Hey, shima? I put Persona 3 up in good faith for review. Honest.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ah, sorry. I was just grabbing the mainstream stuff. Feel free to put it back. There was a lot on there.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm not sure how mainstream it is, but it did get an M rating and there is a (chaste) shotacon romance option in the remake. Plus all the rumors that... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Whaleofyournightmare wants to be nominated for the P5. I'm voting against her(?) right off the bat.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ninja'd all the hell- Make that third Second "no" on whale. It's too bad we can't make people sit in corners. edited 26th Apr '12 7:26:44 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy JTeeth has never talked about Hentai in my knowledge. We've been together in a couple of threads. But seeing as he's busy anyway... I'd vote for Dark Confidant... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we need a thread for decisions made by the panel. I could create it and move it over to the Content forum. We'd probably need to lock it in between... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Cool. Let's make it happen.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And that's why ccoa rocks...and the cute goth kitty doesn't hurt anything.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I keep going back and forth on whether I should say anything about this but here goes. I wrote the article for The Alienist a couple of years ago. When... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Bedtime for this little mod. edited 26th Apr '12 8:53:53 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ok, multiple issues here: I got an application from One More: If I will have enough time, I am eager to join if you will take me. I am no less opposed... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I changed the wording to be "graphically explicit sex". I'm trying to avoid having to document what that means because it strikes me as puerile, but if... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I zapped the old items off the violations report and put in some controls against spurious flagging.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we might need a way to ban people just from that forum.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should make a mod hat post that says "Let's deal with rape stuff later if necessary.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There is now a 'p5' item on the restraint page to ban people from the Content Violation Discussion forum.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Whale. We need to boot whale.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Liking something doesn't automatically make you incapable of analyzing it objectively. I know I've mentioned before that I like a number of films that... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy (So I re-read that PM and it didn't say exactly what I remembered it saying, but the general point was the same.)... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Catalogue may or may not be MIA. We may need yet another candidate.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Seems that it's a week since Catalogue posted. Fuck. Hope that's nothing serious.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I looked at the videos on that one. The characters wear outfits that cover more than most bikinis and they're only really shown in the opening animation... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I will say that it's nowhere near as bad as Eiken, and it does have something of a plot, but there's still too much emphasis on the protagonist's breasts... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, I'm contemplating the same.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We really need a way to see who is flagging pages for review. We're still getting trolls, but now they're anonymous which means we can't even ban them... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Eddie-san, can we institute a cooldown on article flagging from new accounts? I also have noticed a trend of stale accounts being used to troll or complain... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I Knew It. The fact that Martello started a thread on the work Firebert put on the cutlist immediately after the cut request was declined smelled very... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Le bump. I think we need to (at least temporarily) replace Catalogue. He hasn't posted since the 25th. That's almost two weeks.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Recently we were gushing about Dark Confidant, but have you seen what that guy's been posting in Absent People? And Badges? That's one insecure person!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Danbooru has that stuff behind a paywall. I am not sure what is considered acceptable for that portion of the site, since I have no interest in finding... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy How'd I miss the last few posts? Nevermind. edited 7th May '12 8:31:34 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Does anybody else think Shortcake has some Single Issue Wonk thing with booru sites? Just check ATT. I mean...Ponibooru?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Tomu sent me a PM in which he expressed interest in a 5P position, this time not as jokingly as before. I seem to recall that we agreed somewhere that... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Tomu says he's willing to do temp work. I told him we got him on our backup list 'cause that way he shuts up and we never have to contact him 'cause I... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Arha's a guy. >.> He's into all kinds of media, including Visual Novels. I think he's good, but since we talk quite a lot, it might just be my bias... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy According to this, he had real life issues. I do think we could just request them to tell us when they're going away.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This worries me. If it's a show that hasn't been deemed mature by US ratings themselves, then should they really be reviewing it?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well isn't that obvious?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We should send him a PM about how anyone in a position of power here needs to be able to deal with bitching politely, as long as the bitching doesn't go... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Why we need flag reasons: 1) Makes it much easier to catch the actual paedopandering. If people who know works flag them and leave an explanation of why... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed. I'd also lean toward zapping wicks of cut pages; if we can't pothole the SFW images from some of those pages, then we shouldn't be wicking them... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Have we established a consensus on treatment of trope examples for zapped works? From the above it seems like we have but I'm not entirely sure based... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy EDIT: Nevermind, I just realized I contradicted myself. I really don't know what to think anymore. We're also getting a lot of people asking whether... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Not with that name. A general page about the use of Tentacles in horror would be useful. Their use in porn: not so useful.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Rpgingmaster suggested "Prurient Prehensile Anatomy", which I thought was fairly clever, and Marq FJA gave some non-porn examples, some of which I can... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm sad to say that I know for a fact that he reads the SA thread on us. I don't think he agrees with them, but I think it's affecting him. Badly. EDIT... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We need to be scouting a new P5'er, because right now I can't see this ending any other way except for replacing Martello.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, here we go: I am more than a little put off by Martello's frequent obscenity storms regarding certain works. Sure, he doesn't like it, that's fine... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It never hurts to remember that the continued flailing around is because of the same incident and related issues. These are not new problems that Martello... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Arromdee's "oh, a bunch of non-anime fans judging anime and therefore being unfair!" attitude in this post is making me grit my teeth. Meeble, Catalogue... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm not really surprised. Except that I would've thought that he'd leave the P5 but stay in the fora, instead of quitting the site altogether. I'm still... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I read through his contributions, and I agree he's a good choice. Fair and willing to do the research.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Per Ask The Tropers, OjamajoLimePie has apparently been on a wick deletion spree. I am not involved enough with the P5 work to say whether all of those... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Tgoodrich sounds like what we want to me.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I had my doubts about Martello, but never thought TE would break. Silly me. Now, I'm torn. It's important that we don't silence people because that wil... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy True, but we aren't making them go out and buy this material, are we?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Of course not, but they could rent it or ask for more info. I don't like going by just online reviews. Look at Bliss Stage. They relied on SA's review... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And that book was cut based on some online comments by Googling Bio of a Space Tyrant + paedophilia. Point being, I think that going with no evidence is... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yes. I disagree with that cut on principle.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Folks in the Content Policy thread are talking about an update to the CV rules post. Namely, we should clarify our position regarding non-prurient examples... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We have to hunt down all the redlinks anyway, it's not really that much more trouble to de-link and copy and paste a warning, is it?... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use This has come up a few times in the last coupla weeks in IP, and I'd like to get some clarification. Regarding fair use - as long as we don't use the... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use Tricky question to answer in a general way. I would say, though, that leaving out at least one full pane of a panel would be required to be an excerpt... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use As far as IP goes, our rule is that we don't use entire comic strips, single-panel cartoons, or the entirety of artworks from places like Deviant Art... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use I think that is the standard we should be and have been shooting for, conditioned on the first rule you cited, of course. The argument against using all... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use Yes; our argument there is weakened by the fact that we're not talking about that specific strip but rather something more generic which that strip happens... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes First off, blackcat is the secret identity of Cat Mod, the Clawed Crusader, whose thumpstick hits trolls and flamers to the tune of POW!, BAFF!... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes Oh my god. I love you for this. It's awesome! Now, whoever was on Skype yesterday...remember Madame Ironeye? (Attributed to Katrika)... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes SSJM edited 2nd Jul '12 12:42:37 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes The Goddamn Pony Thread.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes BELLE'S EYES ARE HAZEL! IF YOU DON'T AGREE THE TERRORISTS WIN!... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes SHUT UP, THEY'RE BROWN! (Context is here and here.) edited 9th Nov '12 7:08:30 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes BECAUSE SHE'S FULL OF SHIT!!! Couldn't resist.... More Mod Jabberings Test for embedding avvies in a crowner Just what it says on the tin...... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts on a new system for combining new accounts and a puppet check Well, I might be able to alter the new accounts report so that it flags edits on a previously banned IP. Not quite as automatic as you are looking for,... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts on a new system for combining new accounts and a puppet check It would certainly help. Related to what you said earlier about the revamped IP tracking method, it should be possible to log the IP used to create accounts... More Mod Jabberings Testing thread locker Apparently this was fixed (I tried it just now.) I suppose it'd be appropriate to lock this thread and declare it concluded. You know what to do if I'm... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Today's batch is coming in on IP 204.45.58.195 — not TOR, located in Ohio.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES We already talked about it in the Skype thread, but for the record: Ghost101 mentioned receiving P Ms bitching about St Fan's edits from marapropa64, Phil... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Nate's figured out the mailhost ban so he's back to outlook and hotmail. After 15 or so accounts whacked, he put this in ATT: rftytyhgfh Listen the FUCK... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Here's one.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Eddie have us this link on Skype. I'm not sure if this can be used to store image files, but if it can we could use it as our sentralised Nate file storage... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES I was browsing through the "troubled tropers" thread and came across this...wanted to post it here in case it might actually be helpful. I was talking... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES An anonymizing proxy will hide the MAC of its users, assuming that it would be transmitted otherwise; not doing so would be kind of pointless. Also, I'm... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, wait. No, I didn't. I used the "Change the thread title" editor. My bad.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I received this message from Aubren: Hey, so I've been trying to launch a trope, right? But it keeps getting nuked by sexists. If it wasn't tropeable,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been searching TLP and other pages and I can't find anything. You probably should ask him to link to it.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Umm, sure. The magic happens here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/edit_ban_central.php. I bookmarked it because there's no direct link to it yet (one of... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I would like be able to say that we will have n paid employees monitoring things. I'll be asking the mods to accept pays-jackshit 1099 jobs, if that is... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yup. The 1099 would have to be reported, if you are making enough to file a tax return. If you aren't, no additional paper work is required. I think the... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Pretty sure if the appeal refers to the document with the co-hab provision and shows how each requirement in that document has been met, the appeal will... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Interesting. Is there a list of locked pages we can see? An article being locked is something that I'd normally consider a strike against cutting a page... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I sent a reply tweet to clarify the situation slightly for Linkara, but it probably would be good to have a general announcement tweet on the matter.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Is our TOS anywhere that I can link to?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Sure, I'll take a look if it's ready soon.  * Very important midterm tomorrow—the previously mentioned Friday commitment—so I can't stay... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Sorry. forgot the link. Administrivia.The Situation... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Incidentally, does the terms prompt occur on each IP address you edit from? I got it again this morning (at work), after accepting it last night (at home... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Good suggestion from Chihuahua: Also, the YKTTW. When a trope is launch, there should be a checkbox to flag the trope if it's mature... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping A check of the Casale numbers holds out hope that we might be able to do our Ad Sense numbers with them. Today is closing in on 85%. If tomorrow comes... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping That sounds good to me. Easy route to relieve confusion.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I should note something - over the course of the last two days, since the Get Known requirement, I've seen less edits on my watchlist, by a fairly significant... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Sleep well, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Okay, the Wall is up for article comment pages. We'll let that work for a bit as a smoke test, then do reviews, then the forums, then the isolated articles... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Looks good to me. Here's hoping they like it.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Crossing fingers...... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yup. Yup. Isolates have a Circle-M icon on the 'report this' button that everyone can see. Yup. Yup. Nope. Yup. New pages are automagically isolated... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I've run into a problem with the Flagged list: New redirects are automagically isolated. But the toggles can't be gotten at to un-isolate if they're a... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I was just about to post about that myself.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Agreed that it would be nice if toggling the isolation setting automatically cleared the flag. Also agreed that Darth Wiki and SBIH should automatically... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Troper Tales, Horrible and Darth Wiki. Those are completely unpredictable about which ones go ugly and which ones stay clean in my experience.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping What about the Just For Fun section in general? Or would that be too sweeping? I hope it's OK that I put my quote page behind the wall; half of what people... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Oh, there were more of those? I zapped three of them on the second night. The funny part is that one of the pages actually did need to be put behind the... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yup... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping It was only a few tropers doing the mongering. Like, three. They're just a very loud minority.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Oh gods, that would be awesome. Fast Eddie will shut this shit down sell the site to Google! I'm already tingling with anticipation for the conspiracy... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping New minor problem. There's no way to flag redirects without first removing the redirect, flagging the page, then restoring the redirect. However, redirects... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Hmm... I'll have to say I feel reservations as well. The most painless way to handle it, if it comes to that, though, would seem to be to allow a given... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So, it's basically guaranteeing that say, the top 50 or 60 (pulling numbers kind of at random, here) pages — the ones that have inbounds above 10,000... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Right now, the Casale numbers are about 25% behind what we are used to from Google. It makes sense to think that a large amount of that missing 25% comes... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I had a go at it yesterday, but there were only about five or so pages on there, so I'm guessing one of you two got there before me.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Removing the examples from casual view doesn't sit well with me at all, I'm afraid. Especially on the top-linked pages- the general reader would easily... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So, would a page in that state be placed behind the wall during that period? Warnings on the top-tier pages are going to be easily noticed... could be... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So, there is a draft document that receives all edits between moderator approvals. Mods will still need the history of changes to the draft to see what... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Just checking.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping You'd think they'd at least bother to respond. Definitely give it until Monday, though. I agree on Casale being ugly, by the way, but if we need it to... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Did we ever receive any explanation from Google about the pulling of the site search? That's nothing to do with their advertisers, surely?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Is waiting that long for them to reply feasible? Are our chances good enough to make the wait worthwhile?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Some cheering does seem to be indicated.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping That's on my to-do list for tonight. I was going to give it a shot this morning, but didn't have time to get more than a few obvious ones.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I've got a bunch of them done.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Before, it was counterfeit passports. Illegal enterprises flourish with spam, seems like.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maddy, while this thread is great, and I've got it on my watchlist, are you able to post in Slack? I think we pay more attention to it these days.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll put it there too. This is 'cause I want it on record somewhere more or less permanent and vaguely searchable for future reference.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They have a previous suspension for edit warring in September and have received over 20 helper messages. I say we keep close eyes on it —-this one... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Grammar: Hello, judging by your [ [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor= recent edits], you seem to be having trouble with grammar or syntax at... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Added list of handles and IP addresses.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Added a bit to the end.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I don't think that it comes across as vindictive. We're asking them to take action on their site, for something that's being done on ours, by one of their... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Just so I'm clear - we're basing the connection to the TV Tropes dA group at least partly on the connection between RG and the associated handles in his... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I'd suggest one change, in the second sentence of the second paragraph about Moleman: change "Since then he has been on an offsite campaign to recruit... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Connected to that: Per lu's research here, we can add that treehugger0123 (treehugger and treehugger0124 on the wiki) did some page blanking at Moleman's... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Adding that stuff to the message. EDIT: Done. edited 19th Feb '13 10:23:12 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I'm not sure that this qualifies as trolling per the standard "I do it for the lulz" definition. This is more of agenda-driven vandalism. These users... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I agree; the proposed e-mail may be a little too much at one go, but too laconic and we run the risk of them dismissing it out of hand. If we do go with... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation In this case I have to admit that I agree with Eddie. As drafted, the initial document gives too much information and assumes that they would want it.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation That was an entirely different situation. DA is not a spinoff of TVT, nor the other way around. If we want to send a short lead-in and keep the rest... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation The Jack Butler thing: He didn't offer any supporting evidence, as I recall, nor did he ask if there was anything we could do. He said "This is happening... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards Verboten: 1: Strategically covered nudity 2: Sheer or see-through clothing 3: Lewd or provocative poses 4: Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards For the record, For Science is one of the "don't change the pic" pages.... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards Makes sense to me. I'm encouraged that even on no-latitude only these few are showing up. We should be able to go through and use the flagger. The data... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards I haven't marked these on the list at all yet. edited 26th May '14 7:35:39 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned It is a way to politely shuffle them out the door. We're not going to fix them in a forum thread, but we can look like we would try. Much better than "... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I've certainly tried to be professional in my responses. I get the feeling I failed at it.... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I don't think it has. It's just an oubliette we throw editors into.... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Here's some more: Mention Function/System YKTTW improvement: Require explanation of tag Book-making PDF option like Wiki? Setting more namespaces/subpages... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Cool; I've locked that one. I'll get started on this again shortly.... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 8: Random button doesn't register works anymore Crowner double-vote glitch? (still an issue?) Hanging code on "Set page type" page Quotation mark... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 4: Wrong link in "unindexed page" link Glitch with reviews for same-named works Problems w/discussion links Tweaks to Recent Edits functionality Overlap... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Dummy for block/ban announcement boilerplate: Your <PIO> has been suspended. Please read What To Do If You Are Suspended, and if you have questions... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Just curious if anyone's gone through these lists and closed threads that are definitely not happening.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 got them, too.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 It almost doesn't make any difference. Let's go with TROPER_NAME. Even if Tangent doesn't want to do the replacement in the javascript, the joke still... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 When ready, go ahead and email the file to fasteddie@tvtropes.org. I'll go ahead and upload it.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 Might want to check on the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Mod-U-Lator. Marvin The Martian It seems you've entered an endless recursion of time.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy Works for me.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy Seems okay.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy I'm suggesting this variant, I won't cry if you don't use it. I'm thinking that expressing what the thread is for first and then establish rules of behavior... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy I posted the thread already, but feel free to edit the OP if you feel that you can improve it.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy Proving once again that many humans are incapable of finding existing answers and require things spoon-fed to them personally.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy Let's not get into a habit of belittling tropers, even problem ones.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy We need our fun, though.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Additional ideas are welcome, of course. I brainstormed that out in about an hour. I'll do Rolling Updates as we think up ideas. Some more notes that... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project That is a pretty cool idea. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the topic to suggest anything. Another advantage: It would really hit home that we're... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Actually, that would probably increase misuse. Working from laconics seems to encourage tropes to be used incorrectly.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Well, in this system, the laconic could be a data property of each article, so it would not be at all difficult to have it generate as the tooltip when... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Honestly, I think this needs to be completely hushed until we get something concrete set up and tweaked to where it can reasonably run.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project We can have multiple examples per trope. That's part of the basic concept. You could also associate any given example with more than one character. edited... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Seeing as the Kickstarter is coming to conclusion, bringing up a few more thoughts that I had while hiking and climbing through dry channels... Moderator... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I was figuring that having a "delete" button might make it easier to delete stuff (since you don't have to run through the page source). Automatically... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project My thought is that any change to an example would take you to an editing interface wherein you could choose the desired action. We'd probably have to... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project OK thanks Septimus... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I've compiled a list of features from the tech wishlist that might be worth including in the database overhaul. It is not comprehensive, other things in... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Some more ideas regarding database structure and query: When someone sends a request for a page (I'll take a trope or work page as example) to the server... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project You're thinking presentation instead of data structure.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Voting doesn't always equal quality. We've had a lot of problems in the past with vocal fandoms being dumb on voting.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project That voting thing will need more discussion, I see. And yes, I was talking about database structure.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Interesting idea, something worth discussing. Moving forward: Custom title: These like a description are per article; see here for my idea. Editing:... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I took a look at it. While I can't write much on iPhone, I note that you still have an "article" element. I am not certain if we need such an element at... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Two more notes re deletion and removal: a) One might want to use "Delist" for removing an entry. b) We'll need to decide where one can read the text of... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I found that most interesting as well. What bothers me most about the suicide thing is the expectation that the moderation can do anything about it. Yet... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Trolling the suicide threads? Absolutely? Trolling with a false suicide threat? I would consider that a permanent ban.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Reviving this thread because of the latest suicide kerfluffle. We need to establish an official policy here. Suggestions: Thump any post containing or... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Based on what you're telling us, she fits the pattern of an attention whore regardless of her suicidal tendencies. We ban for that anyway.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I don't think anyone's against posting it at this point. You already know that I think it's good to go. Morven's posts in the Insecurity thread agree with... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats We will zap them on sight, but people want to help when they see it by giving advice. We need a concrete policy and rules telling them not to do so.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats We can't have the wiki staff offering help. Read the thing about AOL above. They got sued and lost.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats At the start of the draft you lump all threats of self-harm together with suicide threats. Still, considering how pedantic people can be, someone might... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats What did he say?... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Just delete all his shit and tell him to fuck off. edited 25th Aug '12 9:03:23 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Exelixi and That One Guy Named X are acting like presumptuous assholes. Their first thought was to play "You've obviously never been through depression... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats And that we should somehow be responsible for the safety of anyone who might be suicidal. -__- But as much as they want to play good samaritans, they don't... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Got this from Immi: If this is bad form, I apologize. I don't mean to be a bother about this. I understand that guidelines and policies for this sort... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats http://www.crisistextline.org/ This an online source for helping teens who need help. Just putting the link here in case the need should arise.... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread From one of Eddie's ban reasons: Sockpuppet of some guy who can't hear anything negative in a YMMV page about some fucking videogame or the other. Sorry... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread ... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread I love some of the messages in the mod tools. "You're fixin' to nuke this thread" is one, and another one is the button marked "just do it already!"... More Mod Jabberings Idea: Official Analysis Competition I could do $20 online gift card of choice instead, I suppose. edited 2nd May '12 6:19:13 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings Badges! This is the thread to discuss the badge inventory located: here◊. I'll be maintaining it and adding badges and descriptions. If you have any fun... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Post it here then and I can stick it up.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I do like the idea of mods being able to give badges out as rewards to certain tropers that help us out. Giving them something a bit more tangible might... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Seconded. We could make and give out unique badges for many different "services", let's say.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Yep. Or just one for helping with large scale clean ups in general. We've had a lot of those and it would be nice to give them a clean-up medal. Getting... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Maybe a skull on a badge for the Nightmare Fuel clean-up? Or either the HONF or NF icon on a badge? edited 17th May '12 9:44:23 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I'd like one for those who clean out sinkholes, like Understatement. Sinkhole Sweeper?... More Mod Jabberings Badges! No, you have to "buy" them. They cost 0 of course.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Yes; I had to.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Chose to wear the Mod badge, had to drop the Finnish flag. So sad...... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I'm just not wearing a mod badge. I have one in my collection, and that's enough for me.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I dunno if I'll wear the mod badge all the time, but I gotta ask: are the rest of the awards also free or do we have to buy them?... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Ah, looks like it. I dunno when/if I'll manage to charge my account though. Will see. I really wanna hand those out.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Maybe Eddie can give all the mods a virtual penny in their accounts? That would pretty much fix the issue and it would stay there because of badge costs... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I don't have a Pay Pal account...if I can set one up using one of those buy-and-fill gift cards then I can do that, but anything other than that could... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Ah, thanks a lot, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Probably a good idea.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! It's cute.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I believe so, yes.... More Mod Jabberings The Spoiler Policy On that subject, I wonder what to do in this thread. People are arguing whether the culprit behind the murders should be spoiler-tagged. The game is a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The reason I was wanting it was because I don't follow entire sections of the forums, so I have a couple of times, had to PM every other mod individually... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might be an idea, too, that if someone is blocked, it gets mentioned here?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's blue, and if you move the cursor over it an underline appears, but it doesn't link to anything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like it. Bobby, the crowner is at the bottom of the page, (I'm guessing the first or last page only?) and the link takes you to the top of the page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just overrode Bloodpouch's sigline because it was irritating. I sent him a PM after the fact. Probably more a temper move from me than a good move.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or to simply run the clock out nattering the thread. How about something like "countdown to declared deadlock" — If some sort of action isn't taken... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. That works. I'll change the message that shows up on the thread to "Deadlock Clock." That should help get the message across. Maybe a sticky in Pinned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't recall the person, really. The note in the wiki edit ban file is "insulting edit reasons — pm's ignored." The note in the IP ban file is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, that's what I thought. He PMed me asking when his ban will expire. Should I tell him it won't, or just ignore him?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is a a PM to this guy in my sent list which has been read and explains why we don't want insults in the edit reasons. There were insulting edit reasons... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, go ahead and take a break. You deserve it. I hope you feel better soon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Glad to see you back, Madrugada. Here's to it being quiet and the dickishness quotient low.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bloodpouch appears to be in fine borderline-troll mood tonight.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the widest way to announce it is as a banner on the post lists in all conversations. I like the idea of positioning it as "So we don't have to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Numbers are hard to argue with. You could put out a call for suggestions on finding a hypothetically more relevant ad service, as well. EDIT: locking old... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Complaint about illegal ads get action. Eventually. Annoying ads ... it seems like there are differing response levels. An ad that cycles endlessly or... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Which reminds me that I'm due to throw the site some cash to pay for my ad-blocking. Worth reminding people that that option exists too, though I doubt... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There. I pimped it a bit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? See this thing: a post. Somebody feel like tweeting something clever about it to spread the word? I think I sprained my cleverness muscle. Needs time to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like the idea. I'm not sure about the wording on that one. something about it is making me itchy, but I can't put my finger on what — it sort of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm... what's the intention, exactly? I feel like we'd be better off letting the community speak for themselves than just telling people that we're friendly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The coloration makes it stand out nicely. Honestly as long as there's some message, I'm not too worried about what it is. It strikes me as absurd how... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like that one. I like it a lot. Any chance of [[offtopic]] and [[troll]] variants? I think those are probably the other most common reasons... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ I like. ^ I think it's important that you include the phrase "this post was thumped" somewhere, otherwise it might confuse people.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow. That was rude. Thumped. [[civil]] edited 12th Oct '10 3:41:17 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? He was wiki banned for a while because of a fixation with shifting images to the left side — edit warring over it, in fact. A couple of PM exchanges... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, but if they do decide to bring it here...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? [[bait]]... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Isn't organized trolling getting a bit passe? Or am I betraying my relative cluelessness? We might get a few jerkasses but not enough to elevate it above... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oooooh. That's suh-weeet!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very nice. ...And I have a seriously dynamic IP...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? When I switch off Adblock, there are gaps where the ads should be. but no ads. When I have it switched on, there aren't even spaces for them. Does that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hadn't really paid it attention, but yes, no ads. How bizarre.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did Google "fire" us?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did the code to suppress ads for "subscribers" get turned on for everyone? Hmm, maybe not - the script to display them seems to still be in my page source... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We all got promoted in response to the crisis. Let the power flow through you! Mwahahahahahahahahahaha! *ahem* Yes, so, promotion. Cool stuff, eh?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay! Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I did it. The only two people on that IP address are this World Tree and the guy who dared us to ban him earlier tonight.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/locked_pages.php, could links be added to Locked Pages and Permanent Red Link Club? It would be useful. Also, it would be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tried it out just now. Pretty cool.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I just looked at 'em. No idea how thay are ven doing that. I boosted up the "no reason, no post" code a little. We'll see if that brings an end to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ditto. Pre-exam week. Matrix?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We also ran into the problem that people would start threads about people they disliked and say sarcastic "praise" about them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have no idea who in RPG would be a candidate. Seems to be a distinct group not sharing much membership with left-columners.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Coolness. Is there any chance that we could view (if not edit) the Google bounce and/or IP block logs? Makes it easier to respond to inquiries. Incidentally... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You may have noticed the new bulletin box. That is for newsy bits. It is for the mods. There is link to the posting tool for it on the Edit Ban Central... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow. Cool!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome, blackcat. Thanks for joining us!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome, Blackcat! ...now I gotta go catch up on the last day...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you everyone. This is a lot like the transition from regular to employee at a bar. Things look just a little different and you find out where the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome, Blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi, folks. I'm on vacation (at Disney World!) for the rest of this week. My moderation and troping may be sporadic. edited 4th Jan '11 6:46:06 AM by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Absolutely. I wouldn't argue with a ban, but merely "being annoying" is not cause. It has to be "being annoying" plus "causing enough trouble for the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. That was the object of the change, in fact, making it possible to be less trigger shy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bless you, Fast Eddie. Bless you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is mostly me having an itchy feeling that something may go down tomorrow or in the next few days with nothing to back it up. This thread is feeling... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. Not looking for action on it. Just awareness of it...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think an auto-lock is called for for TRS threads open longer than 60 days. Issues?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We should warn everyone a week ahead of time to give them a chance to necro discussions they care about. Getting a second warning in a row might also break... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good idea. I think the best way to do it is to put it the idea out there and let it run like a TRS discussion for a while. I sense that admin fiat is starting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I doubt we got the budget for that. I can't think of anything just this moment, though. I guess I need to make the logo model look decent from more than... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just sayin'. Not a nag or anything like that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wimp. Sleep is for wimps.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? PSSSSHHH Hhttttttttt... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? >> The button is automated, I assume? What a great idea! Wish I had thought of that when I could still type.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This happened to me as well. Oh well, sounds like nothing unexpected blew up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Somehow, ghost threads are still able to be made — they have no forum they are on, and they don't show up on a forum title search. I just nuked one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've closed that hole. Not that it was really hurting anything, but I guess someone could have made a thread with a bunch of illegal stuff in it that looked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What about making it so that a crowner cannot be attached to a TRS/IP thread until three days have passed? I think they should only be used after a good... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree that some are being made too soon, particularly for Alternative Titles, but "Rename or not?" Single Props don't really need three days of talking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ No, I didn't realize that. There really are very few TRS or IP threads that loop and loop indefinitely. A lot of them are fixed within a week of the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That was hilarious.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As users learn there is a 60 day clock on discussions we won't need to keep discussions open for months at a time. It is exasperating to become engaged... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll undo it. He seems to have gotten the message.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looking at it, they both appear to have made some opinionated edits, but Larfleeze is a fan of John Cena, which seems to be an unpopular position. I think... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Me not very bright mod, me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Don't let him make you feel bad. I asked the same thing when he first gave us page-locking powers.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The guys to beat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RslDKQ_J-Y (Bri Guy 92) edited 17th Jan '11 7:55:36 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? By the way, I asked (in the PM's) for something that stuck close to 30 seconds. Mainly looking at line delivery and 'presence.'... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Grazie! I'm on it. I am going to call the chair tomorrow and talk to her about it. I would rather she hand pick some people rather than posting something... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A rotation among teams is still probably a good idea, though; avoids overloading anyone, and provides smoother transitions if someone can't do it anymore... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, I definitely agree that it should be a rotation if we can find a couple teams (or individuals) who fit together smoothly.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I truly, truly wish that I could contribute more to this effort. Besides being blocked at work, YouTube and the art of video blogging is way beyond my... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes there's value as a mod in digging it out to see what was said.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^^ Sorry about that. I'll quit doing it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like it but I know what it is talking about. I don't know that I would get that if I didn't already know Applied Phlebotinum. However, it is a 37 second... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, the Casale revenue fell below a dollar a day. We can do $30 a day with the google ads in the same spots. Compelling economics, especially when it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. Not all the servers were getting the message. Should be cleared up now. In other news, Bri Guy 92 has called dibs on Thirty Xanatos Pileup, Intelligence... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That does have promise.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Tangent's idea could work. Fast Eddie's already memetically mysterious, so it might be amusing to play that up by making him unseen. If that's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Closing an Image Pickin' thread now asks for a classification of the image selected, so we can gather some data. You can select more than one style, if... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've finally got a mockup of a possible Youtube Channel page done. I have no idea how to do the coding to make it functional, or if I've missed any important... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll work up that data-gathering deal for thread zaps. Do I need to sign up on photobucket or something to see the expanded version of the mockup?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good point FE. Maybe they have visualized something that isn't apparent in the script.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's in. Make sure the thing you are locking is the thing you meant to lock. If you goof the spelling on an existing page, it'll miss and lock up the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, the thing you did to show the ratios in crowners has a bug: if there's a divide by zero, it doesn't show a ratio but it doesn't close the text size... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. Tanzmetall (Tom) should start posting some items soon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same here. I can see it as me but not as my sock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, a minor thing. The edit history for pages does not seem to be showing their initial creation, only subsequent edits. This makes it difficult to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, on IE, the edit bans page takes a really long time to load and search. I'm not sure if it's just because of the size of the page or if there's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done. The IP's weren't really useful information, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Go and slay the foul beasts of inferior organization and inconvenient syntax!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nope. I never noticed it before. Kewl.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Then where does the new name go? I'm sorry that I'm being thick, but you two understand how it works and it seems intuitive to you. I don't understand... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's so many mod avatars in one page :)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, here's my latest mad plan. Converting all folders to pages. The closed folder will still display on the main page, but it won't be populated until... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I understand that you all understand what you are talking about, but I gotta tell you if I was in the room with you right now I would either be smacking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can the Wiki Word column in the Custom Title Change Request list be a link to the article? Would make verifying the current status a lot easier... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, you're fast — I saw that fix go in even before you posted. Unrelated, possibly: supersecretspoiler markup is now broken.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks FE! What about a list of all of the ongoing projects on the wiki proper? Pages that need sorting and the YMMV move, and the big page lock, and natter... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, appears to be missing a closing tag or something, perhaps? Didn't look closely.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know, we could use this feature to have some fun on April Fools Day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Usenet Big 8 + alt.*? I don't know how many people would get that, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Google search: The Fellowship of the Ring, Baseball Positions, Planets before Pluto got demoted, Billiard ball colors, Members of the supreme court.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OOOOOHHHHH I wanna be a circle of HELL.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we're gonna do the Fellowship of the Ring, then I call Merry. WAIT here's an idea that's either crazy awesome or stupid. Each of us choose a name from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we do the Fellowship I want to be whoever is noisy. I admit it, the book gave me ADD. If Weasleys I'd like to be one of the twins. Or we could make... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Those menus are quite pretty. They respond a bit sluggishly; not sure if that's an intentional part of the aesthetic though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The 'sluggish' is indeed purposeful. I suppose it could be a little peppier. I'll tweak it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A smiley face? Barney the Dinosaur? edited 11th Mar '11 12:37:55 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did that really need to be uploaded as such a large image? Seems you could have cropped it down to the size of the avatar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Care Bear has pedo implications we don't want.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, Pedobear. Not really, I mean, he was based on "Safety Bear" which was a Japanese thing. I think the joke was originally that he was supposed to be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Edit: Another suggestion◊, along different lines. Downside is that none of the newbies would get the joke. Maybe Reispin, for a real blast from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just take the post number mod 4 to determine the direction. Not too hard. Reispin would be fun, then.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since it's an in-joke I don't get, anyway, we could do the spin on whatever other avatar we select. How about the head of Hello Kitty Darth from the Sugar... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? An image of Spartacus?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am Spartacus! some caption text edited 12th Mar '11 1:57:39 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can't. It even politely tells us so when we click on the link.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...I just realized I'm traveling tomorrow too. Conspiracy's looking more likely...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be around much of the day, though with typical weekend household chores type exceptions.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be gone in the morning, won't get back until the afternoon. Eastern US timezone.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have family over this weekend so my attention to the wiki will be sporadic.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back, though still settling in. For April Fool's: one other idea occurred to me late last night; change the logo to read "mediatropes" and custom-title... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Doesn't seem to be doing that, for me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see the same thing, and I'm using Firefox 4 on a Mac.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It wasn't pointless. It's breaking out the different series. Anyway, shouldn't the bug be fixed?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I guess the name of the series could be in a header or just flush left. Starting a list off with two stars after a return tells the parser to start a new... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we have to re-submit previous changes or should they all be updated?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the other hand, too snarky could alienate people whose offense is ignorance rather than malice. You yourself have pointed this out to me on occasion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh... that's a lot more professional sounding. That's probably better. I don't think we need a new [trollbait] tag since we already have the "Feeding... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If people start getting automated PM's about being thumped, they will try to contest them, especially if we mention that they're accumulating "infractions... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting. I just ran a check on most of the IPs on my sockpuppet checker and they all came back as banned. That can't be right. Unless I put them... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can we swap the Home Page for one of the silly ones that's still relatively understandable? Bork, Poetry or Yoda are all fairly clear. (As much as I like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I cast a vote for Poetry.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, can we also change everybody's title to "I'm Spartacus!"?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It will automatically pre-pend 'Spartacus' to the troper name. The Home Page is no longer editable via the wiki software because it has been optimized... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just saw a "Pony Troll Post"? I don't suppose we could add Pikachu [1]◊ or Creeper [2]◊ to the rotation? Or Trope Tan, but I don't have an... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Silly ass bastards. You want I should slug them Fighteer?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Serenity!!!! Yay!!!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I get one day off from anime avatars a year. It won't be Reispin.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Katriumph? The lampshade? Buffy?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Damn. I missed Serenity? Ghostly is funny.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks FE for making me laugh all day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, evil idea, inspired by a remark in Forum Games - what about Rebecca Black? Ah, nevermind. Wish I'd thought of that sooner, it could have been hilarious... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Whoops. I changed my displayed name as an ill-advised late joke, and now it won't change back. edited 1st Apr '11 9:18:52 PM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What's the policy on capitalization in trope titles? Should words like "the" or "of" be lowercase like they would in a work title, or should every word... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are we still looking for Wiki Curators like Camacan? Because if so, I'd like to nominate St Fan, for consistently good edits and for properly punctuating... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I put up that headline.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I stickied some threads in Writer's Block as suggested by some regulars there, but it's a first stab at the problem so feel free to add or subtract from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Preach it, brother!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not that it matters too much; who will go to that site? Almost nobody.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool, now can you do something about the run around I am getting about my damn cell phone? edited 19th Apr '11 9:23:59 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would like to make an appointment for 1pm on that day. I should have a pretty sizable list by then so plan for the whole hour.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alien Lunch is showing an index listing twice. See post Ask The Tropers. How does that happen?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It can be fixed. I'm going to plow through these YKTTW changes, first.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've got the flu or something that's doing a damn good imitation. Being sick makes me cranky and short-tempered. Being medicated makes me stupid. I'll... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Get better, Maddy. Lots of hot toddies.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Been there, Maddy. Being sick and moderating are a bad combo. Get well!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hope you feel better soon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Rest well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best wishes, Mads!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Long term fix is to make locking the thread also lock any associated crowners. I agree that this one discussion should be declared a spoiled ballot, with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seem to have lost the ability to delete reviews again.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Please add this one to your forum watchlist. Everyone who posts a gallery in the thread costs the wiki money. Just between us: The latest hosting bill... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As for the galleries question that came up, would paginating the galleries (most-recent-first, likely) offer worthwhile savings?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gallery clicks are just such a tyrannosaurus' buttload smaller number than thread clicks, it wouldn't make much difference.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A question has come up — does the same image multiple times cause the same load as the same number of different images?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The browser sends a question to the server asking if the image has changed since it was last loaded into the browser's cache. If the answer is no, the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK. Thanks for the explanation.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Getting requests to unlock Osama Bin Laden. About to go to bed, though, so could someone who will be up to keep an eye on the article unlock it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The whole wiki just lost CSS for me. Forcing a cache reload doesn't do anything. I see images though. Edit: aaaand, it's back. edited 3rd May '11 12:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was wondering how you did that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know official policy is that Fetish Fuel troper tales should be deleted from here. Do we have a similar policy for TroperTales.Perverse Sexual Lust?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just declined a request for the following title: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Original Series) because I don't think parentheses should be in a title... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, only over on IJBM. They've said on their blog that they won't be coming over to other forums in future, so it's probably nothing you guys need to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm, then I think perhaps someone who didn't understand the redirects and was trying to rename the redirect as the title? Odd.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. I sometimes feel like if I introduce an idea, it is already behind on points.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. Some of that is just free-ranging adolescent rebellion, methinks, but it could help to make things seem — or actually be — more organic... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I unlocked it. Let 'em talk about it. You will notice that the OP is getting his ass handed to him. By the way, he's just a bitcher, not a doer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmmmm. What happens if we base it on the election system in the US? I just picking numbers so don't take these as the best option, this is just a framework... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome aboard Camacan! Good to have you here!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mmmm, fresh meat. Welcome to the team!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We generally accept lowercasing "a, an, the" and short prepositions, as per accepted title capitalization rules.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been approving all title requests that conform to standard titling conventions (so Aerith and Bob rather than Aerith And Bob), except when the page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Strunk & White on line. If you want to reserve it as the tie breaker document used in moderation, rather than an announced standard, we could try that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be offline for most of the day tomorrow and will be back in the evening. Going to a baseball game with my husband in Cincinnati.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Could I poke my head through the wall like Superman? I'm happy enough to stay low key.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Camacan: I waited until someone outed me and that worked for me. It took about a month and by then I was more comfortable with it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've updated the Know The Staff page — BTW some of those contact links go to locked threads.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There ought to be a direct PM url available, but I'm not sure how to construct it. Contributor pages have "PM this troper" links but it's constructed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/wiki_pm.php?to_troper=FastEddie works in a pothole. Just enter the handle you want instead of mine.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "206 custom title request(s) pending" 204 being from St Fan, and valid as far as I can tell. ...I don't suppose his submissions could be auto-approved... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe about Cryptic Mirror's ban? Helps if they identify themselves by account name.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, not Cryptic's style of language at all.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unrelated and probably unimportant but thought I'd give a heads up. I have been in contact with Charlatan via email. He sent a request Saturday that I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've noticed that a lot of the bad edit shout outs we've been getting lately look like they have been edited from a smart phone. I just recently got a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Please don't. While doing that will stop the very few who abuse the PM system to harass other posters, it will also cut off any means for a banned person... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. As far as Ardiente's request goes, there isn't any way to ban posting in any one thread or the other, anyway. It's all or none.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think he's capable of keeping himself under control. I'd recommend against unbanning him, even though I have no personal dislike of him whatsoever... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? July 13... You probably meant June. Yessir, we're on that date like white is on rice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, I meant June. Here is me hanging my head in shame.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is wordy. For example, "in a manner similar to" is passive voice and it waffles. Ancient advice to all writers: Cut a third. Start with the adjectives... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That reads well. Minor typo: "On June 13, Troper Tales will be moving to a new format." Also I wonder if the section "Why is Troper Tales the only subpage... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? " Any troper will can add a new entry"?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think it shows that most of my writing experience has been bullshitting my way through lit classes. I'm pretty good at taking a lot of space to say a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, crap. I am copy-editing a thing right now, and my criticism pedal is down to the floor. Bad me. Do your thing, Ironeye. If I was better at it ... Well... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, you were right. One of my biggest struggles in my writing (and quite a bit else) is my tendency to overcomplicate things, hence why I never objected... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Darn it, I like long wordy posts. Which probably shows that I have the same weakness in my writing style. Nobody could ever have guessed, right?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? One of the few posts with actual suggestions... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, why can't I get rid of that custom title request for Wink wink?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be out of pocket from about midnight tonight until at least early evening Wednesday, as I do the bus-and-train thing to New Orleans. I'll... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good trip! I was meaning to start drafting a call for plans regarding the Troper Tales thing tonight, but I came home from work with enough of a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It would be nice to have a mod flag.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Reinforcing ownership will cut down on editing in replies, I think. We also want the people making entries to admit they made them. I think a lot of the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Exactly. This will discourage edit-in replies, but still leave the entry available for helpful spelling/format fixes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Really? It doesn't work that way in YKKTW.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is bad. Really bad. Being a little drunk is not bad. Changing the intent of posts is way bad.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I tried to get to the bottom of an Ask The Tropers regarding DethroningMoment.That Guy With The Glasses and I think I'm out of my depth. Folks have been... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay, thank you Eddie! Now we can research IP's on the wiki without having to browse a user's edit history and compare them easily with forum IP's.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, I can see this being very handy when checking for ban evaders and possible forum trolls. Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I still don't understand why we ever had the ability for users to edit other posters' YKTTW and discussion comments. Mods, sure, but users?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tool for monitoring new account creation. Useful in spammer hunting.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I had a moment about this yesterday and I'm probably missing something, but if the list only shows the accounts that were created that made edits what... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Changed the way http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/newaccounts.php works, again. It reports all new accounts and edit counts, including zeros.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? To Sail Beyond The Sunset Methuselah's Children Methuselahs Children... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW: I find it on the recent cuts list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woops. I closed that loophole, just now. edited 21st Jun '11 9:52:50 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Every ten-to-fifteen minutes today I'm getting the TV Tropes server not responding for a minute or two. Is something up with it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? While we are asking questions, is there any way to make IP's visible to mods?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be a bit sad to see Fetishes go, though. That's a piece of real IJBM history. We had some fun derails there. I must say, I don't remember the Forum... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do those accounts both date back before the IP restriction?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I bounced the IP he was editing on. Well, the strictest signup regimine I can think of is where you have to give a phone number to which a code will be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think not. Many people have no control of what IP their ISP will hand them for a session. AOL, especially, is utterly unpredictable as to IP. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A mod turns it on.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd say if it's something primarily found in anime, and there's an established term for it in the anime fandom (that is, the people who are likely to know... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What are the comparative numbers of northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere tropers?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On that point on tsundere being fetishized and used as a Standard Character Type in Anime and Manga — at risk of stating the obvious in an article... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Need a second opinion here. This is a page attacking a real-world person, right? edited 28th Jun '11 1:01:30 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, there's this: But yeah, a lot of the time Mod Hat posts are more "Stop, please, before I have to do something none of us want me to do." rather... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? By the way, it is working again over in the mod test thread. edited 28th Jun '11 2:48:52 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I kinda want to throw together a set of personalised mod-hatted avatars for each of us, but would that be going overboard?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This Polish shako◊ might be a little too ostentatious.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cama you have never been more dashing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you Meta, that's perfect. And Camacan, I love that you color-matched the hat to your shirt. That's priceless. And the hat changes that goofy grin... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think this one◊ could work for me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like that one, it's rather subtle. I hope you don't mind but I created this.◊ For formal occasions. edited 29th Jun '11 2:09:38 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have to draw one for Jame, then. But that will have to wait for some sleep first.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, the eyeball with top hat would be easy enough to pillarbox to make it the proper size. Like so.◊ edited 29th Jun '11 11:57:13 AM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Blackcat, the as-mod image needs to be of the same dimensions as your regular avatar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Google docs would be good, if everybody is familiar with it. I think it is as simple as just sharing the document among a list of email addresses, yes?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be willing, and I have no problem giving up my real email address. I trust you guys.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And I'm back. Apparently. Still very suspicious of this connection; wasn't expecting it to come on today at all, and when I thought it was back earlier... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As I still haven't had any inspiration for 'shopping a mod hat avatar, may as well just install the platypus for me whenever time permits: And Bobby,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tangent, your mod hat is installed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are we still adding items to the editing tips that show up while editing a page? Deboss suggested we add one about launching works pages in the proper... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I changed the thump message for 'personal' to "Thumped for switching the discussion from the topic to a person." The word 'attack' in the old message was... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just to let you all know I'm kind of around, but rather overworked and exhausted, thus the lack of posting!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Those changes are made to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/view_edit_bans.php... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Keener!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So we no longer fully block people from the site? Unless you put up a low-level IP block, that is? edited 14th Jul '11 9:11:00 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And this new version of the bounce is simply a "read only mode", so that they can take no action that modifies the wiki in any way. Kind of a superset... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, and it is possible to really screw things up for everybody, which is a privilege I reserve for myself.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There goes my chance to accidentally bounce everyone with 'l' as the second letter of their name. I notice that the flagged articles page has some entries... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's an attempted spam/code injection; hard to say which. How'd they get around the requirement to be logged in?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? New sekrit forum is 'Grr! ARG!' for the ARG effort. All mods should have access.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I dunno, I get an odd feeling knowing that every edit page could have a hidden text field on it with the word "fuck" embedded. It just seems weird and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wonder if it could be set up in such a way that it only places the hidden field on articles that already contain suspect language. In other words, if... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Like I said, though, we had at least one guy who was nannybotting a whole raft of innocuous words — his nanny changed "judge" to "kitten" which... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Regarding Fanfic Recs, we don't allow tropers to delete recs just because they dislike them or consider them "fluff", do we? (Also, anyone here play Persona... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Chemical Fire deleted one of the fanfic recs for Persona 4 on the basis that it was "fluff". moberemk contested this on the discussion page, so I put... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would imagine that Chemical Fire is being a douche, then.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. I like it. It would need to be publicized well in advance so that we don't blindside anyone, but I like it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The lockout would be on creating new pages. Cleanup requiring a new page just can't be done on a Cleanup Day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was just going to add that when the shutdown happened. Some way to override the lockout so that old TRS threads that involved splits, renames, moves,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds worth trying at least once. We'll know if it's a good idea from there, I guess. One thing that I've started mulling... even with searchability considerations... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Say, six months and 100 posts and/or edits? Sounds like a big number, but that's less than one per day. edited 20th Jul '11 5:58:47 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? 95% of her posts (The rest appear to be a couple of specific threads in wiki Talk and Trope Talk.) which is why I'm not putting her name up for full mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Seconding while sober. Maybe Louie W as well? He hollers about crowners fairly often, though not so often as Willbyr.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Willbyr seems like an excellent TRS/IP curator. Shima I have no particular opinion on.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thread Maintenance Engineer?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thread Facilitator. Agreed Willbyr, Shima is really good but gets obviously riled up sometimes. Don't know if that matters, I get riled up sometimes and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be very uneasy about him being a mod, though, though that may be a personal bias. Not sure.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That was full mod on a specific forum. It won't be too hard to build a partial-mod thing. Just have to do it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Will work on it tonight FE.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It'd have to be a very large number (such as 100): one of the key objections has been that if the number is small enough for one person to manage, it'd... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If this is put in place, obstructionism would have to treated a lot more seriously than it is now. Now, if someone digs in their heels and won't budge,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, I just went up page 23, which had about 90 unlocked threads, all with a last post date in November. For just over half of them, (about 50, I lost count... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @ Eddie: Ah, OK. Thanks. edited 22nd Jul '11 3:18:30 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nevermind, I read that completely bassackwards. I don't think setting a minimum time that a thread has to stay in TRS is necessary. Some of the ones that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would say either tentatively unlock the article with a mod watch on it and ban description editors with a heavy hand — or simply vet new examples... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And call it INERTIA. I think the second thread could wait. Solutions should contain fixes for recidivism.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But I don't spell INERTIA with an A. I'm a rebel.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, we need some input here. There's a strong movement to keep In Universe examples on Small Name Big Ego, but you keep removing them. Some form of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, related to the coming outage — how many of the moderation functions will be affected? I guess since the forums will be offline, there won't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can I get a second opinion on the page Sodi? I don't think that we should have it, but maybe I'm being irrational. The is a short discussion in Ask The... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? 68.3.105.194 has been reset... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Glitch, Eddie. Recycled Soundtrack is not accepting edits. You can open the edit page, click save, but changes don't take.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe... as long as there's some kind of key to the jargon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have been fighting a bug for a day or so now and will be kind of scarce until it goes away.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sudden, overwhelming support for the deletion of Troper Tales. Crowner rapidly gaining votes. Worth a bulletin? edited 7th Aug '11 8:56:56 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow. I wonder what caused the massive shift.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Haldo started a thread about it in YF, Spainy posted about it in another YF thread, and it just kind of spiralled out from there.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not opposed to removing Troper Tales from the wiki. edited 7th Aug '11 9:29:33 PM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something this big needs to be in the headlines.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bon chance, Cama. edited 8th Aug '11 9:44:22 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm surprised, but also pleased; troper tales are either creepy (a small percentage) or just plain boring, by and large. There's a few entertaining ones... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would there be any benefit to having the TT hollers sent to a dedicated thread that anyone can think of? Or is this the idea of a fevered brain? (And that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Might make them slightly more manageable, I guess. Eddie, Zudak has deleted his account using the sockpuppet remover for some reason, and due to the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Zudak's IP has been reset.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can you examine ThMole's problem from the edit banned thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No real wistfulness here; though the announcement has to be framed in a way that makes it clear this is the Troper community's choice, not a response to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would like to see the new format given a longer trial period before we declare it hopelessly broken. Blocking pages that can't possibly have legitimate... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So... Friday night?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, we can't.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I will be working overtime this week and will be here in bits and pieces. Things will return to normal next week.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks for the really gruesome image.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I asked. He said "i simply uploaded a GIF that fit the size limit (which was purely by accident. i was only randomly picking whatever avvies i liked and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Enjoy your trip!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something is screwy with the indexing of the trope pages Everythings Better With Spinning and its ptitle page. It's showing up twice on the Index Index... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Further thedragoness's Duke Nukem Forever review I think Madrugada's nailed the core problem in ATT: thedragoness doesn't accept the idea that of opinions... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yike. That doesn't sound fun. Have a good break, Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks guys. I added a couple of suggestions to the thread: I don't have a strong opinion on what to use, I just wanted to avoid confusion and wasted time... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I guess I'm mostly back as well. Although I'm still overreacting to stupidity and close-mindedness, so I may steer mostly clear of OTC for a little longer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Go for it. Anything that makes them clearer is a good thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Added that to the Handy-dandy Links post as well, since it is indeed, as camacan noted, both handy and dandy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I remember that it was Maddy asking how many pageviews are of article history. I don't recall where it was asked, or why, though. Anyway. 300,000 history... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, question about reverting. Is a revert itself reversible? Could I revert to an older version of an article and then change my mind later? I suppose... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Day 2 and we're mostly cleaned out. All the ruined stuff is out of the house, the carpets are out, the drywall is cut, the insides of the walls are being... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Santa Ana River is classified as the most severe flood risk west of the Mississippi, apparently, though I think that may have more to do with the amount... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We've got Snarky Chocobo asking for the account he used to ask for a password reset to be deleted (Still Snarky Chocobo), possibly as a result of the one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Prayers away in your direction, Fighteer. Don't fret about us, we can handle it without you if need be. Real Life Comes First.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just locked Fox News Channel after cutting great swaths of opinion out of the description and trimming some natter. I may have ruined it forever but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should be cleared up, now. Just between us, he is using a password that has been used by more than one vandal. Common word, though. No need to burden him... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Please explain to me how you can have a down pointer without an up pointer. If it has children (pointing up to it), the down relationship can be assumed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, FE, can you please whip up a "trolling" thump tag? "This post was THUMPED for trolling." or something like that?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here's what caused me to ask : S5. He wasn't flaming. He didn't make it personal. What he said was "rude" but not to anyone posting on the boards. He wasn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So "trying to start a flame war" is the behavior, right?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just makes you proud of them, doesn't it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's workable in theory. In practice, hard to say.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh. No one has actually used the relationship thingy, according to the data. Did you try it and nothing happened?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I locked down the "Having a life and Writing" thread because past experience has indicated that it probably wouldn't be recoverable. I've told Kaschei... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Like I said there, it's your call. I wanted to make a public statement highlighting Night's misbehavior. Hopefully others will be warned off from acting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I honestly still can't be sure if he truly believes what he was espousing in there or if it was all just to argue & troll.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And that's what most of those threads are.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It may just be someone punishing a content thief on first principles. Not sure why we'd want to help out. Thanks for letting me know it is going on, though... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm, okay. I'll bet that the vast majority of that forum activity is over on the right side, too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think a better way of looking at it is that, as TV Tropes has become more popular, the user set for the forums is not just the contributors; it's also... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Problem with that is that most of the forum's denizens, particularly right-side, are broke-ass young people. A registration fee for the social parts of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Five dollar yearly membership for RPers? Waived if 20% of their posts are outside the RP forum? I know, too complicated to operate.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, yes. Processor time, which impacts throughput. It is the thing that causes a need for more horsepower. The most 'expensive' thing the site does is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very useful information, Eddie. Also informative, that it takes $35K/year to run a site like this. The Media forums are closely, if not precisely, aligned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? List where they post, too, in the table. That would help a lot in judging where the intersections like.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FYI, my job is data analysis. I take tables and mix 'em together constantly. So I appreciate the issues involved. I'd offer to help but I don't know... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know that doing the cross-matching would be messy. That why I offered to do it myself if you give me the lists. I';m not talking about just an intersect... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's complete for the day. Activity across days will be very similar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting how quickly the wiki edits drop off, but I suspect that's because there's a division between maintainers, who may be doing a lot of TRS-related... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm getting tired of the constant My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic locked-page edit requests. They are numerous, often unclear, usually not finished... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It was Fighteer, IIRC.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is why it's a good thing we are scattered about the globe. I have an intense desire to sneak into Fighteer's office and paper it with ponies. And... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Presumably, Pony G is a member of Run MLP.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fix'd. Ptitle thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seems to me that there are fewer inane threads being created these days. Or maybe I have my head in the sand.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can knock off about 427 TRS threads by closing everything that hasn't had a response since Aug 1. The theory being that anything that dead would probably... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? First time we've had a request to be a mod, but I don't know the guy. edited 23rd Sep '11 10:15:37 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gut feeling is no. He's got a history of jumping the gun in TRS, assuming consensus before it's clear that there is any, and declaring things concluded... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. I'll get to work on tagging those thread this afternoon. Gotta go pump out some plasma first. Are Willbyr and Shimaspawn going to have access to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, Eddie, while I completely disagree with some of what this guy says, he's got a good point hidden in there; you and Janitor or the only ones who have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have not had much luck finding a person with the skills who is trustwprthy and willing. Search continues.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You've been running things for a while, Eddie. Is Janitor up for a swap back? I offer it as a possibility because time off can help with burnout.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is unfortunate. Also kind of awesome, but unfortunate with regards to your workload. Is there anyone you can delegate some of the coding side of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to bed shortly. I get my sleep schedule all screwed up on weekends.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's those coal-powered modems in Wales, right? Devil of a time getting 'em lit, then you have to wait for a head of steam to build up. Once that tin whistle... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just cut it. Been around since ptitles were cute, and had only 5 wicks and 0 inbounds. Plus, it was a stock phrase.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, there it is. Wow, you must have run a batch job — no human is that fast.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Umm, boss? Trying to make a new thread in several active subforums gives me the "this conversation has been archived" message. edited 28th Sep '11 8:48... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How's this look for explaining it? If this looks good I can make a copy for Image Pickin'. Edit: I may not be the most markup-savvy guy, but I can't figure... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Fighteer: You can use pipes to make a table so it will display properly. Test. test Test.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It goes immediately, now. It was broken for a while, making it seem like it worked via a daemon. People curious about a closure can look at it in the morgue... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right, we needed to sort out the ones that were decided but nobody did the work, or did the work and never asked for a lock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You may continue talking.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Killer Clowns wishes to post in the Character Development Threads on behalf of Gault's characters, in order that said threads continue undisrupted by Gault's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have no objection, if he's talking about the Exquisite Corpse writing threads. I got a very thoughtful and extremely mature response from Gault, who... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tuef brought up a good question in Ask The Tropers about the page Massive Story Inside. It is a page dedicated to that OTC thread that we have all been... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wholeheartedly agree. (aside: Why does all the interesting stuff happen when I'm asleep?)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Doesn't hurt anything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just got this in my inbox from kyfhv. I've sent pm's to camacan, fighteer, madrugada, and ironeye. No responses. Honestly, I might just be impatient... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I nuked it because of the IJBM/SA links. I'll PM the guy. FYI, The account deleter deletes the account. It doesn't delete edit history and reserve the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Age requirements are meaningless, since there's no reasonable way to verify them. And age does not correspond to maturity, except on the extreme bottom... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh boy, I'm glad you were there. And I hope she is OK.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hope she gets off easy... It's a relief to have someone actually take advice, at least. edited 3rd Oct '11 7:19:56 AM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie: Locked threads aren't being moved from Image Pickin to the IP morgue.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is it time to have launches require mod go-ahead? I'm getting pretty dispirited watching things like National Weapon get launched.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like that idea. Now I am trying to think of what the objections are going to be.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's worth consideration. I still don't like the idea of a privileged class of tropers who get to do stuff that other tropers can't, but I suppose it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People.Brad Pitt People.Uwe Boll (okay maybe not that one ) People.Barack Obama Organization.Fox News Organization.UbiSoft Organization.Lifetime Does... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not bad. As for putting the person in the namespace with the work type (Writers in Literature), I keep imagining this post: Stephen King isn't literature... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think People and Organizations works.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Quibble much? The "s" is not important.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It matters for consistency. We don't want to have to clean up a bunch of articles that get moved to Organization versus others that are in Organizations... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The "s" is not important to me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We should be consistent about whether namespaces are plural or singular, though, if there's a difference in how they'd be written. I have no special attachment... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry to hear that, Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't lock a thread unless the work is done.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Correct, TRS threads should not be locked until the work is done (all of it) or a Special Efforts thread has been made and linked in the TRS thread, if... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. I have to decide when to do my huge Watchlist pass for the last four-five days... ugh. Probably tomorrow, as I'm super busy at work today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd go with that; don't know if it's a written rule anywhere but it's certainly the standard in place. ninja'd edited 10th Oct '11 10:30:54 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, I see the "Pinned Threads" subforum has been renamed to "Frequently Asked Questions". Should the Made of Forum Win thread be moved to a different subforum... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just got this pm: Is posting a link to another blog similar to advertising a third party website? I am not sure about this blog link here: http://tvtropes.org... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, Maddy! Do what you need to; work has to be more important. Eddie, we have a title request that can't be declined. Could you zap it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Likewise — hope the venture works out.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Next three days will be rough for me. Major company business meeting that I'll be tied up in most of the day and won't be able to have TV Tropes up on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer, the cutlist is overflowing with cut request citing you saying that actors don't get a YMMV page. What is up with that? As far as I recall, the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I never said that was wiki policy. Someone got the bit in their teeth and ran with it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would a reader really search for Ohana? I thought that one is pretty work-specific. In practice the impression I got was they were added by those who figured... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would but I'm swamped. I'm sorry. edited 19th Oct '11 9:40:23 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does this page fit here? I don't think I am trying to censor anyone or anything. I just am having a hard time coming up with a connection to fiction. I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Errrgh. I can see arguments both ways. It's relevant in that a number of tropes hinge on consent (or more often, the lack of it — like all the rape-related... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I keep seeing NCIS episodes in my head, as well as a case that happened here about 25 years ago. The article history goes back to September 2010... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I got a PM from battosaijoe — apparently someone got around the block on bugmenot by listing us as "tvtropes.com" rather than .org. link... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I kind of walked into the middle of this Bobby and there is definitely a problem that I don't know how to begin to address. I am profoundly disturbed by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Where is this?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, it is only a little inconvenience. Any reason we should make it easier for them?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I say this with the utmost respect and only because I care about this site, but we're talking about 40 goons, if that, out of a site of over 165000... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anne Beeche is chiefly a right-sider, but she's been here a while. Rocket Dude made a thread in Wiki Talk that got zapped, which is what started this... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, Eddie; Anne is one of the good ones. Something Awful's only purpose in talking about us at all is part of pointing and laughing at the Internet... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Related but off topic. I don't get the sense that there is true communication going on among the members of the community. Words like "open" and "transparent... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Great, I always seem to miss the fun stuff. I don't mind being perceived as the "parents" of the other tropers, mainly because that seems to be how it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Haven't seen. I tend to disappear on the weekends because of just life, and I don't say anything unless I know I'll be incommunicado for more than a day... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? She usually does say something, even if it is in passing in the Cobbies thread. Found her! She was busier than she anticipated. Shows over folks, as you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? House guests. Getting downright spooky, now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Skype huh? I should probably get you guys on my contacts list. jaldrich@ptd.net should find me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We all know it's your axe-wielding barbarian alter ego.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Works with the dot, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, I tend to find the userbase is very immediatist and thinks that everything is URGENT and in need of drastic action RIGHT NOW DAMMIT.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now that's something that I also saw on Wikipedia so I think it's endemic.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Account made at 4:21 pm CST. Email already there by the time I got a new tab open for my mail account... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Created the account and got the email by the time I hopped to my account.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This thing? x-store-info:4r51+eLowCe79NzwdU2kR3P+ctWZsO+J Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; sender-id=temperror (sender IP is 216.151.212.47) header.from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm afraid my presence here will probably be more sporadic than normal for the next couple weeks. I have fallen badly behind with my studies and I have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hit the books, Bobby. Real world has its requirements.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh? The trope is currently in DarthWiki.Narm. You were the one who decided it needed to go there, way back when, and I didn't want to step on your toes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So Eddie, sorry if removing the wicks for Hollywood Thin was done precipitously, it looked like the matter was resolved. The wick stock wasn't so great... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck. Stay warm.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh my God Fighteer. Bundle up and stay warm.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh hell no, don't list bannees there. edited 2nd Nov '11 8:22:59 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tech issue, Eddie. Every other page load on the site seems to hang for a while loading data from http://optimized-by.rubiconproject.com. Are these the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be hit and miss today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, why the thing against multi-option crowners now? What makes you say that they're confusing people?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seeing people being confused.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry, this is probably covered elsewhere, but could someone confirm my understanding of the one-ip rule with respect to password reset? Troper NameTwo... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anonymous User is harmless, and not likely to be making trouble.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you TV Tropes for giving me the opportunity to say honestly on a work survey that I do volunteer work for a non-profit organization.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Boy, they would have to be watching us like hawks. Rollingstone's first edit [1] was at 7:58am and the first suspension announcement was at 8:39am.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Asking this again in case the question was overlooked - why is there a hentai discussion thread in M&A? It seems pretty well established so I guess... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is my guess, the no sex threads rule went into effect when we shut down IJBM. That thread pre-dates the shutdown and isn't on anyone's radar. I dunno... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope this is the right place. Eddie says he going to take a least week off from the site and do what he calls a personal reboot. He showed me how to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This post basically sums up my feelings as well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I told him/her that I did not know of a way to do that and to delete the messages without reading them and to notify a mod if they are being harassed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just got done reading the "Blind Eye" thread in OTC, because I saw lots of posts by both Polarstern and Jeysie in it. There are parts of the thread that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone saying that they hated fanfic and had no respect for those that wrote it. Set her off bigtime; she took it super personally and wouldn't let it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Kash has made a concerted effort to rein in her aggressiveness in discussion. Jeysie —- hasn't.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just edit banned two handles on Ask The Tropers and found a new account for eddiehitler that I thwacked. I suspect that we may see an increase in asshattery... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Regrettably, it probably does. Which is a shame.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm really sorry about this, but I think I'm going to have to be absent for a bit as well. I realise this is probably the worst time, but I've already... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back now from my Thanksgiving mini-vacation and ready to rock. I did manage to be active on the wiki a bit while I was away... catching up on a week... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, did you put in AOL ads? Because they're causing issues with the top ad banner. Stuff is occasionally getting squished to the right. Also, try... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back chaps. I hope the turkey was both plentiful and digestible, and the rest restful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How do you think that rule applies to those different kinds of sites though? Am I right in thinking they are all out, that taking stuff English stuff down... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I love you, but we talked about this a while back in the "troubling tropers" thread. It's called a hellban and is practiced by many sites. When... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No. We're not a meme collection. There are sites that are (e.g. knowyourmeme). They do it better than we could.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In fact, it should be a history-style function, with notes attached to the handle along with what was changed, a datestamp, and the mod applying it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Potholed the link. Took care of the overlap issue. The link color issue will require some study.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Shiny!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Remind me what "keep new" means? Looks nice and integrated otherwise. edited 4th Dec '11 12:27:45 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be installing the new restraint system today, so there may be a time when a banned person is able to slip through and post in the forums. Most of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right. Importing the old reasons was too tough. You'll notice that when you click on a troper's name in the header line of a post in a forum that it will... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also got restrained from everything. Fixed now, of course.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes. I'll fix that. eta: That's fixed. edited 5th Dec '11 12:48:17 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, attempting to load crowners directly from the Crowner Activity page returns an HTTP 500 server error.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Holy shit. I completely forgot YKTTW for the new restraint system.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It isn't hooked up for the wiki, yet. You'll need the old system for your bowlderizer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? PG-13 is about right. Everyone I talk to regularly in the States is coming down with something. It is probably the viral outbreak that will ultimately... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It could be useful, I think, but we'd definitely have to make sure that it only applies to reasons added after the system is implemented, of course. On... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The SQL is pretty simple and doesn't take long. It would be helpful if you could mock up what this uber-restrainer cum troper dossier would look like on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, well, the mock-up will have to be later this afternoon. Busy now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Who you calling a tool?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "a GREAT tool"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It'll be cooler once Fighteer comes up with that layout. Glad you guys are liking the direction so far. In other news: I removed a bunch of boldface notes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't know. The job of moderator seems to be a lot less complicated to me than the task this screen is made to support. Person is fucking up? Warn 'em... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's up to you, but when someone reports a handle on Ask The Tropers for being virulent in discussions, I have no way to search out all their comments... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fixed linky. What about titles that make sense in plain English? Is it still a negative, or is it more the opaque titles like this horrible specimen? edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to add a clarification to the Rules post regarding importing drama: No threads about events on other forums.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's because only our forums rock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy to see Willbyr back. Sounds like he had a great time. Went to Universal Studios, Disneyland, the Daytona Speedway and the World of Coke. Atlanta.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It got sidelined. I'm working on it again today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Working for these forum-dwelling fountains of gripe just sucks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I liked them as well. I think the bitching was out of proportion to what was happening. They can all go pack it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll make the banned thread only available for posting to mods and to people who have been banned. So crushingly obvious. No idea why it took so long to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People who get banned on their first day need to be slowed down, anyway. I'll reset the thread to the first post.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is my wish. I would like all tropers to get into the habit of citing their sources. For everything. Part of my frustration lately is that people are... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about: Please provide us with links to any additional and relevant posts that may be related to your request for mod intervention.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? </envy> Hmm. Close tag does not seem to be working. Let me try again. </envy> </envy> </envy> Huh. Must be broken. edited 22nd... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That should be fixed now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anybody see a volunteer here that shouldn't get the job?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Re: Heralds: I know it's a little late, but I have serious misgivings about Hydronix having seen the way he argues in Wiki Talk and heard his opinions... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't like it. "Don't be a dick" strikes me as a reasonable request at all times; "be friendly" implies active positivity, which is sometimes a bit... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just have to walk away for a while. The "why am I doing this" refrain in my head is drowning out my ability to think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What do we think of the idea of making mod-hat posts all look as if the came from 'The Moderators'?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the downside, that means it's impossible for users to tell who said what if they have a question about a specific mod post.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The one transferred in bumps the discussion that was there.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Meaning that the discussion that was there is lost? In that case, I won't do that. Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I still occasionally use the <Mod Hat ON> tags, even in threads that have the checkbox, when it's something I'm saying officially but I don't want... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ouch. Moving sucks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Uhh, that's a 4:1 consensus to keep it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, how long ago did you add those animations to the crowner vote buttons? I just noticed and they made me laugh out loud.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This will be full mod. Access to all of Supersecret and so on.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? By the way, Eddie, can we get a list of who's ragequit/been banned? I only know about Cygan and Blixty. Having to respond "Huh, I didn't know they had... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @ Fighteer: I'm also glad to hear that your mom is OK. @ Madrugada: Charlatan was given a ban because he asked for one. Melloncollie was not banned but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seemed like more than there actually were because there were also a lot more "well I'm considering leaving but I won't yet/won't go for good" posts,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm still trying to figure out all this mod stuff.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, Here it is : What all the little icons (that we had at the time) do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm just left wondering if pressing the skullfuck button leads to an 'are you sure' type thing, because otherwise I'm afraid I'll accidently skullfuck... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It leads to a 'Delete all of BobbyG's posts from "What's it all about??"' With Y/N buttons. Ninja'd. edited 15th Jan '12 10:07:04 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Generally if it's for something that's more different than just different capitalization or the like, I check the article or Wikipedia or whatever to see... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? (I'll ask for your opinions on it where I should actually post this; that is to say, the mod hat thread.) See you there!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So I guess nothing's fair in the world: I've done nothing since I became a mod except tried to learn as much as possible and reminded a couple of people... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to have to echo Best Of's sentiments. I'm tired right now, so I'm not quite sure how to properly...word...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wonderfully put, Best of.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? <Wet Blanket Mode> Don't worry, you'll start catching flak like the rest of us when the shiny wears off. </Wet Blanket Mode>... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any reason Parable should not be made Herald for Yack Fest?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anon page type setting is no longer allowed. I find increasingly that Image Picking and TRS are picking the less fun of any alternatives because they are... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Look at this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/edit_ban_central.php Use that 'post a bulletin' button.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ninja'd.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nevermind. edited 17th Jan '12 3:58:34 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You are getting it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? With respect to OTC, feel free to use your mod tools to rename threads and keep discussion on any given topic to a single thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't seem to be able to use my mod hat anymore. Did I do something wrong?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't use it in ANY thread. EDIT: Oh, wait, yes I can. Derp. edited 17th Jan '12 12:48:54 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It will. There's also a box on the problem child restraint system to extend newbie time. Some people need a little more time getting the hang of things... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck on those, Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Still, some kind of roadblock on article creation in Main would seem to be indicated.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also know that some darn good tropes (of the "Why didn't we already have an article about that?" variety) were created without being run through ykttw... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Blah blah... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hooray for blackcat being back-ish! I'll be in Chicago Monday through Friday. Can't really say if it will keep me offline very much, but there is that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's kinda nerve-wracking to use the Firm Mod Tone on people, but I think I've got it down pat. ...have I been doing a good job, as far as you guys can... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? noticed in the thread were I and Katrika were chosen that the wording of the Crowner was something like "pick the guys who you think are closest to the mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have a pm from joeyjojo asking that I unlock the Barack Obama thread that I locked a while back because of badness. I suggested that they start a new... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Makes sense.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, I've been kind of back for just a couple of days and we should have added extra mods months ago. Things are so much easier and coming here is more... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aww, thank you, blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you for the kind words.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Heehee, thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, this is going to sound kind of weird, but I need to find a "coworker" to interview for a class I'm taking. As you guys are the closest things I have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Uh, sorry about the tickmark-with-no-thread-attached. It's what happens if you enclose a thread title in <> signs, apparently.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same thing happens with PM titles.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On investigation, the problem is the < at the start, not the one on the end.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seems that I made a mistake when I opened that thread. Any of you care to take a look and see what should be done? I think there are probably a couple... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought it was a bad idea from the start and I still do. I think we need to make an effort to avoid overly narrow topics in OTC, because they inevitably... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Thanks, Eddie. Guess I'll close the related YF thread now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Where's Camacan? I haven't seen him around in a while and his posting history stops on the 16th. Is he away?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The thread is also kind of a mess because people are operating on different definitions - I updated the OP with the most standard and official definition... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Asperger's has been a popular psych disorder for internet nerds to self-diagnose (and for Internet Cold Readers to accuse their opponents of) for a few... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, Katrika, by the way... I completely forgot to compliment you on your avatar. I love Keychain Of Creation and hope it returns from hiatus someday.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Heck, I'm diagnosed with Asperger's myself, though as my psychiatrist said, I have learned to function pretty well with it anyway so there's nothing he... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope he's all right.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie-san, are we getting site slowdowns over the past few days or is it just me?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Under investigation. Looks like something in either the wiki watchlist or the recent changes page is hanging up the system. eta: Looks like that was the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A new semester is starting up, so I might be spotty for a week or so.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remove_account.php... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone with that handle has a user page on Wikipedia that may be our Camacan but doesn't have much useful information. [1] edited 6th Feb '12 11:28:23... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is this email address at the Phun site cjcormie@yahoo.com.au And there's this [1] edited 6th Feb '12 11:47:37 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also found a player page for a user of the name in Oz Furr for TF 2. There's been no account activity there either in the last 28 days, but at least... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Steam account I can work with. Mine is the same as my site name. I sent him a friend request. edited 6th Feb '12 11:48:18 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I dare say that any "Fighteer" you find out there on the web is likely to be me as well, but you folks know a lot more about this sort of person-hunting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep. Close-mouthed about personally-identifying info. There's no town by that name. He's done very little posting anywhere outside of TRS and IP, and the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I assumed that was a joke. Madrugada, you scare me. So what do we do now? Is it worth trying to phone him, if we don't find any other way to get in touch... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right. It seems that if he wanted to be contacted, he'd have made himself contactable. Eddie has my email address, for example.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anyway, if any of you need, I'm emailable at morven@byz.org and phonable at (714) 414-8719 (US, of course). Should we keep a register of this somewhere... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I'm seeing most of the insults coming from that Tam H 70 person, who is, after my two thumps in other threads, convinced that I have a grudge on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Whoops, sorry, I was out. I'll check that thread now. That was the one where I warned Tam earlier, btw.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright, if you think so, I'll thump them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll keep what you said in mind as I pick up my own experience. I haven't got very good results to show from thumps, either, but I usually thump posts... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can we talk about thumping tropers for calling out other tropers who espouse racist or sexist views? I've been denying that we do this when asked, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, My God It's Full Of Stars, who was being sexist. To me, it seems like a criticism of an opinion. "Racist" is not a thing you normally say to be rude... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seemed too mild to be thump-worthy. It's more inane and wrong than anything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? SC Bracer wasn't banned, just thumped. The less-personal-mass thing is not necessarily pointless. The mass of the person impacts the needed amount supplies... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. Onward to other items.... The repair shop improvement thread talks about improving the visibility of the workshop(s). I'm thinking it might do to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm definitely in favour of increasing the exposure of the more useful boards, but less sure about reducing the exposure of the rest of the forum.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll just add enough from the left column to the right so that it looks balanced without the 'invisible' fora.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Apologies for the subject change, but quick question for the American mods, if any of you are on, in case I'm making a dreadful mistake here: The word... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I probably took the wrong tack, since I tried to explain why calling neocons fuckwits wasn't OK when (as he protested) nobody would bat an eyelid about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's like that genius I had to ban for saying stupid stuff in discussion that had something to do with Israel... "How many Israeli tropers have you banned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've suggested to him that rather than "all neocons are fuckwits" it might be preferable to try "imperialism is bad/wrong/a racist ideology because [reasoned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Quick question. I asked Goldstone to move the newly created So Random page to the series namespace and then cutlisted the main page. I have a pm here from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Main redirects without wicks or inbounds should be cut. I'm not of the opinion that we need those unless they've established a presence on the wiki, with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK the page does have wicks and inbounds, the page I created did not got it. edited 13th Feb '12 1:35:22 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nope. At this point I'm going with "broken computer", for a while, before freaking out about major illnesses and the like. I don't think it is that he... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? More incorrectly cut ptitles. What is up with this?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is supposed to be the rule. Maybe the check-inbounds step got left off, on occasion.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Could have been any of us. Especially when someone gets on a 'ghost wick' purge rally.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FAQ is now on Workshops. That "more forums/less forums' idea ... I'll have to see how much it would take to do that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I feel like my most useful 'modly skill' is communicating reasonably with people, but I guess that's also pretty important?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FE: Just got this PM: Would just like to mention a bug/oversight I noticed. While most pages in the wiki now show the "workshops" link in the header, the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woops. Sorry, Katrika. I suppose we could start looking for another moderator. I'd really like to get someone who is more focused on the wiki than the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay for Super Fighteer, Righter of Edits!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? KJ didn't think the information was conveyed clearly, but then again, when he tried to cite the rules, he got them wrong. When I told him what the rules... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My #2576 was ninja'd. Please read back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Which she took. She has the badge for TRS. Announcements and such-like I'll leave to whomever is in the mood.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Working on it. ETA: Willbyr is available at 9pm Central. Is that too late for the Eastern people? edited 4th Mar '12 7:57:05 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK. Willbyr is william.b.parsons on skype.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Contact RQ sent. I'll start the confwrence, since I have the Fancy Dan premium Skype deal. Who is invited?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can be there. And I've put up a headline about ccoa's appointment. edited 5th Mar '12 7:24:16 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, invite ccoa. She's part of the Merry Band now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...I don't have a mic, either. >.>... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, probably should have mentioned it earlier, but my skype name is shimaspawn. Big surprise, I know. You can listen mutely?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? PS And I mean "silly" in the nicest possible way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? According to this handy chart [1] Eastern is GMT-5 so depending on where you are 3 or 4 in the morning? Is that right?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? After I made my post, I checked if there was a handy map around and whaddya know, the one I found was the one you found too. (I would've posted here about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My Skype name is kangas.markus... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Morven is Matthew Jude Brown.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^In Skype. They just show up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, I've resent just now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sent.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know what it's supposed to look like. I saw the images on tech support. It just never popped up. It's weird, but Eddie and I are on each other's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup, you are in Eastern aren't you? Should I ping you at like 9:45? edited 5th Mar '12 5:33:16 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not for another hour.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cutmasters: in Ask The Tropers someone found a stack of works pages in Darth Wiki for non-existent works. The pages were created by the same person Midnight68... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, schoolwork... I'm under two papers and proving I can make crypto work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some people probably don't really know what SFW actually means - or maybe they work in a place owned and managed by their granny.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck with your interview! Landing a job is very lucky in circumstances like those of the past few years.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's been debate about how to handle NSFW links on the forums and complaints that there are multiple conflicting rules on what to do about them even... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think they should be OK if they're marked properly. For instance, you can't spoiler-tag "NSFW" but if you're gonna explain what's NSFW about your link... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, yes. Of course.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What about sites with pornographic adds like Danbooru and Gelbooru? I'm all right with things that are covered and warning for things like swimwear that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pretty sure we have warned for links to NSFW ads before. They could just link the images directly if they're SFW. Or use Safebooru.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The official rule on them seems to be: Do we really have to say it? Do not post porn or explicit sexual content. Not even if you tag it NSFW. Don't post... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's how I understand it, yes. Although I don't get the rickrolling thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But the adds on the pages make the page itself NSFW even if them image being linked isn't. There's uncensored pictures of dicks on the adds right next... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, just making sure. There's a lot of linking to those sites in the anime forums and people seem to think it's ok because it's just the adds that are... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I admit I don't follow any of the anime threads all that closely because they don't really interest me. I know that pornographic pages do get linked (which... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh cool. Thanks for fixing that. But that's kind of troubling, since I could have sworn the Touhou thread has been the site of previous incidents that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In most cases, people are innocently breaching the rules and don't deserve a heavy hand, I don't think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, this is just nosing around for the moment, but I ran into (and contributed to) a thread in Video Games about launching a troper You Tube channel... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, that's what I meant by wrong thread. I clicked on the wrong one by mistake and didn't double check.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Indeed. We should expect people to learn certain standards of behavior before coming here; it is not our duty to teach it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or would be if it wasn't broken. Workin' on it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It should be good now. No, it doesn't have a link to the changed page. Never did.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bad end of the day yesterday + Bad night last night + Bad start to the morning today = Bad-tempered Maddy who is not going to mod much today because she's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can see some confusion arising; we're also purporting to be family friendly. Most family friendly things don't even acknowledge porn, at least not beyond... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, that's a pretty extreme stance, yeah. The Bara Genre one... not sure. I wouldn't have said it was that bad, personally.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...The Ad Server is trolling us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take care of yourself and remember to have lots of fun!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hope all is well. We'll be missing you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck out there, Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Has to be one of the worst unban requests I've ever seen in the time I've been a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tomu recently made a post that referenced some software that is legal but is often used for piracy. The post was Hollered and thumped for breaking the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm thinking about making the position of Trope Report editor in chief a paid thing. Say $300/mo, so we can get some uniformity of publication and not... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Having done monthly newsletters in the past, I think making it a paid position would be a good idea. The number of hours it takes to put one together is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, that's a "maybe"?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Great so see you. Hope you'll be back to normal activity levels when you get a little less frantic (so I'm assuming that by "frantic" you mean "busy.")... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My, that was a dreadful choice of words, wasn't it? Sorry, yes, "frantic" as in panicky-busy, not as in insane/delirious/aggrieved/awful/hopping-mad/any... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, we knew that Bobby was a delightful thing. Welcome back. :)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? you two. Not yet, Fighteer. This is mostly of my own doing, I'm afraid. Although being on the verge of failing two more modules is admittedly part of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, wow. That was weird coming into this thread to see a new post and the last post was by "me". Don't forget to change your sig, title, and location.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This means little time to mod, although I'll do my best.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know how much that makes me want to do the "me luck" thing even though it'd be the 9000th time I'd be doing it? Anyway, have fun, Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gonna have to prise my fingers away from the keyboard again and get on with stuff IRL. I only meant to return for April 1st and I let myself get sucked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pleas do not approve any more threads abut the Middle East. Also, zap any that crop up outside OTC. We have nothing to win by hosting them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've added something to the database to enable this. Let me know which one you want stickied. No time today to build a UI element to do this.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, the comment I want to be pinned is this one. Incidentally, I see no obvious way to construct a direct URL to a specific comment from the page itself... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep, the reply function is fixed. Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? testing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Prudes. What can I say? One thing's for sure. If this does result in a 33% loss in revenue, and it will unless Ad Sense grants our appeal, making a case... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What about a subscriber model? Unsubscribed users can edit once or twice per day (or not at all, if it's really a problem), and can only post in the workshops... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Orange? I don't see orange. Are we talking about this thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not seeing Orange either.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not seeing orange, running Firefox on a Windows 7 PC.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting how the respondents in the Naughty Tentacles thread are starting to put things together.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Edit because I can't read. Maybe their appeal process is similar to ours? edited 5th Apr '12 11:54:58 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My guess is that they got the complaint for that page, and pulled the ads without bothering to check if we were actually running their ads on that page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Frankly, lolacat was the first person I suspected but I think she is a cat's paw.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The bastardry is that I suspect someone was pissed about "losing" the debate over the page image, and decided to simply bypass that decision and force... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You did a great job with that response Eddie, thank you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We could look into doing something with Kickstarter. They fund things that have to do with the arts, and they give away a huge amount of money.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The do ongoing operational budgets. They are for production of a work. We don't qualify. edited 6th Apr '12 1:05:56 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm, that's too bad. What we need is something in the same vein though. Hershele Ostropoler is willing to write grant applications for us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Taking up Hershele on his offer sounds smart to me. There's no assurance anyone will bite, but a good grant-writer might be able to get more funds for... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Jumping trains for a second - I changed the hidden "No examples" line on Shotacon to a bolded statement on the page, and was going to put in a "no images... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nuke this thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woo, I missed a whole bunch this afternoon. *rolls up sleeves*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been following this thread and the one in Wiki Talk, but I've missed this avatar talk. Maybe I read some posts before something was edited it? Anyway... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I missed that avatar stuff as well. It's good that things are being taken care of so quickly, but I do have a suspicion that somewhere the baby is going... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A hose on the washing machine has either broken or fallen off. Water everywhere. Dogs not helping. I'll be out for a while.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be out and about for a good chunk of the afternoon and evening, myself.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We could build an outlink wall. Pretty big job, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How much would we charge for avatars? I think $.25 per avatar might be a good cost, but I'm not sure. For avatars you could pick to use for specific posts... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gotcha.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not really very immersed in TRS, though, so you should wait 'til other mods have had their (far more insightful) say...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't know. I'm not getting anything but Dex Knows and Victory Motorcycles.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I haven't seen any of the gaming ads aside from one Bejeweled-style game, so I'm assuming that they're not back...mostly what I'm getting is Tim Mc Graw... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey! It could happen. Don't harsh my mellow.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Let's just see what happens, 'kay?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's the spirit. Let us all emanate waves of drama repulsion. Begone, drama. Today you are wanted elsewhere.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can go with that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm guessing this is going on the Permanent Redlink Club page?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope it's not some All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles guy with an agenda.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No. It just cuts the index. We need to go through and evaluate and/or cut them individually.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you, Eddie! That really needed cutting.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's soapboxing about "OH GOD NO NIGHTMARE FUEL TVT IS RUINED FOREVAAAAA". I left a note, but most are keeping it civil. Those who aren't, too bad.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well I hope I gave people a laugh - that's what I was going for, after all.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been feeling mentally worn-down to a worrying degree. I'm not going to be very active for a while, although I'll try to keep up-to-date on the issues... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup, it looks like Rei fanart.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sam Vimes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Vimes is also in my Mod Hat avatar, by the way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I still need to set a mod hat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I got a PM from that Booky-whatever guy (the one who uses thousands of smilies per page in the fora) asking why the Naughty Tentacles thread in YF was... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a good answer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? For some reason, when a post gets thumped, every now and then the text in every post after that one will be thump orange instead of the normal black.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Actually, yes, it's the "numbskull" thump.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I haven't said it in a while, but I do miss Camacan. He was part of my morning routine. I was reminded this morning because of the way the new mods have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Indeed. I think of everyone here as a kind of family and it's sad when someone disappears.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Turns out I wasn't really absent over the weekend after all. That's what you get when you decide to take your laptop and shitty USB modem with you....... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gonna be spotty today. Set up at an art show, and I need to preserve my phone battery for credit card transactions.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck on the sale.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? May there be dollars aplenty.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My cat just gave birth to a bunch of kittens, so I'll be too busy taking care of the poor things. They're so tiny and she needs help.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aww! Kittens! I'm kinda around but Should Be Working, so I'll try and make myself as scarce as I can.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best of luck to you Meta!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck Meta! Fanfic Recommendations are back. Can I get a volunteer to go through the index and flag any that should be removed because they point to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was an idiot and ate things that I'm allergic to. I may not be around all that much today. Or may, if I don't feel up to doing anything more challenging... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Going to be disappearing under a pile of coursework for the next couple of days, will emerge when it's submitted.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, Bobby!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks FE and back at you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Blackcat, I'm so sorry. How absolutely horrible. My condolences, and good luck with everything you have to do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very sorry to hear that. Take care.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's sad to hear, blackcat. Take care.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ouch. Go take care of what you need to, blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree, although I wonder how long we can sit on this before someone figures it out.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Naughty Tentacles is far too much of a... do we call it a landmine or a hot potato?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, I think the lack of an image is more than reasonable.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? slutty game ads "We won't allow you to host our creepy pictures until you get rid of your creepy pictures!"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be around but I'm going to avoid the forums for a while and stick to the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard is Nearer, My God, to Thee, a hymn that I mostly know because it was played by the string ensemble of the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? <hugs Bobby> I'm sorry you're so upset.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is the New Account Finder a public or mod-only tool? If the latter, can it link to the restraint tool rather than the edit list for that handle?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm really sorry I haven't been around for all that's happening. I'm still not really in a position to come back - I haven't been able to see anyone yet... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^That's in.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd go by intent. If the intent is clearly to direct someone toward a specific location where pirated content can be found, it's a violation.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The way Fighteer explained it to me, hinting where to find it is against the rules, too. Although I just thumped the guy who was telling people to go... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Too long for some people, too short for others, too few, too many, overly specific, unnecessarily vague... Yes, these are all complaints made about the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Exactly. My head hurts at the constant contradictions. Good thing I decided not to go to law school.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think you were wrong. My only objection is that we can't ban the very mention of those sites. For instance, in the A & M subforum, we often... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We have a lot of things to monitor for. If we catch the links, that's great. Catching people talking about places to go... wouldn't make too big a point... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I got a PM from the guy I thumped who was telling people to go to Torrent sites and search. His response? "So I should use more subtle hints, then?"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In other words, "I'm going to tell people how to pirate stuff so fuck off?" Well, we have a stronger Fuck Off button.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW, Eddie, did you get around to bouncing Tyyrlym? The guy's returned twice already (with different handles of course) and it's getting really annoying... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is now what amounts to a "TV Tropes Ban Evasion Manual" floating around out there. Or maybe it's standard procedure for any... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nope, the wiki IP address finder doesn't have the same functionality as the forum one. I've long suggested that we need the two sides unified.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there some vital coding issue that prevents us from making both functioning the same way, or is it that we just haven't gotten around it yet? I know... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll try to unify the sockpuppet finder, or at least make one for the wiki edits.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What can I say? He never really loved us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, that sucks. We need to find someone else soon. And now that Kodomo No Jikan is out of the way, (hopefully permanently) we have new issues on our... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In any case, they can live with it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Received this PM from Triple Elation: Hey, TVT moderation team. I'm not going to throw a tantrum. Actions have consequences, and I guess in retrospect... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Flyboy was a pain in the ass in OTC 'cause he's one of those teenagers who has a working mind and an interest in many things, but is also rather uneducated... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This one's fine with me. But I really wanna axe that Tv tropes HONF page. It can't be anything good. edited 30th Apr '12 1:36:36 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Had to trim it down a bit due to the character limit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not sure if I posted about this already, but now that Bobby's on a hiatus, are we gonna need a new Cut Master?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does a cutmaster have to be a current mod, or do we need to look for a candidate?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we should pick someone who's currently a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? *Cue several posts saying "notme!"*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...Now I want to look up how to do homebrew genetic engineering. Oops. edited 1st May '12 3:05:24 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wait, what?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm lost. What happened in Absent People?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As Lu said, "I am 99% certain that when cute said that, he was not referring to our policies, but recent drama with A Crack In Time who seems to be depressed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie put me in charge of uploading and maintaining the badge shop. The link is here for the curious. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not excited about using our wiki or forums to conduct psychology or sociology experiments. For one thing, it is very hard to gauge the emotional tone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I say no, too. There's no reason to go through a bureaucratic process to cut a Real Life section from an Audience Reaction. It serves absolutely no purpose... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I may be a little scarce today because I've just been up all night working and am about to crash and burn, I think. So sleep sounds like a great move.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good, shippers drive me batty. Wading through 2-5 pages of shipping to find someone actually talking about the show is a pain.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People in the KH thread have made a joke page for a nonexistent game (Kingdom Hearts Coded 2) and a joke redirect to an actual page (Kingdom Hearts 359... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be in Memphis for the Beale St. Music Festival with a buddy from college from sometime tomorrow morning to Sunday evening, so I'll be completely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Awesomesauce. Thanks, Eddie. My day is made.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Beats me. The important issue is porn. I'm not sure how copyright treaties are set up with Japan. I know that China, for example, does not give a fig about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmmm, okay. It's just that many Visual Novels have links to fan translations and downloadable patches, which never come outside of Japan. By the way, is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought that that Cease-and-Decist was implied in the post of his that was Holler'd - the one where he demands that his texts be removed from the site... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The internet has a talent for ignoring forgetting whatever laws suit it. By the way, are you doing okay with the cutlist by yourself, Eddie? We are currently... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? At any rate, your position as a mod doesn't mean you have to remain open to insane arguments. edited 4th May '12 6:44:52 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? None here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm digging up this post of mine 'cause I'd like to hear what you have to say on the topic. Is "link-discuss" an OTC only rule, or is it universal?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I'm noticing some weirdness on the cut list. First, the cut list is supposed to zap the page history as well as the page itself, right? Because... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So it seems I managed to make 2500 posts in a month. Wut.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, not fun...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They came in ATT and specifically said: "Do you guys really think it's just one person who thinks you're wrong" and blah-blah. That, and the increasing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Eddie: I was talking with a friend of mine about being a mod, and he asked me how many users there are in Tv Tropes. I actually don't know.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Great, thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The moral panic is getting on my nerves. Someone just cutlisted Miss Fanservice because "Miss" aspparently refers to a child under 12. I don't know about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Martello and I have been discussing making the FATAL thread open to the public - any objections?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Uh, I just noticed Anti Goggles has been nuked. Anyone remember why? I'm kinda lost. It didn't seem cutworthy...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So the full page text in the history for Anti Shipping Goggles should be put in that page and Anti Goggles be made a redirect?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a PM from Journeyman: I've been working on the Well World pages and I stumbled on a Headscratchers page for the Well of Souls series. They're the same... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My Laptop hard-drive's borked. Won't be on much for a few days.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Moving this out of the Hollers thread: How much harm would it be to make a rule that, outside of PMs or the Edit Banned thread, posting material from a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree with that. It's passive ban evasion if true (unlikely), and active ban evasion if a lie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good point...I'd be fine with doing it that way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, so as not to start an edit war and to get some clarification for future reference...regarding the last few edits to Alien: what takes precedence,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds good!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Accounts that don't edit or set a preference within two weeks are deleted.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, on the flipping new accounts, what about people who make accounts just for the forums?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh. No. I don't care about the RPG socks. The restrictions on a new poster shouldn't hamper play, anyway. edited 29th May '12 2:48:31 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take it easy, Katrika don't feel any pressure from us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW, there was recently this guy who posted in an unopened OTC thread. I was wondering how they did it, and I think I might've figured it out. They clicked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Because I closed that hole.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I apologize for my unscheduled absence. It seems the ice storm we got Friday night knocked out my internet service. The guys from my ISP should be by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi! I was worried something happened. Hope your connection works again. I've been clocking a few threads and calling a few crowners. That being said, what... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, what happened with the rape tropes? Did Google complain again?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dark Confidant trying to feel important again?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Even moving discussion pages isn't that shocking. It's a really minor thing. And you're right, the Engineer program worked when we had them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? His motivation may be transparent but it doesn't make the idea a bad one. Which is why I posted it here. We've talked about something similar with the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If it's triggered, it sends that edit (and the edit reason) to some special thread in the mod forum.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's the basic principle of easing in. You need to work a bit learning the ropes before you can start contributing in a structural way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Haven't been around as much as I'd like because we are going all out on the ARG at the same time that the webseries is running. That makes for a whole... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been thinking we should unlock the Mass Effect pages. The vandal has shown he'll just move on to related or random pages, reviews, ATT, or discussion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds like a plan.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And unlocked.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The page looks like I wrote it, but other than that it's good.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Discworld has one because it keeps colliding with other literature. There are at least four books that have conflicts so it was punted off into it's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How is this possible? This is a 0 days Masonicon sock. I thought new accounts couldn't post for 24 hours? And what's with this account? It's supposed to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, has the tool to find wicks from deleted pages been disabled completely, even for mods? When I try to access it (not that I need it for anything... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep. The tool deletes references on every page of the wiki, not just locate them. It is very resource hungry. edited 26th Jun '12 6:34:48 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should we make a headline about the HONF page move being complete and the wick cleaning needing to take over?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have no problem with it, myself.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe I should bring this up in Tech Wishlist, but discussion pages keep falling off my watchlist. Yesterday, I noticed that the discussion page for a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? More about the weird account age thing. I asked cthulboohoo a question in a thread, and got this PM from him: But I can't because it tells me that I'm... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It says on the page that he's a Mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any objections to tgoodrich1 as a p5 member?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not at all, he's been a huge asset in the last few weeks. Has anyone PM'd Catalogue to see what's going on with him?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Holy crap...glad to hear she's okay.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yaaaay! FE's on a roll today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome daltar! Happy modding!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome aboard.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome, daltar! Keep calm and ban trolls.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you everyone! And I shall ask the questions when I have them, though Best Of is doing a wonderful job of guiding me through everything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Daltar. Nice to have you on the team.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks Meta Four!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hiya! Welcome aboard.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we need to keep Sideboob and Underboobs locked? I've got both on my watchlist, and neither was all that bad even before shima cleaned them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is interesting...got a PM a few minutes ago: From Logically Dashing: Just to be clear I'm not here to argue over the content policy or the deletion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It should be clear that we want a person that "(a) likes Lolicon or (b) is sympathetic to [...] pedophiles" to go away. edited 16th Jul '12 11:01:42 AM... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Willbyr: I personally am completely fine with that notice putting off people who like lolicon or feel too much sympathy for pedophiles. Now, some sympathy... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we have seen that any amount of latitude is the proverbial camel's nose in the tent.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You dictatorial jerk. On an unrelated note, has the message at the bottom of the forums about licensing changed?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It gives the name of the foundation, now. No other change.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm taking a break. I don't know when I'll be back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bye. :( Did you burn yourself out?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best of luck to you, lu.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good plan. More wiki policing, less forum shenanigans.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see Kingdom Hearts has been moved to Franchise/. However, we're unlikely to ever have pages on the manga or the TCG, since they're so closely related... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, that's pretty much the reason. The Video Game/ namespace is the first game. Everything in the Franchise is under Franchise/. I think it can stay... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back, Best Of.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good idea.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seem to still be able to see it...avatar number 6.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or OTC ban zero?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, and no.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It looks like the page was recreated by the OBD thread, despite knowing why it had previously been cut. And now they're drama lamaing again. Do we scrap... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I did. It entailed making yet another article about pedos. It is a subtrope of Witch Hunt and is really all we need to say on the topic.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, it is apparently a trope that appears in Japanese works. If it's not allowed, then we need to axe it entirely, not try to redefine the fanspeak... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think harmless is the right word. Humorous would probably be better. It does actually show up in Western Works sometimes too. Family Guy is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This YKTTW seems pretty iffy to me. Do we need another Trivia page about how fans bash something, even if it is Darth Wiki?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's in the Permanent Redlink Club, so I'd say you're right. "Redirected to Fan Nickname. Had no purpose aside from complaining and name-slinging. " edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just locked this thread, but although it says it's in the morgue, I can't find it there. Any ideas what's up?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been thinking. Do we want to make Curator badges visible on the wiki? I'm saying this because most people curating pages don't visit the fora, or... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I didn't see anything about a different title.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey. I love you all, but I'm going to be gone starting tomorrow for the better part of two weeks. I'll be on when I can, but I have two cons back to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We want goodies!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I locked Archive.Lost And Found, as it was getting over the size limit. Do we want to keep it or just cut it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is the second article Tiger Anne has made to bash troll fic writers. I cutlisted it, but I don't think he gets what we're about. Wait a minute...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep. We're not they're battleground. I blanked the fanfic page pending the cut, since the number of inbounds is growing. No need to have something to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, missed that. That can go, too, then, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Last thing we need is imported stupid. We breed enough of our own.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like this idea.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No opposition here. I think we have all the tools to make it happen.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... Okay. Maybe I should have phrased that as a request. Could they be made consistent? Not as a high priority thing, but just a gripe.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, I knew about that, obviously. I just thought that you had a list somewhere about stuff you intend to do. But maybe that was just your notes about our... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll change the hottip to a labelnote and call it good, then. EDIT: Done, although I'm still not sure if the link in it is supposed to be formatted like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a PM from Saiga. He says that although he's blocked somebody, the PM banner remains. I recall that AHR had the same problem a bit back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Had a good chuckle over getting my "welcome to OTC" PM from Best Of. edited 28th Aug '12 6:10:42 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It worked incredibly well for Nightmare Fuel.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've done around 2000 wicks on my own. It's possible, but very time consuming. But something like, say, Expy with 7000+ wicks is not possible for one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hope you get back soon, Cutmaster-san! I need an opinion here. Is this legit? It looks a bit aggressive for a 0 day account.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we could stand to use headlines for over 1,000 wicks, especially if there is little interest. Anyone up for an It Got Worse headline?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't mind nesting stuff like Five Man Band's roles, where the tropes are the sum of the biggest trope when combined, or something like but I absolutely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, it could possibly result in duplicates. I haven't ever actually seen it cause a duplicate, but I certainly admit that it's not only possible, it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would be ideal, yes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's because they are impatient. They sit there hammering the edit button, which will continuously reset the clock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm leaning that way, but not to the point of 100% committal...he's not all that much of a pain in IP; it's just this one topic that he's being really... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Uh, this is in the morgue and not locked. Anyone know why? The fact that there is disconnect between examples and the definition of Troll keeps coming... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, guessing the odds on that aren't high. In other news, this has been percolating for a while: Now that TRS threads are archived, I think we need... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I can set both repair shop and image pickin' to 100. I'll do that. Making it so that individual forums have a limit would take more programming than... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmmm, I see IP is fine, but TRS is acting up. I was able to make a new thread even though the number of threads right now should be three times the cap... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Added. I'm also going to add that to The Forum Rules OP under 'OTC specific rules'.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Why any particular religion/political group/gender/video game/colour is bad/wrong/evil. The topics aren't bad, but the phrasing is.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should we pull mod fiat and make it a Useful Notes or something? edited 10th Oct '12 1:36:57 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Computer problems persist, and I'm going to see the folks back home for a couple of days, so I probably won't be online much if at all until Wednesday... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, is this in any way related to the "TV Tropes 2.0" brainstorming we did a while back? Could you possibly give some more details of the system you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm just going to throw out there that unilateral removal of features without discussion is one of those things that gets people grumpy at us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The cut was sparked by having to go into the Four Temperament Ensemble article for the third time to clear out the silly use of the markup to show what... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Who closed the IP thread for AI Is A Crapshoot? If this is going to be an admin keep situation, can we at least swap it out for the cleaner version that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sure.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool; I'll do that as soon as I get home. EDIT: Done; the page is tagged and it's added to the list in the IP policy thread. edited 25th Oct '12 3:31:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe you should sacrifice an iPhone or something. You know, in case there are gods, after all. You'll be safe and dry while every house around you gets... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Romantic Plot Tumor has a rather generic "no pics or quotes" tag that was asked about in the IP policies thread...just wanted to verify that this is valid... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good point. I'll reword the tag and add it to the list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just found out through the grapevine that the IP thread for Seinfeld Is Unfunny got closed abruptly. Again, assuming it's an admin keep, but the page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I accidentally deleted it, but Telcontar posted that she unlaunched a YKTTW in ATT by tinkering with Firebug to make the restore button appear. Is that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's okay.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Marq is in his nitpicky phase. "Evilish" is different from evil, facefull and faceful are different....I suggest we tell him to knock it off.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, he's sent me two P Ms, the first stating that "faceful" is a word the same way "mouthful" is, and asserting that it wasn't a stealth TRS thraed because... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's great, Morven, congratulations! edited 13th Nov '12 5:11:09 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Congrats, Morven.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? She probably lives on the Eastside. Bellevue or Issaquah. Whatever you do, don't make it so you have to take either of the bridges over the lake in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back Katrikabobikaspanikopikachubedobedo. edited 16th Nov '12 12:00:31 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes and yes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What purpose does the main redirect serve? Both Google search and title search bring up the page whether it has a main redirect or not. It only makes namespaces... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Super succesful thread is succesful! They knocked over 4700+ wicks in only one week. Thanks to the wiki headlines and the faux redlink, it couldn't have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now, if we could funnel that effort into getting the Nightmare Fuel wicks knocked out...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some guys over the VN forum want to have two versions of Super Dangan Ronpa 2, one filled with spoiler tags and another being less-spoilery and following... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I need a second opinion about Karma Houdini. The thread decided to widen it so it applies outside villains, but nothing's been done and everyone is using... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe what we need is a dedicated sexism in media thread in the OTC where it's at least on topic and we can kick out anyone who isn't mature enough to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, quick question: what index do disambig pages (for works with multiple versions) go on?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woop[s. Looks like we have an Ambiguity Index.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm curious what the rationale was for approving the cut request for FridgeHorror.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. I don't see any discussion for it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is it time to switch back to the normal logo?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, yeah. Thanks for spotting that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best wishes, 'cat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I suspect that we need some sort of limitation on the ability of new accounts to post reviews or review comments. Maybe a throttling system like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be spotty for the next several days. Spending time with my family. Boring. I'll take a laptop with me but I won't be able to be online as much as... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fixed the to do bug. The tinyurl workaround will have to be with us for a while longer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be absent for a couple of days. Family, etc...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? List of threads nuked to clean up the mod forum: TV Tropes the TV show (three posts about what to do with it) The Ventrillo Server Cutmaster requests... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woops. It doesn't actually work. I'll fix it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, okay. Wonder if we need to exclude or flag those mobile IPs, as they could potentially cause false-positives in an IP match.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^Good to know.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A question arose and was discussed in Skype about ownership of materials posted in Writer's Block. Unlike other forums where there's little concern that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Posted and pinned in Writer's Block.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy and Merry everyone.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? From a completely silly point of view, how about a coloring contest? We find (or do) some somehow-site-related line-art, and make it available, then anyone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wonder about making a deal out of Valentines Day, considering how many of our posters are young, single, and angsty about it...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you! Can someone add me on Skype (elizabeth.kew.9) to begin with? Anyway, questions so far: What do the green and the question marks mean on the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Green means that the username and password are the same. Eddie added that as a way to quickly identify such accounts, because some of our recurring vandals... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You can modify your Herald greeting. Use this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/herald_setup.php?t=images Replace the word 'images' at the end of the URL with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry, Wilbyr, I'm not getting your meaning. edited 25th Feb '14 11:35:22 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nor am I. If we can blacklist IPs as needed, that will (eventually) use up all the methods that Nate and vandals like him can utilize to access the site... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Which is the human approval of account requests idea. I'd like to try to do as much automation as we can before going to the full hands-on manual approach... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes. He needs to stop making it all about him and other people need to stop talking about him (rather than his posts).... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? When his points are all just talking about himself and his feelings, it's hard to refute them without talking about him. Especially when he keeps begging... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there anything that you cover to the exclusion of other mods that you want support with?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope the 3 months will just fly by and when I'm back in Finland and settled in properly I'll be right back in the Mod team.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gonna be gone for most of the day, the wifi is being screwy at the plant and I can't get Skype on my Nook.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A limited search/replace function on Related pages; also fixing the way those pages record article counts Hrmmm .... what is that supposed to be?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am somewhat dubious - I do think that "prettying up the story" does count as a trope, even if it attracts junk examples. Thus, I would keep GTS on mainspace... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know, I wonder how many of the various tropes on Garnishing The Story are actually subtropes of that concept. I am not convinced, for example, that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So that is why that thing has been stuck... Anyhoo, my request for comment list on Skype is: Has someone been following the discussions here? http://tvtropes.org... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If there are editing similarities, a plain edit ban may suffice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? RE: the content policy...disappointed but unsurprised. So what did you think of Eddie's little rant in the meta thread in TRS? I think he's way too focused... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something is going on with my Skype this morning. Not sure if it's affecting everyone else, but I can't receive any new messages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Slack is just another messaging client. It's what the dev deam uses, so if we want to collab with them efficiently, we should use it too. There's no... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone remember what the date X - the date where Eddie changed the license - is?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I updated the post in Writer's Block to make it compatible with the license. I did not want to restate it in full. The purpose of that post is to help... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bounced "Fetchy" as a spammer; see their edits on Media.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Title and article/link title proposal (for 2.0) This is something I've been thinking up during uni (while waiting for NMR data), so here goes nothing. Basically, have it so that each article (complete... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt Welcome to the first TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt. A weekly event where tropers race each other through the wiki to find this week's list of items. The person... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt I guess you didn't like the idea of teams? It does add a level of complexity to running the game.... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt I have quite a few possibilities, but there's a good chance that people will come up with answers I don't. It's fine. I can grade them.... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt No, it's on my todo list but I've been a little overloaded with my gram. Her vision got worse in one eye right after. It's why I've been on less.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Makes sense. I'll edit the OP to that effect.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Among others, Demon King Nobunaga, Dracula, Rasputin The Evil Warlock, Rei Ayanami Expy and We Didnt Start The Fuhrer.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Well, if the idea is that all tropes covered by this concept should be renamed to have an "archetype" suffix, that is going to require a bit of work and... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Nope. Tried to get people to nail that down, no one was interested.... More Mod Jabberings Possible Notification/Watchlist improvements Something that I've mentioned in moderator discussions is to boost up the watchlist/notifications in the forum: First and foremost, have the red dot in... More Mod Jabberings Colocating forum threads in wiki discussion pages (and vice versa) This has been discussed on Skype, a feature to allow forum threads to be displayed on wiki discussion pages, and vice versa to allow wiki discussion threads... More Mod Jabberings Colocating forum threads in wiki discussion pages (and vice versa) A few considerations: I am not sure if the idea of wiki discussion pages having forum threads in fully collapsed view is good - I think having some part... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters We need some way to track down already isolated articles for review. I don't fancy a Wiki Walk to look for anything with the "M" tag in the upper left... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters I'd say Urotsukidouji wouldn't need isolation. It talks about there being rapes, but doesn't go into a bunch of prurient detail about the rapes. Ditto... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters I'd say it is clearly about the details. Remember that keywords just fail to show paying ads, they don't bring cancellation notices. Takes a human reader... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Just a reminder: we aren't in TV Tropes 2.0. This is more like 1.2.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Using the 'back' button on my browser no longer returns me to cached copies of my forum watchlist, but now reloads the page. I'm not sure if this is a... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Another thing: posting naked URLs gets them stripped of the protocol and hostname components by the parser, breaking the link if the post is edited afterwards... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Seems to work.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version I've been seeing during my "new page" patrolling that sometimes the dropdown only opens up half, with the lower part missing.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker The following was a thread titled " Mixedfan/Media Man is a monster! (CALLING ALL UK’ers, LET ME KNOW YOU’:" created by The Zman 88, who had no edits or... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker This was a thread by johneved, now bounced, with the title " BUY FAKE PASSPORTS CURRENCIES UK DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS VISA FALSE DOCU": We produced the best... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker I wonder if anyone's stupid enough to believe that shit.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Some weird posts on this discussion by midomidi2013: http://www.enjz.net/%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%81/%D8%... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Done.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker jasonmyron123 posted this here: [url=http://www.google.com]mcsa[/url] <a href=" http://www.amazon.com/"> "Foo":http://foo.bar [example](http://www.example.com... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker From iverson on this discussion: ILLUMINATI SOCIETY IN SOUTH AFRICA +27835410199 Use Whats App JOIN ILLUMINATI SOCIETY TODAY +27835410199 There is a history... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist The page that displays when you view a deleted forum thread should be meta-tagged as "no-index", so search engines like Google ignore it.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Proposal to improve IP monitoring of accounts, especially of banned accounts. Current system Tracks IP addresses along with wiki edit and forum posts,... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Another thing discussed on and off on Skype: A ban from creating pages. A person with such a ban could participate in YKTTW and edit articles but not edit... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Also, rendering Mod Central readable in Night Time mode is necessary.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist edited 18th May '15 4:55:41 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Something that was discussed in Skype: The account creation form should not accept accounts made from localhost IPs or the like and create an error warning... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Two last things: The "unlaunch" button on YKTTW needs to be repaired. Replacing the "puppet checker" link on forum posts (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Two things regarding the "Mod Central" page: It would be nice if for each IP address on it there were links to the corresponding http://www.utrace.de/... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Could we get unopened threads waiting on Mod Approval to have their names bolded or something so we can pick them out easier while scanning the forums?... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist It is, but when I'm scanning the forum I don't always notice the 1s. They sort of blend into the background for me and I miss them.... More Mod Jabberings Discussing the new site design Something I've noticed in the mobile version is that the moderator tools don't appear in the Tools bar.... More Mod Jabberings Improving report systems on the site We were discussing changing the tools that people use to report issues to us in Skype; I figure that using a dedicated thread was better than discussing... More Mod Jabberings Improving report systems on the site To expand on this a bit, each site content element (wiki article [and later, individual elements of the article], forum thread, YKTTW post, YKTTW comment... More Mod Jabberings Improving report systems on the site If a resolution has been selected, but not sent yet, it locks out resolution for any other mod so that there aren't contradictory responses.... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. Just thinking about how this might look. Feel free to edit or scratch completely. Change in site ownership! We are now partnered with ShareTV, a TV streaming... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. The tropers are a wierd bunch. Questions that we anticipate may not come up at all.Questions that we never dreamed would be asked even once may come up... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. Hey guys, I wanted to jump in here and introduce myself. My name is Chris Richmond. I'm the one who started Share TV and will be taking over the development... More Mod Jabberings Update The problem with the family tree builder is that, shockingly, our users are frequently terrible at understanding trope relationships. It's like asking... More Mod Jabberings Update Something else I just noticed that's bad: The link to the page source is gone. Being able to open just the source for the content, without all the html... More Mod Jabberings Update I mostly agree with Maddy's comments ...the bolded links aren't really gelling with me, although I do like the color.... More Mod Jabberings Update Appreciate the feedback thus far! Keep it coming. Couple of responses: We certainly do not want to become a "generic wiki site." The bulk of our efforts... More Mod Jabberings Mod labels I can make some really dumb edits at times, and it would be good if they weren't flagged as mod edits.... More Mod Jabberings Mod labels done... More Mod Jabberings development priorities FYI: Here's the way I'm grinding through the current development projects. Other than emergencies, I'll be focusing all my wiki development time on these... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Edited the list. Ptitles ... well, that bear is sort of dancing. Meaning that there is at least some way to punctuate titles. The other items on the list... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I've got all the mod tools bookmarked, so that one wouldn't really have that much effect on me.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Putting ptitles replacement at the top moves everything else way down. If you take my meaning. It's a big chunk of time, even though we do have a largish... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Afterthought: Perhaps the function should be the constructor of an object. The function will know the dimensions of the image by the time it is done, and... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That part is Morven's job. edited 18th Sep '10 7:41:04 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Well, this is disconcerting. There is supposed to be a plain text redirect to every ptitle, right? It is to laugh. About 1/4 have them. For the ptitle... More Mod Jabberings development priorities . . . We have ptitle redirects to other ptitles. Joy. Anyway, the number of redundant ptitles, particularly incorrect ones, is astounding. Any ideas... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I think we can automate the cuts. We will need to make it so that each line is marked keep or don't-keep. A script can go through and delete all the items... More Mod Jabberings development priorities OK. That will make things a whole lot simpler.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities The link is useful. We can redlink it if there is nothing there. The link above works fine for me. edited 22nd Sep '10 3:03:05 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Well, whatever was going on before, it works for me now. Edit: Some plaintext titles seem to retain some of the special characters. Example: Kajs Fødselsdag... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Transliteration should be fixed now. Missed a character.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities It needs clear instructions, both about what it's supposed to do and how to use it. For one thing it needs to be crystal-clear whether it's allowable to... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I added some directions to the page and tweaked that background color. It should be clear, I hope, that it can be used to clear out bad ptitles. It also... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Tuef and Camacan are on board. I haven't heard back from 'cat or Anonymous Mc Cartney Fan yet edited 26th Sep '10 5:38:04 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I'd like to nominate "Expanding the banner system" for the list. It would be helpful to have at least a Spoiler banner (like the Flame Bait banner) so... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Regarding 'CSS refactoring': There are now css files for white, black, pink, and tan. These are essentially the CSS for white with overrides. If the overrides... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Well, since today's test of the ptitle replacement spectacularly failed, I could take out a little time to make it more universal. The comment on the profile... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Should we announce this somewhere in the TRS so that tropers know to ask a mod to move the discussion page?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Eddie, having that eraser bot kill threads that haven't had a response in a month in TRS and Image Pickin is completely counterproductive. The more difficult... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I suppose we can exempt TRS and Image Pickin'. We've got to do something with the others, though. We're lugging around about 5 GB of dead stuff.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities You know how Discussion pages used to be PageNameDiscussion, before they were converted to a forum-lite system? Now it's a separate URL path starting... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations Second for Willbyr — he's good people. He works for results and helps with threads that are bogged down in discussion. edited 31st May '11 11:08:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not seeing a reason to let him off the hook.... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff Testing bullet indentation for a logged task. Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3 Bullet 2 again Bullet 3 again Numbered 1 Numbered 1 Numbered 2 Numbered... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff Testing bullet indentation for a logged task. Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3 Bullet 2 again Bullet 3 again Numbered 1 Numbered 1 Numbered 2 Numbered... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Bond James Bond posted the following spam-like text in Ask The Tropers. Deleted it and zapped them and saving this here for record keeping: Produced playwright... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I responded in ATT.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I've had a lot of trouble finding work as well. Partly due to that and partly down to the public transport in this part of the West Midlands being... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.36.179.234 Dilkasura http://nutritionplanreview.com/bio-rocket-blast/: 39.42.160.166 argrjack http://supplementstest.org/epic-male-enhancement/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 182.186.192.168 griongain http://www.healthsupreviews.com/epic-male-enhancement/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Nardsren 182.186.148.156 https://www.oralhealthplus.com/pure-cbd-hemp-oil/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.128.95 Samuel Jorge http://supplementq.org/enhance-mind-iq/... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Can we blacklist "zyacin" somehow?... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info You guys can reach me at theblueninja@gmail.com if the need arises.... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 18... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 19... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 20... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 22... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 28... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods https://properio.slack.com... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Almost certainly a bug related to the recent changes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's an odd failure mode. What does "broken" mean exactly, in this context?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding Purpleand Red: They placed a review for The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword. Said review contains a lot of gripes about Double Standards and complainy... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre danieltkins 150.242.63.93 http://www.healthmegamart.com/platinum-cleanse-xl/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre aurorabellac 182.69.124.80 http://www.healthitcongress.com/aurora-bella-cream/: Harwort 182.186.204.59 http://www.7supplements.org/iq-genex/: Sandraperry... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 27.5.28.65 rosbaslopez http://www.mysupplementsera.com/crazy-bulk-reviews/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.150.144 DavidGullet http://supplement4help.com/true-testo/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre A Violet Dawn posted a "zyacin" ad... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.173.62 Faye Young http://healthflyup.com/zytek-xl/... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, we have currently having a little spam wave.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker ChristianBethel2 posted Holocaust denialism on discussion pages for Literature.Mein Kampf, Literature.The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, UsefulNotes.The... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Excellent company work ethic and mod support.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Zapped this review by Europeiscool on Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina This series is not appropriate. They are taking a ahow aimed at fakilies and turning... More Mod Jabberings Private Documentation Topic This topic will be to document site processes and coding that we need to know because it affects our work, but the details of which should be kept private... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners Crowners are being started way too early and by reflex action. I think they should only be started by mods who have had a look to see if the options have... More Mod Jabberings Thumps I generally will PM someone if I thump for rudeness. I try to always PM if I thump for a personal attack. I figure it this way: the thumping is cleaning... More Mod Jabberings Thumps I pretty much always PM people when I thump posts, because people need to know what it was that was unacceptable.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Just as a funny thump tag. As in, troper says something dumb and inappropriate, and instead of the Stick of Off-Topic Thumping, they get the Brick of... More Mod Jabberings Thumps If that's what he's planning, it would be wonderful. In other news, "thump" has now ceased looking like a word. edited 21st Mar '11 1:08:56 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Thank you, Eddie! This will be very useful once it's complete.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps pickapackafirecrackasisboombah... More Mod Jabberings Thumps This just to test.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps How close are we to being able to see a display of who's been thumped for what?... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Woops. Uh ...soon?... More Mod Jabberings Completely secret stuff I was wondering how that went. You are a freaking saint.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Since the custom titler doesn't seem to think that "decline" is a valid reason to remove a request from the queue right now, I figured that a place where... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined for making this thread. That green bar's been bugging at me for a while, but I didn't want to approve it because I thought it constituted a retitling... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined It was. My mistake in typing.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Yes, this thread is a good idea. I also think wholesale renames through Custom Titles are generally not the best way to do it. Title adjustments, yes.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined gotcha... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I cleared it. Something still hinky about declining something that has been changed and then declined.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Apparently Theoman Zero thinks Ratchet And Clank Going Commando and Ratchet And Clank Up Your Arsenal need depunctuating. I think not.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I sent Old Man Oh Ho a pm asking for an explanation of the H 2 G 2 prefix he was appending to those custom title requests.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined There's a request to change Invisible Advertising to ~Invisible Advertising~, and the requestor field is empty. Er?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I declined it and then came here, what Bobby said.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined ? Must be a bug. I'll look at it.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Someone requested that Brilliant But Lazy be changed to "BrilliantButLazy" and the customizer won't let me decline it.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined "I'll make him a custom title request he can't refuse."... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Someone just requested that we change You Make Me Sic to "You Make Me [sic]". Honestly I'm on the fence about this one; I want to decline it but I think... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Whee. For some reason it seemed to work if you were changing an existing title, just not if you were making a new one.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I declined Tyop On The Cover. Because. If someone wants to accept I'm good with that, I'm not doing it.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I declined the This is Spinal Tap request because there was no 'i' in Spinal and it won't go away. I also asked Dragon Quest Z to resubmit.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined There are two that don't look right that I can't decline.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined The lovely maze of character encodings.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined cutwithoutthe is submitting a custom title request for his troper name to E(Cut From The Team) is this how handles are changed now? And two, will the parantheses... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined St Fan, or should I say St-Fan seems passing keen on the hyphen. I-cannot-tell-which-of-the-many-requests-are-excessive-and-which-are-correct. edited 14th... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Now-you-sound-like-a-robot. Beeeep.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Quick question - the last few requests I've seen haven't had anything in the "change to" box...what does that mean?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined It means that particular wiki word doesn't have a custom title associated with it yet, so the "requested/existing" box is what the troper wants us to associate... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Very confusing name, there. It wants to be a list of tropes only found on live action television. Maybe Always Live-Action Television would be a better... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I think "Live-action" does usually come with a hyphen; and the "a" in "action" isn't capitalised. If there's no hyphen, the "a" is capitalised.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined changing Nanoha The Movie First to Nanoha The MOVIE 1st...can't find a reference to that particular capitalization; if someone does one that just... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I don't really know what to do with the request to change Hansel And Gretel...the requested wiki word already redirects to the English title.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I've been seeing a lot of recap page custom titles that cut off everything after the colon. I'm not sure if it's a bug or a troper error.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined "Smarter than You Look", because you capitalize subordinate conjunctions in titles. edited 21st Jun '12 12:46:03 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Yup... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Erforce's request to custom title The Devil And Max Devlin to "The Devil and the Max Devlin" due to the extra "the".... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Careful with the requests. Someone tried to troll us by submitting a request to make Good Is Not Soft dispay as The Shepard. Mass Effect idiots... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Lord Gro's request to make Franchise.Dungeons And Dragons display with an ampersand. I don't know why, but the custom display showed as "Dungeons... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I declined a bunch from Stfan that had "non sequitur" hyphenated in them, but he replied that it can be hyphenated and that we have a bunch of tropes that... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Not a declined, but one I didn't approve: Making More Teeth Than The Osmond Family display as More Teeth Than the Osmond Family. For some reason it just... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I believe that's right. 'The Osmond Family' is the name one thing, a compound noun.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined There is a request to make Science Is Bad display as Science is Bad. Is there any reason to not capitalize "is"? edited 10th Jul '12 12:42:58 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Medinoc's request to display "MRS Degree" as "Mrs. Degree" for two reasons: It's usually pronounced M-R-S, in keeping with other degrees —... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Kuro Bara Hime's request to make My Girlfriend Is The President display as My Girlfriend is the President. What's with all the rush to make "is... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined 640k's request to make Lampshaded Double Entendre display as Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge. I'm honestly tempted to write it off as a troll request.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Pop Goes The Human -> "Pop" Goes the Human. It showed as blank, meaning it's that jerk double quote bug again.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I do not understand how this place works any more. According to the Namespace page the correct name space for a Video Game is VideoGame not Videogame.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined OK, is that only for titles that require a custom title or is it for all titles? When I did a spot check on the Video Game index almost all of them were... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Got it, thanks.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I'm seeing a bunch of requests to strip the years from certain work titles. For example, to make Red Dawn 1984 display as just "Red Dawn". Was there some... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I haven't been touching those, since I'm not sure. It sees only erforce is making the requests. I dunno, that seems confusing to me. Most people look at... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Those are all marked as declined.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined That's odd, because they were there, working fine a few days ago. I had accepted a few of them myself. Who declined them? edited 28th Dec '12 12:53:45... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre mcethan 203.177.74.139 jlyell 173.85.117.204 vtworksforwomen 75.147.54.113 pompapah 75.171.211.3 edited 8th Jun '11 12:45:17 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre If I posted a name here, I already edit banned it. If you are bouncing accounts, that's your thing of course.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Cool. With the new one-account-per IP thing, an edit ban should be as good for these as a bounce.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre chrisdooley 86.160.82.84... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Good to know. Now I won't have to be suspicious about the guy on the pool team whose name is identical to one of the banned handles.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre It's on!... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Helengrigsby 94.200.129.234... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Nice attentiveness there. You beat me by a significant factor.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I just happened to have finished reloading my gun when he tried to run across the alley.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Stacyjones 24.8.59.243... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Sometimes folks use external links in edit reasons to justify an edit, linking to official sources and whatnot.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre shanebrown220 120.28.199.220... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Put in a thing that prevents new accounts from posting external links in the forum.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Didn't find any posting history or wiki edit or cut history for rankinanks. Possible typo?... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre hmmm. I cut and pasted the window that comes up when you ban some one into that post and then nuked the thread. Shit. I think I edit banned rather than... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Joompros 219.64.194.68... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Pm'ed FE but stashing this here: Edgy has used these IP addresses in the forum: 65.220.13.2 All tropers using those addresses: Edgy... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre biscuit67 got through somehow, smooshed him.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre PacoCro — 93.139.56.128. Banned.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre done... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Yeah. Looks iffy. Will remedy.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Ibla Ib Ia IGIAIR Ie Ielbl 115.78.135.30... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre lblalblal GAR Ieeb I, 119.160.30.54... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre What Bobby said. Bounced the Anonono dude.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Need a nuke on T Eh F Ageddie... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Ah, ok.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre hingly 87.229.7.206 unsanity 109.160.87.43 edited 29th Oct '11 2:46:37 AM by Ironeye... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Baba again — there was discussion page spam for both of those. Cleared.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Eddietehfishy has used these IP addresses in the forum: 217.96.70.146 All tropers using those addresses: Eddietehfishy fio has used these IP addresses... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Fastest Eddie has used these IP addresses in the forum: 188.227.160.250 All tropers using those addresses: Fastest Eddie Baba... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Vandal: nanaAmeer 190.120.0.28... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I like hellbanning, but that's really difficult to implement on a wiki. How would you code it so a user sees their edits but not anyone else's? Maybe... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre It does seem like a corner case of last resort notion, for exactly those reasons.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I don't think we need handle-specific hellban articles, but just keep alternate versions of articles that are only visible to an account that's flagged... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre It might keep them occupied for a while, and maybe they'll get bored in that time. I guess it really depends on whether the extent to which this would... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I'm reading those last two as, once a misbehaving handle is identified, have the system seek out its edits and revert them. That may be possible. We have... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Right; autowiping/hiding only the versions that are still the head is the safest approach, but should still handle a good chunk of cases. Then the edit... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 182.178.38.57 belongs to a spambot. Turns out that they can post on liveblogs without being registered.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre All from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Nothing else in common, by that's a very, very rare city to post from, so I blocked it.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre wrightjennifer00 send me a spam PM. Banned.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre So, there are no handles associated with those Discussion posts? Seems like a security hole.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre rohit882 125.19.97.170 is a forum spammer.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre More liveblog spammers; rajabhau 216.185.63.153 is today's one.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Qzz10011 (59.127.37.147) Spamming a link about a store opening.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Didn't know where to post about this one, but I figured this board was troublesome enough that we might need a thread for it in future anyway. So, I've... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Apart from complaints, it does seem a bit redundant. Still, may help to include in the announcement that you're open to alternate solutions. With the caveat... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Agreed; IJAM is harmless, I think, and cutting two boards, one of which isn't directly causing any trouble, seems to me like it would upset people more... More Mod Jabberings IJBM May need to emphasize "There are parts of IJBM that are worth saving", if only to hope people read the whole post though before ranting. Seems fairly evenhanded... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Let's watch Yack Fest. If a rage thread or other IJBM thread in disguise shows up, just zap it.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM The power of the early notice is revealed. This whole communications thing is a gas. Gotta try it again some time.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I was sorta hoping Random Complaints would fail to immigrate, but since it has, there is probably some value in treating it like Fetishes. Making it known... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Time to move Fetishes to Yack Fest, given the overwhelming preference shown in the poll? I'm thinking so, and will do it in a few hours if nobody objects... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods [[rules]]... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Well, Eddie, care to elaborate on the letters? I know the Herald badge, but...... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Makese sense. Do we need to buy badges for our jobs, though, or do we get them for free?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Just placeholders. Badges for positions won't be for sale.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod How do you lock a crowner? And if you do, how would you know if it was successful?... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Cool. Yes, on the font thing. I'm sure there are other many other attributes that could be set in a more global fashion, as well. You remember the ruckus... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering That would be "discussionlink", right? Does "comixlink" still mean anything? I assume "urllink" and "createlink" are external and redlinks; "minorlink"... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Err... your last change to the inline styles lost the cc-by-sa rules before I was able to grab them. Is the left-side floatbox still used? If so, I'd like... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Well, something worth looking at: http://tangent128.name/depot/tvtw/css-20110201.zip The main wiki CSS files are under css/, the more readable LESS sources... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering The change is are not necessary; just differences of taste, I guess. Only slight tweaks needed to get closer to the production look. edited 3rd Feb '11... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Okay. I have to hand distribute the changes to each of the five web servers, so let's get as much done in one as possible. I already zapped the namespace... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering I think the left-column clipping has been fixed by adjusting inline styles in the template.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Okay, [1] should have the needed bits. Addressed: Tools menu font size and over-indentation Fixed some sprite offsets that had suffered a regex accident... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering It seems that hammered out the biggest dents. What phase is the next priority? Factoring in other page types should go more quickly than the initial one... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering I'd say the next item would be to make some sense out of http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/template.css. That can be done without tables fairly easily,... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Which pages use template.css? I got the impression it was somewhat of a wildcard. Though it's good to not require JS, I don't think hover-pop menus will... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering OK, looks like I'll be open any time from 1 to 5. As well as some time in the evening, to be determined. So, you should be able to call me as "tangent128... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Okay, but one of my guys showed up at the house today after a big blow-up with his girl, is in a major hurt, and needs some Bro time. I don't think I'll... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Nothing blocking immediately comes to mind. I should be present.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Something about the page header buttons... they highlight whenever you mouse over the boxed region, but the click only registers on the text. It's inconsistent... More Mod Jabberings OTC As I'm sure you all have noticed, the standards of discourse in OTC are lower than the rest of the forum and wouldn't pass muster anywhere else. The OTC... More Mod Jabberings OTC ninj'd... More Mod Jabberings OTC I've never been sure what to do with that thread, myself.... More Mod Jabberings OTC Although it is out of character for OTC I really think that thread needs to stay there. Putting it in Yack Fest makes it that much more public and I still... More Mod Jabberings OTC I never even considered the possibility of it being a hoax... Have I forgotten that we're on the Internet? (*Existential crisis incoming...*)... More Mod Jabberings OTC I'm not entirely convinced it's legit yet, either. But at least one of the people posting there who is also a regular poster elsewhere (and has shown no... More Mod Jabberings Unban request Dude trolled some threads and then went into full on ban evasion mode after being dealt with. We don't want him back, ever. Sounds like he has a problem... More Mod Jabberings Unban request Yeah, I've relented on the Inky Quill account, the one he used to PM that, saying that I hope he will be able to find that place again in his future posts... More Mod Jabberings The Ventrilo Server To the best of my ability to tell, the Ventrilo server is no longer operational. Given that paid time was supposed to run out this month, it's not particularly... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Yup. A little appreciation goes a really long way.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Not specifically about the mods, but still, it's nice to hear what people appreciate: Why I'm Grateful for TV Tropes... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think I'm in love with that silly man.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'm fairly sure I've never seen a site other than ED that would actually jump on something as silly as "go ahead and mock me now, asshats!" (paraphrased... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I remembering giving FE an appreciation PM once.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Got this in reply from Enkufka after letting them know they didn't need to apologize for hollering. Ok, thank you. I'll remember that. :) The mods get... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Groovy!... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: PM I got from Bleidd Whitefalcon Thank you Thanks for all the hard work you and the other mods put into the site. Might not seem like it from the userbase... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I got it too.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Anybody else getting the feeling that we have turned a corner back toward a cool place to be? I do. knock wood.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Made me feel a bit guilty, as my time has been so split lately... But glad, to know that there are people who support the effort of keeping the site together... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Yeah. Although it's probably too early to tell whether it's solid or just widespread relief that the fighting has died down. edited 18th Jan '12 1:12:47... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: It's not really a mod thing so much as a TRS thing, but as that's the largest chunk of what I do on the wiki, here it is: To use a positive example, when... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: 18, but I sometimes get mistaken for younger. Well. Quite a few times. Not sure why!... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Pass me the Geritol when you get a chance.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: ...am I the youngest mod?... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: No, my girl.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: My age is on my troper page. I don't feel old, certainly, and I love hanging out with younger people. Possibly it's because I have strong interests in... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I am 5' 1/2" (that half inch is important, dammit). And as usual, the shortest. :P And also 35. edited 7th Mar '12 6:43:18 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I also got a thank you PM for forum-banning P Down.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you both for those calls.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: If you want to read thumped posts in case it becomes important for further moderation, just hit the edit button on the post and you can see it. It's a... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Cool. <cynic>What's she trying to butter you up for?</cynic>... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Kind words. [1]... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: both ways.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I got a thank you for responding to a holler super fast in this thread. ...it feels kinda weird. >.>... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Here are my radical ideas: Close the rightmost column. All it does is cause work, with the exception of Old Folks. Make what is now OTC invitation only... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules A note requiring respect for administrative and moderator decisions, which emphasises that a mod or admin decision is to be taken as the official word... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules My main concerns are: Maximising moderator effectiveness in dealing with behaviour which disrupts discussions. Repairing trust between tropers and moderators... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Not locked. Zapped. If they can lure us into talking about them and the page is still up, they get their trollish jollies. The SA forum removal from the... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Oh, it's also worth noting that SA has a very explicit, and enforced, policy against trolling the sites it makes fun of. SA posters are banned from interfering... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules That's a tricky line to draw, because as you noted the non-regulars may be inspired to troll other sites despite the policy against it. If you stir shit... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Oh, definitely. I suspect the rule is there to limit SA's legal exposure, really.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Awww FE, it is a little depressing but looking at it is better than pretending like it isn't there.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I've always read it as implied.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules + 1 for explicitly stating that we don't dig rules lawyers. This post by TParadox has got me thinking. It's an interesting observation. Antagonistic relation... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Well, that clears things up. The impression I've gotten from pieces of the forums are as follows: Wiki-side: The workshops can get heated, and seeing... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Yeah, the rest of the Media threads have been almost entirely problem-free during the time I've been a mod.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Kind of refreshing to hear someone lay it out like that.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Most of the thumps are self-explanatory; if you need clarification on something, ask a mod.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Looks good to me.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Cool; where does it need to go, specifically?... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Doing what Wilbyr suggested in the Skype channel. These are the Tech Wishlist items that are still open, so we can see which ones are feasible and put... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist And more: Add numbers to comments in YKTTW like forum posts Change to how the Related to... pages sort links Related threads: 1, 2, 3, 4 Issue with editing... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Starting from the back: a tool that, at the click of a button, does the following Parses wicks on the "Related To" page, following each one. For every... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 11: Discussion on switching to Unicode (can probably be closed) "Find your reviews" cutoff Minimum word count for reviews Bolding text changes in... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 10: Put links in avatars (consensus is to limit this to in-wiki links) Have options for sorting thread watchlist (I don't use that function so I dunno... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 2: Red potholes turn double quotes into simple quotes "enter changes" bug in YKTTW (not able to fix?) Improvements to search (not sure if feasible... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 1: Markup escape doesn't work with emoticons Mass vandal reverter Problem with Reviews list when you read your own reviews Related thread(s) 1 Losing... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards I marked them. I'm having some trouble imagining making the image flagger tool general-access. We're sure to get at least one asshole who thinks it is... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards Public? No. A chosen group who have demonstrated that 1) they get the concept, and 2) know how to keep their account secure? Sure. The P5 is working out... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned Every mod post in Edit Banned should, I think, be seen as an opportunity to make a friend for the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I've stopped directing people to the Help with English thread (as a first resort) because of a lack of interest in that thread on the part of other tropers... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned It doesn't help the really bad ones — nothing short of intensive tutoring will help them. But there are a few who were this far >< from decent... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Started this thread that was discussed in Skype, because there is use to having a thread recording deleted evidence of user's misbehaviours (in e.g deleted... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Some forum spam from a Tantrikswami07 : http://lovevashikaranmantra.net/ world biggest baba ji if you have any problem then you will get solution for... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Spam thread posted by nicknikolaev in Yack Fest. Hi, my name is Nick. I'm the co-founder of the online project management tool called Casual. (casual.pm... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Spam from a hansdeigo: Buy counterfeit money (intersupercurrencies@gmail.com) Euro,Dollar,Pounds We are the best producer of HIGH QUALITY counterfeit... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. It boils down to three things: What is happening? Why? And what does it mean to me? Most people are interested only in the "What does it mean to me?" part... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. The question about us being paid can probably go, but I disagree about the ads; once people hear that the wiki has new owners, advertising is probably... More Mod Jabberings Update Man, am I torn on this...there are lots of things I like with the new design, but the overall impression of the aesthetic is "generic wiki site". I think... More Mod Jabberings Update Maddy, I agree with both your points...I think losing the index bar on pages would not be an improvement, and the "related tropes" thing doesn't make a... More Mod Jabberings Update On the good side, lest you think I hate it all (I don't): I like the font and size used for the page text. It's clear, it's easy to read. I like that... More Mod Jabberings Update Lessee, the first page I went to was Knight Templar and it looked like something that had been written by a character from Jane Austen; all tear stained... More Mod Jabberings Update 'Cat nailed it here: "but the new format made the flaws in the page that much more evident." Personally, like I said, I do like the idea of bolding links... More Mod Jabberings Update Okay, the time has finally come. We are going live with the Kickstarter campaign on Sunday at noon - and making a forum post about the change in Admins... More Mod Jabberings Update That works too - our thought was more money and backers early on might encourage others to join as well. Just a theory though.... More Mod Jabberings Update I do not have a Kickstarter account, and to be honest, even thinking about how to do such a money transfer is giving me leg pain. I've never been good... More Mod Jabberings Custom Title and article/link title proposal (for 2.0) Started a public discussion here over this.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version The "fix link" button in the mod toolbar isn't recognizing me as logged in.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Here◊, Related To of Know The Staff. Btw, Willbyr, you'll have to change your sig link to the uploader.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Thanks for letting me know, I've fixed the link. Here's some other problems, from the TW threads: keyblade 333 reported that he couldn't upload pics... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version The thread clocks no longer show up over individual threads.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version What do you mean about the thread clocks? Bugs are in the queue and will be addressed soon. Are you still having trouble with Edit History in Firefox... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version The thread clock is that clock-like icon you can see in the thread list. Normally, a clocked thread (like this one) displayed the same clock icon, text... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Drew posted a screencap of the new quoteblock to the Skype channel, it'll look good once it goes live. edited 12th Jan '15 5:57:24 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Speaking of mobiles, I can't get the sidebar to display at all on Windows Phone 8.... More Mod Jabberings Improving report systems on the site Spent a while thinking about this. Regarding the first proposal, it seems a bit too much constrained and moderator-centric to me. The standardized report... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I'll comment on issues/suggestions over there, I think.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I would like a mod hat and a holler system for YKTTW.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Yeah, and I would also consider dropping the liveblog flag list and make it so that the liveblog flags immediately go to the Hollers system. Preferably... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Some miscellaneous requests: Issue Helper Maintenance does no longer work properly; you can't edit already existing messages or remove them. New Accounts... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I would like a "Close to launch" tag for the YKTTW to make it faster to go through them and make sure they're actually in a launchable state.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist The "image style" function that currently has to be clicked through in Image Pickin' threads to close them needs to be canned; it's way past the point... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Something for catching certain flavours of IP hopping troublemakers; since a number of them eventually slip up and reuse past IP addresses, having a robot... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Agreed, some way to make them stand out from the others would be nice.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist They only need to be bolded in Mod Vision, but for us, it would be nice.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I figure that if they have only one post, that's a pretty good sign.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE! sorry, couldn't hold it in... More Mod Jabberings Wiki proposal: Unified media genre/category tags I do think there are some tags like Horror that we're going to have to separate. Horror is really better off as a class of plots designed to scare the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 A prototype: http://tangent128.name/depot/tvtw/wa/clippy.html Currently just pops up a line when you click on it or after 10 seconds, am hoping to make... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 got 'em. Thanks shima.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 Prototype has been updated, still at http://tangent128.name/depot/tvtw/wa/clippy.html It gets lines via the PHP script that will actually be used on the... More Mod Jabberings The Spoiler Policy From what I recall about the Persona series, they're not exactly direct sequels, right? If they are, the spoiler is fair game. If not, they should probably... More Mod Jabberings Rules question I got a PM from Ian Ex Machina asking if it's OK to make a thread: I just wanted to ask whether it is ok to create a thread about the double standard... More Mod Jabberings Rules question Mod conference question: In this post, Justice Man wants to organize a mass voting push for the Epic Rap Battles of History thing on Youtube.... More Mod Jabberings Rules question I am a split vote all by myself. Part of me sees no real harm in it and thinks it unlikely that a mass push will result in a mass turnout of votes. Another... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: This will keep me going, through all the stupidity and vandalism for quite a while. It's worth reading all the way through.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Sweet!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Fear the pink!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Pink really isn't really all that scary.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Sez u!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode And this post should not be mod mode. EDIT: whichever end it is on, not seeing it.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Yeah, I clicked the mod mode button and this one looks no different than normal. edited 28th Jun '11 2:42:00 PM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Very Pink. One might even say Pepto Bismol pink. Definitely hard-to-ignore-pink. edited 28th Jun '11 2:49:45 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Now I can be a Real Man!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Would it be possible to have the mod mode toggle on the "edit post" screen just in case we forget to check the box?... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode ^^ This chicken is now my mod hat. It is a mod chicken. ^ Good idea. Seconding that request, if it's feasible.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode That chicken is very becoming Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode serious biz... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Are they aggressive? I guess mine, Meta's and Tangent's look slightly grumpy, but I wouldn't have said aggressive. Unless you mean the black hole, but... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I certainly hope my be-hatted eye isn't any scarier than the normal eye...... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I still have the black hole mod hat avatar. I didn't intend for it to be frightening; I thought it looked cool.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I added a new picture of Vimes in my gallery. I decided that it would be better than my original idea. So I guess I'm going with that.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Oh dear god, /swoon/. (Best Of:Vimes also wants to try editing other people's posts. (I promise never to abuse my powers again, especially not against... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Lookin' goooooood!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode That reminds me, I need to have Eddie switch my mod hat hav around...kinda tired of Gaunt looking bucktoothed.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Ooooh, excellent idea. We shall blind them with white posting spoilers on PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!!!!!!!!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Telcontar, you totally should do Star Wars jokes in your Mod Hat messages.... More Mod Jabberings Security So I saw what happened to Eddie's avatar, and checked Something Awful because that's where our most vocal critics/haters seem to hang out. And I found... More Mod Jabberings Security Looks like it. He just came online, according to Skype. I sent him a note. edited 30th Jul '11 8:54:56 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Security Hmm... let me poke at that...... More Mod Jabberings Security ^^ Well, Solstace said it involved the hidden field thing, but I'm still waiting to hear about the specifics. It's totally weird. Yesterday I was being... More Mod Jabberings Security Quoth Ponicalica: Basically, I'd enter the edit form for one of my posts, open up Chrome's HTML Inspect Element thing, change the text in the hidden fields... More Mod Jabberings Security Yep, closed.... More Mod Jabberings Security Sweet! Thanks for relaying.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Well, the loss of editing privileges for anons at least means we won't have to constantly lock pages to stop unknown tropers from vandalizing them. Gonna... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Hmm... minimum-wise, would it suffice to have a [[nogooglead]] wiki markup? With usage reported, since it's open to abuse by the ad-phobic. Should one... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Regarding the second issue, we have control over which pages we request ad service on, simply by our use of markup. We can flag NSFG pages not to even... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping It is starting to take shape in my head. Two areas of change seem to be indicated: Content isolation and tightened wiki editing privileges. Content isolation... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The ease of getting known will be missed, for sure. But short of an edit quarantine mode in the isolation section for unproven editors (and the diff-merge... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping In any case, I wouldn't mind still being a volunteer mod or being involved in some creative bookkeeping such that the money never enters into my hands... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping OK, still reeling. My immediate response was along the lines of "Holy shit", but I realise that's not very helpful. I've just woken up and I'll be busy... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I wouldn't have any problem with being "employed" by TV Tropes, although the stipend is more or less irrelevant to my financial situation, so I might just... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping An interesting question came up in the Wiki Talk thread. If someone searches for an "adult" subject on Google, such as a hentai work, wouldn't the default... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Can we get a moderator preview of the new Terms of Service, so we can comment/suggest? I've got a strange affinity for legalese.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping It is installed. You should see it the first time you try to edit on the wiki. edited 28th Oct '10 2:35:14 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I've got no problem with giving it to you, Fighteer, but I think it's Eddie's call, not mine.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yep. That. Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The TOS acceptance is carried in a cookie. When you change machines, you have to bake a cookie for that machine. Update: Looks like sometime late tonight... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The Situation link has been added to the TOS. We'll do script initially to isolate certain indexes, but there won't be any automatic isolation for being... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Welcome to the internet. People are dicks here.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping There are reports of pop-ups on the forum pages — is that supposed to be happening?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping On first impression, I can't find any way to see if the article is in isolation or not. There needs to be more visual feedback for the "flip isolation... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping No criticism here.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Alrighty, then. Here's what the appeal submission gizmo says: Your request has been submitted. We will review your request as soon as one of our specialists... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Any new page will be automatically isolated until a mod can check it over?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I figured someone else was working on the list. Pages I hadn't changed were disappearing on refresh.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping On MediaWiki sites, there is a way to view redirect pages without editing them. Is there anything like that for PmWiki?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Thank you! And a question about the merchandise idea — there are three (or four) sound heads who are aware of that they're being asked for a solid... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Hmm, only problem with that is that I can no longer remove the content warning on an article that isn't flagged for attention. It's not a major problem... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Thanks, Eddie. Once again, we appreciate your hard work. Let me go back and ask another question that I wasn't quite clear on. Which subpages are automatically... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yeah, I've just been leaving those behind the wall if I see them.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Woo, I'm done with the flagged pages list!! For now, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I'll beef up the captcha mechanism. It must have caught on that right now it is always the same word. edited 2nd Nov '10 11:48:36 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So I hear Encyclopedia Dramatica's latest idea for a good laugh is to tell people to flag every single article. This should be fun. :/ edited 2nd Nov '... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I think this would be a good idea so long as there is a heavily-publicized mechanism for non-curators to suggest edits to the descriptions and a tool to... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I hit it about once a day, apparently soon after you do, because it's usually scanty. edited 4th Nov '10 8:06:28 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yeah, I've had some slack time at work lately, which is why I've been so active.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Examples.Article sounds workable. Two things: how would this apply to works pages, and could the wiki code be modified to "merge" them so they display... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Each of these top-earner pages would have to be manually chopped up, anyway, so a mod/curator function to create an example page would be pretty easy.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So, basically, we can't function like a wiki because the idea of people being able to edit things that other people can see is potentially offensive?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Tangent's plan does seem to get past both problems — keeping the heavy-hitter pages clean so we can keep Google ads on them, and keeping them generally... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The only issue that bounces up at me is the case where tropers makes a flurry of multiple separate edits on a protected page before a mod can get to it... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The draft page can be user-visible. No reason a person couldn't view Drafts.Conservation Of Ninjutsu. It just isn't the "public face" version of that page... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Eddie, I know you're probably busy with stuff and don't want to spend any more time than necessary on the coding, but it would be really nice if newly... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Well, I will certainly cheer that we appear to a-ok with the good ads again, but I'm ever so slightly underwhelmed by their "Oh gee, we're sorry that... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I thought it was "Google buys TV Tropes". Let's not go too crazy but it would be funny to see how far the meme could propagate before being officially... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping You gonna do the prank or can I update The Situation page with the real scoop? And I'd like to post a list of what will and won't stay behind the curtain... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Agreed. I can snicker about it but it probably wouldn't turn out well. Like the April Fool's prank I pulled once on my office... shudder.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping We're a bit behind on reviewing the flags. I just took care of some obvious ones but the longer the list gets the more daunting it is to go through.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping And I just got the rest.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know, Bobby. His typing issues are one of his Berserk Buttons. There are miles and reams of thread posts out there all about him and how he was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that's just it, he flat out refuses to use proper spelling and grammar, in spite of frequent requests by other posters that he communicate more clearly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^Definitely all take and no give.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I sent a second warning PM to Alex Sora 89. He's got a bad habit of putting personal examples on main wiki articles (latest offense: Its All About Me)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What isn't fantasizing on Troper Tales is Natter or editorializing, not only on main pages. I don't see anything worth keeping him for.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow. Some dickhead has nothing better to do with his life than to go back through 2009 forum posts looking for something to spew bile about.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One tiny bright spot — the guy doing it has said that he's only going to do 100 videos and he's already at #70 or so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Um. I'm not sure, it depends what you mean by more of the same. IIRC, the last straw that got him banned was a rather crude remark about homosexuals,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Unfortunately, when I tried to tell him that, he merely protested that a large number of other tropers were doing much the same thing without causing derails... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK fellow mods I need some input and advice on the Robbie Rotten ban. Here is the summary so that I don't have to write it out again. [1] I just got a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gah. What a dick.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In these cases, an edit ban befre any other step is called for. I've put an edit ban on for Mechanical Pencil.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was wondering. Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There seems to be a run on vandals in the last few days. I'll bet they are from a site that is pushing the effort. I'll look at limiting a new editor's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On Wikia, they have a Captcha in place for whenever a new account hotlinks an external url. Maybe that might be an alternative to banning them outright... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Other possible thing: block putting a URL in the Edit reason field? I can't think of a valid reason to do that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread msus 3380 74.177.94.97 Spamming in Welcome To Tv Tropes. Wiki banned need bounce... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, this is odd. A guy named Loid posted in Ask The Tropers, notionally to complain about another troper, but with an external link: http://www.bugmenot.com... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looking at the edit history on the the Loid/Arthur Dent thing, I'd say what he meant was "Here's another user to ban (ArthurDent), as it is a sign-in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They're fast - it already shows us as blocked there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to banhammer neo, unless someone really wants to plead his case. I'm also going to drop a permaban on del diablo, after Drunkie very kindly pointed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, neither of you two are softies, so I'll try to explain again what's wrong with what he's doing and I'll make it a temp ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We're relaxed about swearing, where there is point to it. But this handle strikes me as unnecessary and inconsiderate. Attached to an edit reason it sets... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I sent a very politely worded PM asking him to change it. He'll need Eddie's help, though, since we put in the block on multiple handles from an IP.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Request google bounce on del_diablo and variant spellings, I forum banned him as deldiablo for trolling OTC (and bragging about it.) He's back with ban-evade... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He really doesn't appear to get it. He's been PM'ing me as well, with stuff like this: "So, I am banned for: 1. Saying something sarcastic 2. Attempting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 3 days should be fine, I think. That's quite some martyred whining there; I unkindly feel that's bannable in itself This has been a problem before, though... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh! Was she the one who got mad at Spainy for killing off a character? Edit: wait, no, that was definitely Midna. edited 16th Jun '11 3:10:16 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ukonkivi bounce installed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Definitely don't default to letting examples in. That'll just get us back into the mess that all of the cleanups were supposed to stop. Part of the problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did, thank you. Since I deleted the discussion thread in question, I banned "tatterdemalian" for going on a conspiracy theorist rant in the discussion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread While he's not exporting a war in the sense of "using us for a base for his attacks," I'd say that he's certainly passed the threshold of being a dick... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was my sense as well. By posting there anonymously on an IP that traces back to his edits on this site, he's linked us to his little crusade. We... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Disavow away. More voices disavowing, the better. I'll bounce him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, if you put the bounce on HG, it didn't take; he's in the Edit Banned thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just sent him a PM. Will see how he responds before taking further action.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OOH! He emailed you!? View the details on that email. There will be a list explaining the route the mail used to get to you. That will be useful.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now see, this group just reminds me of the three mad scientists in The God Game. However, as was indicated all's it takes is one of them to take it seriously... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah ha! Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Love is fundamentally unstable. I appreciate your desire to show clemency but I don't see him turning out well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Totally agree. I really didn't like the lynch-mob stuff people were posting about him, it all smelt too personal-grudgy. And his edits were not always... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I haven't interacted much with Ivy outside the media subforums, so you may have a better impression of their behavior than I do. I don't quite see the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My vote would be for well-meaning but tactless. Ivy is intolerant of some things, but not the type to be mean for meanness' sake, and I can't see Lee... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The elegantly named DSFARGEG and a certain mrcheaterson had an edit war on YMMV/Avatar. I went with warning rather than banning. DSFARGEG, the ruder and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a real winner there, blackcat. Thanks for dealing with it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks Fighteer, his second pm was even better and in all caps. FE's on it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks, blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Groupie Bears watching. He's complained in Ask The Tropers about deletions from Television Is Trying To Kill Us, (I took a look at the ones he specifically... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread robinsonaustin went on a page blanking spree for no apparent reason. Needs full removal. Incidentally, I wonder if this was a compromised account —... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Probably in place because of a jackass who was banhammered (at least) as Riley Freeman, among about half-a-dozen other names. That was quite a while ago... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, you appear to have an admirer. Only two edits before I banned him, but you know the rest of course.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Love Happiness did indeed do that. He calmed down later, however, but I continue to be of the belief that he is too unstable for his presence on these... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And another one. Where is he getting all these IP addresses from? And another. edited 21st Jul '11 11:39:53 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have a repeat ban evader in the form of a troper with the handles chalkywhite91, nuckythompson91, themancomesaround, Rothstein77, themanwhoknewtoomuch... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Same vandal from yesterday: [1] Checking new accounts now. Edit: I see this, but no edits. I'm guessing he's probing various access methods to see what... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That empty edit is the result of the save being rejected at the last moment. ^^ Mr. Coat Of Many Colors always uses the same two passwords. Too bad for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was just looking at the new handles report and I spotted a name that looked suspicious, but had zero edits. If you're catching them as he attempts them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But you weren't the only one saying that it isn't a trollfic and doesn't appear to be that bad.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Second opinion wanted, please. This review. Seems to me there's way to much about Komodin and way too little about the story. Am I off-target? The reviewer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FWIW, I don't like it. The criticisms of Komodin are criticisms of him as an author, but it still comes across as pretty meanspirited. Advising him to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought so too. Need a cork in that hole — he's put it back three times now. edited 22nd Jul '11 9:11:35 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wanted a second opinion: is calling somebody's behaviour "attention whorey" against the rules if it's blatantly true? I'm thinking "yes", but I know I'm... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I issued a suspension to litw over edit warring on Characters.Disney Princess, regarding the Blue Eyes example. This is not anywhere near the first time... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One to watch out for on the wiki: Otaku155 is trying to remake Naked Sally, virtually unchanged from the form it was in in 2009 when it was cut or completely... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just wiki-banned him. He'd put Absent Minded Professor and Big Lipped Alligator Moment on the cutlist, both on the grounds that they "were character-named... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tokimi be antvas, back for more.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TetsuNuno is probably another sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've added Tweedly Dee to the troper watchlist; he's opened two new IP threads within a day or two of the last one for the same page being closed in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, posts in "Western Animation; My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", using "nigga". I may have over-reacted, I was on a hair-trigger yesterday and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread By the way, I've figured out that any new handle who mentions anything about Vile Fables for Progressive Children or tries to list Panty And Stocking With... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He PM'd me as well. I explained that no one gets N-word privileges here. edited 3rd Aug '11 10:31:34 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Completely seconding everything Fighteer said, particularly the part about placing limitations on new accounts, which I think would be a very good idea... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nothing to go on in Jayday's PM. It was just "Why was I banned?". I haven't gotten a reply to my reply, yet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The easier the 'net became to use, the faster the ratio of cool people to uncool people went down. Most jackholes don't want to put very much effort into... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Amusing: antvas (as Predaking) continues to PM me with his Wall Of Text rants. Related to the discussion we were having, I read an AP news article [1]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's coming in from anonymous randomized proxies so there's no point in even trying to ban him by individual IP.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I'm understanding this stuff properly, if he is consistently using the same passwords we can whack him from that direction.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll look at the PM situation. Vorpy seem to be a bit drama magnetic to me. I'd like to see some of this stalking evidenced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay. This brunojl4 item is fuckin' creepy. Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just got a PM from Meeble about the troper tales deletion thread. Not sure whether the answer is yes or no. "If we are currently looking at closing the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Er, maybe? Is there some general rule about it? Anyway, absent a sudden surge of negative voting this one is a pass. edited 11th Aug '11 12:09:44 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ Maddy: The Raw who created a "Barkley" sockpuppet using Barkey's photo as an avatar? The one who would shoehorn Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann memes into... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, Raw did sometimes go off into silliness and inappropriate behavior. Especially when drunk, as I recall.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Ben10 thing has been done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does anyone remember banning or having any further conversations about behavior with Kahran042? I just got an Ask The Tropers report about some crap edits... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, Jack Mackeral got blocked a long time ago because of the anonymizer/proxy he was using was also a vandal doorway. That's why he changed to "Jackeral... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also, English Ivy has just flounced on us. Apparently because the TT purge didn't go her way, and neither did the Zettai Ryouki decision.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ If by social-forums you mean all boards outside the Wiki and Forums section, I very much agree. edited 16th Aug '11 2:39:09 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, they do get used for a lot of raging against the staff for being dickwads, so it's no loss to ban those people. Important page-related actions don't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hitherto some people who've been problematic in social forums have nonetheless done good work on the wiki. I'd like to keep that going if we can. It... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One forum post from him (today) — rather thoughtful and not trollish.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is then probably a case of thinking the word means something else. Hide In Plain Sight? Hidden In Plain Sight! edited 21st Aug '11 6:04:40 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anybody besides me think that Marq FJA is getting a bit out of hand with his obsessive need to nitpick and hyperanalyse stuff again? edited 24th Aug '11... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm probably over simplifying things here, I do that. Thing is, the examples that you have given are what people do when they are more interested in being... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Miku Angel Voice is asking to have their edit band lifted. Eddie banned 'em. I'm not overly keen to lift the ban, but Miku needs an answer. A trope like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Far as I know, the watched troper list is forum only. In this case the issue is bad edits. That's an excellent summary of a problematic forum style. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's complete nonsense. Lol, look how random I am!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He seems to me like a pedant with a political agenda, here to shake us out of our Western prejudices with his cunning use of accurate language and,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hum on my nuts fuckboy? Whaddya want Ironeye? I can uppercut with a forum ban and left hook with an edit ban, but that's all I got.Hmm neither one will... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why not? They might be comedy gold.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Damn. I was about to come in and ask if I could hammerate Dok. He's got a forum posting history of four posts (five if you want to count the one in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dok, eatme, and ditywhore all bounced. Cool thing is most of 'em go back to school this week.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I erroneously assumed he wasn't a contributor because he had no forums history, and was puzzled about why he'd take that tone if he wasn't part of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't blame you. I don't mind debates and arguing with reasonable people. Those rapidly give up in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, he at least doesn't engage in personal attacks or the like.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a page-blanking vandal: TROLOLOLOL. With a name like that, how could you tell? Banned, needs bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Only other post by that handle: Meet the tropers. " Zipp, Sat, 25th Jun '11 4:49:37 PM How's about a re-introduction? So, I was banned about half a year... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread S5 is going from thread to thread dumping incendiary bile on Republican Party anywhere he can find the least excuse. I'd like to suggest that a forum ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banhammered both of them as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it were in front of me that would be creepy. And hard to walk.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is the deal with Mobius Of Mobius? I just got the pm as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Even if they did have a point, said piss-poor attitude is enough to earn them an edit ban or something harsher. edited 10th Sep '11 8:32:46 PM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know we've talked about him before. Last time around it was a holler from him where the problem turned out to be his rather than the hollered-at. I thought... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna stick him on the watch list, if he isn't already there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Missing the point in a rather epic way, I think.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow. I suppose you could help him puzzle out that "negative remarks toward others" is exactly what we moderate out. You know, address the argument, not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We can never get so old that the world is left in hands like these.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They'll drive me to alcoholism yet. Ah, well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That is why we have Skype, but it's fun to talk about.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was I supposed to bounce Bunny Tiger? I thought the take was that he was looking saner this time around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be delighted if there was only one National Asshole Day. Put up with it for 24 hours and then have the rest of the year in peace? I could deal with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow. I'm beginning to think that So Bad It's Horrible might be a candidate for the trash bin.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cut and locked the page. Bounce Mr Pingas Is Here. Investigating claim to be a tv writer by this Zack. eta: Well, the peripherals check out pretty well... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I need an opinion. Take a look at the edit history of this guy, and then tell me why we have Headscratchers articles again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And then he replied to my ban PM declaring his intent to ban evade. Gotta love the brains of these folks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought processing time in edits was cheap, Eddie. Make the first edit date part of their profile and query that during the edit. Maybe the db structure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That would be absolutely awful.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now I'm curious. Why didn't this post get thumped?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 'Cause I missed it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think we need Signed around anyway; even if he didn't wholly earn being banned for that incident, he'd earned it several times over for everything... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Name doesn't ring any bells...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pizzaking1997 is a Natter King, and posted a very obnoxious comment to Eddie on This Troper's discussion page. Suspended.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think I needed to repeat your Google search. Eww and ick and OMFG!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I had a go cribbing Fighteer and expressing my renewed understanding of the High Moral Guardians vs Fappers Anonymous business here. Hopefully I'm not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm trying to decide what to do and what to say now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ Camacan: I don't know if this helps, but I deleted a review by Torquey the other day that was basically a rant about bronies. I PM'd him and got a reply... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am officially so fucking tired of El The Daze/Spain Sun/Blixty Sixcat and his endless whining. That's all. I just wanted to get that off my chest. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Part of his "everyone hates me!" paranoia is being paranoid about any group that he feels excluded from. Like a lot of the young ones, he's completely... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now, there's a degree that sometimes bannings and other mod actions here are arbitrary and unfair, of course.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For whatever the information's worth, I was pretty convinced I was going to be banned at one point. Not because I thought bans came arbitrarily, but because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Undead Harlequin replied to Fighteer's explanation of his ban with a long post. What I'm seeing: Lack of understanding that all soapboxing is a problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I shudder to read that Wall Of Text. Wow. About the only thing valid that he said was acknowledging Repair Dont Respond in regards to controversial Real... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm beginning to think a forum ban and the bounce when FE shows up is the way to go with Undead Harlequin.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Bobby: Alas, the teenage mindset (and NOT that you have to be a teenager to do that), and made worse by the fact that we have a significant proportion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Other Steve posted in Ask The Tropers about a problem he was having with scarface675 and an example on the YMMV Mass Effect page. He moved the example... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh lordy I hates me some wiseasses.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You can often tell by plugging in the IP range. "85.224." in the ban checker confirms that it is, in fact, Antvas. I'm convinced that we could make a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently, dontcallmewave has been helping Antvas edit the wiki. I think that his motives were pure but his head was up his ass. I told him to stop it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I deleted his discussion posts. No need for that kind of stupidity. It occurs to me that one reason why we collectively make good mods is that we don't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dunno, man. But I may show up outside your house in full Ezio costume and try to murder you for the vile Templar lover you are.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is that what I should tell him, then? I don't think he's all bad, for what it's worth. But your call, obviously.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does he understand that the Writer's Block is for mutual support among people who have the writing affliction? Better yet, ask him why he wants back in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll probably run into him again on Friday. I'll ask about that. And I'll take notes, gorramit. edited 28th Sep '11 9:30:29 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't think of any mechanism for getting MAC via HTTP that does not involve viruses/trojans/etc, which clearly are not options. An Evercookie (or something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kraken's reply: First, I like talking to many of the people here. They are, for a lack of a better term, my friends, and I miss learning of them and hearing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds to me like the message got across.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just got a guy who thinks that he should flaunt his ability to insult people via PM (to a mod!) despite being forum-banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Might be related.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What, if anything, is to be done about Shichibukai, resident white seperatist and conspiracy nut? At what point do we draw the line between allowing him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gotcha. It occurs to me if it did zap 'em from the edit history that would be kinda nice. As it is, vandal attacks leave a mess there. But I guess that's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can we ban Shichibukai now? The thread got zapped, so I presume I'm not the only one who saw the Stormfront thing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Where?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our man Eddie, keeping the sock draw lemon fresh.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a very hard time swallowing the "my friend did it" excuse.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought that he'd eventually run out of IP addresses to make new handles on. Isn't that the point of the one handle per IP rule? Keep banning him until... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^He is using proxies. They aren't going to run out of IP addresses.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought hellobyee was what's her name, dracosketch.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd note that pretty much immediately on arriving she started doing lots of Suspiciously Specific Denial about "I'm not dracosketch!" Anyway, Maddy banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I cut the 'page.' Not an honest attempt at an article, at all. The guy bears watching, but I wouldn't call it vandalism.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If such a thing exists, certainly a trope page could be written for it, but I doubt that one was worth saving.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, and he's been warned several times that he needs to stop it. Generally he backs off for a bit after a warning PM and then slowly starts ramping up... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Justice Man has acquired 24 thumps and doesn't seem to be learning anything from them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Squall Lionheart is antvasima back for more, needs bouncy. Edit: He's pitching one of his fits on Ask The Tropers; I deleted the thread. edited 24th Oct... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Guy Fawkes is PM'ing me— I thought we did a general bounce on what's her name... dracosketch and socks. edited 24th Oct '11 9:59:37 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woops. I forgot to do that bounce until just now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IP match with one of Raw's prior personas and a similar posting style... I think you're right. He's better behaved than Raw was, though, from what I've... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They almost always start good, though, and self-Flanderize to caricature over time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dracosketch and all her socks need a bounce. She made such a huge deal about wanting to be banned because she didn't want to be here anymore, and then... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I had the skullfucker rigged to do a posting ban but not an edit ban. Now it does both.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As well as the other ongoing problems she just wouldn't stop posting in Edit Banned in self-appointed mod-mode or with rude stuff directed at the ban-ee... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Joesolo's statement that he'd "use the English thread but it would be a waste of everyone's time" certainly doesn't bode well for an improvement in his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Pan Arabist may have just won the contest for shortest time between "Keep an eye on this guy, and "requesting a ban, please". He's been sending P Ms... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread First time he screws up, bring down the hammer.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Sounds like a plan. His "that's minor" could be read as him saying "Oh, that's easy for me to stop doing, now that I know I was screwing up."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I'm still getting three or four emails per day from the guy. Going straight to the spam folder, of course. There are some seriously weird people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe you guys aren't being nasty enough. He left me alone, eventually.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just dropped an edit ban on rollingstone [1]. All of his edits were about pedophiles not being bad people. This is not the place for that discussion.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone named Revolutionftfan posted some very weird quasi-masturbatory material on the Discussion page for Foot Focus. I deleted it and banned the handle... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread rollingstone back as williamjames, edit and forum banned Pm'ed FE.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I forum banned Wonderqueer for being Love Happiness returned, who was banned for good reason.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not inclined to restore IM Boring. He just doesn't seem to get the difference between seeking a factual non-bashing tone and clear-felling content. (Also... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Somebody is always going to be miffed about something.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dunno about it not being worth a brief ban? (Indentation is a personal psychotic peeve rage trigger of mine.) But there are so many offenders that it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ironeye and myself are mightily puzzled. I put an editing suspension on Anno R. But his friends are saying he got a full bounce. Does anyone know how that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But Anno is on the bounce list. The only things that show up on the report are full bounces—Anno is just in the "bounced by handle" section instead... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ooops. Misread that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did that. This is what I got: The email was sent to "thestaff@tvtropes.org". The content title was "Why was I banned?" and the message itself was "This... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That sounds like a good plan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anyone else think Deboss' new avatar is a bit too... cheeky?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do not want to unban Lika Laruku. His edit history is poor, with frequent formatting and basic English errors — and straight-up careless typing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He seems utterly oblivious. I'm not excited by the idea of letting him edit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More from That Human: (Um, a bit long here) I'm almost completely certain that Tate Langdon is a sockpuppet of dracosketch. Thing is, whaleofyournightmare... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Scythemantis replied that he was very polite. I told him that unsolicited advice on people's masturbation habits is not polite in anybody's lexicon. I'm... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it would be amusing for a while to watch him fail to get any responses to his posts. I don't know... I think it's a cruel thing to do to a person... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As much amusement value as there could be for us in the hellban, I have to admit that 'cat makes a good point. When word got out about it, (and it would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Instead I'm getting rules lawyering and mod modding. Unto "speaking truth to power" yet. I'm no longer inclined to unban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. He's really being a jerk.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TateLangdon confirmed as dracosketch, skullfucked on most threads I saw in history and full-banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Interesting... Websense filters bugmenot, labeling it a "proxy avoidance" site.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It might even be policy, not making sense. The message about the invalidity of "security via obscurity" is hard for a corporation to hear.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At least temporarily. 24 hours or so would do it, most of the time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That looks like Eddie clicked the wrong handle. I fixed it. Eddie, if you did that deliberately, please let us know, but it doesn't look like it. Edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mr Death is an odd duck, too. He has a tendency to get into fights rather than bring things to our attention, but I don't see him starting them necessarily... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FYI, I just went to bugmenot to check on us again and I found three handles for "tvtropes.com". Two of them had previously been banned, but inconsistently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think you're probably right, 'cat, about these forums being one of the first places that they are held accountable for what they do or don't do. I can't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How about Hammerhead, folks? I think he's waited out his suspension and he sounds sincere this time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. Plus, our forums are not therapy. If you "need" them that much, you have problems way bigger. I can understand being upset if the ability to communicate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I locked it. Do we want to cut it completely?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread WRT Pro Wrestling Wallbangers* Or "Headbangers as I keep typing it. — I also had a word with Larfleeze privately about avoiding edit wars in future... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heh, don't blame you. He enjoys poking people to see how they react; there's a bit of the sociopath about him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread To me the whole thread looks like what happens when one person is being objective and another subjective. I read A Man I nBlack's responses as things that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back here Fighteer was proposing an unban for Hammerhead. He's back in edit banned asking for a final call. I've got misgivings about letting him back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She claims it was intended humorously, not seriously, but obviously it didn't sound that way from your POV. Shall I tell her to speak to you directly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shichibukai used the title "the witch" at one point, FWIW.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not even to apologise? OK.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's highly intelligent, interesting conversation, and doesn't insult people who don't deserve it. Unfortunately that's not quite compatible with our... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that we have more idiots than not but the problem with impatience is that it is often impolite. I know because I am often impatient and I have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would that I had such a magic wand, dammit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was thinking about this morning and I was thinking about establishing a Code of Conduct. That's as far as I got, but let's poke at the concept for a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, we do not want to make the operational part of the forums any less inviting to the wiki body. Remember all those complaints about a little clique... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread By core community I guess I meant the YF/IJBM 2/#yakfest bunch. Who aren't homogenous and it was misleading of me to say they were, since you do have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Still, I don't think it does us any favors to ban people for questioning our decisions. Eddie, I really can't see that banning annebeeche for questioning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mostly offtopics, a few incivility. I'm not arguing she wasn't rude now or previously, but I'd rather find ways to encourage people who care to stay rather... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (ninja'd by Eddie's clarification, thus removing) edited 20th Dec '11 9:52:05 AM by Morven... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we also need to (a) have the rules be a lot more clear, (b) apply them more uniformly, and (c) have a more graduated series of penalties designed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see how people will game an infraction system when we don't tell them the precise rules, only the general framework. Nothing in the system prevents... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know. Forums like all other bodies of people tend to grow organically through shared interests. Cutting down our membership is going to break... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OTC definitely has a problem with posters like Major Tom — who has slowly become more and more extremist in what he posts and the positions he takes, and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Off topic but related: Fighteer and Maddy good work in the Forum Ban Policy thread. Rolling a rock up a hill with a thumb in a dike while some big bird... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apologies for the quotespammery. I've given this a lot of thought. Fighteer I don't see how people will game an infraction system when we don't tell them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ironeye, need help here. This guy got auto-wiki banned because of a skullfuck, but a skullfuck by its very nature makes it impossible for me to do a search... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Too subtle for these children. Besides, we are under no obligation to pretend there is any great artistic merit to be preserved. It's porn. edited 20th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think the problem there is that most of us have no idea what Japanese works are hentai or lolicon. Aside from a few that have been brought to my attention... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. I don't think it is a 180... but it doesn't matter much if it is. We never had the intention to make a place for pedos and fetishists to hang out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The threads have been here for a while, we had a discussion about the one about hentai a while back. I thought that the thread continued to exist because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay as long as we understand here in the adult room that this is being instigated and fueled by SA and that they are forum raiding us and vandalizing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread See, my response to that is very simple. They get nuked.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Fighteer: I'll take a look at the date of banning and see if I come up with anything. If he's telling the truth, it would probably be edit banned, since... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is there any way to slow down and or turn off the new account creation tool for a day or two?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's an acceptable alternative.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Works for me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was exactly what I was wanting to do. School's out and what is the best way to kill some time? Why of course, act like a twelve year old! Let's go... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There was talk about the disconnect between the three columns of the forum. Do we have any numbers on how many of our problem tropers are solely or mainly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread received from kaschei: I heard through the grapevine that I was banned because of my high number of thumps. I just want to clarify that most of those... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I hadn't seen any outcry of support. Just some "I get the ban, kind of a shame, though" stuff.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm increasing convinced that OTC as it currently goes is not compatible with our requirements for civility and respectful behavior, and the maturity of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I saw one that looked like a Kashchei sock; another was claimed but in my opinion wasn't. She tells me in email that she's not going to come back as another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FE: why was Sligh [1] banned? "Goon" does not help. I looked at his edit history and I saw some serial tweaking but nothing horrid. He did cut some stuff... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Solstace is not a troll and not, to my knowledge, a goon. He was a longtime forum regular. He's a friend of Tzetze's. He's been a troper almost as long... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe that was too harsh, sorry. I'm just feeling kind of disillusioned with her, and that SA thread has started to really bug me. They really don't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fast Eddie, is there a way to wipe this discarded YKTTW (Banned Trope Namers) completely? It's been discarded four times, maybe five, and someone apparently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, I get it now. The wiki's usage of deconstruction has always bothered me. All of the -versions, and the Magical Realism page pissed me off so much that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd like to say that I'm surprised, but I'm really not.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hey, Mads, the new guy over in Edit Banned got locked out when you skullfucked him back on Oct 30. I figured I'd let you handle that one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Which one? Eris or fifi? or someone else? Oh, yeah, fifimcfeef. Let me dig back... Ah yes, I assumed it was trolling when they insisted that Bret Michaels... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've done that before for such cases. No need to be nice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread re 1168: Responded in thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This PM from Hurricane_Delta I legitimately screwed up, and get edit. How can I fix that? This is the Serbs-on-a-stick guy, right? I'll just shut off... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As I recall, he had a previous incarnation as Pinata, didn't he? That quit the site when we deleted Troper Tales, but clearly thought better of it. No... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pinata doesn't ring any alarm bells either.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Turning off posting now turns off profile editing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've placed Raineh Daze on a week's suspension from the forums due to severe RP drama and personal attacks. She knows what she did wrong and the offended... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Targeting natter. Although I do sometimes notice that all three-stars, especially solos, aren't examples.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crossposting this issue from hollers because I think posts sometimes get lost or overlooked there. Here, in a thread about "cute/pretty girls", Raso posted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm questioning him about the image now. He says the character isn't underage, the work isn't lolicon and why don't we delete threads pertaining to other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. If you think so, I will lift the ban now. Edit: Lifted. My goodness, but that was unpleasant. edited 5th Jan '12 5:17:10 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I could live without Matt around. He's been somewhat of an obstructionist in TRS and IP as well. Looking at his posts in the aggregate, he seems to hold... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, On looking at his post history, I withdraw that statement. It's not his "usual" M.O., it's simply that the times he has done it have been particularly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The warning was merited. He has made a few TRS threads recently based on nothing more than "I don't like this". It was only when I looked back that I found... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. I'll see if he agrees not to do that. I think he will.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The mod that banned me couldn’t explain the reason for this or didn’t want to. And strengthened the ban for pleading for myself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not moved to sympathy. His argument basically boiled down to "I felt the overwhelming need to complain about other editors." (And Bobby, this is the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Compiling the responses for review Kaze Please inform me about the reason for my edit suspension. Eddie Wasting our time with a bunch of Troper page... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There was also the issue some time back where a troper took "vandalize" literally and made a complete mess of a friend's page, not realizing that he was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't work out who Yeah Bro used to be. It's obvious that it's someone with a great deal of familiarity with the place that precedes that account, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dude seemed to think that I had something to do with you replying to him. Bluh. I do share your suspicion that, if we give him a little more rope, he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I zapped a few people in that thread who asked to be banned. I think she was one of them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She didn't, she just announced her departure from the (forum, apparently) community. She's just kind of flabbergasted, as she was a pretty hefty wiki-side... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, Worldmaker is posting in Ask The Tropers about seeing the "You have private messages" banner even though his PM privileges are turned off. Should... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't see the post that got her skullfucked, so I can't offer any kind of informed opinion on whether it was a ragequit or not. But I concur with Bobby... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm taking off. The forum hasn't been the place I joined for and wanted it to be for a long time, and I just do not care anymore. Sorry, guys. Later. I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She has PM'd me. Does that mean it's OK to lift that?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread By the way, the checkbox farthest to the right (Keep New) means keep the restrictions on new accounts in place. That's things like not allowed to post... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Once again, I thought we were limiting sock creation from a given IP. Did that get turned off again?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He is using proxies. I agree that he should be rebanned instantly when detected. If his edits were benign, though, we might as well keep them. A good edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie knows a lot of IP mojo. I personally am not sure how to do it, but it's probably either working from lists of known proxy IP ranges or backtracing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's a huge rash of people posting and bringing up every possible thread that is somehow linked with sex in the TRS. It's starting to seem less like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My prediction is that they'll go on for pages and end up with nothing at all. Maybe they'll merge something like 6 wiki pages that look a lot like each... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba's back. Posts on Ask The Tropers. We need an IP ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba? Also, I've been mostly monitering the forum side of stuff as best I can, and waiting for something I can do with OTC. Is that okay?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba is a long time persistent troll. He shows up, posts nonsense edits on pages. We clean it up. Add TEHLASTIMETROLL to the sock list. He didn't do... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, having read through this entire thread... Has anyone contacted Baff about their consistently poor spelling and punctuation?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Even if they have, a duplicate message wouldn't hurt.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll send one tomorrow when I'm not so tired and can better brain.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I pm'ed Baff on October 18th about it and the reply was "OK". I told them in the pm that bad grammar and spelling was something we take seriously here... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread tnu was practically incoherent. Parakraitz got banned because (s)he insisted on using red-text for everything. Baff isn't that bad, but I'd drop them another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Will do, foxy mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There are OTC bans. You could just kick him out of there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just did a preemptive strike on Fa T3dd 13, I think this could be another run of teh baba.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread that way, there isn't even a single semi-reasonable complaint that could be levied against me (people know I've argued with Savage before I became a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The OTC bans are good things. I've been watching Major Tom and now that he's out of the OCT his posts have been low key, friendly and on topic. Not everyone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tom was always polite outside of OTC, or so I saw from my limited experience with him, mainly in the Media forums.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On OTC, though, he was a total pain in the ass, to be frank. And it's not even about his opinions, which were usually opposite from mine; it was that attitude... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Uber Shy Guy labors under the misapprehension that I'm the most reasonable mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks, Meta Four! I bet he agrees with you now when you say you're not more reasonable than me. But really, it's not as if his claim about what was in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seriously, most of why I've been doing since I became a mod is hooking crowners, locking threads, moving discussion pages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread However, even if not ban evading, couldn't TP get banned for the same reasons Dingo did? I don't really see this going horribly wrong. edited 21st Jan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think stopping him from making new threads everywhere would be a good idea. It's not just OTC. He's abused the privilege in the TRS and IP too. He... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Paraphrased: "I didn't call you a liar, I just said you were lying (without citing evidence!)" And that's civil? Gah. A couple of days or a week without... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What Mad said. He seems to be honestly remorseful and he's not blaming anyone for his actions other than himself. Those are good signs. He's also gone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted the ban. Good feelings all around, as long as he behaves himself that is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say go for it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He ignored mod posts on the thread and kept going after. I don't think a week ban is out of line for him to think about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Darkenning has announced intent to troll over Single Issue Wonk in this post. I have banned him as hard as I can figure out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tyyrlym was involved in a brief flame war with Ubershyguy; the one for which I banned them both. Tyyrlym appealed his/her case and after s/he promised... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I agree that the singular their is best. But... I'm currently part of a big writing project where the main character is physically and mentally androgynous... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ohhh, alright! And there I was trying to be understanding. oh well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am assuming you are referring to the posts in the Torture thread in OTC. The thread was created in October, there was a couple of days discussion and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His posting STYLE also annoys me, but not enough to be actionable. Bah. The worst trolls are those who know how far is too far. Not saying that he's one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. I'm betting that he will go out in a flaming burst of glory within 72 hours but I don't see anything actionable yet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed, that's why I just want to keep an eye on him, not take any action. There's nothing actionable that he's done yet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Trotzky was indeed banned for being a Single Issue Wonk (and a nonsensical one at that) in the Harry Potter threads. Either he was trollin' hard, or he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Trotzky was finally forum banned in October for generalized trolling in OTC.He was wonking in the Harry Potter threads before that. edited 30th Jan '12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going on the principle that ban evasion is itself bannable on sight, other considerations notwithstanding. And yes, I noticed problematic edits but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My reasoning on watching him isn't because I don't think there are points about sexuality but because a lot of those sort of repair threads have gotten... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, agreed with that. Although I don't think it's goons, for the most part. I think it's mostly Yeah Bro and his army of sockpuppets. In any case, his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Certainly seems trolly, although Poe's Law may still be in place. Either way, not someone we need around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just boot him. I think he is a returning banee, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They hadn't given any indication that they wanted to retaliate, so I thought I shouldn't go too far. Still, I decided to check their Edit History, and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been getting PM's from Dragon Quest Z about being harassed by Rodney Anonymous via PM. I can't view them, obviously, but you might want to look into... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ask him to send you copies.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, those two exchanges are one-sided, but I agree that DQZ seems to be contantly causing trouble by being a pain in the ass and making other tropers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^I think it really is a personality trait thouhg, rather than a very subtle trolling technique. We may have to say, at some point, that having the guy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. Hasn't DQZ been temp suspended before?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hasn't DQZ been temp suspended before? Hmm... He used to post under the name Lord TNK, and switched to DQZ because Lord TNK was banned. I don't recall... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait, we have stats and/or ranks on forum posters?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sort of. Not formally, but it's possible for Eddie to retrieve the stats for who posted or edited how many times in the last x number of days.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's the way it usually breaks down. I didn't check this time, but the top ten, at least in the past, have been heavily active in the R Ps and mostly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm kind of surprised that Blixty is that high on the list, he's been gone for a while hasn't he?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not surprised by the presence, just by how high they are even without posting for sometime.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm very sorry that happened FE. I hate getting hate PM's. De Boss is getting on my last nerve. He needs an anthropology class and/or to be stranded in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread D'oh. I forgot we could do that now. I support giving him an OTC ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Found this on Ask The Tropers. BabylonWhore (what a name...) gave this edit reason: Good grief, you don't even have any evidence and make wild asumptions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our friend Masonicon showed up again, this time as Masonicon XX. I nuked all his forum posts and fullbanned. Edit: also reverted most of his wiki edits... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got this in a PM from Marq FJA: "I had been PM'd the following by Justlook: Why do you butt in if you don´t know anything about my page! You can't just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OTC-Ban him. On a quick and dirty trawl through his non-OTC history, he seems to be more or less ok in the media threads he's in. edited 14th Feb '12 9... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Being a mod would be no trouble at all if people would be as reasonable as you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As an heads-up, the TV Tropes Deviant Art group just got sent an affiliation request from a complaint group set up by Moleman. Two points for chutzpah,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...Having looked into all that, I've no clue whatsoever why Moleman thought that a DA group of Tropers would want to be affiliated with him and his group... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looking at the latest Ask The Tropers bannee (King Nerd), am I a bad person for getting extremely annoyed with anyone who claims to have Aspergers and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, there's a troper I banned about a month ago for some Single Issue Wonk on Negima. Today he sent me a PM from another account. He hasn't edited from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was just "whatever."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've lifted the suspension for polutropon although I suspect we will be hearing about them again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just got a PM requesting info regarding Fusionman's ban appeal. Anyone know anything about that?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I know nobody says 'word' like that anymore, if they ever did. Read it like me agreeing with prior statements. It won't be as pseudo-cool, but it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you're referring to the one I recall, that was very personal and concerned an IRL incident, if you remember that. If anyone was at fault there I'd... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I could have handled it more sensitively by, for example, not choosing the moment when Haven had just confided his concerns in me to chastise him for,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, thank you Best Of. I do appreciate the support. I would absolutely support the lifting of Haven's ban, and I have PM'd Eddie with an explanation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Most of Goldstone's edits seem to be grammar/markup fixes, which I think supports that view. edited 29th Feb '12 7:01:20 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to agree with Maddy. I'm sad things went the way they did, but from what I'm hearing, it was an extremely thorny, emotional situation - between... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But this brings up that last sentence: What if it was a mod I insulted? I would have been banned without so much of a thump.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can we find out what the problematic P Ms were before we shut down that means of communication?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't imagine how the system could be such that Eddie couldn't read any PM he wants.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I scanned them, Maddy. Rodney was hectoring Classy over the course of about 15 messages. All about some spelling correction or the other. Rodney is, if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've found him to be a pain. I reviewed the PM exchanges again. Neither of them were behaving as adults. I'll undo Rodney's PM suspension. If we get another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, I'm looking for feedback, especially from Shima, Wilbyr and ccoa, as the people most likely to have direct experience with him in TRS and IP... Is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am bothered by anyone who is cavalier about copyright infringement, especially on intellectual property. But that's just me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, yeah, that too. He's not only cavalier about it, he keeps saying the same thing despite being dead wrong.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, guess I missed that. Whoops.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Radical Taoist is smack on the money - this guy is a troll, albeit not a full-time troll. It's only a matter of time before he does it again,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like an OTC ban is in order.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just banned Taksucks from editing the wiki because I stumbled across the fact that he has terrible spelling and grammar. I'm going to go see what I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right. I meant that would be the next step.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, saw it. I don't know why they're using a puppet, but having one or two of those is not against the rules as such, so I think we can just make a note... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good to know about puppets.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bumping 'cause I got 2 people to talk about: First, there's Woodhouse, a guy who turned up a couple of days ago and started their posting by insulting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How did I not notice that when I checked him before? Anyway, based on that threat of returning time and time again, we should apply the Bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I still feel like Woodhouse is getting misrepresented; his main point was clearly that straight people have privilege (true) and should respect LGBT "safe... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ We're still working on it. I think he's coming closer to getting it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope, not getting it. Him to me in reply to that last one: "Most straight people are homophobic though. Not through maliciousness, but through ignorance... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm getting thoughtful about My God Its Full Of Stars. That last OTC thread, the one about the eagles. In looking at it, I'm beginning to think that he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "Hey, I found this and thought some of you might find it interesting, even though I don't care one way or the other" isn't bad in itself. Even in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He posted in the thread now. I agree he does strike me as fishy though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby, did you make any progress with Woodhouse? He's been hollered again for the LGBT thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say we should take the "do it one more time and you're out" route. We could just decide here and now that this person isn't gonna redeem themselves and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On Woodhouse: So, was the real problem simply that he was unwilling to lurk and familiarise himself with the forum culture before posting? As to "rude"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My impression is that he's very into MSPA (and not a lot else), and that he has an irreverent, maybe slightly malicious sense of humour. AFAIK he hasn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Septimus Heap has volunteered to curate the Mass Effect 3 pages. I can keep an eye on them, too. I think you're mischaracterizing that conversation, Bobby... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rorschachwasright seems to actually believe the crazy things he says. He's really starting to disturb me, but I'd like a second opinion before I OTC ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I want to ban, but that's entirely because I think his extremism is over the threshold for OTC. It's more than a little disturbing to me. The insulting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Please don't challenge people to get scary. Sometimes they do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Anonymous thing is transparently an empty threat, though. Like Katrika said, he's not going to be able to drum up sufficient support to revenge himself... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread my handle would be added to the ED page on us, in the list of the staff of this site that they have (or had when I last checked, way before I became a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Completely unrelated to the above: Eddie, would you mind stopping over in Edit Banned and responding to Man with the Plan? You re-banned him for having... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Interesting, the Half Hazard handle was not created today. Is there anyway to access that history? ETA Ok that account is less than a year old but older... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Having some issues with atheywa and could use some outside input. She seems to have developed some Single Issue Wonk with Knight In Shining Armour and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Atheywa's been a problem before on that sort of thing. I think the last time was a whole raft of various "knight" tropes that she brewed up out of nowhere... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I get what you mean and suspended her. It'll just be easier to clean it up that way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is our policy on second chances from edit suspensions?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If the banned person can convince us that they've learned their lesson and that they won't break the rules again, and if they understand that third chances... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. :)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That last reason is probably why even though atheywa showed up on Edit Banned and was polite, I really don't trust her enough to unban her. There's just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread rjrya395 is still excessive bumping and saying nothing of value when he does it even though I told him to knock it off. edited 19th Mar '12 1:18:36 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Threatening to get Anonymous on a mod from a little tropes wiki is absurd. It makes me laugh.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread or "I didn't know TV Tropes had a Finnish mod! Cool!" This guy apparently doesn't know about Anon's "Anonymous is not your private army" rule.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was actually using my conspiracy theory voice but same thing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup. This guy uses proxie IP addresses and varies the password he uses. He also changes browsers. Hard to bounce. Just give him minimum feedback. Never... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread New thread made. I think giving them a day to cool off was good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shima, evidence points to that One Hundred And Sixty Acres fellow being a dup of Pacific Mackerel. They both edited the same works, both left rude edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's not good. Great, now we need to figure out if he's a sock or not.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose I could leave the pages to Septimus, but as much as he likes to act like a mod, some people will only listen if you have the actual teeth to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So maybe another three or four weeks of this?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Especially after I told him I was looking into it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry, only Eddie and Janitor have access to the google bounce. But I definitely think it's called for in this case. edited 25th Mar '12 12:37:56 PM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just received this PM from Aramil: Dear Moderator, Please ban me. I'm completely serious. My grades are slipping, and the time I am supposed to be doing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gives new meaning to "/b/tard", eh?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The strange thing is he PMed me to ask where to get help with grammar and to ask about one of "Com Con X's" edits that I removed. It's the weirdest ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As "forgetmenot"? I got a nasty PM from him and whapped a full ban on that handle. It had no posting or edit history, though. edited 29th Mar '12 8:03... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "fleesome"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I mentioned that it was me in Ask The Tropers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding Aiko Heiwa's thoughts of suicide... According to deathpigeon here, the location listed on Aiko's Facebook profile is not accurate. Quick IP check... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently I got a wire crossed, and the PM I meant to send to Doctor Thunder ended up going to Ragna instead. The following conversation ensued: Ragna... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That sounds bannable. As in, violating the don't be a dick rule repeatedly. edited 5th Apr '12 10:42:46 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moerin has been in the eye of at least three shitstorms where I had to step in on RPO threads. She's never said anything directly actionable, but I always... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That sounds like a good idea. Bouncing Moerin and possibly Raineh and the other cohort also sounds like a good idea. edited 6th Apr '12 4:16:17 AM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He is, but I tend to be a bit more understanding of the people who only use the account to speak with a mod politely because they can't do so on their... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You could restore DJ Bidoof if you wanted to.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is passive-aggressive BS a good enough reason to thump a post? Because I really want to thump that. Anyway, based on my prior PM conversation, I've added... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd thump it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fucking drama. Moerin has apparently decided to take a break from the forum due to bullying. Anno and Troper Roxas are claiming she has been the victim... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More correspondence. Grey Star was one of the users wondering why Moerin wasn't allowed in that RP, and while he hadn't pursued that line of inquiry quite... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In my short time as a mod, I've already waded my way through a couple of drama-filled swamps of bullshit, so I want to offer you my condolences that you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Updated my previous post with Anno's next reply. Somehow Anno has access to PM's exchanged between Doctor Thunder and Flame Haze 17. Something smells rotten... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's not the "insular community" that worries me. It's the way "private" messages are being shared with third parties. In one of Ragna's thumped posts,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Whenever you send someone a PM, you're trusting that they won't reveal it without your permission. That being said, I think there's a strong argument to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe a warning first just to be sure?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Don't we have the "no cybering" thing posted in RP?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope. If the guy had stated he was 12 multiple times before that where she could have read, I'm not too sympathetic. And even if she honestly hadn't known... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a very morbid PM from Hydronix. Did any of you get, too, or was it just me?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that it's unreasonable to assume he must have known the kid in question's age, but soliciting people for a "mature" chat, especially without double... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It also makes me wonder why we're only hearing about it now. is a good point. edited 9th Apr '12 8:24:47 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreeing with Maddy on Rhyme Beat being manipulative...I have no idea what to think about the rest except that something is very fishy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just realized something and I will make it short and sweet. I couldn't figure out why I was so angry about these suicide threats here, and on a personal... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I also think going forward we should make no public reaction to a suicide threat. Notify authorities, if you think it can and should be done, but do not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it comes down purely to intent, we can't read Hydronix' mind. But we could also broadly cover this under "exporting drama" — that is, if his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If we're considering that option, I think I should share the PM I got from Hydronix in its entirety. There's some confusion. I am not preparing to kill... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we could advertiser that Hydronix has left those RP games. I've already cleared the link out of the sigline. Reading the rest... It sounds to me... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That, or SA had its hand in it. They really are people that have nothing to do with their lives except dig through tons of old posts looking for something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I cutlist PlayingWith.Covered Up, as you can't play with that trope. Same with PlayingWith.Breakout Character. And PlayingWith.Plot Hole. Sheesh. I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think so. That person's spelling wasn't the illegible garbage that Com came up with. It was poor, but not atrocious. Also, I don't recall Com showing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some of the Playing With pages that he edited were originally written in a way that suggests someone with poor grammar/proofreading skills and a tenuous... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've got this The Empty One guy pestering me in the ANF discussion page. We are apparently "unprofessional" for not clearing all the crap that's on those... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ignore it. That comment wasn't worth the time it took me to read it, and I'm not a particularly slow reader.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye on the Rape Tropes and the MLP pages/fanfics. We have a persistant vandal in the form of The Goddamned Batman and his sock, The Harbinger.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldstone just cutlisted a bunch of ptitle redirects with more than 20 inbounds and some other redirects with wicks still remaining. I've already PM'ed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm tempted to give whale a posting timeout - he's being deliberately obstructionist in the Special Efforts thread, IMO.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That applies certain restrictions on the forums. New accounts can't post external links on the forums and are throttled in how often they can post. It... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've done that too, but once when I had unjustly thumped Inane I went to add a note and the restrain thing didn't work so it took me many attempts to actually... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is up with that djmaca guy on the SE thread? I know he claims it's his poor understanding of English, but his latest post is just weird.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ccoa, you ninja'd me. I was seriously contemplating locking that thing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Watch out for spin-off threads to circumvent the cooldown.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed on the temp forum ban for djmaca. Also agreeing on a minimal 6-hour cooldown for the cleanup thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just caught enough of the title to know that I'll not be setting foot in there until this evening, if at all...what's going on?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like they're trying to continue the debate on Kn J in that thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At first it was a joke thread when our Google incident was announced. It had maybe three pages. I went to bed yesterday and wake up to find it has 10 new... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we need a thread exactly for that matter. As for things like that Chibiusa-fic, they need to be burned to hell and back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it should be a thread here in the mod forum. Allowing it for general direction before we have a clear policy just isn't working.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A week? Why not make it permanent? If someone can behave a maximum of 15 minutes after the ban is lifted, I see no way back. Well, maybe the mercy gland... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We just had a holler about SNDL. His constant invoking Tropers Law is starting to annoy me. I warned him in ATT to stop snarking all the time. And then... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, is this guy another Com sockpuppet? Because it really looks like that. Mother of god, that's rightdown hysterical. edited 13th Apr '12 7:05:58 AM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Con's last sock was Com Con X - this name is barely different. It's him without a doubt. edited 13th Apr '12 7:23:50 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, good enough. Hammer time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I should probably have done it myself thinking about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This guy has been a delirious pain in the ass. Is he really so hard to bounce?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who, Masonicon/Com Con? He rotates IP addresses at least, and possibly browsers/whatever other metadata a bounce looks at. For someone who appears to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Late to the discussion. Masonicon is one of his socks. Got a new account using a variant of that today. Will preempt.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I feel like putting a mod post in the Cuddlepile thread about it but I don't know if that would help. edited 13th Apr '12 10:10:28 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do not hang out there. I only respond when something comes up and I figured it was better left to mods who are more familiar.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've spent quite a bit clearing that guy's edits, so I'm going to have a word with him. By the way, I'm thinking of giving a chance to Lightsaber. He certainly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know, there were some posts about her that seemed pretty creepy in Fetishes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just went back through all of lola's posts in the Fetishes thread that are in her history. It is really hard to contextualize some of the things said... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm a teen. >.> Though probably not a teeny bopper. I don't understand why she would ever want to go in that thread, but info I got from other people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think she's a goon. She's posted pictures of herself, and she really does seem to be a teenager. Anyway, I'm not trying to appeal her ban. If she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I expanded the bans to include everything. I mean, there's always the chance that the account might've been later used for vandalisation for revenge.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we should tell people that we have no concrete evidence on Lola's side, at least from where we stand. Quite frankly, I also think that trolling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sigh... I will never understand why we're getting bitching for nuking pages like Horrible.Fanfic. The Pokemon thread is now derailing because they will... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, the horror.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie banned Nizbel. What do we do with Pancake?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a plan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I trust your judgement. For the sake of fairness, we should make it a month since the ban was put in place, not a month since the date we decide on this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like ban evading but maybe we should wait for more evidence just to be sure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban. She's really just making stuff worse at this point. When the crisis is cooler, we can possibly discus lifting it, but they need out of the conversation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The response you got to a "You know what's embarrassing? Homophobia!" might allow you to determine whether or not he was joking, mightn't it? TBH though... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I'm seriously considering bans for all those cutlist requests. We said we'd get a council, and now they can't even wait? Stop me if I'm overreacting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say temp bans if it was people involved in the discussion who knew or should have known that we didn't want that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to put up a Mod Hat warning to not spam the cutlist until we've figured things out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I still wanna wait for a response. Call it curiosity...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Catbert is being a pain in the ass in the WT discussion about the policy change. This attitude is hurting my brain. Catbert is saying that everything that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Augh, the Content Policy Change is a mess. I'm doing my best to clear up misconceptions, but...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Near as I can tell someone has asked a question about a specific work that may be ambiguous at least once a page. About every page or so is a veiled, thinly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who is?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of the newer mods I don't know, but I do know that people seem to roll over and purr when Bobby, Morven or Maddy are around. ETA They're Troper Whisperers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread you just addressed each issue plainly, matter-of-factly, point-by-point and non-confrontationally, which was fantastic. Thank you!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that just from a keeping control of the user base standpoint we should stop cutting anything. Just shove it in a list to give to the council as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to rough guess 1,000 but it is probably higher than that. The problem with putting things on hold is that we don't know when we are going to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Excellent point. ETA: Here is a fairly decent link to a thing that happened when I worked at the college listed in the story. [1] The show ran for ten... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that cutting everything after the panic wasn't a good idea. I know some people will just act paranoid, but I hate the idea that our users won't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've issued an editing ban to "theGAM3report" for spamming youtube links.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's a deliberate troll. Nobody can be that stupid for that long. And I've caught him making grammatical edits from time to time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who he? What handle?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Masonicon / Com Con / whatever sock he's using these days.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, we're blocking new accounts containing 'comcon' in the handle. We're also blocking new accounts containing 'crygen' and 'shreed', which are common... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say we nuke the thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've un-forum banned djmacca and whale, since yesterday would have been three days, but I wasn't around much to do it. Did we ever make a finalized decision... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Doctor Thunder (who, if you remember, was being bullied in the RP subforum at the start of the month) just pm'd me about a correspondence with drlightning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know if it's a fad or coincidence. This account is over a year old, has no recorded forum posts at all, but lots of wiki edits. It would be difficult... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread including a shitstorm in TRS because we wouldn't call little girls lolis. Wait, what?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Go to the Restrain page and insert the name of the handle you wanna look up. Frankiefoster was blanket banned by Fighteer and Morven (they ninja'd each... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crossposting from hollers: Tyyrlym is back. I don't see any notes from Best Of with the intent to unban them, so I guess they're ban evading?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The thing about SNDL saddens me as well. Is he just too hot-headed for this kind of thing? On the fanfic forum thing: maybe ask what exactly they find... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Particularly for edit warring with a mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't we recently warn Akagikiba about cutlisting stuff prematurely? I seem to recall reading it somewhere. They're at it again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted Rich Reeders' ban on appeal. He says that he can't be homophobic because he doesn't care about sexuality at all in the first place, but that he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm in favour, but there was some disagreement about what to do regarding him and djmaca, and I didn't think we came to a consensus.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got polutropon to acknowledge what he was doing wrong and apologize. We shall see if it sticks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From feo: I'd like to not have Bobby G be the only source of information on my suspension when it's decided whether or not I'll be banned permanently.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If she was banned for her "please don't call it child pornography" post, I think it may have been misinterpreted. She was trying to protect the site from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What was that?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted all but the PM bans on Caspers Wish and djmaca, since it seems we forgot about them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, with The Wotch, the person listing it admitted she knew that it was rated G and that nothing objectionable by our standards was in it right in her... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ Lu: I'm fine with that. If you want to add my post there, go ahead. @ Fighteer: I think it's a good post. Yeah, A Groupie is malicious, he's misguided... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We'll see. He's been a pain before, but we are in the business of giving second chances for anything but the most malicious or uncomprehending offenders... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned him because this is the second time. He can come appeal it, but this stuff needs to stop.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Don't feel bad, I had to look that up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Been getting a few PMs from Goldstone about closing idle threads. I've directed him to the holler button. Is he striking anyone else as being on some sort... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's banned from everything but posting and P Ms. He'll be coming in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm pretty sure the "panic" angle he's referring to means the hysterical posts about us "almost cutting Romeo and Juliet", which I gave as one reason why... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Motor Runner's page has him claim he's 20. The works he claims he's interested in are very far from pedo-pandering and are all pretty mainstream. Maybe... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Motor-Runner's final message on Absent People. Motor-Runner here. There once was a time where being banned and branded a paedophile would have led to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At the very least he's another name for the list of people who haven't quite grasped that Retard is a verb and not an adjective.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That is quite heinous, indeed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned and skullfucked daverboy. Clear troll.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On April 3rd, Eddie banned Theatrical and Proud for being an abrasive ass and making analogies which involve raping someone's mother. Recently, A Real... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo has been a pain lately. He will not be satisfied unless we trash and burn anything remotely questionable. ...did he just call Fighteer out on abusing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "That mod disagreed with me. HE MUST BE ABUSING HIS POWER!"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: neobowman and friend, I am getting tired of this recent spate of what appear on the surface to be copycat suicide rants. IP addresses and other personal... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I still need to get around to that, don't I?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Content forum ban, similar to an OTC ban, would be useful for people like Glider. edited 23rd Apr '12 6:21:53 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, Moon Metropolis blanked No Lewdness No Prudishness just to make a point; apparently "This page no longer applies since anyone that might offend someone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread CurseOfAlexisCorvis was trolling the content discussion. Thumped and full-banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I don't doubt it. He was panicking to hell and back. Which is why this behaviour strikes as bizarre, and I'm wondering if he was in fact ban-evading... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eeeyup. Speaking of which, we need to put a note on TRS: "Don't bring up what SA says about us each time we discuss a sex trope. We don't care." On a more... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, we're persecuting goon tactics, no matter if they're goons or not. I know there are SA members who I'll never have an issue with. They're not the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Quick question, what exactly was the handle of that Single Issue Wonker with multiple socks? Antva-something, I think?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That page only covers bans issued before the new system.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's one of those people who uses Asperger's as a defense for aberrant and obsessive behavior. edited 24th Apr '12 1:38:10 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Likewise. And, to be honest, if you have a condition that makes it de facto impossible for you to stay within the fairly lax social rules of this place... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's not understanding policy, and not realising a page has been cut and not just glitched. Not the same thing. Ah well, either way, it waits until... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I told him he needs a cooldown at minimum. I haven't made up my mind on the rest of it. I did kind of provoke him by coming down hard on his admitted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And TV Tropes has been added to the Moral Guardians page! Joy. I'm watchlisting that page before it becomes a mess.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm, no apparent pattern between those accounts, without checking IP's. Seems kind of odd that we'd get it in series like that, unless it is a sock or... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He probably wasn't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose I just have an aversion to banning on a first offense unless it's really a doozy. Forum only, or the whole shebang? edited 25th Apr '12 11:45... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or both.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From the Fetishes thread: Speaking of which... Corruption Of Champions was mentioned a few pages back. It sounded really interesting, so I went to Fenoxo's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Either way, not the sort of person we want to hang on to.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ccoa: I'm a regular in that thread and it mostly stays on the reasonable side. The regular posters will even remind people of the rules.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say he's trolling, especially if others in the thread are thinking (and saying) as much.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ever 9 is telling people that they should not tell us about pages they want to keep around. Context.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is the guy who compared Lolita and Kodomo no Jikan and his verdict was that they're both softcore porn. [1]. Dear gods.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How about we take the updated announcement about what is going on and put it in a locked and pinned thread labelled WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHY YOU SHOULD... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso is one of those tropers that, while they annoy me at times, really does seem to have the best interests of the wiki at heart. Their only problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I vote: unban, and make sure he sticks to those limitations.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Honestly, I've wanted to tell him to get out of TRS a couple of times because of how much weeaboo-obstinancy he can show. Anyway, I'd be fine if he came... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso's posting style is pretty distinctive, at least in the TRS. If we let him back under a different name he's going to be found out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You know, on further thought, the guy was on his second chance already to be something other than a negative anime fan stereotype. I'm not sure we would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, to be fair, the PM ban was hooked up to the forum ban in the old system. We unlinked it but that leaves anyone with a legacy ban blocked from PM's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's people like that that make me want to not remove their ban just to be spiteful. Petty of me, I know. But goddamn if the mods don't have better things... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread kirbystarwarior is really giving me a heartache. He claimed he'd stick to the rules after his previous suspension, but this latest attack on Phineas And... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've banned that handle as a sock, as well as his other sock, Darkness Flash. Is he still posting? edited 28th Apr '12 3:00:36 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have added a Puppet Check button to the Restrain page. It is slower, but it does look at both the wiki and the forums.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can I call awesome? Cause I seriously want to call awesome!!!!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The people we want here may very well be people who also have interest in SA. They are not people who hang around that particular thread, though. Those... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Think about how much trouble politicians get in when they get caught with their mic on bashing people they are talking nicely about in public. The point... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that the goons causing the actual trouble would be smart enough to keep it to themselves. On a sidenote, I am currently having some good laughs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is anyone else getting Elle PM'ing them about Triple Elation's ban?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm pretty sure Raso is a guy, since it's an established rule I'm the only female on the Mahou Sensei Negima thread (no, I'm not kidding). He needs a break... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hard one. Clearly a passion for the site, but insanely over-anime-focussed, to the point of myopia. A consistent pain in the ass about insisting that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo PM'd me, asking why he was banned. I said that he originally got a P5 ban for being obstructionist and that the ban was expanded because he's seen... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thumped analyzer for rudeness in the New Media subforum, he replied asking why he was thumped and not the other person. I told him the problem was the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cute stated they hate the site.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OBD hardcore fanboy? Kick him out. He's already shown his colours. edited 3rd May '12 3:21:06 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Outskirts Battle Dome. A site where hardcore fanboys have characters from different series measure their strength if they were to fight. I'm only familiar... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I strongly suspect Cute said he hated the site because he's addicted and trying to quit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait, I think I got a comprehensive list: Octo Rynnec inane242 Black Humor Firebert setnakhte cutewithoutthe (restored) That One Guy Named X (restored... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I want to say Firebert. But I could be misremembering.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think I heard it was Firebert from someone else too. Either way, they all showed the same level of maturity.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If a P5 member wants someone out, I think our default response should be that they're out, no questions asked. I think we can trust the judgment of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...offending? They look like they're joking, to me. And Exelixi is only two years older than her, so the whole pedophile argument breaks then and there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also, I'm pretty damn sure that Lola had already posted swimsuit photos of herself at that point. Not sexy ones, I'll hasten to add. edited 3rd May '12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At least we could kill all threads that haven't had new posts in, say a month or two. But this one is in an active thread with a huge backlog. People won't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Have fun continuing to toe the party line 100% like a good little obedient mod drone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I've got some things I'd like to say about lolacat but I will just keep them to myself. Fire away; if we can handle the crap we get from the people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose so. Let him know nobody gets two ragequits, for sure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think a note to all the P5 members advising them to not even read private messages about P5 business in in order. Just send back a reply "Please use... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back when I received this PM, I replied to him: I suggest you find a different hobby, because trolling Tv Tropes gets old fast. His response: Well!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding Mackerel, making a sock to evade a ban is a permabannable offense. I say kick the original and bounce him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm, maybe we should do that. I think Lightflame needs an edit ban. There is such a thing as taking a joke too far, and now the other posters are complaining... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mass Effect talk! Fighteer, that Brick As Himself guy in ATT is an account created today, and they're already asking about Mass Effect. Suspicious, if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Indeed, I'm tempted to ban him up front.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have no idea. Aiko has been extremely unstable lately, though ...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't make any guarantees that I won't ban Aiko the next time they become an ass.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like a joke gone wrong. I'd lift the ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmmm, okay. Guess I read too much into it. I lifted it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was No Lewdness No Prudishness that they blanked. It was a protest of wiki policy and stated to be such.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not likely. There was a very good reason to ban them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Strictly speaking, though, Ruby Quest and MLP share a common denominator, even if the tones, execution, and general world are completely different. It's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another Con sock, Gasgroundmarx, yet another pair of bizarre PMs. and why you tells me to go away? why you undo the edits of following pages: Super... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would it be bad form to message him back and just say "We're just sick of having you around"? I'm guessing it probably is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Arg, Casper's Wish is annoying me. "I'm totally justified flaming someone cause he flamed me too!" Anyone have an opinion on giving him his P Ms back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I need help. There's this guy in the Naruto thread, Ironypus, who has been bothering me. He seems like a...creep, honestly, and his posts always read like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nevermind, not awake. Carry on. edited 7th May '12 5:29:56 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be inclined to do so. She always struck me as harmless albeit clueless.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hydronix is PM'ing me about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I really think Starwolves is Goldstone. He showed the exact same obsessive behaviour by going around and changing any instance of MissFanservice to MsFanservice... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cagey, huh? For mods, the new account page now shows the password the new account is using. If you see duplicated passwords, be suspicious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The one where you said "See the 'Poor dumb me, what did I do?' shtick?" By doing that, you didn't have to mention that you actually compared passwords,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, it looks like we have another issue: Anfauglith. He's on troll vigilante mode and made a sockpuppet to prove a point. I had already told him to not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hit the banhammer. Should I give Anfa a timeout?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cat ninja'd me on that one. "Ban Anfauglith"? Seriously? This guy needs a life. Giving Anfa a 3 day timeout.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another one: ME 3 Hate Dumb. Commented on ATT saying how anyone who hates ME 3 can't possibly be a troll!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ummm, Eddie, we have a user who goes by Anfauglith, and the trolls took those handles specifically to troll him. Will the bounce affect him as well?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, not a bad guy. Just a troll magnet. Caught a new one: Meehd. No points for guessing what the acronym stands for.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure I understand this guy's logic. That if he does it enough we'll get bored, give up and leave him to it? Assuming there is a logic to this and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're giving too much credit. New kids on the block. Post in ATT by Assuming Direct Control: How can one correct the incorrect and false information... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't buy the "we" bullshit. I think it's one person puffing himself up to appear larger than he is in the hopes of making his point seem more valid... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got another sock for this guy. Getting Known Tv Tropes. Whammered.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Video Games is now locked. It was targeted by our vandal. He is creating accounts at the rate of about one every five minutes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he pops up again I'm PM'ing him with "Attempting to hold the wiki hostage to get what you want isn't going to work. If anything it's going to make us... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think engaging him in any way is going to give him the recognition he wants. If we don't engage and just continue to slap him down, he'll lose interest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I really need to stop thinking that there's always a diplomatic solution. We're way past any sort of logic here, after all. Then again I think we fell... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This guy seems to legitimately think we're mad at him because we all hate the ending and our "bias" influences who we ban. He doesn't realise that constant... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think any of the staff has. But troll logic doesn't work that way. We banned him, he's in the right, therefore his ban was unjust and we are... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Either way I think he's gone silent for now. Unless I missed something.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This thread. I'll be honest - I partially agree with Mazz here. I think analysis of tropes is the next logical step, and we should be encouraging it for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's hard to argue effectively against a strawman. That's the point of it being one in the first place. Bound almost got himself banned with his last... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mazz has a bad case of being unable to see the forest for the one particular tree he's got his mind set on climbing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Time for the happy fun time banhammer of DOOM!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A bit suspicious following me telling "intelinside" that "unjust" bans could be appealed there. EDIT: The thread appears to be gone. What happened? EDIT... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just got a pm from Icantremember saying: "Unban me bitch". Dropped the rest of the bans on him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say so, yes. He's got Straw Feminist open right now. EDIT: It's freed up now...made a couple of tweaks. edited 16th May '12 11:06:57 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Says ban evader but the puppet check doesn't have any matches.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh sorry, my bad. Septimus reported him as a sock of Serpentaxy 400. EDIT: Got a PM from a Duck sock: (This PM may have been sent twice; if so, then I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That means he's both. Bounce!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a pm here from Xomni4 asking that I unban Masonicon. Refresh my memory, the note says troll with multiple socks and I remember finding a sock at... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is that troper a sock of Masonicon or another troll?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Masonicon has created at least ten socks and makes edits with atrocious grammar. He also seems to PM us random crap about not understanding what he did... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's setting up his own rules of discussion and then using those standards to manipulate the discussion to reinforce his stance. Standard operating procedure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I honestly like Rodney. Yes, he has a chip on his shoulder, but he does a lot of good work for the wiki especially in the graphics department. DQZ on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember, this is the troper formerly known as USAF NNN (several different three-digit numbers).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sheer ongoing weight of being a pain in the ass. This would be like his fourth trip back. He has 100+ thumps. Got to just finally call a halt.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pretty much what I suspected.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup. He's a Jackass. I'm cleaning up his Bluenose Bowdlerizer streak now. edited 18th May '12 12:55:52 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspected that might happen. I don't suppose this person understands that we make decisions like that on consensus, not arbitrarily, nor that this is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose a person has a right to the position that 'bitch' is misogynistic. If they are willing to stick to civil discourse, it may not hurt to let them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Waiting for some of the femme mods to weigh in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that we should get more opinions, but I just wanted to add that this smells no different from the folks who wanted us to put trigger warnings on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Femme mods? Sexism! The word bitch isn't any more sexist than a insult that's almost always directed at males would be, such as bastard. Yes, it's only... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm fine with it if Eddie is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember that firefreak guy who wanted to open a homophobia thread? One day old account, made a homophobia thread twice in OTC and now made a thread in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our Mass Effect vandal is back under the name Legionary Caius. EDIT: And You Take The Hint. He's definitely reading ATT. edited 20th May '12 10:08:48... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In other news, there's this Prometheus Unbound guy who also needs a bounce. Socks include: Tiberius Blaze Empire Rising Innocent Woodland Elf Prometheus... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been a bit of trouble in Writer's Block because of how stubborn he is on the whole "criticism" thing. He also seems to rile people up unintentionally... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread About what? Wiki policy? If he's not contributing to the wiki otherwise, I'd say suspend. If he has activity elsewhere, send a PM.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "Oh god! This was renamed!" -insert stupid snark- And others that I've nuked. I can't use Google, unfortunately, cause my lappie hates it, but anyone who... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think I may have run across a few of those posts in my wiki crawls. This is not a pleasant person on the Internet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. Even though I agree with the guy that the current image is bad. Sometimes ... nobody cares enough.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dropped all hammers on Tropers.Acme Effect following two low-key edits about Mass Effect on trope pages, then vandalism on Tropers.tsstevens and a rant... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was contacted by John Casey 21 about Drake Clawfang. User Drake Clawfang has been pretty obnoxious. See here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned aramanor's ass. His response to my thump over saying that people who don't contest the policy like censorship and just don't want to piss off an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have a new account, Hurr Doktor, whose password is "Fighteersucks". That bears watching. Probably a ban evader. No activity yet, so no way to check... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cider's been a pain in the ass for as long as I've seen him around, especially in IP. He's already been wiki-banned once for fucking around with page... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Memo to self: "Let's see what happens next" is never a good plan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sent tsstevens a PM and told him to stop feeding the troll. Really, you feed a troll and the next thing you know it follows you home and piddles on the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like you ought to, yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Originality ftw. I wonder when the trolls will start trying to brute force passwords to hijack people's accounts. Or does Eddie have a thing to prevent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Caught another one: Li FEKEY 6550, all hammered and reverts done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And another: compactdisc.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gush.Bioware is now locked, at least until our vandal picks a new page to target.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. Looks like any other opinion.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From tsstevens, after I asked him to stop feeding the troll: You're right of course, I should do what I can to not react. But I ask, this is as serious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Awww, I wanted to see that "review".... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's more, actually! compactdisc Red Stripe Of Valor You All Are Mthr Fckrs edited 24th May '12 3:54:55 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He is really starting to irritate me. He was mildly amusing at first, but now I daydream of electrocuting him through his keyboard.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here you go.◊... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His theme song: "I'm a fucktard and I'm okay / I spank all night and I troll all day!" edited 24th May '12 4:05:12 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, whatever you closed to disallow editing of comments on discussion pages, it needs done for reviews, too. Our ME troll is busy editing other people's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba returned as "Bafoon." Bans issued, posts skullfucked. Account was 130 days old. IP shared with "Gettingknownagain." Final post: THIS IS THE LAST POST... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmmm, thoughts on the Skyrim Edit War? Judging by the history, that POLE guy kept adding the Its All About Me entry, even though three other posters said... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We got sidetracked, I think. I'm inclined to trust Bobby's decision on this one. So, I'm fine with unbanning her, I guess.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Matt's an obstructive pain. I'm not even kidding here. His recent posts in IP make my jaw drop. Failure to comprehend sarcasm, assuming every user is a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm worried we're having the fanservice/sex-related stuff witch hunt again. [1] [2] [3]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are we done with A Groupie yet? We ban him from the P5 forum and this is what he does next? Jerkoff.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yorick Editor was banned on the 17th by lu for complaining about Diablo and its fans. He created the sock Crocotta Yena to continue editting. Is there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think he's probably suffered enough to have learnt his lesson...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's Shima! Yeah, I think so too. I lifted their edit ban after they appeared in edit banned with the understanding that they won't abuse the cutlist... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A pegasus, I think.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave basd a 5 day suspension. If thumps aren't getting through to him, harsher methods might. If that doesn't work, he can go for good. No real loss... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed that we probably don't need him, but booting him after he was given a 5 day suspension but before he comes back, if he does, could be considered... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He doesn't get it. No unban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm inclined to crush him like a bug, but I'm running on 2 hours of sleep and lots of caffeine, so I may be a touch grumpy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe we should create a Sod Off/ namespace and add his handle to it, just to see what happens...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I love how we're so petty and mean spirited here in the mod forum...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Supercabalfragilisticexpeallidocius.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banthemcuztheirforumpostsarereallydamnatrocious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Iftheyhollerloudenoughtheysoundquiteferocious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread People who harass others by PM are not welcome back. Please squash this sockpuppet, too. edited 6th Jun '12 5:49:19 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Full suite of bans installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I said the exact same thing on Skype. My "organised trolling at work" senses are tingling.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave Marioguy128 a 3-day posting time out. He was being disruptively negative and hyperbolic in the E3 thread, and other posters were complaining about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a PM from Mazz: Do you all really think I'm a troll? I realize now that my vision of TV Tropes and the vision of the community at large do not coincide... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edited.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Definitely ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a sensitive issue on my hands and I have no idea how to handle it due to personal bias. The Westerner PM'ed me, asking me if I could ban a certain... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I was looking around Unpublished Works, and I have found something really effin' creepy. Today, Fast Eddie cut Digimon Full Force per P5, as it's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rawpower EX is probably Rawpower, a previously banned troper. Also, the edit he did on the WWII page was this: Darkest Hour: After the war, All of Europe... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread edited 11th Jun '12 7:15:49 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His troper page is bad. Very bad. I just looked at it more thoroughly. This one is not a keeper, I think. edited 11th Jun '12 7:53:56 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it is the same guy as the original Raw Power then it would make my original armchair diagnosis of mental illness correct, I think. Which is a shame... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just banned and deleted a post in Ask The Tropers by a user named AgentGarcia who claimed to be an FBI agent in search of a pedo panderer going by the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Jay-sus. That's just mind-numbingly stupid. Also, I've determined that if I keep trying to catch up on all the details of what happened while I was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So we've moved from relatively harmless trolling to outright criminal activity? Sheesh.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wouldn't miss her if we did...what's she doing now?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Two pages back, she got a bunch of her posts thumped.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's currently taking a break from posting, according to deathpigeon. May be for the best. If she returns acting all erratic again, we can say bye.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Has she been informed that she is on the last thread of her last reprieve?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread JHM sent me a concerning PM. Here is our talk: A friend of mine discovered thisEncyclopedia Dramatica (.se) article on the P5 purge, and we have reason... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's Encyclopaedia Dramatica. Are you honestly surprised? edited 13th Jun '12 8:15:54 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait, I've got them. It's Brent Laabs, Morganite and Rpgingmaster. I actually prefer the bounce to make their source theft more difficult. edited 13th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think I'll just give the bans, hmm?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Correct. Spider-copying the entire site is not a violation of the license, but it is a disruption of service. Especially spider-copying it without asking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I glanced at that offsite thread; Morganite noticed his ban, and so have some of our users.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just hammered a thread by Anfauglith in Wiki Talk ranting about our policy against complaint threads. Edit: He PM'ed me about it and I replied with an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Harassment in aisle 3. Followup from here, the Westerner told me he had another exchange with Toreno1910. It culminated in this PM◊. Sarah is kay4today... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aiko Heiwa is having yet another emotional meltdown in the LGBT thread and The Nunnery, so I turned off posting for her. I presume this is the final goodbye... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, no. Ban that handle. It's clearly someone trolling us.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've received a PM from Morganite, who contacted Komodin on ff.net to appeal her ban. Komodin said I should appeal to you about my ban, so here it is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aiko has been burning last chances like a thing that often burns last chances. I wouldn't negotiate with them any more.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. He's been on my eye for very long. Someone has a sexuality/women agenda. I support a YKTTW ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. That's not a trope, it's a pointmaking exercise.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gaming the system. Bring him in, methinks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread JHM and I had a weird conversation. I'll just post the important bits. noticed something unsettling, but it's more in a general "keep an eye out for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, just making sure. I haven't been following it very closely; that thread moves too fast.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In that thread, which I read through (and I actually issued the lock, though I later saw that someone else was locking it at the same time,) RT was absent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Uhhhh, I get a HTTP 500 for every wiki page. Everything else works fine. Is something borked? Looks like it's been fixed. edited 19th Jun '12 1:42:48... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It seems that Aiko Heiwa has posted something in their blog to ensure that we'll never let them return. (Well, if that wasn't their goal, it certainly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, we got a couple of hollers about Gannetwhale trolling in the Korra thread. We already kicked him out of OTC for being a pain in the ass. Because he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm all for showing him the door. I'm not sure I'd stop at the forums after reading that review.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Somebody may want to talk to Septimus about his preoccupation with inbounds. I cutlisted Characters.Fairy Tail Four because it had been made by a mistake... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldstone was back as Mysticole. Busy day for ban evaders.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/restrain.php?troper=EvaSharp I believe this troper to be trolling. Can I get a second opinion?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...Certainly seems that way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll wheel out the crusher then. Not sure I can issue bans easily on my phone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have restrained Nate Spidgewood in all but posting and PM. If his random bitching everywhere wasn't enough, he left this on ATT: Why can't you stop... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, who clocked this thread?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread After this post, I am officially supporting slapping the bans on lily. That's the exact same thing Caius Ragnarok said to King Zeal when he was around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another 0 day account making a thread. He doesn't seem to be able to post though, just make the thread. Bug/glitch/hole?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, Dark Confidant is starting to genuinely whine over in the badge thread. *sigh*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I saw that. He's getting paranoid about everything we may not tell him. I was bloody joking. What the hell. Does he think he's gonna get a report about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh look. I am going to bed shortly. But I will say this: I have zero intention of satisfying his curiosity. His view of transparency is skewed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Like, if I were to ban someone who had been banned and allowed back by another mod, part of the reason I'll post here is in case the other mod wants to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh god, the creep I banned back here returned as Derpinitty and started inserting her stupid Adam Ant drooling on pages again. Fast Eddie, please bounce... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was his ban for the exact same thing before?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM from DQZ asking if a new Page Action crowner can be added to the thread about Everythings Better With Indexes. This feels like trying to weasel... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You know how we only let people who suck at English edit when they run their stuff through the Help With English thread? Well, I guess we can let people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo had two alternate accounts: Octicus and Susanoo. Susanoo was deleted due to inactivity by the new system. Octicus was banned. All thee accounts had... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you thank Komodin for telling you about it?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Based on their discussion, they haven't figured out that we can trace and compare IPs. I've said this before, but I think it's downright bizarre that there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Took care of Moogle. It sounds like he gets it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't we discuss and decide to implement a rule after "lily" joined that posting for a banned user, other than a goodbye or a ban appeal, was going to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say that's grounds for a ban. Being banned does not mean "post my stuff, which I said on another site specifically so you can use it on tvtropes when... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can we dredge up any more cases that are as concrete as that against them? I think if we can get two more, that'll be enough of a chain of evidence that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't even recall which threads I had to step in on — one of the We Are Our Avatars, I think; the original High School game; and at least one other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I'm up to page 210 in Hollers, which is March-ish of 2011, and haven't found the Hollers that sent me to RP yet. But I really need to go to bed before... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You are not. That guy means trouble.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The antagonistic nature of the OP kind of makes that clear.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread fakeangelbr is flagging works because they're racy and have girls in bikinis. The work in question is Air Gear, which having read it, is neither porn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sent this to Anfauglith: It's not just that you delivered a banned person's (not-for-appeal-purposes-only) messages. By doing so, you demonstrated that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Like the notion that there is such a thing as an objective standard of quality that — naturally — he alone is qualified to judge.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And the peasants rejoiced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, this one landed in my inbox about fifteen minutes ago: Hi, Deadbeat! I was wondering if you could provide me with the method for appealing forum bans... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just got this PM from JHM A Ban Evader darkdrake is the same user as blitzwing1 (among other Blitzwing-themed handles), who was previously banned for harassing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shima, that account came to my attention when he hollered the Octo sock, Octicus. I was very suspicious of a 7 day account hollering a user banned a while... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's what I'm considering PM'ing DC, after that post in the hottip cleanup thread: "Dude, seriously, this is getting old fast. We're not out to get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait a minute.... That Angry Tendrils account who made that OTC thread? It's 0 days. And the password is bullshit1. This is the third time this happens... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not according to his ban history, although Eddie did aggressively probe his cranium over something that he deemed "knavery". I agree with hammering them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No question. I put in the restraints.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Which handle is new? There are no pms between Octicus and Anfauglith. edited 7th Jul '12 5:19:15 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I believe Argonath and Alruhn are the handles established after the password bounce. Are there PMs between Nirnaeth and Octicus? edited 7th Jul '12 5:20... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ooooh, I can already see it. Would it be possible to not allow other users to block mods?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a persistent ban evader here: Centimental Cyrok Bolero Nasty Herion Anything bouncable? Additionally, these I Ps seem to only be used by his socks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thirding.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No objections.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The launch list will at least show recent ones. edited 10th Jul '12 2:50:31 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should we cutlist his nonsense ultimate crossover movie unpublished work page? I've been kicking around the idea for a while. On one hand, his accounts... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And then he just keeps remaking it. >.<... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FE, Persistent review troll who won't go away. Handles: eveil Medder Regta Wrotting Aeae IP: 130.49.34.80 130.49.49.79 130.49.49.5 130.49.49.44 150.212.60.120... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh sweet Jesus. Where'd I leave that Exterminatus Now strip about tortured English? edited 12th Jul '12 12:41:43 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The high funktional and good documented IBM-PC with the also funktional and good documented DOS [...] How one manages to mix up computer software and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, he's tsstevens over there. EDIT: I believe his posts start on page 7 or 8, although he doesn't get confrontational until 14 or so. edited 15th Jul... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The excessively long password and the aggravation that entering that password into the password window to log on indicates to me that it is not a legitimate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not beyond the usual useless IP address of a proxy service.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Uber Shy Guy we had banned in the ME thread said there was a resident hacker over at Beyond the Lampshade at the time of Anfauglith's ban. I hope... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I checked new accounts again, and look at this. A new account, banned as a vandal in the previous system. Interesting...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^Different passwords and IP addresses for signup. Looks like different interests. ^^ No pattern we can use to bounce. edited 17th Jul '12 10:57:42 AM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heads-up. I talked about this on Skype but we just had a suspicious thread come in, here. The handle has the same IP as the one who wrote this gem.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As long as he doesn't get into paedo apologia on the forums or in the wiki, seems alright.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dump this loser.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a case of ban evasion...I'll make with the hammering. EDIT: I wonder about Madam Shogun...shares the I Ps with both of Prince's handles. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he linked a page with explicit sex acts going on. It was inappropriate. edited 22nd Jul '12 10:45:11 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Postbanned Squadala Guy for posting gibberish in the Pokémon In General thread. Open to lifting it if he gets back to me with a coherent explanation, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nice. You do seem to be finding the winners lately. I have to get back to my wiki watchlist.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye on Killbot. He posted in the Lolicon discussion page, saying, "Then I guess you'll have to delete this." When I quizzed him via PM about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am not inclined to unban arromdee. I asked tdgoodrich1 and Komodin, and they too see no value in letting him back. Is anyone else feeling merciful?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not particularly, no. He’s been a pain in the butt from day one with this, and his “I only did it once” excuse for trying to get Sailor Moon and Utena... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I full-banned Skywolf for ban evasion.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I see a bit more namecalling in the comments of that review, too, from SG_man_forever and kay4today. edited 25th Jul '12 3:36:15 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread buslot_sando has the same password as echelon_02. Case for ban evasion is pretty good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, the issue here is twofold. One, why did he post gibberish, clearly seeing it on his screen prior to clicking "send"? That's just crazy. Two, he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back in February, I banned Renner the 2nd, an anti-Semite who was being a real pain in the ass. They responded to the ban with allegations of censorship... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you, FE, for installing the comment activity finder. It helped me find an offensive asshole who thinks Asians can't possibly be "white", and that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The name was Lelouch VI Britannia.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, even if it isn't a sock, he continued the Edit War we banned Akiyoshi over, so that's not kosher either.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned and skullfucked Amazing Pun Guy for being Dragonzordasaurus/Abicion a.k.a. nutcase who writes trollfics about little girls going insane returned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What in the world is up with that FELH 2 person? I have no idea what to make of this, other than serious agenda issues.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, it seems that you don't like editing notes in article descriptions. So how would you suggest we communicate these to editors in a way they'll see... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I noticed that when it was a 0 day account. It is extremely suspicious. However, I'd refrain from any bans. Restore the entries s/he pulled without proper... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Double post: That Colme guy who bitched about Deboss on the discussion page also vandalised a bunch of pages. I'm going through to clean them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Best Of recently suspended EJO 1. Other than minor edit warring, there are other issues with this guy. He does a lot of editing, and while some is good... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am copying here the text of the post that I nuked in Wiki Talk from this Bluesaber fellow: I suggest the site should change or enforce the Family Friendly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nuking the post will just piss him off. If he comes back, just let him rant. No responses from staff at all. These guys are dangerous. They can spurious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Those kinds of threads never go anywhere productive. I'm not concerned about pissing him off, I'm concerned about the Wiki Talk posters getting roped... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I believe Kiloswine is this guy ban evading (all those accounts are the same guy). Similar edit history, rudeness and shares IP with a sock. Any way we... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread AGREATWHITESHARK Slippery Fish Doktor Mario Wikipedian All these (and possibly Heavy How Do I Make Sandvich) are socks of a rude asshole who thinks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait, what?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not from me. The Mega guy who was edit warring in Swirly Energy Thingy is a conspiracy nut who thinks Wikipedia is not a good source. Just an FYI. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why does he think he should get it? I can't see it in his posts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No IP hits.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Three hats is enough to launch, but that's about the only thing he did right there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do it. We have to clean up the culture of YKTTW.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mr Death is once again being brought up on Ask The Tropers. He has been very argumentative on the discussion pages for YMMV.The Legend Of Korra and has... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A troll by the name of hughjass posted this on the discussion for Whizzerd: Good work Detective Dickhead! I bet in humility my entire MAD magazine collection... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 8888888888: vandal with two edis, bound to be the guy known as Pass The Word and Is The Cake Really A Lie. Animangaotaku posted on ATT about diarrhea and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And he's back as FUCKTVT.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've got a strange one here. Outlander Omega posted a truly bizarre, spam-y YKTTW draft. He also has two other poorly written drafts. No IP history,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our dear shit vandal is back as Tornado Bot. Fullbanned. People seem to think it's an actual bot, but I'm not sure. That vandal has struck many times and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He posted in Wiki Talk as Fargtjigtlkf. I banned and nuked. No wiki edits. One wiki edit, which I somehow missed, that has already been reverted. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think so too. Sounds like they need an ultimatum to knock it off, or else. And we need to tell them, point blank, that we find rabid shippers to be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another Masonicon sock, this time named Mobian Grox. Made a thread in Wiki Talk: "Restore The Ultimate Crossover Movie". It's Mega Crossover project... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gray Sloth wants to talk about content policy on the Discussion page of their Troper page. Not cool. Directing them to the CV subforum. In case we'll need... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But how does she know? Ugh, I am so sick of their drama, and I only see it by proxy. The fact that his first ever post is in that thread is evidence enough... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I told them that they could work together to make a coherent appeal. They did talk to me first but I warned them that they couldn't let it devolve into... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Since I had their original comments lying around in my post here, I sent them to two of the original posters. I told them that they could re-post them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shop In Private is the new incarnation of the shit vandal. Fullbanned, edits reverted, troll pages cutlisted. Needs bounce. Also came as Enema Com! IP... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got him to promise he won't come back in the near future. I was looking over the vandal's edits, and noticed this bit: This is the largest enema bulb... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crossposting from Skype: Noirceur sent me a PM suspecting Lord to be a sock of The Westerner. I had initially suspected so myself, but wasn't sure. Here's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it's pretty likely.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It matches the pattern, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not much overlap between that and English.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's Masonicon! Overlap between him and English is less likely than conspiracy theories to occur!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But if we permit someone to write badly on purpose how do we justify banning those people who write badly because they don't know how to write? That's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just don't get people like that, I guess. Let 'em back in if you want. Hopefully in a way that keeps them away from me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sheora is an avid enemy of Word Cruft, but I think she might have taken it a tad too far this time. I prefer the first format. edited 4th Sep '12 9:38:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't really get the point of the change because I don't see how it harms anything to have it either way. However, for the same reason, I have no real... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good riddance.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Damn, I can actually see the bootprint on his ass...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am so stealing that line Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Awww, but I wanted it too! Grumbleninjacatgrumble edited 10th Sep '12 6:47:00 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, namesaking oneself after two figures who were protected from by lions by acts of God only to be eaten alive by the trollcrusher... edited 10th Sep... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we can bid a final farewell to An Cat Dubh, who really didn't get the message about real life soapboxing in the religion tropes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moving outta the hollers thread... This GirlWritesWhat blog thingie is causing a mess. People find her sexist. Others find her amazing, so much that they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Commented on the GWW thread in Hollers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ilmuroff is the newest incarnation of a troll with a similar name. edited 12th Sep '12 12:45:40 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I strongly suspect Lush City is Justice Man/Tagoph/Code Robin/Agent Rook , a.k.a. insufferable asshole who won't go away. Puppet check agrees. Posting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's him, 99% probability. Executed and hung out to dry.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer lowered the boom.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a plan. EDIT: Done in that thread. edited 15th Sep '12 7:01:05 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nor am I. If I'm recalling correctly A Groupie was a pain in the neck for quite some time before he was finally booted once and for all.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Something suspicious is up with new accounts. Every day, there are one or two accounts with a random name and the password asdfghjkl, or some shortened... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, no. No, no, no. If someone wants to lift the ban, I am against that motion.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hero Shepherd seems to be suffering from the same atrocious grammar problems as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure he should be in the YKTTW at all. >_< It's frustrating because he just does not get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding the Holler I made about Noir in The Nunnery: other posts that lead me to believe they're simply trolling it http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread tryourbreast has been going around nuking every case of Example As A Thesis indiscriminately, and adding how it's not good writing. This kinda smells as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bullcrap. Even if it were true (which I don't believe), he has no business coming back if he causes that huge of a mess because he can't protect his account... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Blitzwing is back as dark477, harassing Autumncomet. This guy is so pathetic, he's harassing everyone who doesn't say good things about us off-site. Creep... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As I said, I looked it up. The new account was indeed used for ban evasion, rather than appeal. (Some edits and posts were made on it, and none of them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Smasher os giving me trolling smells. These posts and these other two are worrisome. Keep an eye out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "Crossover Maniac 2012" is masonicon, I assume? Would you restore this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/TheUltimateCrossoverMovie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he wonks over that article. Just nuke it and him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just ban him. No need to be dramatic about it. I'll get it later if someone else doesn't. edited 22nd Oct '12 7:01:07 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Because he thinks if he pushes hard enough we'll break and let him back in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, he didn't get it from last time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just Wont Die is Prometheus returned and raging because he can't call Stalin evil. All of us are apparently "raging lefties who need to be put back in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The P5 ban also stops people from using the cutlist, right? (At least I seem to recall that we talked about it.) But what's the point of imposing a Workshops... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't much like him; lots of low level annoyance, like a single mosquito buzzing around in your bedroom at night. But, when I set a time-limited temp-ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What the hell is this? I know we're loose and all, but faggotdick? Seriously? edited 27th Oct '12 3:31:28 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was looking over this post, because it seemed pretty abrasive, and after running a puppet check, this guy shares IP with the banned The Dead Mans Life... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The post says minimum three weeks. He went and edited all of his posts that got him suspended. Does this indicate that he knows what he did, or was he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, I see that. I've sent him a pm explaining that I stated at least three weeks and that I was discussing it with the other mods.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Beware The Worlock deleted a chunk of DethroningMoment.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Given the IP, interests and username, I think he's Winter Worlock... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another Goldstone sock caught today. Bob Kraz is the handle. Eddie, can you just block his IPs? No one else uses them. I suspect Ham Sand Man 77 is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seems fairly conclusive.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gah, the bounce on bocoom/bocoom2 didn't take. He's back as chrischan. Bloody troll....... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's a troper by the name of Zakawer. They were banned for creating "Penis and Vagina shipping." Their no-content ban appeal was not well received.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Plus they said they're doing their editing from libraries and other public places. Damn.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Westerner is back as Corrupt Executive. IP match with Lord, stalking/cyberbullying behavior against kay4today, and some shitposting in The Nunnery... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In case you thought Goldstone would go away, he is now system 1. Cutlisting Black And White Beauty two days after his previous sock. We obviously wouldn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seconded. If he's not going to play nice then he can have his sandbox privileges revoked.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And a 90% chance of basement dweller syndrome. Nuke.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Put a bounce in for password = 'asdf';'asdfasdf'. edited 26th Nov '12 11:48:49 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...yeah, sounds like Squadala Guy even if he hadn't admitted it. Technically still post-banned, I never got a clueful response back from him...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He pulled the same crap on the DMOS page for Pokemon. Wiki ban installed, reversions incoming. edited 7th Dec '12 5:29:44 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread stalind vandalized Psychology Tropes two days ago. Full ban installed. Can't believe I missed it...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread make the final call on this one, but we should also express our own opinions about this because the ban was a joint decision made before Daltar became a Mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we have a review troll. All these three look fishy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All of those names have been a problem in the past. What a shock. Thanks for the bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread thepainkiller thinks himself clever: I propose that in order to comply with Fast Eddie and his sycophant's edicts, this page should be renamed "Unusually... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not even we flaunt mod authority like that. He's also been unable to drop arguments lately. Getting tired of this.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I need more information on the reasons for this suspension. Eddie, you're the one who issued it. Mind responding in Edit Banned? edited 5th Jan '13 8... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended lalaone for soapboxing on All Of The Other Reindeer and Acceptable Targets: I think the fact that the person who wrote the Asians example was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't we already state somewhere that this isn't about whether this racism is true or not (I'm sure it is, though I'm equally sure they're exaggerating... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see what this has to do with us. Moderation, that is. Zeal doesn't want PM's from Arkady? There's a tool for that. edited 6th Jan '13 10:58:15... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He returned as OnlyOnePercent. No edits. I yelled at the ATT crowd via PM to stop feeding him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, I suspect that is him. Go ahead and nuke him. ... I took care of it. edited 10th Jan '13 5:41:44 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Puppet check reveals "1993xxx1993", who was banned for being "That Ebb1993 wonk again," according to Lu. And "Ebb1993" was banned for page blanking. I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think you are right.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Based on your earlier post about Randomguy, I'd say that's definitely the correct decision. Thorn's response to my PM: Fair enough. Though to be fair,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Randomguy's response to me: I understand my past behavior is unacceptable and I don't want to hurt anyone again. I just want to talk to people and read... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm more curious about this. Somebody be trollin'.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And than I was foolish enough to go rage off at mod whose the one in a authority and keeps everything line, everything just got caught at the heat of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread trouble and not be a "troubled troubling troper" if I were to be allowed back, "out of trouble" being not getting into fights about criticism and the mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread done. Bonus gotchas because he seems to always use a particular string in passwords.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crows admits to being a sockpuppet. No conversations with Viktorious. edited 16th Jan '13 10:11:00 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got this PM from AFP: Howdy. Just so you know, Wardog80 is a coworker of mine who is evidently following me around online to try and annoy me. I'm not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I will let the Mod run their website to their criteria, as it’s their right to do so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another ebb sock, xxxxxebb. Why does he keep coming back?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave Nidalla (one of the guys causing the flames in the That Guy With The Glasses thread) the full monty. His IP and posting style are way too similar... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, dear lord. A creator who trolls his own work? Or pimps it by trolling other people's.... never mind I don't get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm getting fed up with Marq FJA. He keeps causing disputes over excessive nitpicking and annoying other people. I suspect most of it comes from his social... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's this from the hollers thread. [1]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that looks to be it. Eddie's statement is "insta-ban for racist statements" and a few posts below he's apparently ban evading as Eternal Phoenix.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No password similarities for secretist/kami4. I've turned off new reviews and big deletions for Mass Effect 3.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The page type setter is accessible again, but saving it sends you to an invalid URL, which shows up as the Home Page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Voltlds, our page type vandal, posted in Edit Banned, and upon reading my response, apparently immediately made a new account, Boltlds, to ban evade.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll put a bounce on 70.162.74.119. Is that the IP you meant?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM from someone called The Accs3r: I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN NOR FORGIVEN YOUR ABUSE OF POWER. YOU'RE ON MY LIST, ASSHOLE. MOTHERFUCKER. BITCH. PRICK... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup. Sorry you're getting this sort of PM. Never makes you feel great.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, I get nothing from the IP. Probably a TOR exit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 13 people. How many of those are sox?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I doubt Moleman9000 is, but he was definitely trouble. Deep C is an active wiki editor. Associated handles: Augustine, Nettacki, Ultrayellow, Vandal Heart... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait. I need to do digging first... Going through the Hollers thread between June of 2010 (the date of the latest post of Master Knight that that a google... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Found dirt on treehugger. After Moleman's raging here, he admits to have deleted all his contributions right here. Of course, that's a whole year ago.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nomincal is the Mass Effect vandal, with a very disturbing vandalism spree.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm. This is the sort of thing that would get someone jailed if they could be identified.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am highly suspicious of Demo Reality. His account is only two days old, but he submitted a bunch of custom-title requests on Wreck It Ralph and has a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rorschachwasright returned again, this time as Revenge of McBadass. No edits or posts; instead, he sent me some PMs. The titles of the PMs: You thought... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone called Seventythree was recently skullfucked for flame warring in the Wii U thread. Among the surge of Hollers leading to the skullfuck was one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, nothing in Troubled tropers. I'm working my way through Hollers Got him: First Holler about him, resulting in a warning from Bobby: http://tvtropes.org... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There has been an edit war on the The Nostalgia Critic discussion page. Newish troper Tiggle3 comes across as a bully, I don't know or care if he is right... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Spooky Mask reports a hateful PM from a poster going by Crushing Their Heads; subject "DIE YOU RETARDER!, body nothing more than "I'LL KILL YOU" repeated... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fuck that creep. He posted about how 'fappable' a seven year old was. That, and the other creepiness adds up to who needs this crap?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nonsense names with nonsense passwords seems to be the pattern, but those are hard to pick out for computer program. They did this same attack a few days... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The concern is that by relaxing the virtual IP thing, it'll open the door for a fresh DDOS. It's sort of a catch-22.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Put in a suspension on Rysio Pysio. I am 99% certain he is this guy. Severe anger issues and refusal to listen in ATT.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is the pm I sent Mokona Zero in response to his pm asking which of his posts where the problem. Almost every post where you talked about being a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If his wiki-side edits are sound, then just keeping him on a forum ban might work...might.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He seems incapable of distinguishing Joking Mode from being serious. It strikes me as a problem that isn't going to improve.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's my suggestion for Mokona: 1) Cut his troper page. He's not allowed to have one. 2) Turn off forum access permanently. 3) Allow wiki privileges... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That sounds good. I kind of wish I knew how old he actually is; a lot of his behavior strikes me as not abnormal for a mid-teen, for whom any attention... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Take your mod hat and shove it up your self righteous ass. " I gave Firestorm a Forum ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Recently I locked the Homeschooling thread in OTC because Albor had necroed it after Fighteer locked his thread on homeschooling. But now I'm not sure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Quick note: I whapped a wiki and forum suspension on Roarior616 for a post in Trope Talk with the title "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BATTLE SCHOOL TROPE?" I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No argument here...he can be helpful at times but mostly he's a pain.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, first things first, we should probably check with Irene to see if he really did apologize.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moshaaa spotted as latest Ilmurov sock. Banned and bounced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, this is interesting. Eight Eight Eight appears to be vandalising the page, which, according to its description, is the work of none other than that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you can't find it you can always ask a Mod. If you don't agree with a Wiki policy you can take it up in Wiki Talk.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In the wake of my intervention in the Lyrical Nanoha thread in the Anime/Manga board, Kaijo sent me this PM. Am I allowed to report posts that bring the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Skype eyeroll smiley would be perfect right about now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread PM from Qube2: I apologize in advance if my manner of speech becomes... aggressive. I am trying to log in to my proper account, as Qube. But apparently... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This just happened.◊ I think we're supposed to be amused?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sent the mail. Eddie says he turned off authentication emails for any address with "hush" in the domain as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nate must've had some handles prepped for tonight, he's been on a rampage. He also used inbox.com to send me the following PM twice. I SWEAR TO GOD!!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He put the same rant in Ask The Tropers, which I nuked. He seems to be using inbox.com as well as hush.com and hushmail.com for his throwaway addresses... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Received:     A request  Greetings Lu, it's been a long time. I used to frequent this forum, though a series of unfortunate happenings... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He tried to scare us into letting him back by pretending that he had hacked the Mod threads. I am 100% against letting him back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This was his last appeal to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. Emailed back a request to stop pestering us.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lu, what was the handle of the Anfauglith sock that sent you that PM?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. I just got PM'ed about making that (non-ownership) a general OTC rule.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That whole thread is toxic; in this, it mirrors the conversation in society itself. I said a while back that sexism topics might need to be shut down;... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seriously, though, what place does feminism have in the Men's rights thread except as shit-stirring or Oppression Olympics? How is it different from telling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think there is a legitimate need for a male-led movement for equality and rights to parallel feminism, but unfortunately the current men's rights movement... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going on observed behavior. I don't doubt that there's a reasonable position sitting in there somewhere, but when the people talking the loudest are... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Look, I'm not speaking towards the wider social issues. I care about keeping our forums civil. If sexism debates universally devolve into privilege juggling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Then let's try this: Lock down all the sexism threads, and start them fresh with this rule, pinned as a floater: This thread is for discussing [Men's /... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He recently talked about how the site is all about the Fora. I did reply to him, though - I didn't think it worth banning him over - but I can see why... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The annoying thing there is about 30% of the time her hollers are valid. So it's harder to just completely ignore.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh hey, the Mass Effect freak is obssessed with Final Fantasy again. Antwiler deserves to have his head blown off and so do you, you cocksucking piece... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raining Metal is an obssessive over everything Nintendo-related because Nintendo is the best thing ever. I'd suggest keeping him off those topics.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Take a look at his history; he's playing the innocent.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So I was wrong to trust that they'd actually move to another wiki - if they've made one sock they'll probably make more. edited 12th Sep '14 3:19:26 PM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Checking.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sometimes. Sometimes we get Nates and Babas. I'm so glad we haven't seen the later in ages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Afro Warrior 27 was apparently David the Mouse. So that guy is still ban-evading (with considerable success). Shit.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings No. They won't solve any problems and may only cause more. edited 29th Apr '11 4:00:42 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings I'd forgotten that fanfic recommendation pages are already supposed to have tags for non-canon stuff that's may upset folks.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings I meant no objections to the policy statement in which I laid out that we don't want them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A note for moderators who have been absent/inactive recently for reasons unknown: We have moved the staff discussions from Skype to a Slack channel. To... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, my phone may have logged me out of it, and now I cannot get back in.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You seem to have un-joined the TV Tropes mod channels. We'll have to get you reinvited.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, I know I've been away for a while. I want you guys to know my gram is doing better and I should actually have time to devote to things again. I've... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to hear (on all accounts).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They linked this. I'm not too sure I'm back into the trope ropes just yet, but I don't feel this TLP is too strong. Aubren on the other hand feels quite... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ~lu127: You should probably ask for Slack membership. I don't remember the procedure exactly; ~Tanzmetall? As for that TLP. I think it's testing the limits... More Mod Jabberings Requests for large queries New request: All pages that had pictures added by creader...every one has been uniformly bad so far.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre http://quicksupplementfact.com/vxl-male-enhancement by Seejwera 39.42.183.13... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre No drugs this time, but instead... 36.80.84.239 mofos Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 full film download. edited 8th May '17 9:06:59 PM by Berrenta... More Mod Jabberings Possible Notification/Watchlist improvements First part requested here: https://app.asana.com/0/157687604890875/207803832857202... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since ~Madrugada asked about how to change the thread tag of a thread (in this case, the Appearance Tropes one) If the thread is not in the Trope Repair... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I did all that. Several times. While I was in the edit box, the "Opera Gloves" link wasn't there. But it popped back up at the end of the title when I... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Here's what I use for declined custom-titles: For special characters not displaying correctly: Your request for a custom title for "<South Park: Bigger... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Misplaced Items YMMV Hello, your edit on [[Page Name]] has you inserting a trope that is marked YMMV on an objective page. Since YMMV is based on opinion... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Namespace: Hello. I noticed that you were adding examples without using namespaces. To keep things organised in the wiki, we pothole each work's name... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes Welcome PM I tweaked it a bit. More emphasis on storytelling; rolled politeness up to first bullet; put in a mild caution about "fun."... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Martello is awesome. We frequently disagree, but when we do so the arguments are rational and that's rare. Even after a long argument with him things... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread A short while ago, Applelight Limited gave me and the site some very harsh criticism, when he found out that a troper with whom he had a problem (Rich... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Working silently and staying out of trouble. That's why we don't notice them; we're too busy cleaning up after the problem children.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children They're both cases of, it's no one little wrong thing, it's a lot of them just generally making the wiki function worse. I think they need to be gone.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Yaaaaaay~ It's up! Let's get some beers for Eddie! Thank you so much! Hit Matt with it. Do we want to hit DQZ? edited 5th Jun '12 7:41:07 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Kick Cider out pronto. That guy's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more trouble than he's worth.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children That usage is accepted informal speech in some areas; it's not correct formal language, but it's relatively common in other contexts.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Rodney is more subtle than DQZ, but he tends to cause problems, at least in my experience. He's overly pedantic and confrontational and once he develops... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children DQZ appears to be appealing his ban in the edit banned thread. How are we feeling about a third chance?... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Some long timers have left or have been banned. Others have come in. While decision-making is still flowing normally, it appears that almost all people... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children We need to reply to Xzenu. He is both edit-banned and workshop banned, but I honestly don't know what to say to him.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Oh, ghod. The YKTTW would work as in index. But "random things that cause bad luck in fiction" as a trope? No. Just, no. I dont' think spacemarine would... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Is Trope Eater just looking for flimsy reasons to open new IP threads? I've been noticing most of his threads boil down to nitpicking.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children I read that as "consensus rage" and am going to steal it.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children He desperately needs a break. He makes two threads per day, all of them of the "we can do better" variety. If TRS wasn't swamped, I'd expect him to clutter... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Go for it. edited 3rd Dec '12 5:19:58 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. Didn't we rename Rape Is Love? I could have sworn it was a redirect now. It might be worth mentioning that it wasn't an actual page on the wiki, if so... More Mod Jabberings Mod tool sandbox ... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I nuke that stuff too. It's not appropriate to criticize the site's administration on the discussion pages. People come there to discuss the tropes,... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Agreed; firebomb that crap with impunity.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Oh, believe me, I'm not disagreeing with your action here. Sorry if it came off that way. Name calling is out, and complaining on discussion pages about... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting need to make a thread in Wiki Talk titled "Grievances" or something like that, and make it specifically so people can vent any issues they may have with mod... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Very much so. We are willing to listen to criticism. We are not willing to listen to personal attacks.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Making a 'suggestion box' thread where people can propose things to the moderation and air concerns. Sort of like Appeal to the Moderation, only explicitly... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Banning powers wouldn't work. Just thumping, let's say. Thumps would be signed by the thumper. We could retroactively unthump all thumps by an individual... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Lots of stuff has happened pretty quickly. It'll take a while for everything to settle. I'd like to add another topic to the agenda for the next get together... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting The first weekend in May is completely out for me; I think I'm good aside from that.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I don't have a webcam either, so I'm sticking with textchat.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting For those who didn't have video, I just saw some generic "blank" user pic, much like the one we have for users without an avatar.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I had suggested either a Saturday or Sunday in late April early May but looking at availability, late May might be a better choice.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So, are we still planning a meeting?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting That schedule works well enough for me, although I still have to set aside the appropriate time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I've been thinking of buying a webcam so I could use that with my desktop instead of having to resort to the laptop for the Skype stuff. I wonder how long... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting 10 am will usually work for me. Sunday mornings are going to be better than Saturday, though.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I would like a headset. It's on my list but kind of far down on it. I suppose we should look for a date. This is the last week end in April. From the preferences... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting June 3 I'm at Origins. I won't have net access.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting If it's a Sunday, I have to go with whichever time is earlier because I have school at 9 AM on Mondays. >.>... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting all of that works for me, but I'd only be able to be on for an hour at the later times. edited 3rd May '12 11:16:56 AM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm good.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm good, the way things are now.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting edit to remove wrong time list. Previous one is correct. edited 9th May '12 6:51:16 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Huh, I just realised next Sunday is the 20th.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sent you an add request. You need to respond so I can include you in the group call.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sorry, what was the skypename?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting We'll be the newbies, ccoa! Brace yourself.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I did that a couple of days ago, and I must say that I, too, was taken by how much change there's been in such a short time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I accepted a request from Fast Eddie already. He's showing up in my contacts.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting This has the time in all the time zones. All of them.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Do I not have your skypename, Ironeye? Nevermind. I found it. edited 19th May '12 10:51:43 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Err, Eddie, can you try removing me and then re-adding me to the conversation? My lappies are up to wacky hijinks again... Scratch that, I think it's fixed... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'll take part in the meeting, but I'll have to be off pretty soon after it starts.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm wondering if I should Mod Hat the post while I'm at it.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting We ninja-edited my post!... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Yeah, sadly weekends are the only times I'm not consistently free. A week from this Saturday in the morning? The 15th? I can probably make that. edited... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Howabout Saturday AM? Say 10 Eastern?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I am also busy this coming Saturday but 10 Eastern the 15th would be perfect. I remember we did the calculations last time and found that early in the... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I would like to have a band called daltar and the left coastians... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Soooooooooooooooooo, we could work on January 13th? Looks far enough for everyone to prepare in advance. I'll probably be stuffed with all the με... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Jan 13 works fer me.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I've got nothing on my calendar that would interfere at the moment.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I should be clear for that day. No-one's told me otherwise.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Morning or at least before Noon central.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It's a Sunday.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I thought that was what Septimus Heap was for.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Added a new item to my tech list.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Damn, why did I think Argentina, sorry Daltar, it's probably like saying Best Of is from Sweden.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Ok, so noon for Shima would be around nighttime for me. Can we settle on an exact time?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting How about 12 AM or 1 PM for Shima and everyone else in the same timezone? If I haven't copmpletely screwed up my calculations, that would be around 8-9... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I think you mean 12 PM. I'm good with either of those.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Ooooh, wait. I think I misunderstood. Shima, are you unavailable before noon or after? The post above was made with the assumption you're unavailable before... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Also, something that came up: would it be a good idea if we were able to read a PM conversation when someone links it for us? I've been receiving a number... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I don't. I would prefer to avoid that kind of intervention AMAP. I agree with FE that we are spending a heck of a lot of time telling people how to behave... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I can do 10 AM Central, but no earlier. At least, you know, if you want me to be quasi-functional.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Set the Mod Central page as a button on our toolbar in the forums.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So, are we set for 10 AM central? Are we scheduled? Do we want another time?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It sounds better than 9. I don't know what was wrong with my brain when I thought 9.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I like Launch Crew over Launchbusters. It just sounds more positive. We're having them do the last minute checks. Not like they're there to just bust... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Well, as I said in the meeting, having a "bounce" check box for the full and complete ban would be the obvious way to deal with that problem. That way... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I've added sticky post capability to the Sandbox thread. It makes it so that the first post is the post that is repeated on each page. Right now it just... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Pretty good. Is the "header post" box needed? It seems redundant. You're setting it aside with custom formatting anyway. It might also be nice to be... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Couldn't you just turn it off? If a post is that big, you won't be using it as a header anyway.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Posted something on general announcements, make tweaks as you see fit.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting We should put borders or something, to distinguish it like we do mod posts.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting On my monitor the I have to squint to see the light background as different from the posts after it.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Better.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Made a suggestion about the "clean examples from P5-cut works" solution in the Skype thread.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Eddie, would it be possible to get the stuff that comes after the toolbar buttons at the top of threads, including the "get usage counts" button, to go... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting As noted in other places, emailed the final snippet to Eddie. Changed a 2 to a 7 and wrapped the thing in a quoteright div to look standard when slipped... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Looks cool to me.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Launch completed.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting They all use the same page.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Making the checkmark that indicates new posts in a thread turn red if a mod hat post is among the new ones.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'll try, but I can't say at this point whether I''ll be available.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy This is a draft for the content policy thread, if we are to have a new one instead of opening one of the old ones. The idea is that we'll work out an acceptable... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy I stickied it.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Alright, first things first. This is just a for-fun project idea, because of the simple fact that Eddie's got plenty of stuff on his plate that doesn't... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Mod lock — mods choose the image that will be shown.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project You could even implement a rotational system, where what image is shown is selected from a (pre-approved) pool of images when the page is loaded. edited... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Here's an idea: when someone tries to add an example to a work page, they get a laconic of the trope they're adding and any they might be wicking displayed... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Obviously, we'd have to have a dedicated effort to fixing laconics were it implemented. :P... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Huh. I suggested that before and got a very lukewarm response about it. He must like you. :P... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I think all tropes would appear on the main page by default, as they do now. The user can then choose to filter the page by trope category (Plots, Settings... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project The moderation toolbox would be on the user page and would open the mod control panel for that user, with the restraint controls, history, etc.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Have we thought about multibullet examples? Such as: Alice And Bob: Alice killed a man with a tuna in episode 7. Bob used a halibut to take out the... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project The voting element is for things like which quote and image will be featured on an article. It's a way to remove the need for the Image Pickin' forum... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project OK, some follow up about translations and the "Title" and "Setting" elements (assuming that we go for a functionality like [1] for translations): Each... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads It seems that we sometimes don't come up with a resolution on an OTC thread. Apparently, we sometimes ask for the other mods to speak their mind and then... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Well, that certainly seems to be the case. Still, I think it's fairly easy to see what the OP was getting at. Maybe we should open it and see what happens... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads This one seems very much like a complaining thread. The OP is a bit of a rant and starts off accusing some random You Tube vid of not picking speeches... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Has there been a response?... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Not yet...... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I'm not sure that any of those are worth having. The first is shitstirring, the second is a glorified IJBM, and the third is too vaguely written to be... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I guess I don't see anything wrong with that thread. Though I don't see it getting a lot of replies, because there doesn't seem to be much to discuss?... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I'm kinda agreed that there's no room for discussion there, but, you know, I might be wrong. No harm in opening it, right? (Let's hope so...) Ninja'd.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Yeah, that's a mess waiting to happen.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Now, I know that threads in OTC have to get moderator approval before they're opened for discussion anyway, but I felt it would be better to just PM a mod... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I shouldn't worry too much about conservative's views on what is "anti-conservative." Anything less than full-throated howls of agreement would qualify... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Yeah, the OP is fine. I'm more worried about the poster. He seems to have issues on sex threads or threads related to sexuality from what I've seen.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Done both.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I think we need to nix it too. Gives me a bad feeling.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info No, keep it. It's fine. I trust you with it.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info The most reliable email address to reach me is currently bobbygloucestershire at hotmail dot co dot uk (broken that address up cause everyone else was,... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Pretty sure the bots are smart enough to parse the spelled-out forms anyways, these days... Email is Tangent128@gmail.com Jabber/XMPP IM is tangent128@... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Email: markus.kangas@gmail.com (...and now you know my name.*) Phone number is +38540 8457437 (+358 is the country code for Finland.) I have Skype, but... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info nreale at gmail dot com If I still have internet, arimnaes, Lanceleoghauni, Hikari no Kaze, Matrix, Karalora, Jinxed Blackcat, and Thnikkafan can all contact... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info edited 13th Sep '13 8:35:54 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info By the way, if the need ever arises to call me, please keep in mind that Finland is in the GMT+2 time zone. If you call me at 5 in the morning Finnish... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Email: goddessccoa@gmail.com or Sasha Harlow@mt.gov Cell: 406-461-6812 edited 14th Sep '13 1:16:17 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info edited 22nd Nov '12 11:50:47 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Email: egk2694@gmail.com. My Facebook is at elizabeth.kew.9. I know y'all have me on Skype, but if I were to disappear from TVT then I'd probably disappear... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Home internet is down til at least Friday. Phone not good for this at all.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Oh right, can be emailed at jonrose6@gmail.com.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications He was one for about a week. Then demoted.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Well, there's a bit of a story behind how I became a mod.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I'm good with those ones. And you're right Mr ARH has seemed much more stable recently.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Yeah, I think Tomu is too argumentative and finds himself in shitstorms often. Unfortunately, I don't know the others very well, and OTC is a sensitive... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications He could work as a herald, I think. No way he gets his hands on ban powers, though.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications You're low priority! I set you up.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Give the engineers/curators access to the mod forum. done Create a new thread for IP, TRS and Wiki Hollers only.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Recurring mod/curator Skype conferences. How recurring was left open, but at least a couple a year.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 April Fools avatar swap? I can totally get behind that.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I only now realised I had a bunch of things to talk about but forgot to note them during the meeting. Damn. They all amount to extra work for Eddie though... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Just use the ||IMAGE|| markup. Like this: edited 22nd May '12 1:03:27 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 The mark-done thing is installed. Button is to the left of the post #; edited 22nd May '12 2:59:02 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Cool, that looks even better than the suggestions. Is this just going to be in here or in the "locked page edits" thread as well? Thanks for posting... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 In that case, Holler a mod to split the thread accordingly. Each new thread will generally be and be labeled as one of the following types.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I get the feeling that this isn't the first time that we've talked about workshop-specific bans. So they probably are needed.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Well, it sounds like the game is out somewhere, so it's not technically pre-release.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Double post! Are we ready to make this public? I have a feeling we're going to have a rough few months as this gets settled - I have a hell of a time just... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Sorry, finals hit me, so I had to set the project aside for about three weeks. I can have a new draft ready for launch by tomorrow, and I already have... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Sounds good. Do you think you'll be launching it before 11am GMT-6 (EDT)? I may need to split the Korra thread if it goes up before it airs - it always... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Hmmm, not if I launch tomorrow. I'll make sure to get it live tonight. ("Tonight" by my current time zone, which will still be at least six hours before... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Or threaten to shut YKTTW down until the problem gets solved...I guarantee that'll get people's attention.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Oh Indiana jumped on the DST bandwagon a couple of years ago. So, I'll still be with the Eastern folk.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Central and I think its GMT-4.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Or that.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings And you don't have to buy anything unless you want to.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Well, I went ahead and got Skype, so I'll be able to participate in the next meeting.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Yay! I got your request this morning.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings I didn't. <pout>.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Sorry 'bout that. Yesterday, when I used your contact info from that thread to look you up on skype, the name that came up didn't look right. I thought... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Right off the bat, I think I speak for all of us when I say that all of the ideas proposed so far are great. (If you disagree, remember that I already... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Person   Avatar they want   Has been received   Swap complete Madrugada   Fighteer's "Nebula"   Yes   Yes Fighteer &... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Mmmm. I like the idea, but, you know, people who bitch about pretty christmas lights would probably not let that pass, either. 9_9... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'll take ccoa's.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) /...Click on the green squares that you see here and you can find my avatar gallery. I'm female. edited 6th Mar '12 2:18:28 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Danke. I've send mine to Shima.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'll take one of Meta Four's, because I know he has some nice ones. Will look through his gallery.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Sent lineart cat to ccoa... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) #0, please, love me some Reynardine.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) ^^ Awesome choice. Enable sharing on your profile and I'll send it you. @ blackcat: I sent you the infamous chicken anyway. edited 6th Mar '12 8:02:... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Which one do you want, Eddie? The traditional◊ emblem? One of the pokeymanz I've tended to use more recently? List says I'm left with one option... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think the plan is that people switch to their own avy that was chosen one week before (for example, Mads will switch to her Reynardine avy and blackcat... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thanks. :)... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Should we swap titles and signatures, too?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That could be fun. It would add to the "wha? Huh?" factor. I don't think most people really look at anything except avvie, and/or name for identification... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I would reserve that for a prank in which we all used the exact same avatar. And write in the textual equivalent of a Creepy Monotone. edited 7th Mar... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, that just occurred to me and I was coming back here to say that. ^_^... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Attempted to send, but I think sharing is disabled...... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It was. Now it is not.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) On my honor as a mod. edited 14th Mar '12 9:37:10 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That would be funny, but again, it would raise such a shitstorm among the bah-humbuggers.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Evil dictatorial Willbyr!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Looks like the avvie swap is ready to go. Eddie, is the Home Page going to cycle through the various versions?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, we should coordinate this so that we can change avvies around the same time even if we live in different time zones. I mean, if I were to change... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Katrika and Best of: I'd say, if you want to, but that hasn't been coordinated.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I may not precisely make 7 AM on the 31st. I'm not typically awake then.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) ^... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It looks like it boils down to "for all the mods in US timezones, switch your avvie as soon as you wake up on the 31st..."... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Isn't April Fool's supposed to be April 1st, not March 31st? Or is it a two-day thing?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Could have sworn there was a list of the home page "translations" in this thread, but apparently it was a hallucination. Anybody know where the list is... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) First post. Main.Home Pages.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) You need coffee.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Mine: Title: Nemesis Location: North Hills, CA, USA Signature: "Some things need to be broken." edited 31st Mar '12 3:23:45 AM by Morven... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Bleh, waaay too early for a Saturday. Darn morning people. :P Location: the Sleeping Giant Title: Ravenous Sophovore Sig: [-It's pitch black. You are... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Location: the Silvery Tay Title: vigilantly taxonomish Sig: WelcomeToTVTropes | HowToWriteAnExample | TextFormattingRules | ListOfShowsThatNeedSummary... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) You got it. Edit: psst, capitalize those "of"s, "the"s "an"s and "to"s and the custom titler will fix them. edited 31st Mar '12 6:21:41 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Everything's fine, thanks. ...sharing page 7 of this thread with 2008 me and modhat me.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Just a note, Fighteer, you mistakenly included 'Signature:' in your signature. edited 31st Mar '12 8:30:02 AM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Man, this is trippy.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think we did a very good job of hitting just the right note of amusing without being annoying. Go us!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I haven't seen any whining beyond a couple of offhand "I think it's confusing" posts. And the home page rotation is getting nothing but applause. <wet... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) And even nearly 36 hours into it, I still look at Shima's posts and my first thought is usually "I don't remember posting that?!" But anyway — the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm going with midnight my time tonight. Even though I'm sure that will be too early. I do like the penguin with the cymbals.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I still like the bear as well. If I wasn't apparently so thoroughly associated with the fox at this point that changing away from it causes minor earth... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Back to normal.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Funny, Madrugada. I think the one error we made was that apparently some of the home pages weren't locked, so people decided to try to vandalize them... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I haven't picked a Mod Hat avatar yet, but at least I have plenty of time to think about this.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think that something like this might be appropriate for me, given my current avatar.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Oh please. I'd just wind up with a Heartless, and those aren't that scary. >.<... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Tangent: Good lord, man, do you want to give people heart attacks? I approve.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'll whip the script later today, to see if the effect is as "fun" as it sounds.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) OK, so add a disable option if we can this time?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That's a good point, actually. Even if it only switches between the avatars in each troper's gallery, that's still a pretty good effect, even if we don't... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like #2.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I can confirm it works on Firefox and Safari. Or at least the test on the last page does. edited 26th Oct '12 7:29:56 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The test page works on Chrome. (Testing it would be easier if there were more pictures in the gallery, as that would reduce the odds of langing on the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It doesn't seem to do anything on Safari on iOS 6.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Best Of: differently-sized avatars might cause the page to resize slightly when they swap out, yes. Solutions are: ignore it, most avatars are going to... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Put some angels in it. That will really freak people.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Tangent, do you have Weeping Angel avatars? Also, do you have a gallery where we could see all of the avatars we'll use? (Or are they all in Hastily Made... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'll probably make a couple more avatars in the next couple of hours. Suggestions are welcome, though I suspect that if you can find an image you can probably... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Working nicely for me, using Windows 7 and Seamonkey.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Works: Chrome on Win 7. Does not work: IE 9 on Win 7. Works: Chrome on Win XP. Does not work: IE 7 on Win XP. edited 29th Oct '12 3:55:24 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Whoops. Yes, it is working on both browsers I mentioned.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Added the raptor and first shark. I can add them until Eddie takes his copy; then he's the one to ask to add to the list.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It's alive!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Still, we can't let everyone join in immediately; surprise is a major part of the fun, and we doin't want to spoil that. (After the prank is at least a... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) True. But it's still a good thing to keep in mind. Also: this warmed the cockles of my cold bitter heart.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I support this wholeheartedly. edited 1st Nov '12 12:13:13 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hastily Made Sockpuppet helped us carry out our Halloween surprise. Now I'm wondering if we might want to recruit them into our merry band. Who knows if... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hastily has actually been around for quite some time, I just haven't had use for him in the last couple years I'll probably do that, yes... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thanks, Tangent! I like the Mona Lisa. Let's scare 'em!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) A three-step change would just be adding a third entry to the list and changing a single digit from 2 to 3, not a biggie But with Maddy's images we know... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Is this too long for sig? Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. EDIT: Tested it. It's not too... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That's awesome.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Everyone's location... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Agent... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I see you.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I forget. Moderators also have random locations?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Maybe "Inside your head"? Since that's Smith's hat in the sequels...... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) This is far and away the best of them◊, at its original size edited 7th Oct '13 11:36:51 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) When should we announce the dress-up and contest?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) A week ahead?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I was thinking static.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I downloaded an illustrated Discworld novel (The Last Hero) to see if there were any Steampunk-ish images. There's a machine that three of the protagonists... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Good find.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The one with the three characters has the right colours for Steampunk, but the details marking it as such are too small to see.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Here's one where The Luggage got steampunked up a bit◊. Otherwise I like the spaceship you found.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think I'll go with official art, simply because I prefer it over fanart in terms of both style and quality.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, I screwed up and overwrote the source file. How's this? I've had a lot harder time than I thought I would finding pics.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like clockwork kittycat.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) X4 It's a steampunk take on a Necron from 40K. I may just have to go with something generic, the longer I look at that the less I like it.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Clockwork kitty is indeed cool. It is like a 1960's version of steampunk, somehow. Modpunk?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Logo for steampunkhalloween: Comments?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, but do you like it?;P... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Cool. Let's think a bit about to structure the "costume" contest. Mods are judges? Judges are elected by tropers? Is there a prize, or just braggin' rights... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Giving badges sounds cool. As for picking the winners, we could do it by vote? Like, everyone voting whichever avatar they like best?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think clockwork pumpkin badges maybe.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) No special widgets, please. Unless Tangent wants to. Me haz no time to make any. edited 23rd Oct '13 10:17:23 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) My widgets are client-side things; voting requires server-side plumbing. So, crowner is probably best.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Nope.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Are we doing anything for Thanksgiving other than a logo change? edited 6th Nov '13 11:52:47 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings How to Improve YKTTW Alright, in the Skype meeting, we talked about how we need to make a thread to have a conversation with the YKTTW regulars. we've been talking about this... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes Worst. Drag. Dominatrix. Ever.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes That's what I thought too.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes Apparently, the GMT+2 and Derail Squad is now a mod meme.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes * BestOf is a ninja * Blackcat gets X from Y MEME edited 24th Jul '12 11:27:35 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes I am now Cutmaster-san by order of lu. edited 4th Aug '12 10:29:08 PM by Ironeye... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes "Half-assed Wiki Terrorism" is a thing now.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I do feel like the social elements of the forums have become a detriment. Edit: That may be too broad. I'm pretty sure, though, that OTC is a failed experiment... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I don't think there is any connection between IJBM getting the boot and the decline of OTC. I think it declined because people found they could get others... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Public trial, then? Make a declaration that we are about to ban So-and-So, and let arguments pro and con be made?... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion A public discussion thread might be warranted in those exceptional cases, yes, but it'll have to be heavily moderated. The poster in question needs to... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Agreed on the "it would have to be heavily moderated" thing. Given the kind of silliness that went on in the old Edit Banned (and the iJam thread on the... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Right. So let's pick one problem from Bobby G's list that we all agree is an actual problem and see if we can solve it.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion That's a great idea. I also think that thumping should allow an optional personalized note to be added. One other thing, not related to the fora... how... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Yeah, I figured. I was just thinking about people with multiple accounts. Also this borks anyone with a handle that violates page naming rules.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'm happy with the idea.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Best Of is good people. And he's almost exclusively active in OTC, so he's interacted with the vast majority of the people who post there. Katrika I know... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'm not sure I'd like Flyboy as an OTC mod.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Flyboy I think has good intentions and might become a good mod given time, but tends to respond emotionally to things and his record isn't great, so I... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'm thinking of calling it for Best Of and Katrika.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion He ran afoul of the "too many thumps autobanner" back in October, That's why he was using the temp handle. And I'm rather ashamed to say that I petitioned... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'd also like to suggest that we put some "Is he general mod material?" eyes on Feo Takahari.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'm just upset, and stressed, and I know I haven't been a model mod, but I do think a lot of what happened today could have been avoided with a little... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Yup. This is one of my personal big "needs improvement" items. Way to go, shima.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Remember to use [[troper]] (two brackets) for the wildcard. Other than that, it looks good. (I fixed that bracket thing) edited 17th Jan '12 7:55:24 PM... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion If such a message were composed, I'm fairly sure it would do no end of good to also send it to all of our current users.... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Draft it. On creation of an account, we can send a link to it in a PM. edited 7th Feb '12 3:30:41 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Look at those items where we have done a bulletin. It resulted in more traffic in the associate thread, but no difference in approaches or in curator activity... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion The complaining threads seem to sprout on a regular basis if we hook TRS threads or not. When we're discussing something that covers so many pages, there's... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I've had a growing feeling over the past few years that more people participating is not the answer. What is needed is better participation from a smaller... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Seems like we need a way to let thoughtful new people in and a way to flush out the thoughtless. Or maybe just the second part, assuming that the remaining... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion ^ Agreed. Mcninja isn't so bad, he just has a bit of a temper. I was thinking that if we can encourage an influx of diverse new opinions, we might see... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm seeing a lot of non-mature judgement out there. I get what you're trying to get rid of and I agree with that. I'm just not seeing the crowds out... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think the biggest issues are: a) Fan works. b) Works that are pedo fap material.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I also think that if our userbase found that, say, Chibiusa's birthday was on the recs, they'd at least report it to a mod so we could ban the ass of whatever... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think a panel would be better than letting the masses run wild in this case. The masses don't seem capable of judgement, but I think we can find a group... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We'll have to appoint the panel. Crowd-nominated people will not reflect the desire we have to do away with fapcrap.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agree. We currently have a mob, and they only want fuel to the flame.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, if this gets me booted off the mod team, it's been fun, all. ^_^ I'm reading that as a jab at the stupid paranoia of some of our users, but just... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Eh, half joking, half serious on the kicked out comment. Eddie feels rather strongly on this issue, and he does sometimes scare me, inasmuch as one can... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think completely nuking that offensive anime material is the best course of action. I was deeply disturbed when someone linked me to the KNJ material... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think Romeo And Juliet was nominated for cutlisting as a way to "prove a point" rather than someone genuinely believing it should be cut. A committee... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should leave it open, but with a warning that it will be locked again if it gets out of hand. I can do the post if you want. edited 12th Apr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Thinking about it more, perhaps it would be best to have a set of people run down recomendations. Saying do all the hentai and h games isn't too bad,... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Oooof, panic seems to have died down a little. Phew.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd say no mods on the panel would be a good play. Make it clear that the panel is Judicial. Mods are the Executive arm. edited 12th Apr '12 12:58:02 PM... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So would, say, a manga with lightly implied sex between a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old be okay? edited 12th Apr '12 1:06:28 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There are a heck of a lot of works with such things in them; teenage sex happens, and works with teenagers in them will contain such. They continue to... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We've had a couple of people volunteer. This is frequently a sign that they shouldn't be involved. Akagikiba for instance is loud and irrational. She... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I promised in the thread that I'd forward the applications, so here's Vyctorian's and the one under it is Akagikiba's. I think you all would've seen them... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I asked the people in the SE thread whether there'd be any point in keeping it open until we've made some headway on our side, and the overwhelming consensus... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Haven't caught up with everything yet, sorry. If we restore the Lolita page, I think we should keep it locked afterwards, and I also think we maybe shouldn't... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Finally caught up...so: I agree with those three selections. Catalogue and Komodin would also be good choices. Cryptic Mirror...potentially trouble,... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Kn J was about pedophilia, therefore out. Pedo stuff is under a different rule from sexual works. Just not being explicit is not enough.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, I mean, you can have images of nude children without paedophilia. Mostly I'm thinking documentaries on other cultures where the nudity taboos are... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, yes. That's the reason we're picking a committee of level-headed tropers.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Think we need a crowner among us for the nominees?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'll cast an aye for Hershele, he's impressed me in the short time I've seen him in action.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So all I have to do now is define 'porn', a task the Supreme Court gave up on? Explicit sex.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy But that's what I was trying to ask! That's what I was trying to frame my first option as, and Eddie took the second option! Was my wording so bad? Normally... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ah, yeah, that makes more sense.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ok, I'm up. A rule of thumb I use: If you take out the porn-y bits, would you be able to watch it? If so, it isn't porn. Yays for Japanese Teeth, Discar... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Septimus Heap: Not necessarily mod material, but good enough for the committee? (I'm almost certain he'll want the position if we offer it to him.)... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Septimus works really hard and really likes rules. He is a little inflexible and I think that trait would cause a lot of headaches for something as nuanced... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy If the other 4 accept, we'll have to do a tie breaker on Hershele and Catalogue. Assuming that list works for everyone, that is.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd prefer seven, but five is definitely better than three, so that works. edited 14th Apr '12 2:36:19 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I assumed the second one.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'll add another aye for Hershele.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, I'm not sure Hershel gets it. He's a good person, but I don't see him grasping the criteria.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy People are saying that we should pick outsiders. The question is: how are we supposed to know who to pick if we don't know anything about the people involved... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I almost want a "token" anime fan just to put a pacifier on the paranoid "anime is being oppressed" crowd. It's not nearly as good a reason as the need... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I like that lineup.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think that what we are encountering are people who feel that they are entitled to express an opinion without feeling that they are required to find... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Discar is in. ^^ If someone cutlists something today that clearly needs to go, it will go. I'll talk with Triple Elation next. edited 15th Apr '12 1:02... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So, who do we have confirmed? Martello and Discar?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The Man In Black irks me for some reason. I can't put my finger on it, but I have the impression he was involved in something ugly. I have personal history... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I second that "Hell, no" on Vyctorian. Not sure about The Man In Black. He needs some looking into before I can back him. No on Rocket Dude.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy No, she's just irrational, panicky, and doesn't seem to understand the standards. She's never been suspended and her edits are fine. She just has entirely... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Not getting a reply from Triple Elation.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Probably because he hasn't been online since you asked him. I doubt he's gotten the message yet. He hasn't posted in either the forums or the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Would it be bad if I just banned her and asked we don't cut any of those yet? I think it's hurting our credibility and that of the council.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Komodin is in. Two to go. Triple Elation plus one, that is. Who is that last one?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I tweaked the formatting on Fanfic Recs. I think we should restore the top text as well, just tweaked. Here's my take on it: Caveat lector!* Let the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I want to post in the WT thread that further discussion about announcements regarding this (change of policy) is off-topic because frankly we've had that... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^^Lock it when in its made. ^Even better. edited 16th Apr '12 4:56:30 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There has been a request to link the sandbox page to the cutlist page so that non forum goers can be aware of the appeals process. I said I'd ask but made... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed 100%.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Triple Elation is in. Just waiting on Catalogue. The 'artistic merit' issue is indeed tough. I think we have to keep it simple and as absolute as possible... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy See #233 Catalogue is on board. I think these are all the panel members we need right now. We can make replacements if there is attrition.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Excellent. I think there is some grey area when it comes to things that are considered influential or culturally significant as far as artistic merit... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy One of the suggestions from the Petitions thread is to create a second Sandbox page that lists petitions. I said that it sounded a little bureaucratic... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Thanks for locking the WT thread, Bobby. I seem to be accumulating a reputation that I'm a reasonable and calm person, but fuck that thread and the bitching... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should update general announcements.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We don't. I think Bobby said he'd write something. I still think the general announcements thread will do.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've grown tired of this, really. There's "we don't want porn" and then there's Akagikiba.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I was assuming that by the time I posted it people would have noticed. I think it should be up-to-date for the time at which it gets posted, which is partly... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I didn't notice any typos or anything, but if someone does, I assume you're OK with people editing that text, at least if there is no change in the content... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Mod: But Bobby says in his post that "I will be doing this without my mod hat" and gives a reason for it; namely, to avoid intimidating people.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Five Perspectives... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I want to take A Groupie out of the procedure like Akagikiba. In the past five days he has: Attempted to change an image he found inappropriate without... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^ I agree. Have we made a statement regarding the reappearance of the ads yet? Some tropers are quite perceptive; if they haven't cottoned on yet it won't... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've noticed a lot of people listing works on really suprious reasons including a couple of people listing whole indexes because "maybe". Some of these... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yikes. I think we should definitely get 5P to check that, then. No wonder people are worried.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, that's why I made my big post on the P5 listing thing. People are freaking out because we're cutting a lot of innocuous things. That's why I wanted... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Komodin, Discar, Martello, Catalogue and Triple Elation.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sweet. I've stuck a link to the 5P board in the big post (under the "how will you ensure it's transparent" bit). Is that post ready to go live now?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think the post should go live and the content policy thread reopened. People are derailing the other threads because there's no where to talk about... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It should be visible to everyone and mod-able by all mods. edited 20th Apr '12 7:53:14 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Nice! Should we move the WT threads about appeals and recommendations there?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy What did we decide on as the policy for contesting or adding support for 5P reports? I already see one item listed that I don't believe should be cut.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Thanks, Eddie. Google bit is fixed. Big post is up. I'm going to reopen the Perversity Clean-Up and Content Policy threads now, if that's OK. Should... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy A lot of innocuous things seem to be there...Submissive Badass? O_O... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Honestly, because we've had so much erroneous cutting and so many people listing works misleadingly for P5 review, I think we should allow one appeal.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Which is why I think we need to shut down that line of discussion as soon as possible. Heads up. aromdee smells like a blatant anime hater to me. He's... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I would hardly call 14 year olds in short skirts to appeal to teenage boys or make other teenage girls project on them "pedo-pandering". Even Powerpuff... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I wanted to write that post to specifically clarify that the rules were not the guidelines and those should not be read to the letter. That was why I... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy @Eddie: That phrasing is better.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy At the very least, it needs to be a mod-mode post in all the content threads, and I think it should probably be its own thread in the content discussion... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It's highly predictable. What we need is some concrete decisions to point to as examples of our policy. This means the P5 needs to get into gear ASAP... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Liking? Not a problem. Being disturbingly obsessed? Perhaps a problem, especially if the obsession is with that sexual relationship. They all want an... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Again, if the work can be published in mainstream channels and viewed/read by teenagers without causing a moral panic, then it is almost certain to be... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think I've ever seen explicit sex scenes involving under-16 in any mainstream media except for rape or abuse that is explicitly set up to be horrible... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There are mainstream films that I'm not sure are appropriate. I haven't seen it, Hounddog is a film that got a mainstream release, but involves a 12 year... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay. But then why go so far out of your way to have a big ol post about "But wait, do you mean you don't want pedophiles participating? Why yes, that's... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Suspended and P Med. I gave him 3 days. Maybe this will hammer it home.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy My post here calmed Tomu down; maybe we need to make a greater effort to push this sort of rationale out there.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy As a side note, I told Tomu about the updated GA post and he restored his avatar. Oh joy.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I have a strong suspicion, given all the attention that we're now getting from external sources, reinforced by an abrupt slowness in the site loading just... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's one of those where I know from playing it that the bad stuff is entirely rumour. I get where you're coming from. Still... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Quick thought - for pages that have been 5P reviewed and approved, could we get some kind of emblem on them showing such? Maybe a stamp that says "5P"... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I P Med the Four asking them to bump Lolita and FSN to the top of their queue, if possible. Sorry if overstepping, but I think we will see far fewer trolls... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That works. One post, locked, and updated when one of the Five hollers. edited 26th Apr '12 8:59:31 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That sounds like a plan.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Those seem in no way objectionable to me, as the sex is merely mentioned, not described.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Question from Martello: What do you think - is erect penis/graphic depiction of intercourse crossing the "definitely porn" line regardless of whether the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So I wound up recommending folks to send applications for the P5 position 'cause the Absent People thread was getting filled with folks asking me to recommend... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't want us to get that specific. But apparently, people cannot for the life of them take those rules anything other than literally. I have no idea... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ah, good. Thanks a lot. Now we'll have to put some things up for evaluation from the sandbox too. Thanks. ccoa, those guidelines are reasonable, but it... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd like to endorse Dark Confidant if I haven't yet.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Meeble is a good choice, IMO. Also, I voted for Rhyme Beat. ^^; EDIT: I'll also add a vote for Arha. Having someone familiar with anime on the panel... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That's mod lesson #1403. (Now you can keep a tally of how many things you've learned since you became a mod.)... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yay! I'm thinking Octo needs to go. He essentially implied someone is browsing wikipedia's article on historical marriage ages for less than savory reasons... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Heh...now we get to spank the people complaining about the spanking.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And less than 5 minutes after you ban her, she's PMing me to ask why. I think she's being serious, too.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy What the hell.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Whale has been a banning or ragequit waiting to happen for some time. Early stage transsexual, which is almost synonymous with mood swings and emotional... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Should we offer Meeble the post?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Meemble said (in the PM I quoted earlier) that they've made some pages in the past that didn't violate policy back then but that now that the rules have... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Meeble gets the difference between things he's read and enjoyed and things that are allowed. I do think having one P5 member who knows the media in question... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I had to sternly warn him. I didn't look at the work but if it's prima facie unsuitable for P5 review, we might want to ban him from that forum anyway... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It's really not at all what we're looking for. It's basically a shooter game where your characters are hot girls. But you only see more than their faces... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm highly contemplating booting Kaiser Mazoku too, since his contributions amount to: "Nuke this and that", without any further thoughts, even when he... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Meeble accepted and is all hooked up.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well Eddie said Meeble's announced and hooked up so yeah, I think we should.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I went ahead and did so.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I noticed, you naughty ninja!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy A cat maid ninja!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I encourage you guys to go look at Meeble's conclusion on Lotte no Omocha!. I think it's clear from that post that we didn't pick someone who's too soft... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Firebert is ban evading as Seven Devils and put a work that hasn't been reviewed on the cutlist. Can we get a bounce, please?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy bounced... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy One exchange with Martello.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've been concerned with that as well. His confidence issues seem very blatant and I'm afraid he'd snap under the pressure. So far, Meeble and Komodin... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I figured it isn't an important site for us, anyway, so I zapped it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy As I recall, there was a bit of a kerfuffle when some rather dubious things were discovered on Ponibooru at one point, but they were not supposed to be... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy In other news, I am now 98% certain that Shortcake is dead set on pushing his/her personal agenda with booru sites, even with the matter of links. I'm... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm gonna.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Catalogue: I'll make sure to note you if I see some long absence (more than 3-4 days) coming my way.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Evidently.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy +1 for "not replacing, but a quick chat about interacting with the peanut gallery" Also, this is a good question. edited 8th May '12 1:54:57 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Tipping point makes far more sense to me. One of those things that really only matters in works that are already on the edge.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Glorifying rape is a difficult criterion. You see it happen all the time in every cheap romance novel, and unfortunately, what constitutes glorification... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Two issues we still need to sort out: Do we zap all wicks of the deleted works? I say yes. Can we have liveblogs of said works? I'm asking because I... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd agree on no liveblogs, no recs, and no wicks.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy How long before we say fuck it and strip him of his position?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This needs to stop. Seriously, the post that was hollered had him basically implying that the rest of the P5 are okay with paedo-pandering because they... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've sent two PM s on the topic to Martello. He always makes a compliant noise, then goes right back to being abrasive. I agree that it is final warning... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The only response I would be interested in would be an improvement from him in the threads. edited 30th May '12 10:47:16 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I stickied the Meeble/Arha thread. We should probably address this.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Do we have any rules posted about that forum in that forum? It might not be a bad idea to come up with a short bulleted list that we can post in a locked... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Yeah, we've had a lot of people not catch thread shifts to P5 only or just generally whoops. Most people who post in P5 only threads don't do it to be... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Made the change Willbyr recommended and at some point I will edit out the language.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm going to say that I think we can go with tdgoodrich1 in my opinion. Also, Catalogue has once again disappeared. His last post is on the 9th. edited... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Did you think this thread was ever going to get to rest? Recently, someone called Troper On A Stick V 2 posted on the Discussion page of Fast Eddie's troper... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't necessarily mind to create a thread in that forum purely for discussion of the policy, but I see it breaking down very quickly.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Suppressing people from talking about it, even if we have no intention of changing it, is going to breed discontent, though. And you never know where... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Maybe if we set down ground rules in the first post and heavily enforce them. Like "This thread is not for bitching. This thread is for reasoned constructive... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd be fine with either Kuro or Arha. At the rate we keep losing P5 members, maybe we should appoint both or make one an official "understudy."... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There's also the fact that they're relying on online reviews instead of the source material for books you can find in any bookstore.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Second, the fact that the article page is locked and, if we implement Willbyr's suggestion, there's a mod warning not to create a red link and why, should... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm not worried about "implicit endorsement" or any of that, but getting rid of those examples just seems neater instead of going into the trouble of de-wicking... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Of more interest to me in that article is Reddit's apparent failure in their attempt at community-sourced moderation. Vindication for our point of view... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Yes, the simple fact that we collect no personally identifiable information about our users makes it nearly impossible for us to deal with a suicide threat... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Interesting bit about liability More of the same edited 23rd Apr '12 9:36:05 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Agreed. Remove the peanut gallery from the equation, no matter how helpful they try to be. We may want to create a boilerplate response text with regional... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Considering that the amount of personal information we have about people is an IP or a list of IP's, I don't know realistically what we can expect to provide... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Archived Wikipedia discussion of the issue Written by a librarian, assumes that the host site has some obligation to respond Technically, we aren't a social... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats My concern, lu, is that a suicide threat is equivalent to a threat of violence to a person (in this case yourself). Such things are bannable already.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I cannot see any way we can avoid banning people who post repeated suicide threats. I don't think the ban should be a long one, but it has to go in. I... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I altered the policy statement allowing for a first-time warning rather than an immediate ban.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Give it one more look to see if there is anything at all that could be twisted to suggest that TV Tropes is anyway responsible for this person's actions... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats After reading it again "Making a threat of suicide, whether direct or implied, is an indication that a person is suffering from a mental illness. Persons... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats "Wah, now we can't help people here. Good job TV Tropes." Or something like that.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats They've sort of almost got a point, but not quite really. (Wow, what a sentence.) They want to say that offering even amateur-ish help is more important... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread You're so sweet.... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread ...and should he show up in the Edit Banned thread (which, as of now, doesn't seem likely), I will hit him with that just to see how he reacts.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I know we want most of them to be paid, but should we have a free badge given to those who work themselves to death in TRS and SE clean up efforts? For... More Mod Jabberings Badges! That's not the store. That's how we build the inventory. I'm still working on the store.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I dunno, got mine from Best Of. (Thanks! ) I'm pretty sure it's free though.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I'll send you one Fighteer. I fixed the British flag.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Got it, thanks. I'll probably charge my account later. I see it on the right. edited 18th May '12 2:55:09 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings Badges! That would be nice, if possible. At these times, I'm unable to contribute financially.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I suppose I do, too.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! ccoa, you now have some tropy.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Someone asked me if we have a FAQ section on badges. Think we should create one?... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Here's some concept art for the medals.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Shima said on Skype that it may be better if the FAQ ends up on a wiki page, instead of a forum thread. Thoughts? I'm cool with either.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation State the issue first or they're going to stop reading since it's a long rant against a troper and they don't need all those details.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I don't think we need to send the full rant about what they did here in the past. Just what they're doing now. It just comes off as vindictive.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I've got a significant revision to the email. See below. Greetings. This message is from the staff of TvTropes.org. We're a Wiki devoted to the cataloguing... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I against this. In fact, this thread is too much notice taken. Trolls love it when you talk about them. Complaints, etc. are their meat. This is bound... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation It's driving people here to commit vandalism. If you don't find it serious enough to merit action, that's okay I guess.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I have to agree. The Moleman business may be stale, but these actions by Nate's circle are fresh and if it's connected to this group in any fashion,... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I don't know how it's possible that someone is handing out some kind of goodies on another site as reward for vandalising our Wiki and we shouldn't contact... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I don't see any evidence to support that on the Deviant Art page. Where is it? My whole deal with this is that any action we take validates the group and... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Granted, this was a year ago; but Moleman has a blog post (or something equivalent) on DA where he urges people to delete any and all pages you have contributed... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Their stated goal, no less. In at least one manifesto and a petition. I wouldn't think this was worth acting on if we didn't have gullible fools taking... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters I wholly agree. Our articles do not have to be isolated merely because they talk about adult-oriented media, and most of the time, we shouldn't be going... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Here's the review list I promised. Clearing items in Main would be more important than items in other namespaces.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters I do not think mere mention that gay people exist should have something isolated, for instance. Google happily advertises on gay sites.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters A redir has no effect on the target title's isolation state. I've eliminated redirs from the isolated list so they won't be a distraction.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Not if the target isn't isolated. The target page is the thing we need to warn about. Say that "Fuck This Wiki With A Hot Poker" was a redirect to the... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Finally got around to doing up the Family Friendly page. Not sure where to pimp it around the forums, though.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters <smacks forehead /> Thanks, Ironeye.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Here are some of his more violent edit reasons from the past day or so. I did delete some of the worst ones, so they aren't listed. In case Eddie can still... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Ask The Tropers rant: It's a MISSPELLING, jackass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why the FUCK do you keep LOCKING pages when I'm trying to FIX the goddamn ERRORS... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Betcha there's some unblocked Nate handles still floating around that Ghost101 has been in contact with regarding St Fan...either that, or he's been hanging... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Nah, if Nate had any ins, he'd be using them. He's psychologically incapable of subtlety. We should still check the ones that Ghost101 listed in case... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Thanks Fighteer, I spotted that one but was unable to get to it because of sudden work issues.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Yeah, I did wonder about suggesting MAC blocking a few days ago, but I didn't know if it was even possible so I didn't bother.... More Mod Jabberings Zazzle Shop Okay. I put together a mug product here: http://www.zazzle.com/tvtw_lampshade_kc_blue_mug-168348856961926667. I guess it also needs to be approved.... More Mod Jabberings Zazzle Shop Yeah, this is legit. They're offering TV shirts cheaper than Zazzle, with a good cut for the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, having a way to communicate with each other for that sort of thing would be good, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, I'm in complete agreement that transparency is, in general, a good guiding principle. But then, I'm also a firm believer in moderating with as lightly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Exactly. And I think it's important that we present a fairly united front, rather than contradicting or inadvertantly working against one another. Having... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If I sound cautious, it's only with the bloody hands of experience. To destroy a few metaphors.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Has it always been this busy or is it the new system?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's for mod use, so it makes sense to get some feedback ahead of time from the mods.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be offline most of Friday. Long-assed flight back home followed by homecoming festivities. Shouldn't make much difference in how things go around... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Kewl. You keep giving us neat toys. You're nice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, now that it is built and installed, I'm not sure what the clock "running out" should actually mean. Do we lock the thread when it runs out? Do we... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a good use. However, I think the big problem is discussions that are stuck — no consensus is emerging, or people are grinding away at the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not sure how deadlines encourage output. They just do. They have to have to have some 'teeth', though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe just lock the thread when the time runs out and postpone any discussion of the changes until people have calmed down? (Maybe a grace period of one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't resist puppy-dog eyes. It's in the General Announcements thread in the Pinned section.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wasn't planning on it. Is he bugging you about it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This guy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You're the boss; up to you. He's not a problem to me, and I can always ignore him if he makes a habit out of this.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good break, Madrugada. Hope you feel better soon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll build us a thing for helping dispose of snowclone spam. You type in the static part of the pattern and ot will show a list of thread titles that match... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I really hope we don't have to resort to this too often.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? New topic: Well, here comes a toughie. I've done an analysis comparing site activities costs against ad revenue. Long story short, the forum is providing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would be unhappy if we actually cut parts of the right hand forums. If an advertisement server that produced adverts more in line with tropers' interests... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Quick question: does it affect anything whether a thread is locked or live, if it's not being posted in? because if locking dead IJBMs and Yackfest and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, encouraging "click-through one ad a day even if you aren't interested" would boost revenue? Add that as another better-than-the-worst-case option.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Had a thought - there have been some complaints about the ads in the first posts stretching the page. Could we perhaps avoid this by placing the ad under... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, it may prove helpful to drop a line to Glark, the guy who runs Glarkware. He was the honcho in charge of advertising for Television Without Pity... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm in a bit of a rush at the moment, but I'll give it a go in a few hours if no one else does. Edit: And that's done. edited 3rd Oct '10 9:14:04 PM... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The curators thing sounds pretty good. About how many users would that be? Also gonna try to check the Twitter daily.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? New thump code: [ [friendly] ] (close up the spaces) will install a thump message like this one. edited 11th Oct '10 8:06:28 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we need to let the un-thumped in the thread know the why of the thump. Being friendly and civil is not an optional thing that the community may... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, yeah, I think that's a very good idea. On the friendliness thing, I 100% support wanting a friendly forum, it's just that You will be friendly doesn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. That in is as [ [offtopic] ] I'll do one to my next post. edited 12th Oct '10 8:31:40 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? hehe!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie: Twitter is complaining about the chosen e-mail address not existing. You may want to look into why it's so angry at you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey all, I just got a heads up about a possibly-impending troll infestation. Here's the PM: That jerk, Asalieiri from Reviewing the Reviewer who is also... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think this one was actually in the Media / New Media forum. The thread was civil until this Asalieri guy showed up. And I think that nuking IJBM completely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did you ever make those "Thumped for trolling" and "Thumped for taking a Troll's bait" things? They might help, especially the second one. I suspect that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, there's [ [civil] ], [ [bait] ], [ [thump] ], and one more I forgot. edited 22nd Oct '10 11:56:11 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aye, IJBM is pretty popular. The more cynical topics from there would probably just migrate to YF or OTC if it were shut down. In any case, I find it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Hard to tell. I only looked at the one thread about us, and the commenters mostly struck me as butthurt  * Yes, I know, but it really is a good... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, nice. I sound really unenthusiastic now. That was "nice" in the "woah" appreciative sense... edited 25th Oct '10 3:50:12 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The puppet finder is now pasted to a button for mods and the performance improvements are in.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have ads disappeared on the main wiki, or is it just me?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No news yet. Nothing at all out of google but silence. Just all of sudden the ad requests are getting a 403 Forbidden response. Either we've had our ad... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Say, how long have I had a nuke button? Am I just unobservant?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup, that's pretty sweet. I'll use it responsibly.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? World Tree says they're two different guys who go to the same school and use same computer there, ergo same IP. I rather believe him; I went through WORLD... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I found these interesting. I learned that I am utterly out of touch with who the most active forumites are, and have only a vague and inaccurate idea of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that one would be a bit more useful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, can we get a "spoiler" banner for tropes where examples are inherently spoilers, like Death Tropes and Ending Tropes?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably not (unless we also edited out all of the spoiler text when we put the banner on), but at least it would standardize the rather inconsistent "... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Question: Flagging my own contributor page as Flame Bait: cool or stupid?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Added a Trivia banner type to the mod's toolkit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Currently in the Flagged Articles list there are two articles that are flagged without a flagging troper or a reason (Older Than They Think and A Nice... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No clue. That's been bothering me too, so I haven't touched them on my passes through the list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not sure what you mean, Eddie. Sorry, having a dense day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Morven and me could sure use another hand or two with the Big Page Lock thing. There are about 100 more of the things, and the tropers are whipping right... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wait. You mean people have real lives that may impact their wiki time? Who authorized this?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll try to help some tonight.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's what I run under...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What's our record on IJAM troper threads that didn't start off with stealth insults? 50/50? And none of them got to post 10 without someone going in that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something like that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can see such things being useful, definitely.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is a new tool on Edit Ban Central for mods to reset an account.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's the idea.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, well ... blackcat wasn't paying attention and let me con her into taking on mod powers.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi blackcat, welcome to SMJ! ^_^ Congratulations. Two Madrugadas, gosh. I shall have to be on my best behaviour from now on.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Excellent! Welcome, 'cat. The only button that you need to be careful of is the skullfuck. It can break a thread if the thread is too long — if... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bit silly to ask after this long, but I'm a bit curious- what does happen to "archived" threads?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good question, I've been wondering as well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, what is the story with Chagen46? He seems a whiney teenaged drama queen to me. Is this accurate?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ That about sums him up, yeah. As far as I can tell, there are people who like him, but I have to say that his self-confessed attention seeking is getting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should he go on the watch list?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So he has been warned by more than one mod, more than once?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun on your vacation, Fighteer. As for Chagen, I can see that he's having an effect on the other tropers reminiscent of Applefanboysama3, though the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think they are the same person, just eliciting a similar reaction. Epic mass rejection. Sometimes being annoying has its own, more visceral, reward... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The skullfucker works differently, now. Now it just blanks all the person's posts in the thread and leaves the number of posts alone. It changes the post... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. Does this mean that thread size is no longer a limiting factor? After borking a couple of big threads, I've been very wary of using it in anything... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This . . . this is awesome.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Excellent news.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Time to make Avatar And The Airbending Fellowship Of Vampire Slayers a reality?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is IJBM shutting down at midnight Central?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll probably stick around for another hour just in case.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be turning in, likewise.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm around now, FWIW. For a number more hours, I think. Not very sleepy even though it's 1am.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Credit goes to Mads—I was just playing off her idea.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That was amazing. Bookmarked the account reset thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good point. I'll post something in Jabberings when that needs doing. Yes, Scrye was bounced. The straw on the camel's back was a post goading on the people... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, for one thing, put it up on the headlines and the twitter. And put a post in the New Media subforum. Right now, only the forum goers who read the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Don't cry Eddie, it's blood alright. But I cant fricking pot hole for love nor money edited 15th Jan '11 12:53:14 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In more sober news... When you drop by Moderator Central, you might notice check marks on the the "x flags" buttons. Those check marks tip you off that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nice. Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can we see the others? I've only seen ^^this one and Longfellow's. Longfellow ran long (6+ minutes) circled back to the same thing several times He... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So the preferred audition would be on Applied Phlebotinum? Pronounced fle- bo- tin -um? Thirty seconds posted on youtube and anything else? edited 17th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. I used a cut-n-paste paragraph in my responses to PM's. Here it is: We're getting a good response, so to help us pick the right team, we'll ask everyone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here is the text of the email I sent my former chair, I can amend it if there are inaccuracies. I am writing because I am a moderator on http://tvtropes.org... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? While I'm thinking about it... Blackcat, you may want to mention that 'exposure' means millions of eyeballs. The viddies will be permanently linked on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is a page with a video-shaped hole in the middle of it. Sort of like a sculpture is a rock surrounded by air. Okay. I'll shut up now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is Mr Cox possible writer material?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a nibble back from Rodney — he'll give it some thought, but he's also thinking that he's already spending too much time here... I explained that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maddy, you may want to visit with Mr Cox on that subject. Ask to see a script for a minute-or-so illustrative skit and see what he can do. Something with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about Thank you very much for your audition submission. We have chosen to go with another candidate. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, I just got a PM asking about whether it's okay to add tropes to a Useful Notes page about a country. Hello, good morning. Advice from an admin needed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is exactly the round trip I took.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "something different" being like a second clip?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Left turn: Fast Eddie — there are Google ads back on the forums (thread here). Is that supposed to be happening?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK. And I saw your response in that thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They report being able to see the homepage, but still get bounced elsewhere. EDIT: More specifically: I can go through about three pages of the wiki before... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Kewl. I'm messing about with layout for a youtube page. It's ...slow. And someone else is going to have to actually write the code for it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm logged into gmail, and still have no luck...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here's an html dump of the script.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? or a pony? or a sockpuppet in a mask? edited 25th Jan '11 11:49:43 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^Good point. Never underestimate the power of invoking people's Must Collect gene. I agree with that ADD feeling blackcat was talking about and the Zack... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that we can suggest an additional bad interview without telling them to trim the uncle interview. A lot happens in editing and problems like the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ I chatted with her this morning. Nothing serious; she just needed a short break.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Something weird is going on with the pathway code. So far a null edit on the index page that has stopped working heals it up. I'm tracking the real... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They're good. Terrible Interviewees is much improved and Freudian Excuse is excellent!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? think you could do a thing where the thread zap button asks for a reason with an OK/Cancel button attached, and stores it somewhere we can see, like mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ? I'm not sure what you're asking. It's all there. You should be able to click to enlarge to see what it looks like at almost-full-size on my monitor.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It tells you it locked non-existent page such-n-such.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It should be visible/postable by moderators and invisible like Supersecret Mod Jabberings to everyone else.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Why would that be needed?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Another thing: what's the proper namespace for video games? Game? If so, it's not showing up in the tabs.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Game is the namespace. It doesn't have a tab. I suppose it should get one. Since the namespaces where converted to a sprite-based display, though, it is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best wishes FE.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Putting in a new bulletin with the mod tool will turn them back on. Old messages are not deleted, by the way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Expanding the locking system will have to wait a bit. BTW, did you guys notice that there is a delete button for mods on discussion posts?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I take it at least some of you saw the custom title request notification. The accept/declines won't go into effect until later this evening. It will be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You put in the base name of the page in the title change request page. Then you get to see its current display title. Then you type in the new one you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In other news, this comic page struck me as somewhat familiar, so I felt like cropping two panels for any of my fellow mods who might be able to use them... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Perfect!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, folders would become AJAX-backed?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Won't that suck for mobile users?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dirty fact about AJAX: The "X" is misleading. You can transmit the data in any format you want; just read the responseText property instead of responseXML... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks Tangent no breadbasket for you. FE on the other hand... glowers But, understood. Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The hover could go back on. Job one on the mobile template is drop-down menus for all the action buttons, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's in.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is a Japanese title request pending, would the English title be more searchable?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there a grand master list somewhere of all of the projects on the wiki?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That doesn't exist. It probably should. I suppose an approach might be to make sure all the special projects have a conversation in the Special Projects... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been trying to think of a way of improving communications between the wiki and the forum. We come up with a lot of ideas over here and then start... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mod Magic, rather than Wiki Magic, belike.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In other news related to The Ptitle Replacement System, something needs to be done with the Related To search page. In particular, the "punctuated titles... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm on it!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Think it's the "a" in "a href". I do have some rusty creaky HTML semi-skills. edited 2nd Mar '11 11:38:31 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, here's a reason why edit history not showing the initial creation of a page is bad. Who launched this grammar clusterfuck: PlayingWith.Anti Anti... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Let me draw your attention to the 'list page editors' tool on the tools menu. It shows the editors in most-recent-first order. Random Chaos is the illiterate... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Request Queue page shows HTML character escapes outside the Latin-1 range as the escape, not what it should produce. They do appear to work in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Random Chaos thought that Dragon Naturally Speaking corrected grammar and punctuation. He's working with the "Get Help with Your English Here" thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we have a policy or thoughts as to how much we'll permit users to adjust their display names through the ptitle-replacement mechanism? I've approved... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can do it ourselves- just put in customization requests that have completely different results, and approve them. But are we talking trading names,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Then I guess I call Terpsichore. Other things that come in nines: Wu-Tang Clan (including the late Ol' Dirty Bastard). The Nine Worthies of antiquity.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that idea's pretty funny. Adding another group of nine: the crew of Serenity. Edit: Also, the NPC party members from Knights of the Old Republic... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie's a Browncoat, so I bet he'd like that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Theme names would be okay. Browncoating it may be too one-fandom, though. The planetary thing worked best for me. In other news: Needing to come up with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like it! That's slick.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we should do something that ties into our status as moderators. You know, something like all becoming Ban-bots models 00 and 02-09 (01 being set... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ That last one could be pretty funny. The new menus look sweet.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, that would be evil. A grim reaper? Bambi Meets Godzilla?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or something pink and fluffy?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would be funny, to make all avatars the same. Maybe a Star Wars clone trooper? Oh, and I suggested this in the Yack Fest thread: possibly have the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think something atrociously Sugar Wiki-ish would indeed be the way to go. My Little Pony? A Smurf? One of the Teletubbies?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic could be funny if we felt like being mischievous, given the recent controversy online regarding its nigh omnipresent... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Suggestion, correctly sized of course. But my little pony would be funny. edited 11th Mar '11 1:05:20 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Making dinner. Sorry. Still too big? edited 11th Mar '11 1:11:21 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? O_O Implications which other children's series don't have? It's possible highly probable I'm naïve, but I wasn't aware of any. I vote My Little Pony Friendship... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alternatively, a mod alert when a new handle makes a major edit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We use the thread id to decide which avatar to spin and-*BRICK'D* (And then we got scenarios where four consecutive posts had a full rotation of those... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Because I am a freaking genius I had a brilliant idea while playing pool... It should be the lampshade.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? See you tomorrow FE.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As will I. Gee, I wonder if it's a conspiracy or something?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm traveling tomorrow afternoon/evening. But, hey, at least I'll be around in the morning.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not going anywhere tomorrow, although I'm kinda busy IRL right now. If nobody else will be around, I'll be sure to check on the forums at regular... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, they all match, now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, a typical warning PM from me would be along the lines of, "I have thumped your post here because it was unacceptably rude and unpleasant. Please... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We might also provide a way to contest or appeal the infraction, although there are pros and cons to doing so.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, sorry for the distraction, but it doesn't look as if the custom titles fix you put in is completely solved. Also, if we do put in the infraction... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just got a pm from Tuefel asking what the policy is for authors editing pages about their works. I give, what is it? Additional information this is the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? While we don't have the insane rules for sourcing that Wikipedia does, we definitely don't want things on our works pages that aren't traceable to the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi, folks. I just did a major overhaul of Welcome To TV Tropes, as that page was dangerously obsolete. Please review and see if there's anything I mangled... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, did we decide on a Foolishness for Friday? Avatar shenanigans, or renaming the staff?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We'll do the all-avatars-the-same thing. The Spartacus one, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There was a holler in Ask The Tropers about Troper Almighty who had created a page called Heroes Of Troperia that had been cutlisted and re-added three... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. Eyelids getting heavy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Heee, heeee. That's going to drive folks nuts.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now we're bears! Woo!! Hey, Eddie, while all this zaniness is afoot, I think we need to put in a safeguard on recreating cut pages. This has always been... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Titles now lock when they are cut. The "show page locks" button on moderator central has the features Maddy was looking for about unlocking the title.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you very much... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We have to do something crazy for the grand finale. Perhaps everyone gets the default avatar? But then what would we do for the names? edited 1st Apr '... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Indeed. I've been giggling pretty much constantly. But catch me up on the Troll Posts in the April Fools thread — is someone being that persistent... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know, I never thought about that. Good question. Edit to add: I just did a spot check search for titles with the articles in lower case and it worked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some interesting numbers: Wiki editors Forum posters The standout items for me: There are 16743 wiki editors per month and 3081 forum posters. Over... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting. The mentoring idea seems to have potential for us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I know you fixed this issue once but it seems to have returned: The title customizer tool works for assigning custom titles to virgin Wiki Words... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I patched it and am looking for the problem. While on the topic, whoever approved "Should be no custom display" for Dragon Warrior: Be more careful, please... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I gotta tell you I found that front page guilty of some of the crimes attributed to this site. And that anime stuff at the bottom was just nuts. But then... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Extremely good points! Fuck those fucking fucks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm, next time I send a notification I'll examine the page source to see what happens... this is IE7 that I'm using here, if it matters. I can't say that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose it wouldn't work if you were using an anonymizer that suppressed the referrer string in your browser header.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting. At home with IE9, both the referrer and cancel inputs are filled out. You think my work comp is blocking those?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would it be possible to add video game image to the list on the image pickin' tool? I have seen enough of them used outside of video games that it may... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It progresses. I should post a report, shouldn't I?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes please, if it's not a bother. I'm curious (read:being nosy) about what kind of data we have so far. edited 13th Apr '11 6:27:56 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, so the temp solution is to tell the requestor to make the change in stages. Batch one this, batch two, that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's booked. The request bug should be fixed, now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, Ask The Tropers brought up something that I forgot to mention from a while back. There seems to be some kind of hole in the wiki editing code that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aye, hope you get well soon, Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There weren't any at all and now there are some. At first I thought I was just hitting a really odd streak of pages without images.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wasn't locking them on threads where another mod had already locked the thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aye-aye, sir.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just updated it. We don't need to unlock it, mods can edit the pages and I highly doubt it will somehow become less controversial now that he's dead... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, we need a solution for the 64.x.x.x IP range - since we banned Epicness and Jomlos from that IP range, we've gotten a string of false-positive ban... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, in your copious spare time, we still need a sock checker for the main wiki. I don't know if the format of the data makes that possible, but now... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK I did the same thing and all I got was a rock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been zapping them, if they are cutlisted.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, Eddie, I'm trying to use the review mover to help with the split from Main.Portal to VideoGame.Portal and VideoGame.Portal 2. The problems I'm having... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, the only times we need parens in a title is when making a distinction between two works with identical titles, or in the case where the title properly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, and I don't seem to be able to deny the two Nanoha requests in there for other subpages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I haven't gone through the whole long Busy Street thread, but Moogi was definitely out of line twice just on the last page before I locked it. Gerpy seemed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't recall, honestly. I think it was just a "swap name and redirect thing" — at any rate, the redirect code is still on AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What's our stance on conversation on Troper Tales pages? Does it come under Natter, or are we more relaxed about it there?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seems they never go anywhere productive, but I just know they'll keep fueling the "draconian mod" thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's possible. Why do you ask? I replied to an @Mention, and that was a bad thing to do, maybe.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably not bad. Just got confused by lack of context when I stumbled on them while looking for replies/mentions. (Tempted to retweet this for the meta... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Camacan has, in spite of having thought it over, agreed to take on mod responsibilities. Say hey. edited 17th May '11 9:52:18 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Get out while you still can! Welcome aboard, Camacan!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi guys! Goodness me what have I done to be on board.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here's the handy-dandy guidebook: This thread contains a bunch of links to mod tools.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks heaps Madrugada, I'm impressed with the technology and organization backstage. I have a quick question: what is the capitalization policy for trope... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I generally do go along with standard grammar. I wonder if we should pick one of Strunk & White or "Chicago Manual of Style" or similar as the published... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or at least a reason, clearly stated in the comments section immediately prior to the discard. (No, it doesn't count if it's in the second comment of 15... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hope you have a good time. Another question: is there a trick to moving a YKTTW archive after a rename? DQZ just completed a TRS rename. Main.Pink Is For... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Crimeny. I think I understand, now, why no country on the planet has ever even attempted a constitution with a clause saying "What we need is more voters... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Camacan do you want to keep the change to mod status low key for a bit? Or do you want to leap through the wall like Superman?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not ready to come out of the mod closet just yet? You'll have to some day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Camacan is now a Mod." edited 20th May '11 8:09:55 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No shame in being a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I remember I intended to keep quiet about it until I got the hang of things, and then on that same day somebody went and created an angry abortion thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You can still use the 'Send a PM button' on a post that's in a locked thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It would annoy me. The wiki markup is not very smartphone-friendly but I don't really see how to change that without a dramatic overhaul. And that doesn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm leaving town tomorrow to go visit family for a bit over a week. So my time on here, if I have any at all, will be sporadic.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hm. I'd rather you didn't, because IIRC there have been one or two bans which were mistakes that were only discovered when the recipients of the bans... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sweet. These all look like good steps to me. It'll probably be four or five days for the coding, with schedule slips for real world considerations, so... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we're going to give Troper Tales a new name, we should probably mention that immediately so we can get all of the They Changed It Now It Sucks out of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that sounds like a really good idea and I am glad you volunteered Ironeye. I think that renaming Troper Tales can serve a couple of functions,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like it, FWIW.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? *whistles* I have no idea what you're talking about.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the other hand, in a manner of speaking not wholly irresonant with the truth, my writing style is totally, nay, wholly lacking in any and all detours... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I tried to collect some of the worthwhile suggestions here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Actual suggestions are good to get. Maybe we should invite concerned parties to submit concrete plans of how they would like to see it? Let a couple groups... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that is a really good idea.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? (Re: [Official] Troper Tales Redesign and Rename. An upside of all the fuss is that a surprising (to me) subculture of conversing on wiki pages is coming... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Before we encourage such action, I think we need some guidelines for the teams. Giving people official encouragement to go will just be chaos if we do... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I fundamentally agree on the "no comments" part. I'm not liking the idea of having forum conversations in wiki subpages. Also: could we implement a "holler... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Reading through the Troper Tales rewrite thread, I'm feeling the need to list the real problems. Creepy topics. We can just cut those. We'll have to do... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How intrusive would the hidden replies thing be? If it's a collapsible thing that could be pretty cool, but some people in that thread seemed to be suggesting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How much "ownership" do we want to grant to the original writer of the example? Should we let other people edit/delete them to save us the trouble of cleaning... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that the rules should apply to all wiki pages and that we let other people edit Tales. These aren't legal documents.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Idea: What if we require that all examples be written in third person with the troper name explicitly included (ie no This Troper or "This one person"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We do want people to own up to their own stories, but we don't want so much ownership that the only way to clean up a bad entry is to Holler a mod about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right. Which is why auto-signed but open for editing by all is a good middle ground.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If you're a mod, fine, but opening up regular posts to trolls seems like a pretty riskey move to me. edited 1st Jun '11 9:09:33 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Man, how my fingers are itching to grasp the banstick...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If anything, I think this seems like a decent reason to restrict edits of signed posts to mods. I mean, yes, potentially that means more work for us.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. But this is a very long time ago, y'know? Like half a year. I re-corrected said posts, so it's not a big deal. I can't even remember who was responsible... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No worries.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In the Nostalgia Critic's review of Double Team, he did say that he wanted "frying the Coke" to become a meme. The entry is accurate, if a bit awkwardly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, the wiki is paying expenses to make the videos. I guess that means we "own" it, in some sense. The value of it as an income property is negligible... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You are a genie! (I meant to say genius but my fingers said genie and it made me laugh)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No trigger warnings on WMG pages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We also have a blurb on the Trigger page that doesn't go into as much detail, just in case we get tired of linking back to my post.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? About trigger warnings, though: someone putting one in might be a sign that other things are wrong with the article. It could be that the lead paragraph... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, a nitpick: the tool shows the number of edits twice - once in its own column and once concatenated with the handle.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone went and made a Useful Notes page for Costa Rica, but they put it in Main/ rather than UsefulNotes/. They also put a note at the top of the page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, there it is, way down. That was almost disturbingly quick, which is why it weirded me out.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best move, ever.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All right. That's one to cut. I'll do it. If you see it cropping up elsewhere, please yank that weed immediately. edited 24th Jun '11 10:17:32 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In the current system, would it be possible to require them to register from the IP they will edit from? EDIT: I'm not thinking that through. Oops. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, boy. I can see this one being called the "death of the wiki", above and beyond all the other stuff. Out of curiosity, Eddie, do you consider registration... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hopefully, the mods are on board with that as being a good idea. With caveats. I still think that a device that legitimately occurs mainly in Japanese... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm down with that caveat, Meta Four. I happen to think that there are things like 'a submissive' that can be expressed without using the word 'uke.' It... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What Maddy said.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Off topic but related, is the population of contributors and forum regulars changing again?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is always a churn, but I believe we're coming into the Summer season. That will be more at-home teens than usual.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Fighteer: yeah, me too. There are some things that are legitimately only seen in Japanese works — things deeply tied into Japanese culture —... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is for mods only, a checkbox to set the post to 'mod mode.' This will give the post a pinkish background color.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A Nice Hat, definitely.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might not be too tough. Sort of like we did with Santa hats awhile ago. Make a hat with a transparent background and let each person do up their own avatar... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Like this◊?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cat with beret and bandolier.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This one◊ please. In my gallery as Commissar_Russell4323.png edited 28th Jun '11 11:30:01 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. Yeah, that's more better.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, the pic I made for Madrugada ended up being slightly taller than the original pic. I went and cropped off the extra pixels. Here◊ is the version... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I do really like the top hat, but I went with the one I did in order to keep the dimensions the same. I think I spent an hour trying to find a hat that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, certainly, but I think it loses some of the effect if the eye changes sizes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can you replace my mod hat picture with this one◊? Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the Edit Banned thread needs the Mod Hat treatment. Oh, and would anyone who feels creative like to do anything with my avatar?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We used Google Docs for the puzzle hunt and I found it easy to use. I have a rogue memory of a friend having trouble using it for a non profit he was chairing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And done. Now I need to remember to actually check that thing...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Starting summer job today and won't be around much for a bit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy trails.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh for the love of god. My first reaction is to dump the page with great bellowings and flashes of lightning interspersed with rolling thunder and a rain... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not that self-regulating, I see. But you got there before I did, so all that's left is for me to boggle vacantly at their shenanigans.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Laculus pm'ed me about starting another Elections thread on OTC because I locked the last one. I told him to go ahead but to holler for help if it got... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right. IP block still just kicks them a 404, but we don't use that much, anymore.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a really out-there nannybot, but I do see your point.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just had a wild idea. Probably good idea to run it by youse guys and see if there is a way to do it. The idea is to have a Cleanup Day. Maybe even have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think having a cleanup day every two weeks is an excellent idea. I'd like to suggest three associated pages: A page listing the current priorities.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fridays are generally the slowest days, traffic-wise. Alternate Fridays? Second Friday of the month?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Late to the party, but I think it is a great idea. I think Cama's breakdown is good and that Maddy is right about scheduling the first one and then rolling... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^Sweet!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably. Could it maybe be "been around for six months and made x number of edits/forum posts"? That would weed out returning trolls. Edit: speaking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They both seem like good candidates to me, though I must admit a little alcohol might not qualify my judgment as accurate right now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I guess 'discussion curator' is a good way to think of it. Not a moderator, but some ability to do thread maintenance. 'Thread Janitor' doesn't really... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Deboss has some rather odd personal issues that creep into his conversations, particularly in on-topic. I don't contest him as a TRS/IP curatorwhatever... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Didn't you write something that gave Glenn Magus Harvey limited mod abilities during the Mystery Hunt?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They won't be getting hollers or access to mod jabberings, so they'll mostly be reacting to comments in-thread, or to their own call to do the deed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie commented that he remembered some mod opposition the last time the idea came up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can deal with a holding pen idea. I don't think that segregating renames, revamps and merge/splits is workable, because many threads start as a rename... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie: Does Willbyr know about his new powers? edited 22nd Jul '11 6:57:30 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmmm, would it be a good thing to keep the magic number unpublished?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ I can imagine there might be a bit of a backlash when the first person discovered the limit. We've been criticised for lack of transparency over how... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Re chutes-n-ladders: If we say that no TRS can be fairly addressed in less than a week, to pluck a number out of the air, it makes very little difference... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A mandatory end date will be abused unless we keep a very tight reign on things. If it's a "resolve, or nothing happens", the opponents of change will... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a big chunk of why I'd prefer to see X number of days inactive,rather than X number of days from the first post. A threads that's gone quiet is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would say #2, but I'm rather stonkered right now, so best to not put much faith in my opinions.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, but it wrecks my short syllable hard K sound mnemonic demonic device.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, but we get ASS for an acronym. People like ASS. They think about it all the time.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Second draft, incorporating Maddy's and FE's adjustments. Once the final draft is approved should it be posted in TRS or Wiki Talk? There are over 800... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks good to me. Wiki Talk.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All the moderation features of the wiki will be present. The important anti vandalism stuff happens out of Ask The Tropers, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose they could do it, but it won't show up in the archive. I'll close that little hole.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And I identified the culprit thanks to that. Great job.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, all the subpages of Character Sheets are showing as blank, and can't be edited.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just managed to accidentally delete everything in my mailbox (I'm using an optical mouse and it jumped as I was flagging messages to be deleted). This... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Eddie. Troping The Light Fantastic shouldn't be on the Sugar Wiki. The first sentence is a bit flowery, but this is an index of dancing-related tropes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think this may be the wiki equivalent of gerrymandering but we'll see. edited 8th Aug '11 7:17:41 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Umm, two and a half - the mod mode box is not checked from the beginning even if the post in question is already in mod mode.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Been thinking, is it possible that we'd have less problems with natter, and less resistance to admin decisions such as the discouraging of the use of Japanese... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks guys, back from the dead for now, but may disappear in a puff of expensive smoke. Bad power supply. Power instability —> damage to system... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks like we could call it for the demise of Troper Tales. Anybody see a reason not to?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Two more days of having to deal with that thread? Crap. Yeah, probably a good idea. Won't really affect the voting much, I suspect, what with the lock-out... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the other hand, deleting threads leads to "why was my thread deleted?" posts. Oh, well, I guess we can't win.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Eddie, Tarsen has found some sort of hole that allows animated avatars. See? It's under all the limits... You might want to identify it and cork it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? thedragoness * known elsewhere for being both knowledgeable and informative about our edit message rudeness policy has written a review for Duke Nukem... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good trip. I'm seriously debating taking a couple days off; I've been having dreams about modding recently. Like, four nights out of the last week... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? When I start having mod dreams, I know it is time to slow it down. I'll be back on a more regular basis starting next week.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back! Sort of. Got lots of stuff to do at home tonight and have to catch up to my wiki watchlist, but it was a nice trip.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back, Fighteer. Ninja'd! And welcome back Maddy as well! Permission to make a slight tweak to the main rules post to make the hollers system... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a pretty slick little whizbang there FE.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Neat. Am I supposed to see only one version of each page, or is that what you meant when you said we wouldn't see actual history until the gadget had a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's what I meant. There is only one version, now. Apparently Zombie Waffe has been edited a number of times. That will give you a demo of how it works... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've added a link to it in the first post of the Handy-Dandy Mod Tools thread. edited 23rd Aug '11 10:25:08 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll rig up an access from the article. Until I get to that, just modify that url above to go to Namespace.Article Title.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Both handy and dandy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would you like some candy?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there ever a sensible reason to cutlist a Sandbox article? I can't see one (though I am interested to know if we periodically cull old articles from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just cleaning up clutter, really. Neat freaking.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well neat freak Frank75 went through putting a bunch of pages on the Cut List and cleaned away at least one that was still in use (since restored via edit... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Don't cut list active sandbox items? Sure.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dude. (cute kid, by the way) Glad you're ok. Ok, here's the advice I can give you from my disaster cleaning days — anything paper that got wet &... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow. Sounds like you are making a really fast recovery. Good on you. BTW, the recent edits for troper page now has a link to the 'combined history' page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seems like there's a flood or flood risk every few years where I live. This is the first time that it's gotten into my house, as opposed to my neighbors... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That could work. DQZ isn't the only one who opens bunches of threads in fits and spurts....... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Liberated Liberator wanted the liveblogs for Umineko No Naku Koro Ni moved to reflect the article's shift from Main to the Visual Novel namespace. Is this... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, something weird was going on with Routerie's edit ban. While I only put a wiki-side edit suspension on him to get him to come to "Edit Banned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is bizarre. Have him try to post in a thread again. If it still doesn't work, we need the exact error message received.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, if he is not familiar with the forums, make sure he knows the add reply button only shows up on the last page of the thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm sorry. Look at it this way, if you give him a third chance, it won't take long to find out whether it was a mistake. — a week should do it...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might have more flooding tonight. This time there's some question of the roads being impassable for me to get home from work, never mind get out again... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm home, and it's mainly limited so far to street flooding and our big grassy area in the back doing a lake imitation. Fingers crossed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good for you. Political drama is Serious Business. Incidentally, water is creeping up my street, and I'm flooded in - no way to drive out of here. So... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tropers/Fast Eddie: on the Routerie thing: he says it still is happening even after the ban was lifted, and there's no error message: "I click on the "... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might that be one of those things we work on together on Google docs?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to start trying to identify and trace trope families in the hopes of identifying glaring gaps like that. Google Docs would be a good place to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can do up a thing that will allow one or more 'parents' to be assigned to a trope. This would enable a display like "This trope is a super trope to:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It would be helpful if it's accurate. How would it figure it out? Lots of pages don't even use the word "supertrope" or "subtrope" edited 7th Sep '11 4... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? 'Fraid I've had very little time to work on it. Once the fall semester gets properly going, there'll be more time (since they don't let us break systems... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, to build a useful tree, we do need DOWN pointers. Otherwise, the closer to the foundation trope you get, the less information there is. The tree would... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That could be part of it, but not all supertropes are indexes, and not all tropes in an index are related to each other. Eddie, were you thinking to have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, far and away the simplest way to maintain all these relationships is to 'walk' the tree each time. The bookkeeping becomes really tangled and painful... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I'd rather stick to a more direct description of the behavior we don't want. Trolling is accomplished in a number of different ways.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does "Thumped for being an asshat" cover it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Shima's dead wrong here but don't know how to reply without saying what I mean, which is that a hell of a lot of random idle threads come from... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll take a stab at it in thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tropers do have their shining moments. This OP was obviously crafted to start a war. No way that many bad ideas were put together in one place by accident... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wish IT Geekspeak were so clear. It looks good to me, but I haven't slept since 6:00 am Monday...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I didn't try it because you said that there was no way to remove relationships, and I didn't want to screw anything up in my less than completely functional... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, just looked at it again. Yes, much clearer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Shrug. A sincere pain in the ass is still a pain in the ass.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You can see that just by looking at the timestamps. TRS is the only Wiki and Forums board that moves faster than FG and YF.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But I'm wondering about the people who not only don't contribute to the wiki but also limit themselves to only the roleplays. Last time Eddie gave us the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The total number of pages viewed per hour follows the same pattern pretty much every day. Of course, that includes the wiki traffic, which is like 95%... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, forgive me if I've misread, but the statistics you cited show that while there is the most activity on the right side of the forums, the majority... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, here's the easy part: http://216.151.212.47/pmwiki/post_anal_ology.txt That's top 200 posters, top 200 editors, intersect. Where the top 200 posted... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie-san, see this. I can't look up IP history for the old handle of this troper; is that a side-effect of the purge? If so, how do we help them? Yes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, ok, I see that. I didn't see that as a bias, because what I was looking for was specifically "how many highly active forum posters are also highly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It might be a good idea for me to put something together that would do the deletion and allow the mod to leave a note.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I locked them, but I'd be happy to have them unlocked if it stops all these edit requests. We have the revert tool now so major vandalism like what happened... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright, unlocked all Friendship is Magic related pages and added them to my watchlist. Watchlist is now flank deep in pony subpages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some tropers already did.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh Gods no, make it stop!! So glad my son likes Star Wars and not MLP. edited 19th Sep '11 8:08:10 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No objections from me. I'm probably insufficiently strict about it. I usually only lock threads when they've already turned horrible.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sooner is better than later, I think.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby: I was meaning more the inane threads (like the kind of thing Sand Josieph used to create 5x a day, or dumber) than ones where anything truly bad... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "Pending final action" is hooked up. It's button emblem is an orange asterisk. The 'conversations.php' page can be restricted to show only those items... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They should have access. If they don't, it's a bug.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's worth keeping in mind, though, that by its very nature you will continue to hear about all the bad stuff but, as the site grows, you can only take... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just accidentally un-toggled a thread because I briefly forgot that another mod had already toggled it and there wasn't any sign of it in the thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Janitor researches protein folding with applications in therapeutics for a number of different maladies. You know, hand to hand battle with the Grim Reaper... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Eddie, I've had a thought for what might help keep us from losing unfinished TRS and IP (and Special Efforts) threads, although it won't actually affect... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Teh coffee kicked in and I realized I could do the migration with a really simple script. The two 'morgues' are in the third column.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It should actually be automatic, shouldn't it? Right now, it is manual. I'll see about fixing that. Woops. I'll move those pinned things back. edited 28th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, a couple of people have raised a good point about the the locked threads jumping to the morgue: some go immediately, others wait around a while.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tried it. Gets grog in me beard.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seems like a good idea. Let's go with that. No articles about threads.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the subject of dubious wiki pages, how do we feel about the practice of creating quotes pages for tropers? edited 30th Sep '11 6:40:29 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What you have there is almost verbatim what was posted on the IJBM forum. To me it looks like drama mongering.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah... to me it looks like a sincere complaint, albeit delivered in a way that suggests a sense of entitlement.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? His taxes pay our salaries, you know. edited 1st Oct '11 11:12:06 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? True, I realize that the only effective method is in establishing cultural norms, but somedays I'd like to make everyone stand in front of the whiteboard... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My instinct is that there would be less actions to take in a day than the mod flag load.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we do that, then we have to also have some way of locking down page creation in Main. Because if you make it harder to launch a YKTTW, people simply... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The issue is what namespace(s) we use for them, if any. Do they get a pass for staying on Main; do we lump them all into "Creator", as in Creator.Tom... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about just People?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What would be bad about putting the creator under the medium? I created pages for Kinky Friedman and James Kirkwood and those could easily fit in Literature... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be inclined to have a People namespace and leave it at that; for one thing, some people are active in more than one medium. Or Company. Or just Creator... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Author-with-namespace doesn't work for me, either. Fails the WTF test.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also Theater as opposed to Theatre as far as I remember we have decided to go with the the second spelling.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby, I'm sorry. I hope your grandmother had a good long life and that you have happy memories of her.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, guys. I was initially very shocked since we'd thought her health was improving, but it's taken a long while to get the funeral plans organised... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't see the point of any kind of ban of links to a site based on, not what that particular linked picture or page contains, but what else might be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Needin' a confirmation: With the resolution of TRS threads my thinking has been not to lock a thread until the work is done. This is specifically because... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've relocked the My Little Pony page because of the repeat vandalism. Maybe we can unlock it again in a month or two.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The launch button creates the YKTTW link. It simply doesn't make the page. I believe that the originator of the YKTTW finished the job.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not sure what happened there. May have something to do with launching to a locked title. Anyway, I've unlaunched it. In other news: Mods can start awarding... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Really? Cool.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm feeling irritable and on-edge today for no good reason, so I'm going to avoid any non-routine mod actions. I might otherwise bite too hard.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Work > Wiki. Even if the two tend to conflate from time to time. Rotsa ruck!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Shoo! And best wishes Mads!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nah. Leave 'em. Ohana, for example is an existing term used pretty heavily in surfer communities. Framily is also in use in major pubs. edited 19th Oct... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? He was hitting the forums this time. Ib Ialblal Gl AI Rle Ie Ibl (202.95.200.13) got in 45 posts between 12:23:39 and 12:27:44 — 4 minutes and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Makes sense, if we can open multiple tabs, he can open multiple tabs.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? At least one thing is closed. If he tries to make a handle having the pattern .b.a.b.a.G.A.R.e.e.b in it (where the periods are any other character), he... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^^Sure. Or fasteddie@tvtropes.org works, too. ^^ Feeling a little thick about it not occurring to me earlier.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can you give the forum banhammer at least to Camacan, so we get a little better coverage time-zone wise? 'Cat and I are only an hour apart, and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Will do. In fact, I think all the mods could handle it. eta: That's in. All mods should be able to impose and lift posting bans. edited 19th Oct '11 6:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hammertime! I mean, I will use this tool with restraint.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can get to it this evening (it's currently almost 1 AM where I am) if someone else doesn't do it first.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have her delete the tvtropes cookies (like this) and try again. Her password cookie may have gotten corrupted. Oh, and be sure her browser is accepting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The thing is, the only places it is used are here and here. (I think knowledge of the other wiki's existence is a given, these days.) edited 20th Oct '... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does no good? I'm not sure I understand — well, I guess we can't stop people from making accounts and then posting the credentials somewhere else... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, they did invent image macros, Let's Plays and 4chan, so I'd say they were pretty influential on Internet culture. But exactly, that thread has about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed that we ought to acknowledge them. Worth noting that SA is referenced on several other pages. They really are legitimately influential.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll unban this beech character, whoever they are. It looked like a goon account to me. I have no idea who Rocket Dude is, either. I guess they hang out... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I guess I'll just have to utterly ignore SA. I will say, though, anyone arguing from the position of 'SA says...' or who is an obvious goon is on the banning... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I still think zapping any thread carrying their trash into our forum is a good idea. Importation of drama, and all. We can do that and just let '... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Has anyone seen Maddy around? She usually lets us know when she goes away. Her last post was yesterday morning. As was her last edit. edited 23rd Oct '... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Haven't seen her, either. That's a little disturbing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ocolcord@yahoo.com is me Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What's your skypename?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Me? John M. Aldrich. Creative, huh?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think I'm matthewjudebrown, though I don't use it a lot.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Svea Wartooth here. It's a long story... edited 23rd Oct '11 7:33:51 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not finding that, Maddy. Hey, my D&D alter-ego would be Lealla Silverharp, a rebellious elven princess, with a lot of Mary Sue traits. That or a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Definitely so, Morven. People complain if a troll isn't bounced within five minutes, if a comparatively non-urgent Holler hasn't been settled in twenty... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The problem with our relative lack of rules and loosely-defined rules is that it leads to very inconsistent application at times. In addition, "don't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We've also taken the policy of largely removing violations of the rules from view, and not being public about things. This is good sometimes and bad in... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? While I think there are some really good points to allowing a public viewing of the problematic posts the thing that we will run into are the "I don't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In other news, I could use some testing on the new account creation screen. We need to be sure that the confirmation emails are not going to people's spam... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Created a new account and confirmed it. I think that I created it on the same email account that I used when I first got here, but I may have used my then... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It was sent to my main inbox.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Trying it again myself.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, please block all account creation from proxies. I don't care if it inconveniences people, this has to stop. We can't get normal work done. Edit... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Completely unrelated to any serious subforum biz, but are we going to do a Halloween logo? Can we? Can it be a blackcat? Or a bat, or punkin or something... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We've always had a sex/gender thread in Yack Fest. It's been there for months, and I think there was another one before it. It dropped off the page a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? TRS policy question. When we're down to wick cleanup, should I move the conversation to Special Efforts, particularly for a big combined project like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie-san, we need you to look at If You Know What I Mean. There's been a wick cleanup project going on and they were down to two thousand or so, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was working on that project and was almost through the C's.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did that. Also, Eddie, we still need a ruling on moving Narm out of Darth Wiki. I'm going to go ahead and allow it if you don't object.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The namespace pages will still show up in Darth Wiki colors. You are right that the main index page would have to be moved.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, right, the subpages. Well, I'll let the guys ask about that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Even weirder. It looks like we're wiki-banning ourselves when we use the skullfucker: I've unbanned all four of us. edited 30th Oct '11 7:53:47 AM... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The reason the edit ban wasn't working for you is it stops checking once it knows the person is a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have a question about this page. It seems to me that the list of people banned from the channel is a bad/stupid/pick the word idea. Or am I being naive... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anything you can do to encourage some communication would be great. A'right. Giving it a go. My suspicion is folks made the association with the tarpit... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Thanks, Eddie. That's a lot easier to use. ^ I'll send some PMs round.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks Eddie. Feelin' uneasy about giving a password reset for Photo Finish. Request comes from Anonymous User who already has a whole bunch o' sockpuppets... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Royal Decree: could we get this one unlaunched? I'd getting real tired of folks disregarding the formatting rules. It ticks me off when a page is launched... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unlaunched... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tell him to turn off javascript and see if that clears it up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Reply from Litis: My primary browser is Opera 11.52, but the issue persists across all browsers (IE 9, Firefox 8, I even installed Chrome 15 to check and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know, I was wondering that myself. I also wondered if it may be a result of the Penn State brouhaha.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wait, someone's complaining that it took 40 minutes to squash a troll? Seriously?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, Eddie. I joined the discussion about the new subpage combo box thingy and it's pretty cool, although there are some concerns (as expected). Since... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did all wiki ads disappear for anyone else besides me just now?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Restarted Chrome and they're back. Weird.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Question for you and the other mods, do we keep this on the DL outside of the mod forums?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anyway, thanks for helping, Becca.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just heard back from Polarstern: here is the text of the pm: ''The troper Jeysie has repetitively sent me ugly and hateful private messages accusing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unfortunately, only Eddie/Janitor/Becca? can read other people's PM's. I'd say the situation warrants it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seem to recall that taking things over personally was what got Jeysie banned once before, wasn't it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh joy. Here we go again. Jeysie thinks people "have no business telling her not to message them". She's complaining of personal attacks that were unmoderated... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow, that is really irrational. I mean really irrational. What was the inciting incident last time she got booted?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? An entry that was vitriolic / a personal attack on the author could be grounds for a mod flag for a pull. Does that sound right / reasonable?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The sense I get is that recommendations are wholly subjective and that there are currently few valid reasons for pulling one. An entry without any troper... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about a troper recommending their own work? Seems harmless to me, as long as they say they are the the author in the rec. OK or no? EDIT: I'm going... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cryptic Mirror is telling me that there has been a rule against self-recs in Fanfic Recommendations because of spam. That is, prolific authors drowning... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby: school is more important. Good luck!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, but this time I really mean it! One of the things I'm going to build right quick is a tool so that mods can do the full range of user restraints,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? After all, it's not like it's hard to find such things. Besides, it's not like people can't PM each other links if they really want, and there's little... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I prefer the idea of making article creation have to go through a dialog assigning namespace and page type, first. The idea of a select body of people... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Lawdy, Lawdy, did I ever just have an evil idea. For threads like that WWIII rant, ones that start out with an obvious piece of flame bait, we could set... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, this is different from hellbanning as you described it. It hides the thread, not just the badguy posts. Nobody else sees it, except for the mods, and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All the sub-systems (wiki, liveblog, etc.) have comment systems. Blocking the sub-system will also block the associated subsystem comments. Ask The Tropers... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, plus adding its equivalent for the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, boss. The Headlines box has some line-wrapping issues — at least it does for me on Chrome 15.0.874.121. The URL for the Blip TV thing sticks... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, the Source button works on locked pages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just put in a new name.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And those restrictions are exactly what, besides "no outside links"?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Limits on frequency of thread creation, posting frequency, ability to post external links, and voting rights in crowners.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? New restrainer looks good. Man that Alligator is more trouble than he's worth. Willbyr is on holiday with his wife until next Sunday and has asked me to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That was weird. Every restraint was set "On" for my name, with no history. edited 5th Dec '11 8:04:09 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Had you posted prior to that? In other words, was the restraint actually active?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just got a PM from Joesolo about being unable to post, and discovered that he had also gotten the full lock despite only having been edit-banned in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What does the 'keep new' checkbox do? Apologies if I'm being a dumbass and not noticing your having told us ;)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It means, "apply the new account restrictions" — namely, limits on edits and forum posting, the inability to post external URL's, etc.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, and a backlink to Mod Central and the forums. Just while I'm on a roll. edited 6th Dec '11 9:48:41 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Boo. Okay, did it the old fashioned way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Link to the new system has been added to the Handy-Dandy Tools OP.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be spotty for a bit. I see what you did there. Seriously, get well!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm feeling sick but not so bad as to not be around. I am, however, busy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It might work better if it also had a link to their edit history. But I think I might struggle compacting the problem into one line that a troper will... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we add a tool to the restrainer to search by ban reason? The reason I ask is that it's difficult for me to identify sockpuppets with the current... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that thud I just heard from the Bahamas was FE fainting from over work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I could volunteer to help out with the SQL coding; I'm fairly handy with that. I just don't know beans about php. edited 9th Dec '11 8:11:10 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okies. Go Access form designer! I'll be back shortly. Edit: I've noticed that you like stacking form elements on top of each other rather than side-by-side... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer's wiki-thump idea: want, want and want. I've been sending a lot of PMs with reminders when folks have not been setting page types and the like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What a great tool.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, I brainstormed several possible layouts for the user management console. The one I finally came up with is tabular and treats each functional area... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank YOU, that was driving me nuts.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pretty much. To my way of thinking, the fact that a name is a pre-existing term is relevant. The fact that it isn't, isn't really. edited 11th Dec '11... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Answering in thread Or not. Bad linky. If the term is not in use off site, it as close to useless as possible. It is just us talking to us, a circle-jerk... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Broken linky?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Um, whoops! It didn't copy when I said copy! here. Posts 5 and 7 have the reports. edited 13th Dec '11 4:39:51 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My computer died again. I'm going to be scarce for a while I'm afraid.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I think the lights are lovely. They're fun, and I appreciate that effort has been made to make this place properly festive. Christmas spirit seems... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think this goes back to the way that a lot of the forumites treat the mods and admins like we're some combination of teachers, parents and The Man.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can I/we/you write the intro post or are you still fixing it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Perhaps we could put a note on the Holler screen saying that if they're not going to provide links to all of the relevant posts/pages, we're under no obligation... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's in.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, I've had two "thank you" pm's in the last hour and a half. I'm all better now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Eddie, the bigger buttons look nice, but the mod-function buttons overlap with the tops of the threads kind of funny.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? (ignore this) edited 23rd Dec '11 3:55:10 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I guess I'd best use that. Thanks. I like the regular search, though. Much easier to find stuff, given that the results are sorted chronologically... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey Eddie, I like changes to the look of the crowners.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. I swear I'm getting afraid to touch anything due to the possibility of a shitstorm.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The length is controlled by the poster's browser, essentially. Our cutoff is higher than any browser's. It is intended to protect us from people doing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we chat about this a bit as staff? I realize you're fed up with complaining but they have a point: getting in the face of your users never... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? At 1:30 PM, I got a message from Which Dockter. They claim that they've been registered for over 24 hours but aren't able to post. I checked to see if... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If I have to post as a mod I'd prefer to be identified. If I make an error it is easier to correct me than The Moderators.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And there have been times when one mod has made a mod post and another one has come in and either backed them up or been more direct, strict or whatever... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I received a pm from Fusionman asking how long the lock on the Random Chatter thread was going to last. I locked that thread because the gm asked to have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So it is! Color me stupid. edited 11th Jan '12 10:01:56 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to hear.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's great news.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A week or so ago. Glad you like 'em.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That animation is great.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer I am glad your mom is doing OK. I'm sorry I was missing in action during this last boil over. Some day I shall recount the saga of this production... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. From the way it was being talked about I thought it was dozens, willy-nilly.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do you see a little lightning bolt◊ above posts? Clicking that should bring up the thump menu. The two figures holding hands◊ lets you check... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, a list of tools. Now I just need to figure out how to use them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome to the new mods.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? they've crossed the line many times; but on the other hand, if I were to thump of ban them, it would look and feel as if I'm abusing my authority as a mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ That's one of the stickier things about modding. My personal policy is to ask for a second or third set of eyes on a situation with a poster that I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, he's on borrowed time. He's been warned and temp-banned before about bringing his "violent imposition of anarchy"/"authority is by default evil"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It does. So does the thread nuker. edited 15th Jan '12 10:05:58 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^That hat image for Katrika is hooked up. edited 15th Jan '12 10:06:36 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, um...how do you even use the mod hat? Also, am I supposed to just approve custom title requests that seem okay?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? For mod posts in those threads, use a pseudo-tag like <Mod Hat ON>/<Mod Hat OFF>, [Mod Voice], or whatever suits your fancy. edited 15th Jan... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What he said. Hang out in OTC. Try to deal with things there before they get hollered.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. This role shouldn't be a job. It should be something you do alongside what you normally do on the wiki. The point of having dedicated OTC mods... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Wait. You get a vast paycheck? <*Whining*> Eddie, somebody is paying Fighteer!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone gave him a whole Internet! Have fun with it, Fighteer?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Whoa, Fighteer? How'd you swing that paycheck thing? Hook a brother up!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hello, Camcam. Thanks for the welcome.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I have two issues to bring up. First, there appears to be a security hole in the page type changing tool that allows anonymous users to access... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, shouldn't there be a notice saying that OTC is open now? I don't think anyone knows yet. (Except us, obviously.)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Up to you, OTC Master.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Go here to write a headline. (Page is accessed from the "post a bulletin" button on Edit Banned Central.) I'll let you or Katrika do it. IMO a pinned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If I'm gonna remove the pinned thread I made in a day or two, should I also edit the "Introducing OTC" thread's only post to include the rule about thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll do it tomorrow. Except the edit; I might as well do it now. edited 17th Jan '12 5:56:00 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Posting in the new thread isn't allowed until a mod has approved of the thread. A lot of trouble is avoided this way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh. Mine still works. Did you try to use it in an old thread? It doesn't work in those.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not all threads have it usable. It only works on newer threads thanks to some legacy code issues.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a good restriction, Eddie. Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? For how long does the 'newness' last? We've established he's patient. If one of his accounts manages to slip by long enough to 'age'...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We won't report that number publicly, of course. Gives him too much information to work with. Just between us, it is two weeks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds good. It'll at least give us a breather, worst case scenario.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? he hit 75 threads in just a hair under 5 minutes. If that was something that could be impressive, that would be very impressive. Yeah, it's great that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The amount of effort and dedication he puts into trolling us is impressive. Pointless and stupid, but impressive. edited 17th Jan '12 10:05:22 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I always just thump the post if it had an overt personal attack. Other mods—I recall Mads and Morven in particular—are a bit nicer and do the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do remember, there are just OTC bans now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Because "Didn't go through YKTTW" doesn't always mean "crap page that should be cut immediately." Because YKTTW and all the administrivia pages that refer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We're supposed to get about 11 inches of snow today. If I disappear for a bit the snow got me and I'll be back when I can.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? snerk edited 20th Jan '12 2:02:07 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Damn your tropical island weather!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just checking something. Ok, I was certain that the thumped PM had a direct link to the post that got thumped, but I wanted to check before responding... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? While I am not completely back I will be doing more than just picking up my mail and signing contracts.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Threads are database tables; it clearly exists but the title causes the HTML to break. This is a serious security hole, I might add — you could... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I tried to replicate the effect by changing the title of an existing thread (I put it back again after) but I couldn't; the title did vanish, but the thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A while ago, someone said we were gonna ask Lolacat to change their avatar. I don't recall if anyone did PM them, but now, the freaky avatar is back. Should... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The demented Pikachu? I haven't spoken to her about it, but it was changed for the benefit of the Skyrim thread, who it turns out don't really care and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry, folks. I wasn't around at all this weekend, and I didn't tell anyone. Mainly because I was playing single daddy since my wife was out of town... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The new forum name broke me. I can't stop laughing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is Asperger's the new official excuse for social ineptitude these days? I am fairly introverted and nobody would ever imagine me to have an ASD. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is a pity it's stalled. I keep checking on it and it's always just stuck on the perfect delivery gag. It has such a cool story line.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Still no answer from Camacan. Very strange.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought it was my computer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's still lagging pretty badly for me. I'm going to clear my cache and see if that helps. edited 1st Feb '12 5:01:15 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I opened a new thread for us; it's a place where we can talk about OTC threads we haven't opened for some reason but aren't ready to nuke, either. When... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm sick, so yeah, DEFINITELY gonna be spotty for a few days.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Arha was a problem in Liveblog and review comments before he became a problem over the loli situation.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take it easy, Katrika. Chicken soup, hot ginger tea and lots of sleeping.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also found this [1]... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I scare myself when I start doing this. I don't know about the phone. The initials don't match. It might be too intrusive. I'd try the e-mail addy, though... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd say emails are fine. Me, I really don't care. I learned from Wikipedia that the more secretive you are, the more the bad guys think it would be funny... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie apparently had an e-mail for Camacan, as well. I know he also has mine...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe we should make a mod contact list in here. In case people poof. Opt in of course.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Perhaps a new thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, back to wiki tech stuff: if there's one thing I'd really like to see now — and I've mentioned this before — it's preservation of Cut... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've brought this up before, but since we haven't really talked about it, I'm gonna bring it up again: should we delete locked threads? I think we should... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Let's roll.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It does and I've even gotten some positive replies from it. Or at least apologies and promises not to do it again.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Building something to ban from people from creating Shop/Pickin' threads doesn't feel right. I think we should ask DQZ to lay off for awhile, first.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thump 'em both. The racist and the person making it personal. Any actual evidence of where they weren't both thumped? edited 12th Feb '12 9:33:02 AM by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anything lately? Calling an individual a racist is personal. It starts fights. If the person being named a racist is in fact saying racist stuff, he should... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Where? The thing we need to encourage is for people to thump this stuff, rather than getting into name-calling spats.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? He overreacted, yes. I didn't think he was bannable, personally. Even if that were all Stars was saying, though, it's certainly trivial and rather silly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, I lifted that ban after a PM exchange.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. Sorry. My mistake.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Another way to say it would be to make a page like 'forum top' only for the "Wiki and Forums" heading on the current forum top.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that calling the left hand stuff "The Workshop" rather than forum top would be better. It's a clearer name as to what's done there. I think the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's more like the first category, except when Flyboy uses it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am really sick and tired of people taking that position. It has become the default argument and we keep falling into that trap. Thumping someone for... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Don't take that seriously. It was a joke. My personal opinion is that neocons — fundamentalists Christians who do things like stage protests at the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I definitely agree with that. (BTW, Bobby, when you hear "neocon" you can basically think of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Bush... That kinda thing.) That... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? When I hear the term, I generally think of Bush and Cheney rather than Fred Phelps and the like, tbh. But yeah, I just wondered if Flyboy might actually... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just to clear this point, I'll just post a definition of Neocon from Wikipedia or Wiktionary. Actually, I'll do both. Wiktionary: "A right wing political... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cut masters, there've been a rash of complaints lately [1] about cutting redirects that have a lot of inbounds. Do we need higher visibility for inbound... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, those were not me. I've gotten to the point that I have no idea what all of the new rules are and relying on the old rules or what happened that one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought (and I may be wrong since I've never been a cutmaster) that the rule was: Significant Inbounds = No Cut.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's been a suggestion to show the inbounds on the cut screen. Might not be a bad idea. edited 15th Feb '12 7:46:16 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, the inbounds at a glance should help though. That way you won't be bouncing back and fourth.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've wondered that as well. I miss him.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be willing to focus more on the wiki if I knew what to do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been away from my wiki Watchlist for quite a while now — got overwhelmed by the size of it. I will work through it at some point. I have to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also like to look at Recent Edits and pick out a change to examine at random, one I'm sure isn't on my watchlist. There are a little over 650 tropes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll keep an eye on recent edits, then.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something that also works and can help you discover problems with more obscure pages, use the random button and look through the pages you show up on until... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, procedural question: Is the discussion of whether to chop an entire Real Life section something that should get a TRS thread or is it ok to tuck it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see no reason to TRS it as it's been well established that Real Life sections exist on sufferance. As a moderator, for example, I will chop away without... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, so is one person asking in SE, and two people saying "yes, chop it" within 24 hours a consensus? I'm not saying that the real Life section of Foreign... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks for the heads up. bottledinsanity, Dana from Echo Chamber and the ARG now has mod powers which she intends to use only in the ARG threads, which... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My question is, are they bringing this up because they got in trouble and think that other people should get in trouble too or is this a case of we haven't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think he's thinking that since Shima got bumped up to Moderator, her energies are divided between the TRS and the rest of the forums. It certainly wouldn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Septimus has some issues related to flexibility that we wouldn't want to put up as an example. ccoa has been thumped for civility items on a couple... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright. I'll extend an offer to ccoa.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I shall have to pass on my congratulations then.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been keeping up with the mod threads, though!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, spring break time is rolling around again. Some schools are this week, others are next week. We could get some hit and run attacks of dumbassery. Maybe... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I could talk Monday on Skype, if someone would like to set a time.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It looks like Eddie's our host if I understand his comment about having the fancy Dan premium package on the last page. Katrika, we can still hear you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can read your posts. Silly. You do have speakers right? edited 5th Mar '12 9:37:27 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, yeah. Duh, you can type on Skype.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can anyone convert the estimated time of the conference to GMT so I can tell you whether or not I can attend?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Crap. If we ever do this again we should do it on the weekend at a time that'll work for both Europe and the West Coast. And Oz if Camacan ever comes back... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I should be able to handle that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And shimaspawn?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, I've got shima and Best Of hooked up. Or will when they respond to my contact requests. I don't have a skypename for Morven. edited 5th Mar '12 1... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? edited 5th Mar '12 2:10:37 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seems to be working now. I was able to add you as a contact. I didn't see a contact rq notice,though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Check the area that says "Notifications" I don't know what your display looks like but at the bottom of the contact list page, there's "Shop", "Directory... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW, I'm not gonna be around much tomorrow. Just a heads-up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eeeeewwwww. Get better.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gonna be with the family for a couple of days, won't be around much. EDIT: Caissas Death Angel is gonna create a new thread on some abortion legislation... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, filenames are no problem. I mean, the word 'fuck' is no problem right out in plain sight.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, Meta!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? *hands Meta a four-leaf clover* My laptop gave up the ghost this weekend, so I won't be on much evenings and weekends until I can work out a replacement... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that sort of NSFW link is OK if tagged. Outright pornographic links are never OK, as Eddie has emphasised on several occasions. (The same applies... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The discussion of image hosting sites/image boards with NSFW content came up earlier; so long as the page linked is SFW, it's OK, but linking pages displaying... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes people are caught out with posting Danbooru or Gelbooru links because they are running an adblocker and don't see the offensive ads; I know I've... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Responded in thread. ^Ban avoidance by sockpuppet is reason enough for full restraints.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Stuff about troubling tropers goes to the troubling tropers thread, anyway. I posted there about this guy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree, but I think that also assumes that the community is already kind of smart and savvy, whereas this one largely isn't (this may not have always... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't mind ignorant; I mind unwilling to learn or even acknowledge that there is anything to learn. I doubt you were either of those things, Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That falls under "Don't be a dick."... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huzzah! Wonderful news, Eddie. Thank you! edited 20th Mar '12 5:30:10 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That could do some good in OTC...just sayin'...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I'm thinking we need to rewrite it a bit in order to explain what our standards are. A general PG-13 rating and not writing sex tropes about Real... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think it's also maybe representative of a more general ignorance of policy and guidelines on the wiki proper and its discussion pages. Might be worth... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I realise this is abrupt, but I'm taking an indefinite break. I'm sorry, everyone.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck dude.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We'll miss you Bobby and hope you are well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks for taking care of it, BTW. I would have done the same thing you did, but I think I would've worded my post even more confrontationally an perhaps... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be gone part of Tuesday and part of Wednesday, owing to a job interview in another state.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was under the impression that most of the scanlation sites were shut down.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to hear it's just "frantic" and not something worse. Real Life Comes First.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I love it. We're getting caught in our own web. It's Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll admit I had a "Wait, why am I apologizing?" moment. Wow, must still be half asleep.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It turns out that Colonel Mc Badass was a reincarnation of banned Rorschachwasright, as well as expressing some off-color opinions in that thread. Banned... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best of luck, dude.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Enjoy PAX East.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck Bobby, your grumpy is much pleasanter than many people's normal.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, you might have broken something while you were in there. It seems we can't add replies to discussion page topics now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should be fixed now, and the stickiness should be installed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It could have been the one troper who went on a several page campaign against that image, too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a question already about Naughty Tentacles. How do we answer?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes...in all the posts after Tangent's thump above, the text is thump orange instead of the normal color. It's in IE 7...can't remember if this was happening... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, the orange text isn't happening for me. I'm using Firefox on a Mac for what it's worth. As for Naughty Tentacles... it's inspiring the usual "What... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If it wasn't SA, it was lolacat. I've put her out of the conversation.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, that's one very irritating little twat that I'll be glad to see gone. I was neutral on the pic...it was certainly tame for an example of the trope... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm with Willbyr on this one. The pic wasn't that bad, but it was close enough to being questionable that I wouldn't have shed any tears over its loss... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I freely admit to not being the best participant in this argument...I'm as desensitized and jaded as they come, and while I do have certain Berserk Buttons... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that a lot of the prude stuff isn't really what they're saying, but how they're saying it. When tropers come across as being on a puritanical... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I just wanted to say that I think that your latest post in the "What happened to Naughty Tentacles" thread was beautiful. I think you hit just the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? +1 to the kudos, not just because of the post but for the reality check and the conversation it's starting to generate.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Damn, this came up again and I'm here at a convention and not able to contribute beyond moral support.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Will do. EDIT: Done; I'll add Shotacon to the "no image" list in IP. edited 6th Apr '12 7:43:02 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've just been making sure to keep on top of the situation.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been keeping an eye on new accounts and the other edits.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Another thing: the Wiki Talk thread had people suggesting a wall between this site and outbound links, so whenever someone clicks on an outbound link,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We're not charging to use them. We're charging to host them which is legally sound. Yes, it's semantics, but they're important semantics.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, the wall with keeping the ban on linking to porn would be a nice touch. An option to disable it in your profile, but it would look good to Google... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Posting from my phone, found this http://lab.artlung.com/outbound-link-confirmation/ It's ugly but it should work for a temp fix to the link parser.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Erm...I know this is a pretty minor problem, but my mod hat is all fuzzy now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I recommend every mod who hasn't done it yet to go and read the last couple of pages of the Merchandise thread in Wiki Talk.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Encourage them how, you think? PM the people who said they would help? EDIT: Worst comes to worst, we could threaten with an ultimatum: let's see some... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There isn't a Special Efforts thread on the subject, is there? Whenever I've tried to clean up Nightmare Fuel I've been overwhelmed by it and only gotten... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The nightmare fuel thing has been going on for years. I think what should happen is to turn the pages into definitions and dump the example pages. All... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm inclined to agree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Spoke up too late, Eddie already said they go. ^^;... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back at home from my trip, but will still be spotty until tomorrow with modding.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So Shoot The Hostage. Sheesh, do we have to explain everything here? edited 10th Apr '12 9:34:13 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm still not sure what they found explicit in the cut-down article. Hopefully, some clarity will come when I get to talk to a person.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wonder what got up Google's ass. Well, we shall find out soon, I hope.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm wondering if perhaps they're looking at other pages in addition to Naughty Tentacles?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are we sure that "explicit" or "paedo" is the problem? (As opposed to, say, the attitude that sees "lewdness" as the problem here and thinks "prudes"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In case they haven't been acted on yet: the fanfic review pages I flagged for removal last night are for the Evangelion fics that were cut. I'd've added... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Willbyr what is that avatar from? Every time I see it I think of Les Miserables and then I have the finale stuck in my head until I sing something else... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Musicals are contageous - especially Les Miserables! Now I have "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" playing in my head... BTW, I've seen the London production... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Upload it to your gallery, then PM Fast Eddie and tell him which one you want.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pick a 100x100 avatar you want as your mod hat. PM Eddie so he can set it up for you. edited 12th Apr '12 7:58:52 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As an aside, I would be overjoyed to fix our current ad problem in such a way that the freakishly idiotic "qualify for a school grant" and "lower your... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Booky is a fourteen-year-old girl. I'm going to assume you were correct, though I don't know who nuked that thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is it only with a particular thump type?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fixed. It was missing a close-span markup.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm currently at my parents' place with my laptop and a shitty USB modem and no mouse (instead using a shitty touch pad, and I've never been good with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Still going to be scarce to invisible. Hope to be back Monday night or Tuesday morning.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck! Hope it goes well!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hopefully your ISP won't be as big a bitch as mine was when I moved last year.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Awesome. Some of the rage should die down. Do you want me to go through them, or do you want someone from the general troper populace? It wouldn't hurt... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll have a shovel handy if you need help digging.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? hugs* We'll keep a light on for you. Let us know if you need anything. Best wish go with you in this time.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cash is back? Amazing! Let's wait until the P5 are up and working to announce it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wait, what?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's the only way the userbase is gonna believe us, huh? -___-... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is a porn trope, but I see it parodied* in non-porn works and discussed in works that don't actually contain it. It's also kind of weird to have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You know, the idea of bringing back Naughty Tentacles in any form is giving me a migrane. Maybe we can talk about the trope under different title, locked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, that's why we lock it, so that it doesn't accumulate images and links. We've done this for plenty of other controversial tropes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Like I said earlier, I wouldn't cry over the loss of the image. The links even less so. Although I am bummed that I found a perfect G-rated image days... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree that Naughty Tentacles should come back as a locked, "no examples/no image" page...I've been trying to think of an alternate title for days now... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? > pony vid [[youtube:Y1tvgbzwH0M]] But seriously, welcome back, Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to have you back, Maddy. No Pony vids, my knowledge pool there is severely lacking. edited 20th Apr '12 11:52:09 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am sorry if I seemed kind of flaky earlier, and sorry I vanished like that from helping with the Ask the Tropers thing. I'm not sure what happened to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby, you're irreplaceable and vital to our work, which is why I want to suggest to you that you focus on your nerves for a day or two and take a break... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, we can try it. Watch closely, though. My experience has been that doing so will attract no help, just complaints and rehashing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is freaking GENIUS! Hugs Katrika, hang in there.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we need to break out the hammers?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ccoa, have you snapped? O_O What happened?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Throw out the people asking for links, too? Anyway, I PM suspended the people I know gave out links. Can give 'em the full ban treatment, won't hurt my... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is why it's a good thing I never studied Copyright law.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I'm talking about really blatant evasions of the "no linking" policy. As a hypothetical example, rather than linking to "www.piracyhere.net/popularmanga... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, if the topic is sites that may or may not carry pirated content, then clearly it's fine to talk about the sites in question. Like if we have a discussion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose that would be the royal ass, since no other collectives with a single ass comes to mind.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... ... ...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably not specific to us, but the tools any site has to work with are the same. I'm sure there are generic ban evasion instructions out there.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Triple Elation, it turns out, is a regular poster on the SA hate thread. Banned and bounced.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...Well, this was unexpected. He'd really helped around the wiki in the past.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, the drama. Do you know if he's a recent addition to that cute thread? Or was he just playing us all along?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? One of which I posted about in the content violations thread, which has the potential to affect other pages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think you should tell 'em anything. Might leak, useful for ban avoiders and trolls. Besides, I thought the time how long it took to no longer be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I told them it should be lifted soon, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, it was him.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I didn't see his backing out post as an insult to us, but rather to our userbase. Or rather, the portion userbase that is determined to fight tooth and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm sorry if it did. I was trying to galvanize people into acting, since they don't get off their butts unless you threaten to take their toys away.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry I mostly vanished for a few days. I was working at a con, but I'm back full time now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, welcome back, Shima! Someone asked me to move a review for them, but I, errr, don't know how. Or can we not move reviews?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well that's grounds for a ban. Anyone wanna announce it in Absent People? If not, I'll bite the bullet...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nah, let him slide into obscurity unlamented.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any non-mods bringing it up?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Black Humor says it's like banning a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A few side comments, then the topic disappears completely. I'd say let the topic die.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Man, I'm only a couple of years older than Flyboy and I despair at the utter obstinance he shows. Especially in that wt thread a while back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is this a good enough notice about Nightmare Fuel? I know our volunteers have decreased since it went down. Attention, Nightmare Fuel addicts! High Octane... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would this be okay for a headline, Eddie? Attention, Nightmare Fuel addicts! We need a lot of hands on deck to help consolidate our Nightmare Fuel namespace... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? > #3172 Works. edited 30th Apr '12 1:36:18 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Didn't Meta become a cut master before he became a mod? I think a mod would be a quicker option.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can barely afford enough time to be a moderator these days, much less a cutmaster. Oh, the joys of grad school.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sad to see you go, Bobby, but your mental well-being's a lot more important than the wiki. Take care of yourself and stay in touch when you can.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We'll miss you, Bobby. It was good working with you and I'll be sad to see you go.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's happening in trailer parks across the Bible Belt.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I fail to see what they felt that would accomplish. Can I ask why cutewithoutthe was banned? From what I heard, he actually was talking in favour of us... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't know the reason, but since this is a few days after he said he wanted to quit this site because his addiction to it wasn't good for him, I suspect... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No objection to cute's restoration. I do want to make it clear to people that if they don't like it here, they can simply go away. Really. We're not going... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And this one doesn't even make sense over the internet because how would you know if you got the right gender or not?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed. I think splitting off the shippers into their own pile will just make people happier.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They're being polite about it, but the non-shippers were getting unhappy about the state of the thread. It was getting to be impossible to talk about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh wait. It looks like this is another joke game page, instead of a redirect to the actual game. Needs to be tossed under Just For Fun as well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm sort of not sure here, so I'll ask. What's our policy on fan translations of games that never made it out of Japan? Can we link them? It seems like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes. Where did you hear that?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Difference here was that someone else had posted an the entirety of some essay of his. Not an excerpt. I removed it based on it being not Fair Use. The... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, yeah, you can't quote anyone's text in its entirety, that's for sure. One would imagine that people would know that, but then one remembers that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fan translations, when it's not the game itself that's being distributed but rather a set of files and patches to make it usable by English-speakers (or... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There are people who buy the game and then mod it into English. Game mods on the whole don't bother me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't see mods being a violation of copyright as long as the person applying them still has to legitimately obtain a license of the original product... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, my big games are Bethesda stuff and The Sims. Both have modding officially sanctioned and encouraged. Bethesda especially gives modders tools to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there any way we can get a list of most frequent editors and posters? I'm curious.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What if you wanna restore something that was cut? Isn't it helpful to have the history around? Also, I once got a PM from someone that some cut page still... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Could be people from a fan forum.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Total accounts: 194,320 Active forum posters: 5124 Active wiki editors: 29,132... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the period that the article stays in the system's memory ought to be longer - like a week. Then we'd have time to notice that the decision to cut... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The text of cut articles is kept indefinitely, anyway. I'm not sure we lose much by deleting the history. eta: History cutting has been implemented. Satsya's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW: Starting Monday, I'll be Austin, TX for about a month. Shouldn't make much difference in my online-ness. I'll be back on Central time, though. And... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Lotsa home repairs to do this weekend (new siding, new windows, paint, trim, and a deck and fence to build), so my attendance will be spotty. edited 12th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^^Yup. It was not reporting non-editing new accounts. Now it does. Good catch, Lu. edited 12th May '12 9:56:00 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok-dokie, thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think I'm ready to crawl back up on the modding horse.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The thread, not the article? Go for it, I guess. We won't learn anything new from doing so, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Naruto thread just had a crowner for a popularity poll. They now want to have a "Most hated character" crowner. It's definitely not a complaining thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? BTW, Eddie, any estimate on how much we've made off the Badge Shop so far?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We need a headline and a FAQ. I'll write a FAQ tomorrow. We also need a crowner to see where people like to wear badges. I've seen people say they don't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I probably should've mentioned this a while ago. When I am at work I am not available on Skype.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I can't figure out for the life of me how to determine who created an article. I can see the first edit made to a new article in the history, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We don't have it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just installed a new countermeasure. If the edit account is less than 15 days old we check to see when the last edit was attempted. We do this when a a... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "Setting a preference" is something that, if discovered, would still make aging easy enough, since that isn't a sign of trouble... For proactiveness, can... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be gone from Wen-Sun at a con. I'm going to Origins.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That looks like an excellent solution, Eddie. Baba would have to reveal himself by editing if he wants to start the timer to remove the squelch on editing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Exactly. The goal is to encourage tripping flags before damage ability gets significant.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow, okay, my depression is really hitting me again.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just bull on through, Katrika. You can do it. In other news: The remove account function has been discontinued. It does us no good. Expect some howling... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So I got it right, didn't I?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've swatted about half a dozen of the vandal's socks, but I have to do some actual work at work today, and I won't be around to babysit the new account... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, when you make abrupt decisions about things, can you try to keep the mods more informed as to the intentions, ramifications and intentions? It... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gonna be sparse. Exam time! -insert overly dreadful and dramatic smiley-... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes I'm going through a thread that's had someone skullfucked, and I wanna know who it was. There's no easy way to find out. So, I was thinking would... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The troll's handle will now appear in the crushed text in double brackets right at the beginning. edited 13th Jun '12 6:11:36 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, here's something a bit odd. When I look at my edit history, I see a number of entries that are blank. The links don't go anywhere. I think these... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep. Looks like it had something to do with reverting. I made it so that a reversion doesn't show up in a mod's edit history at all. edited 13th Jun '12... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ....Septimus with any kind of special privileges is a disaster waiting to happen. -___-... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The post above my previous one is a hint.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? His motivation may be transparent but it doesn't make the idea a bad one. We've talked about something similar with the curator thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright, what do we do with this thread? It's been going forever, ended up at the bottom of the list at least three times and there has been no progress... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is a great proposal. Fast Eddie, please make it possible somehow. Perhaps the first time you click on the YKTTW button, you get the PM.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Mary Sue posted an article too...>.< When's Google gonna get back to us anyway? Now that the SA thread is archived, there's a good chance troll... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If not, PM a mod and ask.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1338688572083460900 I have no problem calling "keep" on this pic, image macro or not. Yea/nay?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Morven mentioned on Skype that we may need a couple more people on the Cut List. I personally think the cutlist is a bit wonky as far as communication... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was thinking earlier that cutlist master is a good spot to put a potential mod, should we need one, because it gives them a very limited amount of power... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's a thread in Tech Wishlist about forum threads randomly dropping off watchlists as well. Maybe the watchlist feature is a bit buggy? (Speaking of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Let's let Eddie make the call on Camacan. Here's another person with an account bug: Shandis: "I keep getting the "cant match log-in info" message and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Go for it. Eddie, accounts with any ban flags should not be auto-deleted, because that resets their data.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The same discussion page fell off my watchlist again today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Damn, now you have me thinking "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Cat Mod!"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've started a monster! ....Yay!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any thoughts on the leading vote-getters in the RP mod crowner?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^^ You may have solved a long-time bug. It was case sensitive. The lingering pm banner bug may be healed forever.:) edited 5th Jul '12 9:31:00 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just massively improved the speed of my Chrome browser. I did it by disabling my Skype Click to Call plugin. The thing is a horror.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You should also post in the Mod Contact Information thread, as well as the Mod Hat thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi ccoa! Thanks for the welcome.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi, daltar! You'll do fine. There's very little that is so urgent that you won't have time to ask for help if you're unsure. Major 'Whack-a-troll' episodes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seem to have missed where the article we're talking about is linked to.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It was a PM, right?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The article in question is Lolicon. I don't see the need to accommodate lolicons. Page is okay.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, okay. That top item in the Discussion page is pure flame bait. I'd like to axe all the Discussion, in fact. And if Logically Dashing wants to make... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The foundation is official? Whoa! I like how that just sort of quietly happened with no mention...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, it links back to the main site, so it's not very informative as of yet...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Speaking of which, that message looks a little cut off on the left in discussion pages. Here.◊... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope things are okay with you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Because we're using Video Game/ for tropes for the first game in the series? Or is the whole series on one page?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No idea how he did it, but it is gone now. It must be non-standard in some way. We actually look inside the file to see if it has an animation header.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, it is still cached. It will expire soon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've reopened the OTC "Why do people want to have children?" thread with a stern warning. If it goes haywire again, or if Zero resumes trying to derail... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's a thread under the same name in the FG board somewhere.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, two things: Someone has created a page for 4chan. Do we want this? My gut says it's bad news. People have recreated The Outskirts Battledome. I recall... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Because it's sorted by the last post date, not the lock date.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In the TRS thread, they want to come up with a different alternative title. This okay, or do you want to lock it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Um, what do we make of this? The guy who created it is the one who tried to pimp it in OTC too, but we nuked it. According to this, it's a joke religion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They admitted to making FanFic.Ciao La Mia Bella on that forum. edited 17th Aug '12 8:35:37 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They should look into setting up Trollficipedia on Wikia or something.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie would probably call it harmless, although it's properly more of a forum thing than a wiki thing. edited 17th Aug '12 1:18:21 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. Harmless, so far.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bring it up in Special Efforts? I dunno.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think we should make a thread in Wiki talk tomorrow and post headlines/General announcements when we're ready to roll. If we're going to stop new article... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Change of topic. Eddie, have you noticed that the header buttons are different between the normal article view and the view when an article is checked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. Kinda swamped, though. Add it to the wishlist.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are we talking one of those little kippahs, or a big ushanka? ...Just for scientific curiosity.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is the little hottip thing at the bottom of Easter Egg supposed to be a gag of some sort?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about for clean up efforts over a couple thousand? That way we don't start dealing with it for small scale things. I've done 600 wiks on my own,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Motherboard's shot. Need to buy a new computer. That's my mission for the weekend. Now I just need to get through tomorrow. I should be back at full capacity... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The desk-switching operation got interrupted by our company showing up and game night with friends, so we're completely offline until I get the desk finished... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? See this: Pokemon Anime Original Series. I just suspended Neo Lightning over reverting my edits to example sorting. I think this is representative of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, it's a rule.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought so, but clearly people don't know about it. I started a Special Efforts thread to help get the idea out.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Doesn't bother me, but I'm not so much a fan that I'd object to moving away from the format.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FYI, Eddie, there's another troper reporting a buggy editing pause in Ask The Tropers.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Answered in thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, if they register an editing session that lasts less than one minute, it locks them out for 24 hours? Interesting.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Redirect from the pseudo-Japanese, usually.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hate to keep bringing the Echo Chamber vids back up, but the Wiki Talk thread about them (and the suggestions in this post)need to be addressed, as the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm thinking we could use a thread purge in Yack Fest and OTC. Do we need anything that hasn't had a post in 3-6 months?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, Eddie, what are the odds of getting the faux redlinking as a tool for mods or for a select couple mods like being a cutmaster? The fact that Heroic... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we get IP capped at 100 threads? Right now, we've got 96, and the oldest threads are right at the 30-day clocking point that I've established... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Paedophilia, rape.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's Masonicon, nuke him to next week. It looks like he's taken to PMing all of us. Weirdo. edited 7th Oct '12 6:00:00 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Zero day simply means "made the account today." Could have been lurking and reading for a long time. But I'm not encouraged by the fact that the first... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we need to make a headline asking help to clear the TRS backlog?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the only place I can think of where it was used semi-constructively was on the character pages for Power Rangers. In other news I have a section... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And it means we're going to have issues with a lot of the colour tropes. Wonderful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If someone is misusing it, we can clean it up, but there's a lot of pages where it's really useful to have. Especially on pages like Good Colours Evil... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Excessive use like in House Of Leaves and the character sheet of Homestuck is indeed ugly and should be pruned as far as I'm concerned, but generally,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? House Of Leaves is what happens when memetic formatting gets out of control. Just because the book is written like that doesn't mean the page has to be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, folks. As of today the weather predictions are placing Hurricane Sandy right smack atop Pennsylvania (where I live) and New York on Tuesday and Wednesday... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I do believe in the intercessory power of prayer/juju/good thoughts/whatever-you-want-to- call-it, so I will be sending that in your direction.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And maybe get the electronics out of the basement just in case?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Be safe, Fighteer!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... *resists urge to add the next line*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does seem to be just the thing for getting a shipper war going.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks for the new emoticons, Eddie! ^__^... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is the pic on Evil Hand a admin keep?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thought so; tagged the page and added it to the list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some of you already know this, but I have accepted a new job with Amazon Web Services and I'm moving to Seattle. While they give a full relocation package... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Congratulations on the new job! I hope that you don't have too much to uproot. Moving is always a big deal even if it's for a great opportunity like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any idea where you'll be living? Are you at the Golf Drive HQ or on the Eastside?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Get a place in the Belltown district. You can walk to damn near anything you'd like and the Seattle Transit will get you to work in under 15 minutes. Way... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay, go Morven!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? yes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks; pages are tagged and the list is updated.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi, Katlet, it's good to hear that you're feeling better.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yo, K. snatches award for shortest version of Katrika handle... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll do it. Rocked that!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should we add "sexism in media" to the Forbidden Topics list in OTC (and by, extension, the rest of the fora)? It's to the point where any thread that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Gah, bloody Misery Olympics.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy holidays to my beloved colleagues (and Lu!)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not too tough. I'll look into modifying the namespace autoindex code to do this. Although I'm not sure how useful an index of disambigs would be, really... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been hit and miss for the past couple of days and will continue that pattern for a while longer. For those of you who don't frequent the Cobbies,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pain in the butt, having to do all that. Stay strong.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It appears there's a slight oversight with the short term forum—threads in it don't get automatically morgued. Case in point. Can we have them go... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright, everything other than the directory and the focusing thread has been moved out of special efforts. The Directory could prolly be moved to long... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hello Best Of I was wondering I made a fanfic page of a Freakazoid! retelling were it more serious with a bit of comedy, I was wondering can you read that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, the To Do List function is doing wonky things with links. Thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Laptop is acting incredibly wonky. Prollly have to get a new one. I'll be out until I do. Sorry.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I figured I'd crush the Finnish's hopes in case he thought he could get rid of me. Buuuuuuuuuuuut, since the damn thing keeps crashing after two minutes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone suggested (in Skype) that the New Accounts list should have something that indicates that a new handle has been banned. This way, if we're doing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be absent until Sunday. Hope there won't be anything big in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since you're one of the mod staff, maybe you know something about it? Or at least what steps could/should be taken to resolve this. I answered: Odd.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a very specific question about how the bounce tool works that makes my radar ping. Once upon a time I couldn't get to the site either and asked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does the CC license apply to the forums? You appear to be saying yes. Anyway, here's a draft post for WB: Author Advice: Protecting Your Copyright and... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think we should say anything more than I did in the post above, except to clearly state that it includes the forums. like this: We aren't legal... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sure? I figured more detail is better than less where legal matters are concerned, but if you want to keep it pithy, that's up to you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? May your seasonal celebration be joyful!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy Hogswatch from me, too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose you're talking about something like the stuff we've done for April Fools and Halloween. How about something for Valentines Day? (It was the first... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Valentine's Day + Coloring Contest? I.e, color a v-day image. edited 5th Jan '14 12:16:46 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Greetings. It appears that I am now allowed to jabber away with you all. So, where do I begin?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome aboard Telcontar! Poke around. That's what I did for about the first two hours. Then there was a troll attack... Also, join us on skype if you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suggest you start by adding all of the Mod Jabberings threads to your watchlist.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ideas for dealing with Nate: Give us the ability to blacklist IPs and mail domains. Hook up an auto-block to any IP address that gets a bounce with the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Well, I got that. What teeth were you imagining we could add? Or what virtual Viagra could relieve the limpness of our measures?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Successful writing is not just about effort, though. You also have to have talent. Or luck.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My desktop computer isn't working, so it's possible I'll be absent for a while yet.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If this happens I wanted to make sure a mod knows that I told Zenn to start reporting stuff and that he's not making malicious reports but doing what I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I finally stepped in as a mod to put an end to it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Weird to picture someone of bestOf's intellect washing dishes. Just...weird.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Rather a beautiful place. My parents live in Oxfordshire, though further south and east; they're in Wallingford, about a dozen miles south of Oxford.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If you feel that way, you'll perhaps not be less amazed at the idea that I've also done a day of gardening, and will do a day of hotel work (cleaning the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Big announcement for the mods. If you'd like to meet the new owners of TV Tropes and hear if there will be any moderation policy changes (there probably... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Whoa...ummmm...I doubt I'll be able to make that but I'm stoked to hear what's going on.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't make it. I'll be in training for my new (full-time, actually will get a regular paycheck!) job.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very nice. Good work Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That isn't always the case, though. Some started as real Tropes and our pages on them degraded and decayed over time — the pattern is still a trope... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about: Some may have started as tropes, but accumulated so many examples that aren't part of a trope but are instead mere happenstances that they have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is a good solution, if the fix is a small, easy thing. A rename is not that, for the most part. It may become one during 2.0 but not under the current... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed. Crush them. Also, Skype seems to be back up. edited 21st Sep '15 11:06:02 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer, at least here Skype is not back up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Making a list of some tech requests that would be worth fixing: The Wall Banger namespace icon needs to be removed. The DethroningMoment namespace button... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to see you back.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "Excerpt".... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can we just use the same language that is written there then on the new page? I'd prefer not to have multiple forms of the legalease floating around.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, from this I gather that folks prefer the current text (and location maybe) on Welcome To TV Tropes?... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt ~shimaspawn, did you get this done?... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes How to add names procedure I just yanked out me nethers. Needs more of the thinkin' thing.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes I'd think that only Dracula and Rasputin would be iconic enough to get the Archetype suffix. Well, and maybe Hitler. edited 10th Jan '16 5:27:01 AM by... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes There's also a YKTTW for the Monkey King. He's big enough that he shows up outside of Eastern works despite his origins there.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Oh, I thought we had a start date for the hunt.... More Mod Jabberings Possible Notification/Watchlist improvements Per http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14234310430A46565300&page=1 this should be installed on the noticeboards as well if possible.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Sure. Why do you think there would be riots?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities The more that I think about it, the more I think we should move the ptitles up the list. The beta version of the fix was displayed months ago, so the... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Thanks. A rough idea of what you want?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Simpler is better. A function takes the raw text of the article prior to other formatting. Within the function, specific tags are gathered. These tags... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That's enough to start with. Just to be sure — these are new relationship tags, not anything pre-existing? I can see interesting possibilities in... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I can add a checkbox to that list to indicate if the ptitle is redundant or otherwise fubared and should be zapped, then make a thing to do the purge.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Hmm, the foreign language namespaces do kind of screw this up. If it's at all feasible, maybe they should be left in the old system for now... edited... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Also, scrolling down that list and looking at what the ptitles are, it appears that the list includes everything that's ever been potholed in the forums... More Mod Jabberings development priorities No highlighted name means that there's already a redirect, correct?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That seems to work well. I'd suggest that you get in touch with some of the most active translators, to get them involved, since it looks like doing this... More Mod Jabberings development priorities The new system will make that irrelevant, I think. All article names will be in plaintext, with the old "ptitle" as an attribute assigned to the page.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities OK. Hmm... for maintainability, then, I guess it'd be best to look at the colors in use, and rationalize them into a palette for each of the four schemes... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Added PM purging. Should be coming to a screen near you in 2011. Or so. edited 1st Oct '10 10:27:24 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That's done. I'm sure there are pages like the add post and edit post pages are still showing ads, but the main stuff is ad free.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Looks like it, yep. edited 5th Oct '10 7:27:58 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Added it.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities There is no easy way to move the discussions. It's either copy each comment individually (either to a word file then to the new page, or to the new page... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That's what I thought. I was hoping I had missed an awesome secret new button, but I guess not. Thank you, by the way.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Woops. Installed a tool to move discussions last night and neglected to announce it here. It is a form that shows up only for mods at the top of the discussion... More Mod Jabberings development priorities That makes sense. There is a sticky about how to do a namechange, I think. It'd be a handy step to include in that procedural guide, too.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities The more we get people using that for things other than isolation issues, the more centralized requests for mod assistance will become.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Well, I would point you at a thread I made in this forum about setting up a housekeeping schedule like this but nowhere near as drastic about six months... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Given that ptitles are about to be destroyed, do we want to reevaluate the order of items on the list for after the ptitles are vanquished?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities You're going to hate hearing this, FE, but with the push to get works off of the Main namespace and for new works pages to be made in the appropriate media... More Mod Jabberings development priorities How do you mean?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Two more suggestions, regarding the Cut List. Have the Cut List show inbounds as well as wicks. Cut List requests should be previewed before being committed... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations I know the curator thing is on hold until we get The Situation resolved, but it's worth keeping in our heads. I'd like to nominate Mr Death as a Wiki Curator... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations But those people aren't "official" curators, as in they've got the tag by their names. I'm not sure if that's what is being discussed in the other thread... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations Oh. In that case I think Camacan is the only one.... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations Okay, so I got confused. Is there any value in having an "official" list of Troper Tales curators?... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations Only if the Troper Tales pages that were problematic and were reprieved because someone agreed to curate them become a problem again. A list would be handy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ya, according to the Crotchety Old Bitches thread Madrugada's absence is also due to full time job. I sometimes wonder how Fighteer manages. Whereas I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Madrugada's job is why she's not around as a mod? I was wondering if she'd had some falling out. I juggle a lot of things in my life.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, according to ~Mark Von Lewis here it is full time job related absence. blackcat's reasons were stated here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Does AnonymousBosch look like a follow up account to Alphance to anyone else? I didn't do a deep dive but account creation dates[1][2] and IP data[3] may... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed and bounced.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wouldn't mind having automated clocks in place, but I don't think we need to have them ATM. Let's get crowners working, so both forums can be at full... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed with Willbyr.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, so I've requested priority for the crowner fix and have filed the two tasks for the clocking thing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hello everyone, brand new mod here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Greetings and welcome to our little club. Let the power flow through you! Mwahahahahahahahahahaha! <Ahem> Madrugada and Camacan have written up... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ~Blue Ninja 0: You should have received an invitation in your personal email to join our Slack channel, where we carry on most of the day-to-day mod conversations... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unless one does need to copypaste or needs to have more than issue settled at once, then it's more a hassle.... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff test break1 break2 break2 break1 break2asdfasfd... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 7... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 9... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 12... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 15... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 16... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 21... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 23... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 24... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 25... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 26... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy (5P) Applications This is our private topic to discuss the project to recruit new Five P members. I have written a sample OP for the new recruitment thread and am posting... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.148.83 Caitlinqu http://tophealthydiet.com/try-replenish/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Araimoee 39.36.181.8 http://www.hitslimbody.com/zmass-testo-boost/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 41.248.59.187 simon9999 A bunch of cheat codes with Arabic text, plus http://gta5gamme.blogspot.com/2015/11/xboxone-gta5-chaets.html... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Deleting this review on WesternAnimation.The Boondocks from banned troper Khrunwahl02: The Boondocks has great comedy and satire in its first 3 seasons... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker anmark989, another likely spambot, based on this review on Dragon Age Origins: I have played Baldur's Gate and similar games to Dragon Age Origins for... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Deleted this questionable review from currently suspended troper Yonggary2011 on It 2017: Okay, if you're an atheist, this will leave you thinking "What... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 300shn 39.36.138.187 http://www.hitslimbody.com/focus-zx1/:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm presenting the case for the total banning of a troper for sexual exploitation of minors. I'm posting it here to retain for posterity. The troper:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have a proposed addition to the forum rules, in the "no sex threads" section. This comes about as a result of the inquiry (that we had in Slack) about... More Mod Jabberings Private Documentation Topic User Registration Flow Note: This changed in a code push Jan 25, 2019. User registers on the site. A confirmation email is dispatched. The user clicks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A bizarre OTC thread was created just now. The thread's title was this: http://x4up.org/science-based-six-pack/.This is the text of the OP: in someday... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't bounce the spammers because I'm worried it might result in some collateral casualties. Not that they seemed to have any shared IPs with real users... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre nhacpro 42.118.81.219 and 113.161.95.173 They are advertising a website of the same name; of note this post seems like it's an attempt at concealing their... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was some pretty bad editing, although our editors are a bit biased towards the shy girl. I hope my answer was acceptable. edited 15th Sep '17 5:12... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Hatherst 39.36.235.148 http://www.musclestrainrelief.com/rapiture-muscle-builder/: and possibly another URL in a thread that was nuked before I saw this... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't access Slack at work (stupid government internet restrictions); are all these repeat blank Holler posts a multiple post thing (which is what the... More Mod Jabberings Rules question I'll volunteer to help keep a watch on it.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I can't believe that this thread is so short. Does it mean that I'm practically the only one who's ever felt the need to write you guys (or I guess I should... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think (s)he sent that out to everyone. I was about to post it.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: As did I. That's even cooler, that (s)he made sure we'd all see it. edited 18th Jan '12 12:52:52 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: It is.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Good to hear! You did do the right thing there.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Yeah, last night was fun...I just need to get a webcam and headset.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Fun was had all around.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Scary that I'm now at an age where I can legitimately call you a whippersnapper. I don't feel old.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think you may well be.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: ._.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Not many have the emotional maturity at 18 to be a mod. ;) Also, get off my lawn, you wippersnapper!... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: The more diverse our mod staff, the more likely we'll get a rational voice telling us when we're on a bad path.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I guess one could call this, "What young people think old people sound like." [[youtube:u2y1TsU9Nc0]] edited 7th Mar '12 9:03:55 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: He's in college now. So, 20-ish. I know we figured it all out once — what the approximate age distribution was. I'll see if I can find it again.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: You're probably taller than Eddie. He's tiny.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I shall sit on Eddie's shoulders and we will merge into one very tall supermoderator.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: 5'10" here, too.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I'll convert those measures to centimetres later so I'll know how tall you are. (Then I'll begin wondering why I'd want to know that.)... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I honestly can't remember my height, and I don't have a tape measure or rule handy. I get a fair few height jokes, though, so not tall.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: 5'11", 35.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: And you're doing a good job as a mod IMO. OTC has gotten a lot better [...] Thanks for the hard work!!!! edited 25th Mar '12 8:40:53 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: YAY!... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: So I banned this guy called Applelight Limited last Sunday. I told him to cool off for a week and contact me then, and I got this huge flood of PMs from... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Just got a Thank You from The Inferno for stepping in on the MOFW thread.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I sent Komodin a thank you PM for keeping a cool head and handling the ragequiters calmly. I also asked him if he's having a hard time and needs help.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I think you're a really great mod, and that dude wouldn't even being targeting you if you weren't so responsible and levelheaded about the whole deal.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Eddie just posted this e-mail that came to the "Staff" email addy today on the Skype chat. It needs to be here so that we can all bask a bit, and come... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: I got one of those, too.... More Mod Jabberings Makes you proud to be a mod: Roight proppa orky, dat one is...took iz crumpin' like a Nob and got back to da WAAAAAGH.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi shima! Good to hear about your Gram. And nice to see you again.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.188.12 - joyceoates http://freesupplementrial.com/libidogene/... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 47.88.25.189 4Rsercom "Gain Helpful MU Knowledge By Reading This Piece:"; the post is something about ergonomics for video game playing. 39.42.174.199... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre How many "zyacin" spam items do we get?... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.185.85 duny2314 http://supplementsguide.org/zyacin/:... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 39.42.154.230 Dena Karen http://healthpurelives.com/endovex/: 39.42.130.110 zoneaureen http://offersreviews.org/zytek-xl/: edited 2nd May '17 3:56:56... More Mod Jabberings Unban request Wait, hang up, I checked the thread. He's the guy who apologised and was unbanned before. So he wasn't ban evading. On second thoughts, doesn't sound... More Mod Jabberings Unban request Best unban letter ever: I know that this is ban evasion, but I feel like I need to say this, and I wasn't sure that I could contact you any other way.... More Mod Jabberings OTC Understood. I think OTC's problem runs deeper than a simple question of discipline or civility; I think it's the attitude and culture there that needs... More Mod Jabberings OTC The culture in OTC is toxic. I only go in there when hollered and afterward feel the need to go offline for a while to get the psychic stink off my brain... More Mod Jabberings OTC I've only read a couple of pages of it, but based on what I've heard, it's the most adorable thread any site's ever had. But on the other hand, it's really... More Mod Jabberings OTC That thread gives me heartburn. I don't go in it.... More Mod Jabberings OTC Maybe this is part of the problem with OTC: The perception that it's for super-serious business only. I've always treated it as just what the name says... More Mod Jabberings OTC There are some very patient/guilty hoaxers out there. I give you Piltdown Man and Duchamp's Fountain. One of my parents was A Beautiful Mind kind of person... More Mod Jabberings OTC (Posting here because what I'm gonna say is about OTC, so this seemed the most appropriate thread.) So, for some reason I decided to look at the last pages... More Mod Jabberings The Ventrilo Server If we need to do mod stuff, there's always Skype, although someone needs a premium account to do a conference-style call.... More Mod Jabberings The Ventrilo Server What's the Google+ hangout? Do I need an invite? I very rarely go there, but I could increase my presence if TV Tropes is active there.... More Mod Jabberings The Ventrilo Server I'm on Google+ may I be invited?... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I'm not convinced that such drastic solutions are necessary. I'd look at it more from the point of view that they really do require relatively little... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I think the right way to go with OTC is to tighten the rules about acceptable new threads and behavior. I'd also be quick to ban with bad behavior and... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I think maybe the thing for me to do is just stay out of the non-wiki-centric parts of the forums. I don't think they can get to a place where they are... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules As much of Wretched Hive impression as I get from those places, zapping everything related to an external site, not just imported/exported drama, will... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules ^^ Yes, zapped, sorry. That is not actually the case; the paywall is very seldom up; most of the time the site is visible to everybody. Furthermore, from... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules What are you talking about, Bobby? Who are these critical tropers? Where are they voicing their concerns and being shut down?... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules To go back to Fighteer's post about identifying our objectives for just a moment; how about we try identifying the problems that the admin/moderation team... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules There's definitely some intelligence in the forums; at least I manage to find it. However, the forum population has generally shifted younger during my... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I think Dragonzordasaurus is the root of the problem. He's very disparaging of aspects of the show and is very, very pushy with his opinions. However,... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I went in after you and read backwards from the hollered post — While Dragonzord certainly wasn't behaving in an exemplary fashion, the insults and... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Look at the people in the thread. I'd say that there are some that have caused some antagonism. I'd say mods stay out of that thread and see how quickly... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I'll bring this up in the next Skype meeting; I already posted about it in the thread. I think this deserves to be an agenda item. (In Skype, we can have... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Spare us all from that level of bureaucracy. >.< Wikipedia has made a religion of red tape.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Same thing with the Naruto thread. I've never managed to discuss Naruto civilly with the rest of the internet. It's always been full of shitposting.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I think the main problems we have in the media sections are posting links to pirated content and significant under-use of spoiler tags* This one varies... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules It really is. And it's not as if we don't allow people to talk about media we don't like. We just don't allow them to be dicks.... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules I just realised something. We don't have an explanation for thumps anywhere. Think about it. When someone sees a random post suddenly coloured cinnamon... More Mod Jabberings Fix the forums/Fix the rules Sounds good.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Yet another, by the same. Suspended the user: Sabrina is aimed at families. Why did they think they could just up and make this monstrisity? No matter... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is there someone familiar enough with Naruto (~lu127?) to handle this Ask The Tropers query? It talks about "bias" and another query I can't find at the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done and done.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Installing the no-anon edit thing will help with moderation right from the getgo. I'll try to keep up but I can't be on 24/7. Maybe we need to empower... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yes! I'll put all the present mods on site-wide status. Fighteer, will you show everybody the ropes? edited 27th Oct '10 4:58:23 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Eddie, in the hopes that you aren't completely gone, we desperately need a way to IP ban from the site or we won't have any way to stop trolls.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping ^^^ Sounds good. ^^ I'd have no problem with that. Also anonymous editing with a Capcha? That would slow it down, but not cut ff the unknown contributors... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Oh gods, the paperwork! I'll pay you my $100 stipend to not have to deal with the paperwork associated with my $100 stipend.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I think that's a good idea.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Safe Search filters results based on page text/image content, not flags of any kind. The tweet could warn folks of the change and talk about the why of... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping All right, nice. Looks good to me.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Ah, yes, sorry. I don't know how I managed to miss that. Vandro's edit banned? Blimey. Does this mean you need the forum ban list, Fighteer, or do you... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping If it's ready in the next hour or so I'll have a look at it.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Looks good to me.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Nice and clear.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Seems like a good way of expressing the situation.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping My alarm just went off and I have to be up the uni in a bit. I'll finish cutting those redirects when I get back, if they're still there.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Linking this here so it doesn't get lost in the noise: Hershele is willing to see if he can land us a grant from the Paley Center... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping "Nofollow"? One of those "You are now leaving TV Tropes for another site" things? Oh, and we've got people all in a dither over language — like the... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping @Fighteer. Yup @Maddy: Let's say the Seven Forbidden Words don't go on the pages where we will have Ad Sense ads. Regular human speech can still be used... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping In fact, if someone wants to float the idea on the forums and turn it into a game of picking the funniest substitutions for the big 7, it woulds be cool... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The wall is not going in just yet. He has the bugs. Pretty sure they are easy, but I have got to get up, stretch my legs, and put in some treadmill time... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Another suggestion form the The Situation discussion page — maybe a link from the TOS page to the Administrivia/The Situation so folks can find out... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping What's the consensus on automatically setting new pages to 'isolated' and 'flagged'? Should a random reader's report of an article isolate the page as... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping At least until the Google appeal is done (if Casale doesn't measure up) I'd say that the default for new pages should be behind the curtain. It's simply... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping OK. That makes me feel a bit more at ease. I had this horrific vision of someone getting pissed about something and reporting the Index Index ... Yeah... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping yes... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Ok. will tell them so.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Well, it is all installed. Here is the text I intend to send in the appeal: Thank you for the opportunity to appeal our recent ad serving suspension.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Gotcha... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Okay, I messed around with the flagged articles list a bit, and I have a few more comments. It would be nice to have the option to flip the flag and flip... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Just got done implementing it and put the submit button back. Test out pretty well. I think having the buttons on the actual page isn't really usefull.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I found a couple that hadn't been automagically switched over that I thought needed to be on my morning wikiwalk today. Having the buttons on the page... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The Tropers/ namespace.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Something odd - the report list had two flaggings of innocuous pages with the comment "Hello! ccegkdd interesting ccegkdd site!", and a blank handle.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Article flagging is open to everyone. Most importantly, it is open to the un-logged jackhole at Google who will be looking at the site during the appeal... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping The bot clearly thinks it's working with an open comment field, because it's trying to spam URLs now. Or it's a different bot; I can't tell which. Is... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Indeed, the stupid was quite toxic.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Oh, man, Eddie, if Google replies to say that they're going to re-instate advertising on the site, you should prank everyone. Announce that, after much... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping ^Yes, I was thinking FE could post it on the forum as a "sneak preview"; actually using it on the website could constitute trademark infringement and tick... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping One more thing. Can we get the Mature flag visible on the watchlist, as well as recent edits and launches? This would particularly help with flagging... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Ok, I see. That does make sense — and if I'm remembering the stats you grabbed off a while back, The Home Page and Universal Tropes accounted for... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Hmm, this would be a good motivator for that Wikipedia-style page sections code we keep talking about but never really worked on. If the description can... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I imagine the simplest way to go would be Examples.Xanatos Gambit. This would make an opportunity to do icons as we do for other sub-pages. Also, no new... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I agree as well, and like Tangent's plan.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Well, there are five draft articles in the example. Not sure what you are saying.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Sorry, I meant that all edits are made to the singular draft article for that page. Like, we have the "real" page and the "draft" page. All user edits... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Hmm. That does cause a problem. 500 discussion pages to monitor? That won't be much better at preventing backlogs. What if the "draft" saves only the changed... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Dunno, I'm used to looking at an article's history and edit page in separate tabs, but the issue here is that we have to choose which edits to commit.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I'm used to doing tabs, too, and I'm stuck with a relatively small monitor, so frames would probably be more hassle than help for me.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Got another change of topic question — are anonymous editors supposed to be able to post on discussion pages?... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Cool. Alrighty, here are the top pageviews from the Main namespace for the day. It turns out that a touch over 25% of our Main hits come from these 600... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Yeah, the mature content warnings and this whole "protected" class of pages idea can go away. The flagging thing is part of the content warning thing,... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping They are having a human do the assessment of whether we cleaned up sufficiently. I imaging that's going to be several days of someone poking around all... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Ahem... It has come to our attention that ad serving was disabled to your site without proper notification. We have investigated the issue and it appears... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping So, second question: do we feel evil enough to prank the forumites, if only for an hour or two? Or do we use our authority with restraint and respect for... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Oh, the "TV Tropes Buys Google" headline? Only if it is played as rumor control. As in ... All such rumors are hereby denied and characterized as utter... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I'm not real comfortable with letting the meme spread a lot. Very likely to get garbled to the point where some other quick-draw type at Google gets miffed... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Alright, let's keep this restrained, then.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Then I'll just put up the real thing. Probably a better idea.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping It occurs to me that we could keep the "mature" flagging system (a good idea in general), but relax the "all new pages get flagged" portion, so that someone... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping I've turned off the flag-n-isolate for new articles, so the list should slow down a good bit.... More Mod Jabberings Google site reshaping Go Team Mod!... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I've moved http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15131554050A60746500&page=1#1 to the Morgue to reduce its visibility. I wanted to discuss... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Well, maybe, but that's outside the mod team's purview.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Beousely 182.186.199.224 https://www.nutritionfit.org/massive-testo/:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No argument here, that's an incredibly skeevy and corrosive element that we need to be done with ASAP.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Cool. I'll have to read up on LESS. I've never used it. Yes, those are the color css ... es. There are also template.css (for things like ykttw and new... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Oh yeah. The recent changes links. Comixlink is brown. Newgroup is green. Darthwikilink is white on black.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Digging in, no cse- rules look to be used. So I'll pull them. There is a Google script pulled in, but that just swaps out the "Google" background logo.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Good to know. Not going to worry too much about polishing its style, though. Progress notes: the title block buttons and the sidebar buttons should look... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Will do; I've identified at least three more things to address. Sprites, the sidebar getting clipped, and the extreme indentation under Tools. I'll ask... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering I'll throw in a z-index or something to be safe, anyways. EDIT: Was there a reason for the __.5px sprite offsets? edited 3rd Feb '11 3:41:53 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Installed. Now we wait for loud noises.... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering True. Maybe the best approach is to start with all menus visible, then close them immediately with Javascript. So if there's no Javascript, they simply... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering The Wiki Sandbox CSS is messed up, at least on IE7. See Sandbox.The Ptitle Replacement System. edited 17th Feb '11 1:42:19 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Finally got a mobile template done. It uses css_dev.css, for now. It's installed on the live site, so leaving that css file alone is a good play, unless... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Not at the moment. I just pulled it a few minutes ago because of complaints. I'll throw together something to trigger it in the GET parcel in a few minutes... More Mod Jabberings CSS Rejiggering Is there a canary page that shows the breakage well?... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners I think unhooking crowners and locking them could still remain mod actions. Mostly because those things are tough to vandal-proof.... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners ^^ That all sounds good to me. Maybe make it so that multiple crowners can be attached to a single thread, if crowners have to be associated with threads... More Mod Jabberings Limiting Crowners Are they ever used for anything else anymore? I honestly don't know.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM My experience is that most such threads drop like a stone in IJBM anyway and are off the first page within a day. Or they get derailed and end up being... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I'm not going to try to talk you out of it, because it was going to happen sooner or later. I also agree that it would be a good idea to give people plenty... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I definitely agree on the "plenty of warning": something more than 4 days if you're determined to toss it completely. I'd like to suggest a somewhat more... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Agreed. So what sort of time frame should there be? Not sure, but it feels like these things peak in about nine days. How about Friday, the 7th? Draft... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I agree with pretty much everything said so far: leave it open to other proposals, give at least a week, move the quality threads, etc. We're going to... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Here we go with a draft of the announcement. A lot of problems come out of IJBM. Easily half the moderation work. The ugly half, at that. All the mods... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Will do.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I'll be on the road for a few days, so I won't be of much help, unfortunately.... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Didn't check in until this evening (after midnight) — I'm surprised by how (relatively) well it's gone across. Less drama than some smaller things... More Mod Jabberings IJBM I'm tempted to assert that we can already discuss fridge stuff in the media forums, and generalized Fridge Logic assertions seem no more useful than IJBM... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Let's keep it in mind and see, but my immediate reaction is that it would be worse than IJBM — as heated as the politics and religion threads could... More Mod Jabberings IJBM Just a post saying "We're moving it now" is all I've been doing with other threads that I've moved. Unless someone literally only ever opens the IJBM subforum... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Same here. Please also throw in Moderator Central: [1] ... I didn't even know we had a "watched tropers" feature. Neat! edited 28th Dec '10 7:00:53 AM... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods New thump code added. [ [ rules ] ] Provides a link to the rules posts. I'll do one below.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods new account tool... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Where's the thingy that tells us how many thumps a poster has?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods I didn't put those up. Those were Eddie's test badges.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods The messages when you clck on them are odd... Maybe they're placeholders for now?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods I'm opening a new thread for this so we don't eat the mod tools thread. edited 2nd May '12 2:17:03 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Which crowner?... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Sorry, Image Pickin'. I don't necessarily think that's the case, but it'd be nice to be able to verify as a general-purpose thing. edited 7th May '12... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Crowner vote history ahould be available to mods only, of course. Having voting histories open to all would cause trouble for sure.... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods Might as well add this: We have a sockpuppet that we can use when we need to test something with a non-Mod handle.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod On to more practical advice: There are people who will respond to a PM or a note saying "Please don't do that". There are people who won't. There are... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod There's a certain almost solipsistic mindset that just flips out over the notion of people seeing the world differently. They really can't deal.... More Mod Jabberings Things you wish people had told you when you were a new mod Click the padlock on the top right hand side of the crowner. Once it's locked, the up and down arrows should vanish.... More Mod Jabberings Acritdy Got a PM from Main Man J which I thought sounded concerning. He gave me permission to post it here: Hi, in light of the recent "Felicia Day plays a elf... More Mod Jabberings Thumps That idea is really thumpthing. runs away... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Go Eddie! *Grabs a nearby cruise missile and fires it at blackcat*... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Looks meaningfully at "Natterfy". Glowers. And curtsies. You're welcome. edited 21st Mar '11 9:43:46 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Thumps For what sort of thing? That name is kind of murky to me.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps for Eddie. This seems like exactly what we'd need. Edit: Perhaps we could have a field for an additional note, both in the PM and the record? I occasionally... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Slick, indeed. I like it.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Okay, it actually thumps, now. A page to show the thump records is next.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Is there going to be an unthumper?... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Yes, but it will remain thumped.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Hmm, the row that the thump icon occupies in the post header is unusually tall - there's a lot of vertical slack. It wasn't that way when you first installed... More Mod Jabberings Thumps I don't think we have sufficient data yet, and in the beginning not all of us were remembering to use the tool instead of the tags. Still, not surprised... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Having the break down of what kind of thump was administered will also help. I'm pretty sure that at least a couple of ccoa's were for taking troll-bait... More Mod Jabberings Thumps We also don't have a sense of time elapsed either. Did three thumps happen all in one thread on one hot day or were they administered over a period of... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Fast Eddie, I hope you don't feel like we are nibbling you to death here.... More Mod Jabberings Thumps The report has been modified to show the number of each type of thump a person has accrued. I am not sure that the distribution of thumps for an individual... More Mod Jabberings Thumps Word, Fighteer. You were laying it out for real, without calling anyone an asshole, and coming from a place about what you enjoy in life. Big time A-list... More Mod Jabberings Completely secret stuff Hail, saint Eddie! Sorry, bit drunk. What was this person's troper name, if you're OK sharing?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Thanks for making this thread. I accidentally accepted Wink Wink? as a change for Nudge yesterday. I was trying to find documentation to support that change... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined That had better have been Number Of The Beast; The Number Of The Beast is a Heinlein novel.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Er... I thought I had approved those... double sorry?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I thought it was Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, or, by extension anything in that universe.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined ^ Bwuh?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined What Maddy said. Cama's like 12 hours ahead of us right?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined More than that. It is about 1:45 AM there, right now. edited 10th Aug '11 7:45:19 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I just declined a request for It Is Dehumanizing to change it into "It" is Dehumanizing, because the quotes showed up as HTML entities (") rather than... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined ^fixed... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined "It's just a tool that can't say NO". Sorry. I grew up on musical theatre. I can't help it.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Nah. Makes it look like it is about a misspelling in "You Make Me."... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Customizer won't let me decline a request to change Attack Its Weak Point to "Attack It's Weak Point". Attack It Is Weak Point. Sheesh. EDIT: That's odd... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined That fix is in. Custom title with quotes can be accepted now. edited 25th Oct '11 9:35:52 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I've cleared out the bad subs, so a new request should do it.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined two requests by Goldstone; he set the requests for the Live Action TV pages for BLAM Episode and You Gotta Have Blue Hair to the namespace instead... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined changing Clay Fighter to ClayFighter...needs to be redirected to VideoGame/{{Clayfighter}}... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I was wondering that myself.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined HyperdimensionNeptuniamk2 and HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2 make different wikiwords. Hyperdimension Neptuniamk2 and Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2, to be exact... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined "Sound-Effect Bleep"...that's not a compound word.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined a request to have Turn In Your Badge show up as "Turn in Your Badge". Hasn't that one come through before? edited 5th Jul '12 10:29:39 AM by... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Twentydragon's request to make There Was A Door display as "There was a Door". "Was" should be capitalized as it is a verb.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Yeah, don't accept the brackets. That's someone trying to be a bigger name fan than anyone else.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined Quarter Dollar's request to make Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series display as ...in America! We aren't going to replace the title of the series with... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined What. What honestly made him think we would accept that one?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined That it may be, but it's funny.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined: Instant 180 Degree Turn —> Instant 180° Turn I didn't think we were supposed to be doing that. Uncertain: The Incredibly Strange... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Declined a request to rename Spiderman pages Spider-Man. Both are technically correct, I suppose, but if we don't say Super-Man or Bat-Man, I figure we... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined All the movies and comics I've seen have it as Spider-Man, with the hyphen.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Do you remember which pages they might be? I suspect those might have been Spider Man or Spiderman redirects that needed custom-titling in case someone... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Something is wrong. Many custom titles on namespaces has been cleared off. Psycho Pass is supposed to be Psycho-Pass. The hyphen is missing. Junipers... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined I believe there was a show or film called "F/X"...could be wrong. f(x) conflicts with my old calculus textbook...that's a work. edited 27th Sep '13... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined There's going to be a lot of conflicts with "f/x" in various capitalization combinations. imDb shows nothing punctuated as f(x) though.... More Mod Jabberings Custom Titles declined Star Sword replied — he didn't realize the implications of custom titling something with three different versions. I told him to just leave it.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre lesliewright1980 76.183.18.141... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Marrtonetta 79.139.17.76... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Looks like one of the new measure is cutting down on the frequency of these. That's nice. One of the commonalities running through the spammer accounts... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Jenneez 72.101.208.190 They are getting sneakier, this page was made and edited 5 times. The link was in the edit history.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Think Pad Guy 210.4.62.233 Johnnie R 70.153.178.50... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Sizzled! Re above: Nemeses 75.71.172.11 (EDIT Presumably author spruiking own wares rather than a generic spamcontractor. We still suspend in this case... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Already in the holler thread, but for completeness: kristansullivan 49.248.7.26 starts forum spam thread edited 6th Jul '11 7:32:04 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre puretravel 180.151.61.18... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I'm questioning these new accounts: sellmyhouse interestonlymortgage No posts yet.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre *Gives system a cookie and skritches it behind the ears.* edited 2nd Sep '11 3:18:14 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Odd one: Nemeses got banned for spamming some time ago, now sending abusive P Ms: needs a bounce.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Huh? Why would a spammer bother to yell at people? They aren't paid to get into fights.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre randapanda randapandaroo randapandafox mirandanicolefox mirandafox mirandanicole I question this number of similar accounts all created on the same... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre I changed it to only reject new accounts on blacklisted IP addresses. Two days ago. Already there 1100+ IP addresses with more than 7 accounts. Three days... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre How about a dedicated "Hey, Fast Eddie" thread for all the things that it's vital he sees? One stop-shopping for him, as it were. We'd just need to keep... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre 195.84.48.28 Dadnsd wikibanned another anti FE vandal edited 10th Oct '11 1:53:06 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Bullshirt 84.235.45.242 Cowshirt 195.175.83.86 vandal edited 19th Oct '11 9:41:17 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre How's he making new handles on the same IP?... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Are we seriously being targeted by Anonymous now or is this guy just a joker? One would think Anon would have better things to do than bug us, not to... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre He usually makes three at a time, but I can't spot a third in any of his normal patterns.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Someone else is on! I get to go to bed now.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs get any funny ideas. EDIT: Baba vandal again: 0i0i0i0i0i0 111.68.103.39 edited 29th Oct '11 4:28:58 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Baba again: habibihaiya. Can't get a IP, got him on the first discussion page addition so the IP reporting tool has nothing to work with, apparently.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre That would be delightfully cruel. I like it.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Dont Ban Me Unless Your A Fag 213.163.97.20 Prob'ly baba.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Oh, one thought... How difficult would a skullfuck button for wiki edits be? If an edit has been made after one of their edits, there's trickiness in auto-reverting... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Pre-emptive restraints Mrassh0le... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Fiona Darcy 130.204.155.197... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Ilmurov attack: between 4:04 and 4:25 forum time, Saturday, Dec 22. Names: hafizger, I Ps used: 128.6.224.107 65.120.61.73 Password: cocossq Jerochosa... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Bizarre inserting links in the middle of text spam.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre "Shivam" (59.91.232.205) posted a spam thread about "watch movie online" in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre mariower (41.204.71.239) spammed a site with offers for fake legal documents.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre A michaelbolton spammed a liveblog. Booted them but I can't find them on the newaccounts tab.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre powerfulmagicring 41.151.122.248 is a discussion page spammer. Something like this on Ring Of Power: MAGIC RING in ZIMBABWE, NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre Camille Jackson 75 211.174.117.236 is a liveblog spammer.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre A wiki spammer this time: qizhen0926 made a spam article ReferencedBy.Locked Pages.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Pink? I don't see pink. Just kind of creamy beige. edited 28th Jun '11 2:25:46 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Especially if you forget to click the silly checkbox. Then, pink just ... isn't.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode It is fyx'd. Programmer must of been having a senior moment.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode See? It be pink.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Pink! All that's missing is flowers.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Heh. Bobby G, that avatar goes well with the modmode.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I feel Pretty In Pink. Oh yes.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Fetishes and Trope Updates have been pink enabled. Didin't go that bad. Let's make a list of the older threads that absolutely have to have pinkatudity... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode The Anxiety thread seems like a pretty crucial one. Perhaps Random Thoughts and Random Conversation as well. Also ITT: We Are Our Avatars. ^ Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Been admiring the chicken accessorization for some time.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Perhaps one day we should all wear a chicken, I would like that.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode My Black Hole avatar is sexy.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode If any of the new folks would like help 'shopping a hat onto their avatar, I can do it.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I think the issue is less with pink, more with 'aggressive' modhat avatars. It's why I made mine Nova reading out a news report - seems to fit the intended... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Don't think it was ever a mod hat.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode I'm going to justify double-posting with my new avatar, which says "double posting isn't a crime when Vimes wears a helmet."... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode No, I never used the sniper-fox as a mod hat.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode *still needs to find something to use for a hat* Hard to get something serious that goes with the avatars I have.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Been having problems with it?... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode How does pink work in mod mode? Spoiled pink? Pink spoilers? I would go with pink spoilers. edited 14th Aug '12 9:24:59 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Is this gonna get me a thump? TEST!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Just trying it on for size...... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Ooooooh, the Death Star. Me likey!... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Heh.... More Mod Jabberings Oh, lookit! A new thread for the playing with in Mod Mode Actually, that reminds me that I never set mine up. >.>... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm starting this thread in response to Bobby's post here. I think we need to have these discussions in one spot that we can all reference rather than... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is a bit off-topic, I suppose, but has anyone else noticed artman40 frequently flagging pages for issues that normal tropers can solve? There's no... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Leigh Sabio would like to know when Rottweiler's ban is being lifted, or when he will be allowed to appeal it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Perhaps it's useful to define what would be considered "more of the same"? I'd say the problem wasn't the direction of his political slant so much as the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "The same" was speech bordering hate-speak and a tendency to denigrate rather than reason. Sounds like he is aware of that he'd have to do something different... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to unban Robbie and watch him like a hawk. One step over the line and it's curtains. I will pm him this.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Troper lilytooth is putting what looks like a password Shadow 15 in edit reasons. [1] I have pm'ed them, strongly encouraging a password change. Or should... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another reason why we need some kind of limits on editing for new troper handles. This guy did enough damage before banning that it pushed his edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should we feel flattered to start being a target of these dumbasses?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd prefer to see limits on external urls, rather than an outright block on them, especially in forum threads.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounces installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Regarding the first part of that: that's still making our working assumption into "All new accounts are spammers until proven otherwise." The second... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread and the example that prompted this again was a case of massive vandalism that could have really wrecked things if it wasn't detected right away and a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounce installed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a bad idea. I think we are dealing with humans with this batch, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread While I understand Madrugada's concern about assuming the every new account is a bad account I also can see the benefits of setting up a pretty tight net... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I see the headline is down, does that mean there is a handle on the spamdemonium?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well ... we'll see. The hiatus was mostly so we could all get some sleep without the place being overrun. The sign up logic has been updated so that only... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. You'll notice those are by chris1313, not the troper whose page is being edited. I've banned chris1313.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh. Huh. I just assumed they were hijacking someone else's page, since they've done that at least once. Definitely dealing with humans, here. Edit to add... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pentadragon is a currently-active forum poster and largely-inactive wiki-editor... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can people edit other peoples posts in Ask The Tropers? Loid is pretty new, his edit history goes back to late April. But I don't know anything about him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Fighteer: bugmenot is a site that lists login credentials for various sites, for those who don't want to bother registering or have issues with being... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm in agreement. The brain behind that handle choice may be perfectly functional, but the choice is sophomoric and has potential troll written all over... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I deleted the account. I can move the edit history/watchlist to the new handle, when we get one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: arcadiarika or what ever the name is and the edit ban thread and the subsequent discussion here [1] I asked for the three day waiting period because... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I believe she used to post in YF and FG a lot, but not so much now, I think. Wasn't she involved in an edit war or something like that about a year ago... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She had at least one major flounce out of Writer's Block; that could be what you remember, Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Maddy: I'm surprised by that level of nastiness coming from him; but since it did, fully support such a ban. Even at best, he needs to go and find some... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was rather surprised myself. I more or less expected the typical "I'm entitled, you're mean" line of wah.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sleet Wintergreen, the guy who added the porn links back into Big Beautiful Woman is saying that the thread being locked meant he didn't pick up the note... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not excited about him. He seems like he's out to edit the wiki his way, never mind what others want.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There have been some complains about 9Darthmaul on Ask The Tropers with respect the edit war on Complete Monster: Disney and Complete Monster: WesternAnimation... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, I say let him back on tolerance. Go ahead and be the lifter, Camacan, I'm tired as hell and going to sleep now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Changed mind. edited 20th Jun '11 8:51:05 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lifted. I put 'im on the watchlist. Hope you got good rest. edited 20th Jun '11 11:01:13 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, per this thread, I got a PM from Zelda Queen containing the particulars of the situation. Eddie, if you want to read it in its fullness, it's here... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I posted something on there, basically "There are only so many of us, and plenty of pedophilia apologists, so we won't catch everything. Please let us... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like an edit block is due.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The entry he edited out of Darker And Edgier might give some insight into the kinda guy we're dealing with. Apparently not a high school kid.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anyone else find Signed a bit creepy? Don't think he's broken the rules, but, well. For reference, the character he's talking about is supposed to be 16... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not getting the creepy. Must be some context I'm missing. Sounds like he is remarking that they got the character's age wrong.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are Acritdy and Acridity the same person? Their posting styles are similar. The former isn't on the ban list, but was almost certainly heading that way... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is this* I had to tinyurl it because it's too damn long. a joke or do we actually have a budding secret cabal of wiki vandals? The AW3S0MEo guy I whapped... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's indexed in JFF, but it's in the Main namespace. I think we need to keep Main clear for serious articles.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The title is also too long; it breaks the forum parser.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I should have PM'd a mod when I got that PM from her. I also need a thicker skin. I'll work on that." He gets it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't get them and some days, I don't like them. I need to spend some time on biz around here and may not be on line as much as I have been for a day... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Argh. Jeysie is someone I don't mind, most of the time, but SHE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO BACK OUT OF AN ARGUMENT.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I feel for Love Happiness — whose life does not appear to contain much of either, and who is very troubled — but I don't think he's stable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was presumptuous and it was damn close to the line and I suspect that Ivy was motivated by that "I know what's best for you" aspect of their personality... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Good point about the warning. I didn't know that about Ivy being a drinker; what I recall most is their touchiness about gender pronouns, but I'll be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Saint blackcat's got a shillelagh!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Camacan, it seems that ShrekFan100 didn't get the message from his three day suspension. So I whacked him again. Further admittance seems unlikely.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, we're all human.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Interesting. I think we'll do a little pre-emptive work. Thanks for spotting that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dropped a wiki ban on one elvie at o'god hundred this morning; apparently he's an ED troll who was targeting the FanFic.Trouble page. He was active for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ohh boy ownership issues and drama with just a touch of self-immolation. My favorite.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Groupie has been a problem in the past, iirc. Bears watching.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, yeah. That guy. He was running about 10 puppets with the word freeman somewhere in the handle in the handle. Let me check some stuff. Maybe we can... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't tell. I've put in an exemption for The Freeman. I suppose we'll see.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sweet holy gods, I'm in one thread with Love Happiness and I want to kill him. I had to edit my own post against a thumpworthy personal attack. How does... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It would seem that the "baba" vandal is back again, on several handles. [1] and [2]. Bans applied. Very different IP's, though — proxies? New one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread reviewviewer is inserting random baba-esque statements and then deleting them. I can't tell if it's the same person but I applied a ban anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer, Bobby, I dropped a wiki edit ban on Chemical Fire, the guy you were discussing here because he went right back in after Bobby restored the rec... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Probably for the best. We were discussing it on the talk page, but perhaps I wasn't being firm enough with him. As Chemical Fire pointed out, I'm not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think you laid out how the Fanfic recs pages work in the discussion. He apparently simply doesn't care about silly things like "consensus" and "No Such... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The review is terrible. Any one who uses the words endemic and horribleness in the same sentence should be slapped. Cut it, cut it to pieces.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And it was just re-posted by SuperSonicFan666 who has won a free introduction to the wiki banner for his troubles. I can't check IP overlap because this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And again by Super Sonic Fan 666, IP 99.245.254.47 Top level block on this clown, please.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The statement is that asking for ratings is attention-whorish behavior, not that a particular person is an attention whore. I personally wouldn't do anything... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he's being an attention whore. How is that any different than a lot of the other posts in the Photos thread? He's just a bit more up-front about it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Following up from the Hollers thread, Actually Comma vandalized the Wii U page a couple of times. Between that and the attempt to organize vandalism of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba vandal: ababeebGAR Handle ban issued. Edit: I checked the new accounts and didn't see anything immediately suspicious other than that handle. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's Tuesday, ilmurov's favorite day to attack.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, so that is ilmurov? I forgot that he and the "baba" vandal were the same person. Anyway, new day, new handle. I found a second one here [1] while... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think they are unrelated, but your post reminded me about the other guy's patterns. I'm going to have to stop posting while I am at work. I just don't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Antvas is back as Pontus. I banned him and he needs a bounce. Unrelatedly, we have a first-time editor, brianw, who joined in order to pick a fight on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The forum banlist needs to be updated with a reason column, date, name of banning mod, and a link to their forum history, methinks. edited 3rd Aug '11... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Both of his offenses are first strikes. We suspend to send a message, not to punish, remember? From his PM's, does he seem willing to behave? Edit: Predaking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This close to closing editing availability to everyone except those who have been invited by a known troper. Quick, talk me out of it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bad, bad idea. I still believe that we can handle the jerkoffs through continued moderation. Anything else risks the site becoming completely insular... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It would be a lot like getting an Equity card, you can't get the card without the work and you can't get the work without the card. I didn't know anyone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, okay. Partypoopers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm wondering how to handle Aminatep. He has been reported in Ask The Tropers for personal attacks on other tropers in YKTTW and that more than holds up... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say that with a record like that, we edit-ban his ass and tell him he's > < close to getting a full bounce if he doesn't behave himself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was just coming to talk about Aminatep. Dude is more trouble than he's worth. Dropping a wiki suspension on him. I guess he can still harass us by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Agreed. On broader content: at the moment, we are still very much a geek site, cataloguing mainly geeky works. It's not just anime, either. The vast... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Transcendent is another antvas sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's almost certainly figured out that we can ban by password. He's not stupid; quite the opposite in fact.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Telestar = Antvas. I locked the Fanfic recs page for Ranma 1/2 as that's one of his primary targets.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's over. I unbounced him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you. I'll let Vorpy know.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm getting annoyed by Good Guy Greg. He is frequently flippant when a topic is serious and seems to have a wanton disregard for other tropers' feelings... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. The frustrating thing is there's no way of being certain, and it would suck if we banned somebody for the wrong reason. But I could swear that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, but the reason it's a bad precedent is because said people almost invariably slip back into the behavior that got them banned the first time, right... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Practically speaking, if you're successful about reinventing yourself we'd never guess. Problem is that generally the parts of a person's personality... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. He's not sounding particularly convincing to me, either.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jack Mackerel isn't on the banned list. Are you sure you're not thinking of Jack Butler?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, yeah, found it. Jackeral was just edit banned about three weeks ago for the same sort of edits. And his defense was "I figured it could be cut while... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I check new accounts on a semi-regular basis. A couple of days ago someone created an account under the name blackkat and today there is one called Tangent1771... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Speaking of creepy, I zapped a YF thread where himetakamura was promoting a pretty dodgy webcomic (involved underaged, rape and incest themes). PM'd himetakamura... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, lock the pages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jeysie's forum ban is lifted. But that's another problem with doing away will the separate discussion pages for talking about page mechanics. A forum ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread By "social forums" I mean everything that's not article talk, wiki talk, TRS and Image Picking (any others?) I think a ban for those should be separate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (any others?) Special Efforts and Translations, perhaps? Maddy, Jeysie said to thank you for lifting her ban. edited 16th Aug '11 2:48:42 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it's a big effort I guess not. But we do have a fair few contributors whose edits are fine and whose social skills leave a lot to be desired.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eponymous Kid is one of those.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just use the Edit Requests to Locked Pages thread, Bobby. Someone already asked about an edit to the Characters page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. I do frequently question the wisdom of going with pmwiki rather than Media Wiki; for all its flaws, Media Wiki gets stress-tested on much larger... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd like to believe an actual troublemaker wouldn't be so obvious, but I suppose you should never underestimate how stupid people are capable of being.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or he trolls somewhere else. Worth keeping an eye on, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've sometimes heard "troll" to mean merely a bit of a prankster, rather than an active nuisance. I guess we'll see.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's almost certainly at least some of that. That's not actually what gets under my skin as much as what strikes me as an obsessive need on his part to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's not actually what gets under my skin as much as what strikes me as an obsessive need on his part to have everything in tiny, tidy, clearly-defined... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Add him to the watched tropers list? Marq FJA is a character type I recognize well from Wikipedia: the pedant. The problem I see with him is that he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just dropped a Wiki-side edit suspension on Routerie. he blanked most of the Buffy Radar page, and commented out all of Hello. But it's weird —... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Me again. Check this out, rude edit reason on his own page? [1] WTF? edited 3rd Sep '11 4:06:23 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just looked at his user page, admits to having communication problems, law student, lives in South America and claims American citizenship and shares an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thumped Dok Enkephalin earlier today for making a thread about Troper Tales in which he was very rude to the people who wanted to move it off-site. (... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dok knows that we banned him from editing and isn't happy about it. I'm holding off on replying to him for now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got an email from Dok Eknawhatsit. Told him, essentially, to sit on it and spin.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's kind of odd to start an account only to complain about that — was he a troper tales contributor and just didn't go on the forums? The odd thing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not too interested in what the "external critics" — if that is how we're spelling "Something Awful Goons" today — had to say. Troper Tales... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread USAF is controllable. He's not as bad as some of the others.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think he's actually done anything. I think Morven was venting.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was this guy banned at some point? The name "Zipp" and the dodo avatar seem oddly familiar.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread nvmnd edited 8th Sep '11 5:02:02 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced Signer. Did you want me to unbounce S5? I looked at a few of the posts. Raging asshole. Not sure why you'd want him back.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've got Mobius Of Mobius complaining about a forum ban in PMs. Apparently they want it turned off for a bit to ask for an image for Gravity Rush. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, being banned is inconvenient? Go figure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They do not have a point, they are rules lawyering and do not understand the concept of "best practices". Power abuse would be banning them for making... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is it my imagination or do we get a lot of hollers about Justice Man? I checked his thump report and he has eight. I had an exchange with him a while back... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know that I've also exchanged pms with him about his tendency to get didactic about what is and isn't "correct" in various threads. I don't have them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is BunnyTiger the new Antvas? Some people seem to think so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Forum Banned litw for keeping the Belle's eye color fight going in the forum after two posts saying to drop it. Considering that he just recently got off... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was wondering if we could talk about Kino. Kino and Sporkaganza. Kino makes politically incorrect jokes, particularly about women, on a regular basis... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, did you bounce antvas / BunnyTiger? He posted today in the fora. Here's the IP check: [1]. Maybe you could zoom in on 217.174.64.* and 85.224.186... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Vulchak, bounced for the eyecolor edit war in Beauty and the Beast has another new account: "domon". Pming Minotaurgirl to continue the battle: 14th Sep... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have this recurring vision of people leaping into tumbrils over some if this stuff.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In relation to the edit-ban on Mr Pingas Is Here, I received this PM from one Muse Zack : It's come to my attention that the T Vtropes user Mr Pingas... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is concerning and merits investigation.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The entry on So Bad It's Horrible is definitely into what I would call bashing, even if I hadn't read that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread SBIH is about bashing. What do people expect?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *Facepalm* Because not everyone is an idiot?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread warlord396 replied to my PM with the same Hate Dumb he displayed on that article, so he's now banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread efficient33 120.141.249.222 Vandal edit banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It amuses me that they are so determined that they will go to those lengths to find ways around the security measures. Temporary solution: don't "age"... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is where we make a good 1-2 punch Maddy. By the time I get done composing a threat I am so freaking mad that all I want to say to them is "Fuck you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Me too, sistergirlfriend, me too. Edit to add: I hate them fucking haters too FE. I have a fabulous idea, lets have a "Mods and Admins act like idiot tropers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've forum-banned Karalora finally. (I apologize, I've been far to easy on her; I should have dropped the hammer on her long ago.) the final straw was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I need a drink. Just got a PM from Karalora saying Subject line: "Sorry again." Message (paraphrased): But why didn't you thump this other post as well... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fuck. Fuck. Fucking fuckity fuck with fucksauce and a side of fucks. Sorry about that. Let me explain: Kara and I are friends. Not just forum friends,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I haven't responded to this second pm because I was not the banning mod and I don't want to raise false hopes. This feels like rules lawyering.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, Raineh Daze is getting on my nerves. All he/she ever does is drag feet on any change related to anime in the most passive aggressive nitpicky way... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If our mission is to catalogue tropes in all media, then the fact that the media features stuff that a lot of people find objectionable is irrelevant.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And that just pisses off the otaku... edited 21st Sep '11 9:25:28 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can live with that. We can't avoid pissing off everyone, or even try and still remain sane.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread True dat, someone's gonna get mad no matter what we do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread AND THAT PISSES ME OFF! couldn't resist... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure; that understanding was reached on the 22nd, at around 2:23 PM, BST, if that helps.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or the last straw may very well have been how the individual conducted themselves in P Ms after an mod intervened.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, here's what sucks about Yack Fest. The drama. It bubbles away under the surface and erupts pages or threads later. Posts get misinterpreted, tempers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep, that got lost in the pile in my desk. Thanks Maddy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FE: scarface675 posted on the Mass Effect discussion page and I deleted it without thinking, can we bounce him? I have the pm he sent The Other Steve and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FE we need to bounce Red Shark as well, he's back posting the Mass Effect discussion page. I hid his post rather than deleting it this time. He's really... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT THE LORD OF THE RINGS IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread scapegoatboy and redshark bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You are talking about edit blocking 1478 existing accounts, by range blocking ana-whatsit. He might have as many as a dozen of those.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kraken would like to know how long he will be banned for. I can't remember when he was banned or what was said at the time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was banned on the 11th, by Fast Eddie, for "rudeness in the Writer's Forums". I thought I recalled that — he made several posts in various threads... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That makes sense, unless he changes computers frequently. MAC addresses are uniquely identified with individual network devices. However, it is also... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. Little bit of old school residue, there. MAC would have been useful in the AOL/Compuserve/BBS private networks days. Unless your guy knows something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow. What an asshole. You'd really hope he'd have better things to be doing than spewing that amount of bile over an Internet connection.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sure, why not?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread mack and theschwab34 have been engaged in Shipping Wars over the latest iCarly season. I locked all of the pages they've been arguing on. Edit: corrected... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also, nice work Camacan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks Eddie, it's good to know that's there. Thx.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another attack by the baba vandal: eddiefastisafisherman. Needs a bounce. Probably need to keep an eye out for follow up attacks. For some reason eligibility... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Removes them from the versions history, yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The reversion tool doesn't leave a record in the edit history, unless Eddie fixed it. That is somewhat troubling.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban 'em.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread B Atroll BA is a baba sock screwing around in Ask The Tropers again. I find it kind of alarming that he's editing other folk's posts. Needs a bounce. EDIT... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is the baba guy using anonymous relays? Maybe it's time to turn off account creation from them again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That ban is stirring up a bit of a shitstorm.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In the Edit banned thread — a lot of people are asking why it happened. I don't have any other info than what was said here, and I don't feel comfortable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread MoG2 seems to have an unhealthy fixation on Real Life examples of some tropes — see his edit history. In particular, I caught him/her raging at... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Especially in those cases where you are bound to think "No way this guy has a friend."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread findfor=kino Complete waste of time and energy spending mod attention on this sort. edited 15th Oct '11 5:37:00 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, you zapped Jay Zilla 2830 for page blanking. But he was blanking Minecraft Excommmunicated Series, the three-m-typo-page, presumably because he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought that might be the approach: so we keep the socks wikibanned and hope he dissipates his energy ranting on the forums? edited 15th Oct '11 9:28... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just spent three hours having cold hard reality poured into my brain. Part of it was the reality that "let it slide this time" can and eventually will... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The first posts I can find for dracosketch discuss being banned or finding this place "creepy". So I don't think it's a big loss. Could they all be the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Y'all are giving me credit I don't deserve in this case. I didn't realize there was overlap between Dracosketch and Rosemary, let alone that they were... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The holler stated he was a vandal and while I don't think it is true I would like some other mod input.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Need a ban/bounce on user IblaIbIaIGIAIRIeIeIbl. Their IP is 123.30.110.141... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Skullfucked all threads under the latest alphabet scramble... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Only a bounce. Which I have installed for pootehpanda. eta: I just made it so that an edit ban also bans liveblog & review adding/editing. edited 19th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll bounce 'em.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She continues to PM me, and has now threatened to ban evade. Why can't they just go quietly?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave Pyroninja42 a second chance.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay. I wasn't very certain about that ban; it just looked like he was trolling for the sake of trolling, which is a very serious no-no.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread RE: Stovepipe. I'm getting the wrong vibes, too. Exactly along those lines. edited 28th Oct '11 7:14:02 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently so: Troll Post, Fri, 28th Oct '11 6:15:27 AM from troll post crusher 28th Oct '11 6:58:56 AM allhailonme edits WesternAnimation.Gargoyles... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread See I always thought skullfucking was an auto forum ban. Hmmm, It would be nice if access to both edit and forum ban tools were on the same link now that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As noted on ATT allhailonme hit a bunch of discussion pages, now fixed. That doesn't turn up on his edit history. That's not good. Didn't think of that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, there needs to be some way to track discussion page edits. Maybe a unified user history tool that gets edits, reviews, review comments, discussion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think that it's too draconian to say "no takebacks" on a ban someone requests on themselves.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure we should be that absolute, but dracosketch was a problematic poster even without asking to be banned, or the things she did to try and get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some cases were a result of a RL breakdown of some kind (site addiction being a primary factor), and there were some tearful goodbyes. I remember one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I feel we should discourage the practice. IMO, bans are not a service we offer; they are a tool intended to keep away people who are harming the wiki... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Bobby's post pretty much expresses both my feeling and my reasoning as well. And by saying "If you request a ban, we'll do it, but it's going to be both... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sheesh. I hadn't seen the Ask The Tropers thing til just now. She's certainly not contributing much to the forums. I don't think that leaving her forum... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ekuseruekuseru has PM'd me twice now, and I think he seems sincere. Any objections to giving him another chance?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can someone with more time and patience respond to the Antvasima sock in Ask The Tropers? He doesn't understand that the problem isn't his illness, it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh. I told him to cut that out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been following that saga. I won't argue with you. Something about his replies smack of "the only thing I did wrong was get caught."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edit and forum banned The Demon Princeof Stars as a Wonderqueer sock. ETA: Not sure if he should be bounced or not. edited 19th Nov '11 12:40:09 PM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In ATT, Fringe Benefits says something about Anno sending an email. I asked for more info but Haven't got anything yet. I'm now wildly theorizing that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who's hunting down the info for you?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fringe Benefits: "Tachi says Anno sent it to the TV Tropes Staff email address. I'm logging onto Steam to talk to him personally for more details." But... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The previous one didn't have the nudity aspect though. The new one does. Or I'm looking at a double moon system during a near eclipse. (I don't wanna... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Currently the line is drawn at Alex's "anime woman with (purportedly) milk on her face" avatar, so there is a precedent for telling people to change avatars... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Camacan: I'm glad you did that. I think that there might be less blow back because you guys are er, um, guys.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Deboss responded, and has put the avatar behind him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He triggered an autoban on the number of thumps he has. Over 50. Nobody has more!. Is there some reason we care?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He had a bad spell about a week ago and piled up a whole raft of thumps in one or two days, letting real-life frustration and anger slop over into the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread DARTHYAN puzzles me. Iaculus claims he's been trouble on Wordpress. And he started a thread with an OP that seems to chime in with that. But his follow-up... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Reading that Wordpress post, I'd be more concerned if the owner of that blog showed up here. The gist of his complaint seems to be "Darthyan doesn't agree... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I figure Darthyan is behaving himself here. Unless he starts going after someone offsite, or one of them comes here to go after him, while the potential... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Unbanned USAF*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just read Fusionman the riot act. He is being a selfish emo dick constantly wangsting about problems he's causing himself and alternating between I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No loss without him, potential loss with him. Pretty easy decision.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Concur.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Human PM'd me saying that this seems like a dracosketch post. I'm not familiar enough with her posts to be in any way confident passing judgement.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think he'd be an excellent test subject for the forum hellban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think instituting something like a hellban would be gratifying in the short term. However, once it became public knowledge it would cause a tremendous... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread MissBlackAmerica is Joyflower socking again. Forum and wiki banned. edited 6th Dec '11 2:29:51 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say just ban the sucker. I'm tired of him too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say ban him. And I'd also say - and I feel quite strongly about this - that any "hellban" system should be expressly reserved for distracting repeat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gaz Bev Moo seems mainly intent on screwing around on the forums. We get hollers where he's disrupting some thread and the inhabitants seem to recognize... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Love the Christmas avatar, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I told Savage Heathen that he'd be banned for a week and gave him permission to relay his forum RP posts through someone else.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, do we allow public access accounts? That Atlus thing has me spooked.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that is a horrible idea for all of the reasons that we don't encourage password sharing and any other activity that allows more than one person... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not sure that phrase means anything, really. You cannot avoid proxies. Bugmenot is a site for registering a publicly available account. It is used to get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It would be handy if nuked threads were moved to a mods-only forum so we had a record.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a PM from Cygan Angel asking to be banned because, and I quote, "I'm sick of the users here." I think that we need to make an official statement that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cygan pretty much immediately was telling me in P Ms that she shouldn't have sent that. But yes; no bans on request, and no acting up to get banned either... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cygan pretty much immediately was telling me in P Ms that she shouldn't have sent that. *headdesk*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, exactly. *sighs* Some days I'm pretty sure they WANT to push me to the point of sitting in the rocker on the porch with a shotgun, muttering about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I remember him and I agree.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You sure I'm hooked up for liveblog mod privs?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for handling that, I got so bogged down in the angst of the that thread that your pink post was like a beacon of hope. OMFG.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Stay strong, Morven. People who "need" the forums need to deal with the fact that there are rules.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shoot it in the head.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And dump it in a hole and cover it with concrete.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say a permalock on the pro-wrestling page would be a good idea.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Joyflower has shown no interest in cooperating with the system. Screw her. (Not literally.)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pink Heart Chainsaw is increasingly bugging me. Anyone else?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I want to hit him with a hammer. His "Land of Rape and Honey" location pisses me off and I think he is a shit starter.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave PHC a final warning rather than a ban because I'm too nice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *Sigh*. I've warned her about that before. She's been temp-banned for hostility and incivility before. I can't argue against it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Told me to get fucked for working on the Christmas decorations. I need this shit?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hell no.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, kashchei got permabanned? I'm also kind of saddened, but I don't have a strong argument in favour of unbanning her. She was probably not a good fit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of which we are currently playing host to a great many, it would seem.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ... yeah, which is a problem. We are, alas, much more likely to kick out those who lose patience with idiocy than the idiots themselves, who remain to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And they're so GOOD at feeling resentful already.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread When a thread is a matter or opinions, beliefs or politics, I think losing patience with idiocy is not well separated from attempts to shut down conflicting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Again, I strongly advise against such a, well, a draconian policy. Heck, I've got more than four thumps, mainly for being off-topic in OTC. Mea culpa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, we are being too soft on people who are spoiling the atmosphere in the forums. The problem is not going a way on its own. What should be done?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Codes of conduct are meaningless without the perception that they will be enforced. We need to do the following: Set up a clear guideline amongst ourselves... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They've continued being troublesome? I haven't seen Rottweiler around in OTC for a while, at least not in the threads I frequent, but I also haven't seen... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's kind of interesting how some forum communities maintain civility and some do not. Blizzard's forums are notorious for people complaining about each... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The whole thing can stay. It just has to get more polite and civil.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The "traditional" solution to this problem is an automated penalty ladder, whereby the software handles the elements of the ban automatically unless a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rotty's flounce post in YF. Edit: here. edited 20th Dec '11 10:51:56 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby has it. Framing this as purely a matter of "bad apples" I think is missing the point, which is that something poisonous has grown in the site's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm, you know what, making new forum handles invite-only would cut down on trolling socks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I like the idea of making OTC invitation only. I think if we choose the right initial set of people, it won't become a place that quashes one opinion or... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't have a "Hell no" but I do have a big caution flag that tells me to approach the situation with a great deal of care. Any experiment of this nature... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not saying "hell no" but I am saying "slow down". Let's think on it for a bit. If we make a change like that to OTC we can expect more of the fireworks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Issue invites based on both the lists and on mod input (popularity alone won't make for a good mix).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heh, thanks. I'm about to stomp down on some of those flavor-of-the-month posters. I smell a rat, with the initials "SA". edited 20th Dec '11 3:54:02... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sure that some of them are goons, and I'm also sure that most of those who aren't will be familiar either with that SA thread or with This Troper.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, for crying out loud. Just because something has sex in it does not make it offensive enough to get purged. We aren't the moral guardians who get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm getting mad. I am getting really, really mad. I am going away. I will be back at some point.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread the signal/noise ratio, and will cut it/keep it/roll it out to other boards accordingly I would have to disagree with Madrugada on making invites be mod-approved... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I vaguely recall skullfucking someone a while back in some stupid Yack Fest thread, but I can't find any such thread that was active at the appropriate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah yes, but if your parents set up the account for you because you just moved for the second time in as many years, you can be an 11 year old with a FB... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would prefer to keep the rape culture thread because theres valuable stuf there; I'll go in periodically and thump heds if needed. Apologies for the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's certainly a thought. Frankly, right now, most of the worst show themselves in OTC (or at least, that's where their bad sides come out).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Although it's possible to have an intelligent discussion about that topic, past history (repeated way too many times) says we can't have one here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suppose it could be, but I think an honest appraisal of the topic turning up here is that it is like dodging local ordinances about nude dancing in your... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread [1] Someone thinks they're clever. Note how the edit was immediately erased so it would only show up in history, knowing that I'm the only one likely... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, most of her thumps are for Off-Topic. On the other hand, she has 14 thumps related to her being confrontational and rude, and for making attacks on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If anything OTC seems to divide the community. I've seen pleasant, reasonable tropers be made to feel unwelcome in YF because they mainly posted in OTC... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The bit about Kashchei respecting the ban isn't accurate. She created several socks and tried to ban evade. Which reminds me, could we get a global list... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Camacan has stated the case accurately. The censors are the hardest to deal with because they are the ones who play the pedophilia/homophobia/rape... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another question: I restored Solstace's page yesterday to what his last edit was and now the page has been blanked with a comment from Fast Eddie about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anne and other critics of the site have some good points, some horrible points, and some I have no opinion on. I largely agree with her that at times there's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Many tropers I've known and talked to aren't sure what is acceptable and OK, though. I think this is partly because some threads that start off as constructive... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Quick note: Eddie, I see Tech Unadept got a second chance to make YKTTW's again after an email to you. He used said second chance to make this one. I discarded... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What we are dealing with here are bullying tactics. From The Other Wiki:[1]Ross[20] outlines other forms of indirect bullying which are more subtle and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know that I can seem dismissive of literary studies when I am talking about Shakespeare and the other playwrights whose work has been tackled by the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Life has a way of taking care of those people that is often both witty and ironic. Often they don't recognize this because they are ignorant of both. Ideas... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Justice Man... grates on me, yes. I always feel a need to recuse myself concerning him, though, as we differ on enough opinions I can't feel objective... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not inspired by anyone particular. I just thought it might make the rest of you grin, too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Neither am I, frankly.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Delta Hurricane, like every civilised human being on the planet, thinks the Bosnian genocide was an atrocity. So much of an atrocity, it seems, that the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That name doesn't ring any "Danger, Will Robinson!" bells for me, and a quick and spotty hoppity-skip through his past posts doesn't show anything that's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^Bingo. Scare tactics. Who has he been interacting with? He seems to hang out in Writer's Block. edited 28th Dec '11 3:12:32 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should there be some way to ban people from editing their profiles after they've been forum banned? I notice Tongpu has still managed to edit his avatar... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. I've taken it upon myself to respond to Pacific Mackerel in edit banned. I also got a report from battosaijoe of another current edit war involving... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say that's ban-worthy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, he's gone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like he got the message.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread <hug>, Bobby. The complicated ones are always emotionally draining.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread <Hug> at you too, boss.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, thanks — I've gone ahead and acted on those. Hope I'm not treading on your toes with letting Cyber XIII edit, Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nah, let him back. My modding is going to be off and on this week. I have a big work deadline coming up Wednesday and then I'll be traveling with limited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did we decide what to do about Steventheman? I've been asked why he wasn't banned for advocating the nuking of Argentina on December 18th. Was he warned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, now I feel a bit silly about warning him. I'm going to let him off providing his next PM is nothing ridiculously offensive. I find it rather disturbing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Issues.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Finalized the ban on Comartemis. I figure having a go at Eddie while suspended / making threats of retribution is right over the line. Seriously, people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oddly enough I got the reverse impression — someone who really didn't get what TV Tropes was about when he started posting. Yeah Bro just created... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She wants back in on the wiki side? I can live with that. People who rage quit the forums, though, should get their wish enforced. edited 15th Jan '12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. I don't believe it was intended as a ragequit, though. It was disgruntled, but that wouldn't be like Kris. Ah, you lifted it. Thank you. And, um... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't notice any hassle.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Go for it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. I wasn't sure I'd got it right but it seemed right.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That OTC restraint is working, now. I didn't see any legit complaints in that screed. Did I miss one? edited 16th Jan '12 2:35:04 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jaime D Agusto, another Yeah Bro sock. Recreates edits by Tony Bramson / Yes Man Kablam (more socks) to Music.The Libertines. Zapped. edited 16th Jan '... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tell Yeah Bro that when you're banned, it means you're banned completely. You've lost the ability to contribute, productively or otherwise.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That I don't know about. I didn't revert them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is it in fact possible to know that someone's using a proxy? (I'm not at all good at this kind of stuff.)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's a lot of going through and bumping any older threads they can find, but there is at least one new one. It's a lot of people piling on it out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right, I asked the Token Loli thread to get back on topic. The first response to this request was snark about other people's argument topics. I don't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've had this come up before and poor writing in the forums, while annoying at times, isn't a problem to the same degree that it is on the wiki, as long... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure tnu's actually smart enough to be an asshole. He seems like a person with serious issues who interprets any and all criticism (or even friendly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Troll in OTC. Gafooruddin. ...ah. He's a baba, and everywhere. My goodness! edited 17th Jan '12 2:17:53 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, so now that we have a thread about the legalisation of vices, Savage Heathen was bound to pop up. Hasn't done anything yet (I mean, well, it could... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Savage has been warned repeatedly for advocating violence against authorities and otherwise being an anarchist dick. Keep a very close eye on him. Edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep, that matches his pattern.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've also warned him, both publicly and privately. He's also been on the receiving end of a tempo ban for it at least once. Personally, I'd say that his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What especially gets to me is that we actually don't have any real rules against dishonest debating. Someone who can point out why the other side's cherry-picked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I hope I did my share of dispelling it with the half-a-dozen or more thumps I made both before and after the Holler'd post!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I mean, Best Of incompetent? Really? Of course I'm a bit incompetent; I'm new! I mean, if you see me as an example to all or something, I think you might... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I PM'd someone else from the thread I had been in and they said I should talk to a mod about whether I can come back or not. So... what do you think?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dingo was banned, quite a while ago.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anybody else think we should give Hidden Faced Matt a break from starting new threads?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nor can I honestly. I'm not seeing any good edits in his history.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tomu and Flyboy keep talking in circles and bitching at each other in the Abortion thread. Permission to lock? EDIT: When I said they needed to wait for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Best Of: I don't think that thread is headed into good places in the first place. From the OP onward all it's going to end up being is an argument about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More from Savage Heathen: [1] [2]. "Jackbooted thugs" and "deeply evil" as unsupported accusations against government agents. Are we done with him yet... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you announce that anywhere? I mean, I saw your post in the thread, but I'm fairly sure a lot of people are just gonna read that as a warning.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dragon Quest Z is asking me via PM and posted in Ask The Tropers asking for his forum privileges back. Text of his message to me: My behavior on this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What happened in the appeals thread? I didn't really stick around after answering. O_O... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can someone else look at Natasel's posts and see if they think something should be done, even if it's only sending a PM? I'm unsure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see too many incidents of it before that thread, though, going back through his history. (SA is self-contradictory anyway; they pretend to be all... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The name sounded familiar but his most recent ban dates only to this past month. edited 3rd Feb '12 6:22:31 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They keep arguing over their week long ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not sure why you'd bother.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't think of a way to tell someone they're banned after having already PM'd them without telling them that. So screw it, I'll just ban them and be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you really think he might, might be a good time for a full ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I had had the presense of mind to check their Wiki edits right away, I wouldn't have bothered to respond to more than maybe (just maybe) one of their... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's a guy who's looking for a fight. We don't need that. Ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So how hard do we come down on RA? A PM and forum ban if he won't stop seems obvious, but do we try to talk to him first?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If there needs to be a ban but we want to avoid overkill, I guess the ban could be limited to PMs. And it could be temporary. Then, if a forum ban needs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have the whole chain that DQZ linked to me. It's just a pain to copy and paste it all. Give me a few minutes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crap, I forgot DQZ's thing yesterday. From the first discussion: Rodney: It was 8-1. Seriously. It's really important to notice when you're the only person... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread DQZ is being a passive-aggressive pain in the ass but he's not the one slinging insults around here. However, we have to consider that he may have provoked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I think I know what the exchanges are about. DQZ has been running ramrod into threads lately and then complaining to other posters over PM when... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TRS and IP I think. They both do the same single issue wonk there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right, so a "working forums" ban to mirror the OTC ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We all were. Wasn't there some story behind his return? I don't remember any attempt being made to hide his changed identity.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Striking how Idler is the only non-roleplayer in the top 10, and all the top 10 posters are mainly right column.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I bumped it to show the top 1000. http://216.151.212.47/posters.txt edited 10th Feb '12 8:59:54 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moleman9000 just came off suspension and used the opportunity to send me hate P Ms. Welcome no more.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread BTW, I thumped a pretty bad post by Ekuseruekuseru. In the "If you could make one political reform" thread, they (actually, I'm gonna assume that we're... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jeez, that's ridiculous. Do we even want that thread if it's going to attract such things?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I spoke with Bobby G re this. As long as he gets for sure that tropers don't talk that way to each other, the ban could be lifted.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Then I'm sorry to say, Eddie, that you might be in for a series of PMs you really don't need, if they do as I adviced. Anyway, lifted the ban and proceeding... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moleman was a jerk that we banned for repeated unwillingness to abide by the rules of separation of YMMV items. Clearly he thinks he's got some kind of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (Double posting because I want you to notice this:) I banned someone called ABK 0100 for trolling/edit warring in a crowner. After I announced that in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. It's not that he doesn't have good intentions, but doing things in a slipshod manner doesn't help anything.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer, any time you feel bad for that, look at me. I've got Asperger's. Now, there's obviously levels of severity, but if we don't treat dyslexia as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I also agree with him about 7 times out of 10. Doesn't come into it at all, though. (A lot of people here seem to think that it does; they're mistaken.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like he gets it. I'm particularly struck by his suggestion that the postban be lifted so that his behavior can be assessed before the edit ban is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His posting ban is lifted. He's still wikibanned, but he seems like he did learn something.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My Little Raptor is out of here. PM'd me with a fucked attitude about some thumps. edited 23rd Feb '12 2:36:59 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Makes sense to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, and previous drama all over the damn place in YF as well, constant passive-aggressive behavior, and being completely unable to shut the fuck up about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Another for Bobby for owning up, though I do think you're being a bit hard on yourself with your choise of words.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Your analogy is inaccurate. We are doing this out of our own free will on our own free time with little gratitude coming our way and with no other reward... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I also talked to Weiss about that incident, but I did not talk to Haven (and, in fact, was unaware that there was anything in P Ms going between them).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All I know of Goldstone is that we get a whole lot of valid Custom Title Requests from them, suggesting that we're talking of an active, prolific, genuine... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of course, being very nice 9 times out of 10 doesn't mean that you're not a frothing lunatic that one time you join the cult of Cthulhu. Meaning that if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Goldstone is just a bit OCD, is all. I liked the way balckcat drew attention to the fact that the minor choice of color name was not important.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby, I'm saying this straight up and in all sincerity: In the Weiss/Haven thing, I think that you are taking far more blame that you should. When I looked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If the alternative is Weissritter being villified, then say what you have to. She apparently believes I have some kind of personal grudge against her,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Question has come up in Ask The Tropers and I'm checking in with youse guys. Blitzwing has edited Flyboy's page removing this paragraph: As of February... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I looked in on it. rodneyAnonymous is the bad guy. I'll stop his PM privileges.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Flash is a shitstirrer, in my opinion. Up to now, he's been somewhat low-key, but he's on my radar, and frankly, I'm just waiting for him to clearly put... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, he's been wiki-banned already? That was the only reason I wasn't pushing for a ban — I thought he was still active and being helpful wiki-side... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he has.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Being able to read someone's thumped posts without having to spend forever looking for them is awesome. So, Ekusekuseru (or however their handle is spelled... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. What an ass.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Xzenu is being rather... disruptive in the Asian Gal With White Guy TRS thread. He keeps trying to jump the gun and throw up his names and his definitions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No restraints, but he's had his share of thumps IIRC... No, just 5; that's not a whole lot. Which puppet are you talking about, though? Sometimes tropers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right, was just checking.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From Ask The Tropers: "Yeah, I got banned for absolutely no reason and without explanation then came back with pretty much the same name just to emphasise... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for handling the Kony/PUU thing everyone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh. What's frustrating to me is, I can see exactly where he's coming from with the privilege/racism thing, and while I think the "racism = privilege... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think there was anything unintended in the offence that troper caused. They even said things like "Does this offend you? Deal with it." Never a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thing is, we're not here to serve as a platform for people to grow up until they can have a reasonable discussion. We're not gonna have someone essentially... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree with Bobby. I don't think it was entirely his fault. A large part of it was the way the other tropers jumped on him. He was making valid points... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm sincerely confused by the assertion that the other tropers "jumped on him." This is the entirety of his first post in GLBT: "If this is a thread for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What Bobby said. I didn't see anything wrong with what he posted until they started insulting him first. I'm actually really disappointed in our response... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My question here then is, how much control should thread regulars have over thread content and culture? We just had a similar event over in the cobbies... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Backing up Bobby and Shimaspawn. He was misinterpreting the thread's purpose, but those 'hostile bolded parts' actually don't seem so hostile to me. Privilege... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Larger issues: Jumping on things as being inflammatory because that's what they were hollered as. Allowing tropers to dogpile on other tropers, right... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fundamentally he violated the largely-unwritten rule that when you show up for the first time in a hangout, you conduct yourself politely and cautiously... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread See the whole discussion on scones and England. Him: I'm in England, and it sucks here. Them: TEA, BUTTERED SCONES, ETHNIC STEREOTYPES, DOHOHOHO I'm sure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's true; they did. I was talking about before that, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm having trouble parsing that, but I think he's saying that if we don't execute rapists, they'll only rape other inmates (as opposed to saying that they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Question: Is there a way to check to see if another troper has used an IP if they haven't posted in the forums? I banned the one-shot account homosap... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You mean the IP history? Yeah, I know about that. That gives me an IP address, but no other context, on any editor I've tried it on. I'm not sure what... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The guy has demonstrated that he doesn't believe that he needs to heed the moderation, has posted two or is three items that have been thumped and shows... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like a ban to me. Thanks, that's what I needed to hear. Proceeding... EDIT: I got a message from that guy: "I'm telling Anonymous on you guys." My... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's back as Half Hazard. Just letting you know before I skullfuck him. He's swearing up a storm. What was made clear, is that you're borderline dictators... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. Back around the middle of October. She created a bunch of very specific variants on Knight in Shining armor that hinged on very nebulous and ill-defined... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gmandanis is a spammer and was posting advertisements in the forum. Banned him. Nuked the thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry. I should have probably just left the metaphor off. Need coffee.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Natasel. In the thread about North Korea's recent BS, they said that in order to change things in North Korea, the rest of the world ought to "kill the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm disturbed that he believes that torture for the purpose of lasting psychological harm (rather than interrogation) is completely justified. edited 19th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hah. I assume you're employing sarcasm.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keep an eye wikiside on Bames Jond. He added a line of bitching to Screw The Rules I Make Them bitching about the Panty Shot thing. I tried to send him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sent the PM, told them not to complain about Wiki policy on Wiki pages and to take it to the fora (also told them to look for the "Embarrassing shit on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just threw a wiki suspension at Remember5thONovember for what appears to be a crusade to turn several articles into horrific walls of text, most notably... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thought so. I wish that the bounce would catch this guy's IP range, but that would probably hurt innocents.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So far, this person hasn't managed to do any actual damage to the Wiki except for those two stupid edits that I was able to revert more or less immediately... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting a dedicated hater is some sort of bizarre mod-milestone. Weird.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That has the added benefit that the "Mod Hat Post" checkbox will be attached to it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So far thread reboot is a success. I think getting the old thread locked and starting with warnings was enough to get people to modulate their tone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, both accounts edited media pages for Mass Effect 3 (a lot), The Borrower Arrietty, Jackass, My Life Me, The Relic, and Contagion. Both were fond... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is a rant.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm going to add another mod warning. This is why I don't unlock the old thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I only made this thread because they promised to behave. If they can't manage that, they can't have it. I don't want to have to monitor the Mass Effect... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think this is working. I tell them to knock off the bile and rants, and they derail into ranting.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think the big problem with Septimus is that he acts like a mod. He isn't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We need an animated GIF of one of those hoopty cars with the massive hydraulics bouncing up and down for occasions like .... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oddparents thread - one of her posts was thumped for being rude and that set off an entire series of events where she blamed everyone, including Shima, the mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, I'd say not. Apparently, this one really can't learn lessons. Also, I still can't access that tool. :( Bounce?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Perma ban, of course. Threatening us with /b/, for Pete's sake.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Guess they really wanted to get /b/anned. I'm sorry.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh for Christ's sake. edited 27th Mar '12 6:29:41 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, that Com Con X weirdo you banned this morning is at least the third sockpuppet created by Masonicon to ban evade. Would it be possible to get a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Deathpigeon told me via pm that he doesn't know Aiko's real name after all, but thinks he can get it easily enough.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned The Dead Mans Life in response to his comments in the Trayvon Martin thread where he apparently thinks an entire race of people should be judged... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry for the triple-post but Doctor Thunder got back to me, and his PM seems to corroborate what Kiri Ame said: It's sort of a long story, so I apologize... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Forum ban at least. Speaking of bans, I've PM'd The Dead Mans Life's new handle, Worst Human Possible, to give him a chance to explain himself, but I told... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nor are ban-evaders. Is there a reason he should be permitted to get away with it when we routinely bounce others even if they think they have a good reason... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A couple of folks have been allowed to return, thought; they've just been told to stick to their new account. (IIRC)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread AFAIK, he created the account solely to PM Meta Four, with no intention of outright evasion. Not sure about that, though. I did issue him with a PM ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Especially if the message they send in their new alt-account makes sense, unlike the shit I've been reading recently from that Rorschachwasright person... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it was wrong and that he should've taken evidence of Doctor Thunder's GM conduct up with a mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Most forums I've been on make sharing P Ms without the consent of the other party a warnable/temp bannable offense.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At the very very least, PM ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a plan to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think the complaint was in Ask The Tropers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I dunno. Go ahead and restore them. I need to leave better comments in the restraint box.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We do not host R Ps that have cybering. If we are, just shut it down. Ban people who are using us to recruit people (of any age) for cybering.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I went looking for the RP rules and didn't find the pinned thread for it. Where is it? I distinctly remember seeing something that said that there was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All I can think of is the stickied forum rules thread which says cybering is not allowed. Well, it specifically says cybering is not allowed in the sole... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now Rhyme Beat is PM'ing me about Hydronix' case. I admit to being slightly baffled here, again not following any of the forum RP drama and hearing about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I assume this happened in his chat thing. Will that keep a log? Deathpigeon and Sapphire Flame posted and the former hollered about it. (Ignore Weissritter... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have an honest question here: Am I the only person who sees a substantial difference between "Could have known how old AZ was if he had read certain... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna quote the PM I got: There's some confusion. I am not preparing to kill myself as a threat. I know that I have a 0% shot at getting unbanned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait a second — I just looked at the timestamps on that post — this all went down in January. So unless Hydro just recently (as in, in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But there's absolutely no evidence it did or will.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If a person is recruiting under-aged people to a cybering site, I think that is something we should stop. I think we all agree on that. Looks like there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That certainly lends credence to the "bad blood between the two" theory for why a post from January get dredged up like that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread They got into trouble on SA because a mod thought they were "goonrushing", whatever that might mean, and I haven't seen them on here since.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not my first rodeo as a mod. People have a natural resistance to admitting fault.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I can remember my password for that, I'll PM a mod there and ask what that was about. In any case, I think she's a creep.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think I must have misremembered or misheard about IJBM; I spoke to an admin there but he couldn't find any evidence of her ever having been there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On a different note, there's this Lightsaber Guy whom I only came to notice today. They made this thread today about alleged vandalism, without noticing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Send them a PM about attitude and let's see if the response makes any sense. If not, next time they bitch we can say they've been warned and it's off with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So I'm thinking I might raise to Hydronix the possibility of allowing her back under certain conditions and once we know more about the situation, making... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he is hitting you up because you're a new mod and he knows you, I'd definitely call that a conflict of interest, not to mention blatantly self-serving... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One of the things necessary to being a mod on any site is to realize that the holes a person chooses to dig for themselves are their own responsibility... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I reverted and fixed most of that guy's edits, but he's made a bunch of Playing With pages. Fighteer, can you check if we should keep them around? I'm... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was more "trying to get him out of the hole he was digging", but whatever. Let's just draw a line under it and move on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I remember I nuked a comment there, but I'm not sure if it was their comment. Might just nuke again if they keep at it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry. -_-... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they've already trolled the fora and PM'd shit to a mod, the next step is to vandalise the Wiki. Let's not let that happen.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread People are too worked up to converse rationally at the moment. I'm thinking at least an hour, preferably closer to 3-6 hours.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How long is djmaca's posting ban for? He's P Ming me asking why he was banned. I think we should probably temp ban whale from the forums, too. She's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gave whale a 3-day posting suspension. I am a little disturbed by how much censorship is implied by "anything with kiddy diddling" in it. I have no problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. There's things that have been cut like Black Bird where everyone involved is over 16 that don't seem to mesh with the other things that have been... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are you creating it, shima? Or should I? EDIT: Whale took her ban extremely well. Dj... not so much. He's not flaming or anything, just won't stop arguing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why don't you? You seem to have a clearer base policy than I do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The hell is Medinoc's problem? He cutlist Theatre.Romeo And Juliet of all things.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Medinoc is doing it as "protest" for some of the previous cuts. I warned him to stop.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IIRC Fighteer specifically warned him against that earlier today...he's been really helpful with custom titles, but at this point I think he's burned his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is his third suspension, is it not? And the previous two suspensions have to do with the cutlist again. If he gets his edit ban lifted, I think we'll... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kat, Rhyme Beat is sorry for the emotionally-blackmailing sounding PM, and knows not to do anything like that again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, good. I wasn't sure how to react to that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm talking to Hydronix right now; I asked her to show me the PMs she sent Awesome Zombie 22. She sent me this: Alright. I can give an exact summary,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...month-long suspension to send a message, then let her back in?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If they've been warned or thumped for it before, then I'd say so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His passive aggressive attitude is annoying, but I'm not sure it's ban-worthy. Especially since he's setting himself up as a martyr. I don't want to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd rather not make him a martyr. If he starts making any more stupid threads, I'm zapping them. Lightsaber Guy PM'ed you? This guy is starting to worry... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds...iffy, to say the least.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, if they're showing all the signs of not helping us out by hollering about the evaders, then I think we do need to say something. Speaking of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding edit bans: I'd like to have a word with Super Saiya Man myself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, let's reinstate Lightsaber and see what happens. Incidentally, my post in the Cuddlepile went over surprisingly well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Speaking of the Cuddlepile, did anything come of Aiko's latest stuff? Don't know. This was her last post. Kind of vague. The Ft. Lauderdale police were... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, the first time I read your post I somehow got it wrong, thinking that Lola was back by some handle that wasn't mentioned by "name." Then I re-read... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fetishes....I have the compulsion to stay away from that in general. Bobby, did she report that?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't remember. We were aware of the posts, but... I think there was a disagreement about whether they were that creepy and nothing got done about them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I hate being at the mercy of these teeny boppers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll bet it's one of those "that's not flying here at all" things, like you said. edited 13th Apr '12 6:18:39 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There's been this 3-page discussion in Absent People about Lola. Anyone care to post there to clarify it, or should we leave them to it? (I don't have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I checked something like 7-10 posts by Lola in the Fetishes thread, and I think some of them did come across as "ew, why are you talking about sex?" which... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna post there and tell the OP to go look at some Wiki Talk and SE threads. Then I'll lock it. Done. edited 14th Apr '12 2:57:02 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nizbel may be worse. That whole thread took a turn for the creepy and perverse a few pages back, it seems. edited 14th Apr '12 9:14:06 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently, they've started a fetish-y topic. Didn't we get multiple hollers about them a while back?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Darkenning just made this cute thread in wiki talk: What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction —... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Creeper as in likely to harass people? I'd say PM ban. Re: Hydronix again, during the period in which that chat was linked in her sig, it was password... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say both shoot him that PM and ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Best Of, you're a mod. It would be a pretty sorry state of affairs if you weren't allowed to call out homophobes on the grounds of impoliteness.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just posted a Holler about how we should finally make a decision on Rodney. My feeling is that we shouldn't lift the ban because this is his second ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tell him to stop continuing TRS and IP arguments in PM. If he can't convince someone (especially DQZ) of something in the thread, he's not going to convince... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It is. We have cut several things that I strongly think we should not cut; on the other hand, there's plenty of stuff that should have gone. The attitude... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re: "unambiguously unsuitable," thanks, Morven. I wasn't being clear, or wasn't getting through. Myrmidon says sorry; he hadn't caught up with the content... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not a reliable purr-inducer. It's a toss-up on any given subject whether I'm one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. Probably because I'm as likely... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 1: Seconded. 2: You, too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Exactly, I have been going through some pretty paranoid scenarios.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It seems to contradict their communications last time and their stated policies, though they make damn sure they have as little set in stone as they can... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Took a look through new accounts today. Handle: Com Con Crysis IP: 180.253.102.120 180.253 shows up in almost all of the IPs of Masonicon's socks. The... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mother of god, he's like the new baba. I just issued a skullfucker on another sock. We really can't bounce him?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The bounce function works only if we can identify common characteristics of his connection to us. Browser, password, IP address, unique patterns in his... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I emailed links to the thread and the website listed in the thread to a suicide prevention website in Australia. I think this is a fad and it pisses me... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The three of them, and only the three of them (save for a few randoms on our forums they convinced by shouting) seem to think that loli just means "young... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Five of them, actually. Evilneko and someone else also bitched endlessly about the whole thing, causing one person to get banned, multiple hollers and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was sent this PM sometime last last night by Gregzilla: Dear Shimaspawn, I come here on behalf of the people of the forum known as The Interference... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's what SNDL had to say: "My concern is that if I let you back, you'll just do it again" Sigh, I understand the concern. It really sucked that I resorted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry for tripleposting, but I could use some help here. Alex Sora 89 has been bugging me for a while. We had a query on ATT about him potholing Wallbanger... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just used the search function in ATT and I cannot believe how obstinate he can be. Why can't I link to Darth? Why can't we have ANF? Why can't I use... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspension applied.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Full range of bans being launched... I don't think we need a person like that around. If you disagree or are less sure than me, you should lift the ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban both?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Give 'em both 72 hour suspensions.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No objections here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Polutropon is acting all innocent and "what did I do wrong?" in PM's. Sheesh. I told him he had made himself unwelcome and iterated on several of the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll try to calm him down. I don't think we can expect people to just calmly accept being called paedophiles. Hydronix nearly killed herself when she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Feo: From now on, I will stay out of Wiki Talk, Trope Talk, and Trope Repair Shop, and avoid mentioning any and all subjects discussed in them. My first... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh. Absolutely no offence meant to Fighteer, but I never expected to be mentioned alongside him as one of the scary ones. I was just frustrated, you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And now this is starting to make me think of the whole Reddit jailbait scandal.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Given that she was instrumental in making Cute Shotaro Boy something other than a pedo fanservice trope, I'd say she's not pro-pedophilia or an apologist... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess that probably does constitute an admission of bad faith, although at least she was up front about her motives. Obviously I don't want to encourage... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am satisfied that lebrel understands the situation, and I have lifted her ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. I'm telling you, he's jealous cause Shakespeare was a rosbif. That'll be what this is really about. Edit: He's saying he wasn't aware of the details... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was a... roast beef? O.o Medinoc sent me a PM at some point: Hello, I have a problem: I protest-cutlisted something before reading it was forbidden... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ninja'd. RE: Medinoc...stunning display of intelligence there. 'E's a keepah! edited 20th Apr '12 11:55:11 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (The Shakespeare thing was a joke, please don't assume Medinoc actually said that.) Here was his statement of intent. Lu's warning is a couple posts down... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And he's in. Want me to handle him?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And, uh, crossposting from hollers, I banned Motor Runner (a herald). He claims not to be a paedophile and I haven't called him one, but apparently it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm throwing a ban on arcsin's head, because it's quite obvious he's a subtle troll at this point.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seems to be stretching the boundaries of coincidence. If it were a clear-cut IP match I'd say absolutely ban, but there are a lot of accounts on those... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he did. Amusing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am of the opinion that we are reaching or have reached that point of mass hysteria. I keep being reminded of a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Flash Of Sonic is doing the ban evasion thing again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Argh. Does this guy not understand we don't want him? How much clearer can we make it? Also, can we take Glider Guy out of the cleanup procedure? He wants... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Glider Guy needs to be jettisoned from the content discussion posthaste...preferably with a trebuchet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can I get a hand with this one? I'm seeing an edit war suspension in his file but I can't find it in his recent edits.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's in ATT. He added Inuyasha examples that had previously been removed and had already led to his suspension once before on Kick The Dog. What's the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I've had reports that we may have a goon in the house. Marq FJA sent me this link. It's SA's usual form of bile, but this part worries me. Martello's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That reminds me; did we actually implement a version of the "Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point" policy?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait a minute, someone PM'ed me about this guy yesterday. Raso sent me a PM. This guy linked him to an SA forum where they were talking about Raso. Raso... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right. He started up again with the strawmen and I promptly re-banned him. If Eddie wants to intervene on his behalf, that's fine. I'm not putting up... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shows what you get for trying to work with these dickheads. Kick him and all his socks over the moon. edited 24th Apr '12 12:40:51 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The thing is, SA seems to think we're persecuting them for being SA. Wrong. We're refusing to permit the trolling tactics that SA appears to sponsor... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Changing topics, I really want to post in Absent People about Tomu's little "I blanked my avvie, sig, and troper page as a form of protest" crusade, but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's mildly annoying, but not even worth swatting. Even if he gets a bunch of people to join him (not likely), why should we care? Frankly the "OMG someone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's one of those people who uses Asperger's as a defense for aberrant and obsessive behavior. And yet, I have that and manage to not engage in that conduct... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hidden Faced Matt is really just starting to seem like a hard core misogynist to me. There's no one post that I can point to, but there's a pattern to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Really? I haven't noticed. Granted, I don't go near OTC. The only thing he has said to disturb me is that, apparently, Prison Rape can be justified in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's the old account that actually makes me think it's more of an accident. It's hard to remember exact titles when they aren't linked. If you see a page... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He has consistent wiki edits over a long period of time - check history. If he doesn't understand policy by now, I'm not inclined to be permissive.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer, Obby Dent has PM'd me complaining about his ban. Seems like a fair case of being a bannable idiot to me, so I don't plan on doing anything,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have it on my watchlist, since I volunteered to curate it during the TRS thread. So far, only the TV Tropes Page On Lolita and this latest thing have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I locked it, because it literally took five minutes for somebody else to add it back. Sheesh. I'll need to watch No Such Thing As Notability too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's administrivia. We can lock it safely. Tropers shouldn't be tweaking those on a whim.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suggest a permanent ban for Ilstefan (the guy re-adding TV Tropes to Moral Guardians). He was previously warned for edit warring on the The Legend Of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh god, I saw that. What the hell was he thinking?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He sent me a lovely self-pitying PM about how he wasn't laughing when he posted that, and how he should have expected yet more censorship from this site... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we can all agree this is someone we could do without.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Depends how want he is to start reprisals.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. He actually implied that rape, snuff, and child molestation are better than censorship. Either he has no idea how sick the "sickest" sexual perversions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, slapped the full range of bans on him. Not sad to see him go. Speaking of the Fetishes thread, should we keep that open? Does the No Lewdness rule... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You mean the FLG thing?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We didn't, and I see no reason to. This guy has not illustrated he can handle PMs. I got a PM from Raso about his ban myself. He doesn't get why he's banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A timeout and a forum-specific ban to Content Policy discussions?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rrrrrrrgh. Why do we keep getting people reacting like this? Are they determined to make life hard for themselves?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You really can't win with some people. But Lolita being cut seemed to be a main complaint offsite (4chan and SA), so it may make us less of a target for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're not seriously expecting logic from trolls are you?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's Toddlers And Tiaras, and Raso does a lot of grunt work. I think as long as he stays out of P5 things will be fine. edited 26th Apr '12 9:43:50... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm okay with taking him out of the P5, since he's on panic mode anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I will have to ignore your request given your complete disregard for what I actually said and your appalling personal animus. With cases like this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And I have full-banned psycher, because I witnessed the following golden exchange: Me: If you think the fact that all other moderators consider your behaviour... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Proving once again that the only cure for a rogue psycher is a bolt round to the head. edited 26th Apr '12 10:40:44 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso said he won't post in the content forum again and that he understands he was overreacting. He also said he stopped posting because Fighteer made a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say he should retire the name Raso if he is allowed to come back. If at all. I don't value his work in IP. It is always the same anime or indecipherable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be all right with Raso coming back under another name.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right, so what should I go tell him then?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hypercat's tried twice now to make an IP thread for Panty Shot...hopefully he gets the message this time. I went ahead and added a "don't change the pic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm resisting the urge to call DKN's behaviour obsessive, but he is starting to nag slightly.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, I just received the following PM from Ughsixhugeurchins: in case the current account that send you Personal Message is banned from T Vtropes once... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I have that page on my watchlist. His socks seem to edit it/pimp it at some point.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess it's useful for identifying when his socks strike again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks, Eddie. That should be a real help.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For sure, in fact this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/puppet_check.php?troper=VampireFlash tells us something we didn't know. edited 28th Apr '12 4:05:14... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We did know that, though. Just look again at the two posts above your second-to-last one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup, that guy was hollered and I caught both of them. And I have now found a ban evader whom I couldn't find before because he was only on the wiki! This... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think there's an overlap between the people we want here and the people who hang around in the SA threads about us. It's not a large overlap, but it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, god, that thing. Every other line is furries doing it. All plot points involve furries doing it, or are furries doing it. Character arcs begin in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From someone about Raso: This is the post that originally got him banned. Bobby G was the one who ended up banning him when he discovered that it was from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso is a she? ...I did not see this coming. It's impossible for her to get in TRS without getting noticed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why don't we just bring him back with one of the new P5 bans on? That would take care of our big issues.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted the PM ban on Cute so that we can see what's what. I don't think the "I kind of hate tvtropes" thing was what it looked like, plus the reasons... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So I'm done reading the backlog in Absent People, and I agree with the bans and am happy about most of them and the people leaving. Sure, some of them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was reading the thread as it happened, and I'm pretty sure that Cute didn't spam the link like the others. I think his "I kind of hate this site" looked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I've seen those battle royale "who would win" fight sites. They didn't strike me as ridiculously obsessive but maybe that's because the one I briefly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It looks like Eddie gave him a posting ban for wanting to quit the forums. edited 2nd May '12 8:00:54 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I went through their posts, found this: "I'm gonna jump ship until this is through." Seems like they meant they'll skip the thread, not the whole fora.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Let him back in, I guess. Though people who want to quit the site should get all they help they need in finding the door.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sent a PM, and promised it won't happen again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I know Octo, Firebert, and Black Humour (for ragequiting), for sure.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo says that he started posting that image after Inane did, so maybe it was Inane that started it. EDIT: Didn't notice that Rynnec was involved, too,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Their response to me Mod-Hatting that there would be no more posts that only existed to spam the link...was to do just that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Add SithDroideka2 to the ragequit list. Fullbanned. Of note is the troper page he posted recently, where he announced his age and his fervent opposition... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The way all those ragequitters say: "Criticizing the staff for unfair bans isn't bad", but blatantly ignore the "spam images even after the mods ask us... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This looks a lot like someone wanted someone else banned...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned yet another Con sock, Drabaccomplishment. He tripped one of my "tripwires" when he edited a common page for him with atrocious grammar, and, well... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I used the numbskull thump on Barkey in OTC for this: Foppish guys are obnoxious. I don't like to be around them at all. I've got a poor opinion of "genderqueer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm under the impression TParadox has always been a reasonable member, and it looked like a joke to me too, although it might have indeed been in poor... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, if you haven't already, can you bounce the Mass Effect 3 vandal? He just won't stop making sockpuppets. Obsessive fans. They need their own planet... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pacific Mackerel is on my radar: He is still linking to Touhou Danbooru even when we've warned them not to. He has been edit-banned twice, with the latest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He using the Film namespace to make a redirect to it, too. Yeah, gonna put a wiki suspension on him, because I specifically told them to knock it off... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread After his suspension, A Groupie understood what we're looking for and started being productive. On the contrary, listmaker doesn't seem to get it. I think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I strongly suspect that's a sock. Quoting "not a wiki for bashing things" is pretty much the clincher.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If only he'd been reasonable up front, instead of being a vandal and a dick, I'd be willing to listen to him, as misguided as he is. But as is, I think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Requesting bounce for Dawn Of Dark. Censorship is terrible, Martello is a right-wing douchebag for cutting crap like Kodomo no Jikan, you can ban me all... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What the hell is going on with Aiko Heiwa attacking Deadbeat out of the blue? For reference.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There is no implication that non-straightness is a bad thing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Shima, someone named Moon Metropolis has been sending me PMs about having their edit ban for page blanking (issued by you, which is why I'm telling you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Huh. Not coming back, then.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not A Llama seems to be doing legit edits. What makes you think they are Lightsaber Guy other than a shared address? edited 5th May '12 7:01:12 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not defending djmaca, either. They both acted pretty inappropriately. It just rubs me the wrong way that Casper seems to feel she is completely justified... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, looking at his forum contributions, absolutely nothing would be lost by banning him. He appears to be one of those stuck in 'childish acting out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^^ No pattern to bounce on. edited 7th May '12 5:24:30 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Curse of Alexus Corvis(or whatever the handle was) ban evading.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe we could give her a chance?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Self Aware has IP overlap with Raso.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bingo. Self Aware and Edbanner use the same password. Bouncy bouncy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread BTW, Eddie, good job on managing to avoid revealing how the puppet was recognised as such in your post in the Edit Banned thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Speak of the devil, another person who believes that anyone with an opinion different from theirs is the enemy. If it is him, that's one hell of a case... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Caught a Masonicon sock on the discussion page for his work. Full-banned. What's the status with Mass Effect now?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's hardly restricted to trolls. On the subject of stupidity, I always thought it was a myth that people used "password" for their password, but the new... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Watchlisted Locked Pages and BrokenBase.Video Games since our vandal loves them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fairly certain intelinside is our vandal. He may be P Ming one of us about a "wrongful ban."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. Anfauglith apologised and said he understands. I'll lift his posting ban on Friday.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread intelinside fits the "password is some part, usually the first part of the username" pattern. It also fits the "insane spree of vandalism, then pretend... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've never even played ME 3 so I can't have a bias either way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "We ban you for your opinions, not your actions. Clearly, the former is more important." My brain hurts. edited 15th May '12 10:31:17 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread :P I'm guessing he PMed a mod that's not on at the moment, and is awaiting a reply.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You don't need an account to read, I thought.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think allowing Anfa to create a sock to view threads is a bad idea. A temp ban is a temp ban is a temp ban. Letting them do that takes the sting out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. I mean, he can do it anyway by getting unknown; we don't need to encourage that behavior.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, but Code Robin and Tagoph have only three and two, respectively, which are in common with all the others and not in common with any other users.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, lookie here. intelinside's only edit. Can I call Mass Effect on this one?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, his one edit posting history consists of a Take That that I deleted a month ago. Pshhhttt... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Some people just can't drop the issue. Some people deal with it in the wrong way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heads up. Karolstin, who just deleted all the commented out notes on Straw Feminist, shares IP with Goldstone and his socks. His other edits also suggest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kicked Flyboy out. Just a pain in the ass to be around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Flip a coin.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I saw that and while the guy is obviously trying to piss us off (on a very old account, no less — wtf?) I'm willing to extend him the benefit of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread User is Classy Myths, and seems to have had his PM system switched off twice for being a hassle.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Great, now I have the mental image of someone with a dunce cap sticking out of their navel.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A child, fancying himself mature because he won't conform to the rules. How quaint.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd ban him right away for passive-aggressive-obstructive-thinks-he-knows-better-than-anyone-else-and-tries-to-force-his-stupid-philosophy-on-them asshole... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, not a fan of this guy but hang on a second here. He's been around for over three years. Up until recently he has been a very infrequent editor, then... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I think he's trying to goad us into doing it so he can bitch about how unfair the system is. Either way, I'm watching him. I won't send more than... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But where does this popularity come from? I have no doubts that he's a good person, but his behaviour definitely hasn't been what I'd call good. It's one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd back you up, but I don't think I had much contact with Flyboy previously.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That one's not coming back. Be on the alert for new accounts created to resume the crusade.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I take exception to the dismissive attitude that was displayed by the mod toward my concerns.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh for crying out loud.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone just doesn't get it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, your call. I didn't get the impression that this person was willing to be reasonable about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like the word "bitch" applied to women in any context what so ever. However, that doesn't mean I get to make arbitrary changes to pages to make... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM from Autumncomet saying that Flyboy has asked that his troper page be deleted. Here's the message: I'm in contact with the banned Flyboy and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been a little bit of a pain in IP, but nothing thumpable there.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Double post. Does anyone think that Pokemonboy's apology is sufficient? I'm not sure he gets it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Please tell me I'm not the only one annoyed with this IP thread. He's been positively annoying on putting up the damn image, including multiple bumps.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I wouldn't mind pulling the image. In fact, I think it's quite bad. However, his insistence and disregard for outside factors is getting on my nerves... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would have dropped anvils on him personally.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Add Lexma to the list of Mass Effect Wonker socks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And there I was about to give that one the benefit of the doubt because nothing got nuked.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The password he used matched his pattern, as did the gushing. Plus erasing negativity towards the ending. edited 23rd May '12 2:36:33 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dropped all bans on pentium4.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you give a troll a cookie...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mount Gushmore is the latest ME 3 troll sock. Banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My favourite anti-mod troll handle was one of my own antagonists: "Worst At" The same guy also incarnated as "Best Of Is An Asshole", so we had a good... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From Kino: I sent a message to the moderators about being unable to post in OTC, and I never received a response. That was over 4 weeks ago. In addition... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What are these measures?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This worries me because when it comes to the review section, the place is ripe for feeding trolls.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread New account Inflammible asking why Gush.Bioware is locked in ATT. Troll? edited 24th May '12 12:53:08 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woops, beat you to it. The password always gives him away. EDIT: What I love is that this is the only line on the entire page that is less than gushing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Hundredand Sixty Acres is on that list, is banned for rude edit reasons and edit warring, and was interested in at least one page in common. edited 24th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Beat you to it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Busy day for the Mass Effect troll: Antisweet Back X Start Product Of Canada Fagtheer Inflammible Game Of The Year Edition Mount Gushmore Li FEKEY... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh good, it's not just me then.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting mad at him is what he wants. Let's remember that in the end we're just modding a wiki. It's not the most important thing in the world. That's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Way to suppress enemy activity! That 130 days is a worry. Means the semi-lock will be essentially useless for people who can let an account 'cure' for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, baba is one of those trolls who has proven himself really fucking persistent. The average troll doesn't have that much patience. Hopefully.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I bet it still feels pretty frustrating for Baba to let an account germinate for months when the posts they make only last something like 5 minutes before... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wish we could get people to not remark on them at all.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread BTW, "Gettingknownagain" had no IP overlap with anyone, either. And the account age was 129 days. edited 25th May '12 7:19:14 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, we both got him within seconds. And there's skullfucks by you, Deadbeat and me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought we agreed to unban her?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, I've taken down the rest of Hydronix's bans.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Akagikiba was the world's worst ban evader with Akagikiba2 as their user name. I slapped the bans on hard for that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just dropped a ban on Tropers/Fingore. Sock of Motor Bender banned in April for pedoshit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The reason why I took a new handle 'Akagikiba2' wasn't because I was trying to evade a ban as the mod team assumed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (I'm asking you because I trust you not to pass this along to the other mods.) Boy, that'll teach him to learn. Re: feotakihari: His ban was in April and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 2GI? 2nd Google Incident. Got it. edited 1st Jun '12 1:54:40 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How about a thirty day cool down? Does he even know how close he is to getting booted and does he care?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I kicked him out. Obvious goon is obvious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Haha, well, I think he might go to the big banlist in the sky. Or right here on the wiki, more to the point. Hey, who got on the ball and nuked NaokoElric2250... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woooooooooow o.O... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The new ban works on both areas. DQZ....I'm okay with giving him those reasons, but if he keeps pestering you, tell him to take it to edit-banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What's up with that Nate Spidgewood guy? He bitches at discussion pages about namespacing, he whines about how people don't pay enough attention to Needs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I view it as the domain of people who need things to whine about and cannot feel psychologically fulfilled otherwise.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's actually been working on namespacing, sort of. He goes around behind other editors and changes the page type. Of course, he had to show up in ATT... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, as we know, it's killing him to do it. He's just looking for a reason to whine at this point, and you already warned him. It was very hard for me... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread thisgratuitousrhymingisgettingquiteanvilicious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back to business, this just landed in my inbox from a user called Fidoris: Hello. This is megamagikarp's sockpuppet. I would like to apologize for how... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bound By The Moon decided to ban evade. Slapped the bans on the sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The account's over a year old but he just now starts posting in that thread and his only edits are to his user page, where he deliberately states he doesn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mazz isn't new. She's the one who made this thread. We talked about it. She deleted her account last month and remade it. She said so in public. The thing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread According to her ban message, Eddie assumed she was new. It seemed to factor into the decision.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread History for MenageA3 Even though it's spoilered, I'm a little leery of that last edit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I nuked an OTC thread by Bames Jond, but the contents of the OP are making me wonder if we need a ban. Women don't get bullied. They only THINK they get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aiko Heiwa's being a butt in the last page of the Evangelion discussion thread. Already thumped a couple of posts...no time right now to follow more closely... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yay for really creepy people. What would we do as mods if they didn't exist? Yes, ban all those handles, cut any associated troper pages, and cut any... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got him. Ban evader? Rawpower is an old school ban and it wasn't wiki-side. There's no IP information to correlate. edited 11th Jun '12 7:07:02 AM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raw Power (aka dozens of other handles, and that one wasn't his first but I can't recall what that was) hasn't a history of racism to my knowledge but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Totally not. I just doubt it is Raw Power unless his brain has broken considerably since last we saw him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anyone heard from ccoa? She had given somebody a three-day timeout, but she hasn't been around and I'd hate to step on her toes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread According to his page he "had his eyes opened by an internet blog". Which is, of course, one of the best ways ever of getting information.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The hell is wrong with Rawpower? I left him the opportunity to reply in Edit Banned, but apparently he no longer cares and is just going to try to evade... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh yeah, so nothing since then?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Need a bounce on aisle 4. Vandal going by allfornot2 and smokinggun1. IP is 173.191.163.105.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't get all this "saving the database" nonsense. I've explained many times that the site is not going down. Backing it up out of a genuine interest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we should always post stuff like this on the mod fora when we get it from our users. It helps us know what's on the minds of our userbase.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I unbanned him, but I'm going to put him on the Troper Watchlist. Now, something weird is up with the RP crowd again. A while back, someone called... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would like there to be more mod presence in the thread for when it reopens for a while. We really need it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, we need your help. A vandal edited Quotes.TheNostalgiaCritic and inserted a phone number and address, which is still visible in the edit history... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^Personal info zapped.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Argh, Eddie, can you bounce that wacko known as Aravis Laserleean and Separatist Empire? She/he/it came back as Aravis Laserleen and left this gem on the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I gave Thorn14 a forum ban after this rant. He'd been warned repeatedly. I think we should keep it on for a week or so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Operating a nursery school has to be easier than this.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A new account called Hithere sent me a PM: my brother is Blitzwing and he is abusing himself when he goes here for god know what reason. block him, ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If there are no indications that she's involved in the spidering and her posts on the other forum fit with her assertion that she isn't involved, I'd say... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Deathpigeon is asking me if there's anything Aiko Heiwa can do to get herself unbanned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that Aiko needs a break from here. While I am not in the mood to do any poking around it seems to me that for the past couple of weeks the hollers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From what I understand, I imagine we'd need a copy of a letter stating that she is under professional psychiatric care.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aiko has been repeatedly and unequivocally warned that her drama is unacceptable. She is unable or unwilling to change. Our site is not therapy; we are... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mass Effect socks report: Permitted Justicar Negative Interpretation Retake Legion Postcard Firion Strife Blax Ryfle Porcuhog atthispoint Neko... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't see anything in the code that would cause this. Ask him to clear his browser cache and try again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Should be fixed now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh for the love of... I just got a PM from AnthonyX stating, quote: Can you regain Rawpower Ex's editing privileges? I taught him a lesson that hating... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it isn't him, it's a staggering coincidence.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we need to kick Xzenu to the curb? He seems now to have taken his personal issues with women and sex into YKTTW, as evidenced here. I am tempted to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not liking that. Tell him to knock it the hell off.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In case the cutmasters check here before going to the cutlist: be careful not to accidentally cut the various Mass Effect pages our wonderful troll has... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread , Seconded.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One of the ME troll socks was complaining that King Zeal was breaking the rules in the reviews section of ME 3. The only person Zeal is debating with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Unless King Zeal is attacking people who like the ending, he's not violating any policy that I know of. I've been very leery of Anfauglith in that regard... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought we were doing that with the ME cleanup, although admittedly that has been dead lately. We also locked the ME thread (twice) for devolving into... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just whacked a vandal by the name of Frostmourne who showed up in ATT asking why he couldn't edit rapidly. When I said that we have vandalism restrictions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Latest ME3 troll: freepackages. He's taken to posting in ATT.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Go ahead and unOTC ban RT if you want. I'm not sure I was thinking clearly when I banned him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dunno. I removed the account.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You will recall that I gave Blitzwing a PM ban for harassing another troper, and made it clear I wasn't inclined to lift it. I had also PM banned his alternate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Easy enough. No new accounts for people whose handles start with 'blitzwin'. Also bounced. edited 21st Jun '12 12:01:29 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Classic hysterical (or is it histrionic) personality disorder. We do her the most good by ignoring her. Or reporting that Tumblr post to their abuse team... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ship her a sharp knife.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Take him down. Haters need to go hate somewhere else. edited 21st Jun '12 3:09:13 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hit posting, liveblogs and reviews.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Iqbal Valtaire Full Frontal Dark Frontal All these are socks of a guy who cannot write in proper english to save his life and makes random PSOC articles... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Glad that it's confirmed, then. BTW, I originally banned an account named doomSAer, which doesn't exist! That's what you get for modding when tired. I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did, just now! Mistake. >.> I'm sorry. Fast Eddie, can you please unclock it?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I hate to keep bringing this up, but I think lilyxlightning needs to go. Reviewing the facts: Created shortly after banning Remus D Duck, and claims to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Nate Spridgewood person is getting on my nerves. I suggest that we tell him to come back after at least 1 week of cooldown. edited 26th Jun '12 5:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, got a lovely little tussle between Brit Bllt and Mr Death. Before I start, I should mention that Brit Bllt and I have tousled a couple times in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's already received a full hammering for that post.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you post something like "...are you serious?" he'll post something angsty, and then he'll go somewhere else and say something like "Recently, I've noticed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, did you take a look at the suspected Octo socks?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, I've gotten three PMs about ginger. May I ask what happened to him? I'm a friend of his around here. I replied: This post is a mild version of an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My opinion is that he's out for good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Flash of Sonic made another account, Flash Backup, but was smart enough not to try to post in the forums this time. He is once again banned. Would be happy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It doesn't even matter too much because he also edit warred on his primary account. I don't believe him, however.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who feels like dropping the hammer? Done.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bump. Take a look at this: This is a thread in one of the spin-off forums. Look for the post containing: "Huh. Seems my double account got deleted. Well... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfauglith used the sock Doriath to PM Komodin about his ban, complaining about me. I iced it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well I want that rule, but we should talk about it. In this case, Anfauglith had a history (been banned previously) and was posting Octo's messages, so... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, there's really no way we can know for certain that someone knew another poster was a ban-evader unless they either announce the fact or collude with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I'm up to page 400 — about the middle of July, 2011. Got some other stuff to do, will go back to it later... Tickle in the back of my brain... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm more concerned that that guy is looking for a way to attack the wiki, not a way to copy it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's what I was thinking.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My question is; having read the OP, why does he want to know? If he has some kind of scheme afoot why announce it? If I were going to steal shit, or think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfauglith sent me an appeal. Or rather, they asked me how long the ban's gonna be, and when I said I had no plans of lifting it, because they'd been banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we need a flagging ban, then. Anfa cares about arguing about Mass Effect 3 anywhere and everywhere, and cannot let things go. That's why he wants... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am now finally at the end of December hollers. Here's what I found. A really stupid war about fandoms. Ponies and Touhou, apparently. Main participants... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Forum Banned Moerin, Raineh Daze and AnnoR.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And with this, my night is done. We will certainly get a lot of drama now, since we're leaving a lot of RPs orphaned. I'm not feeling sympathetic though... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A couple of people have asked questions, but no one seems surprised or really disappointed. If there is a shitstorm, we could still find the post that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, and I was pretty close to slapping something on Moerin at the time, but Fusionman was on his last chance at the time and I was irritated at him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He always uses the same password. Bounce installed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread After taking a look at this, isn't this ban evasion by proxy? Or am I misunderstanding what is said?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was a suggestion that banned players could make a post on another site that would be linked to here to fill the gaps.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Keeping an eye out for doomsday524. His edit history is full of politician pages, including an Edit War on Hillary Rodham Clinton and restoring the Awesome.Glenn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not really, although I doubt it'll make him any less paranoid.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't we just have King Zeal in Edit Banned? I swear, Mass Effect is not worth the trouble of having an article on it. In any event, deliberately provoking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No argument, either. I wanted to maybe talk to them again but it's probably not worth the effort.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie is it possible to install a different bounce on Anfauglith/Nirnaeth/Neldoreth/Akallabeth/Androth/Argonath/Alruhn? He's past the password pattern... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think a YKTTW ban would be appropriate in his case.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seconding.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Issued. Now, another guy who is bugging me in YKTTW. Midnight Rambler. He made the trope Quirky Neighbour Country, which is basically a number of Zero... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I cut that Westrim thing about godliness. Westrim has serious "I can't hear you" issues. You may want to look at his other launches for cutlisting.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say wiki ban 'em both. They're both using exactly one identical IP, and with the names so close there's no doubt it's a sock.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not really.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dear gods, that could go into a collection of Worst Grammar Failures Ever.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh, The Legend Of Korra discussion page is full of people who do not know when to fucking step back. Latest piece of flame is this item. It starts bad... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do we need to slap down tsstevens for exporting drama? His posts over on the Clerith forum are not helping our cause at all. IIRC, he was also a problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Idiot. Ban his ass. He does not understand what feeding the trolls means. I told him not to encourage them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is he Holo over there? If so, I 'd say, yes, he's exporting drama, with a high probability that it will get imported right back at us.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. Looks like a copy-paste job, either with some weird character set that the wiki isn't equipped to handle or a deliberate attempt to hack the site... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IAMNAMTAB, returned once again as Maxpaynefan27 to insert a bunch of natter on Max Payne. His previous socks were Video Game Lover 721 and Walking Dead... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was warned and disregarded the warning. Straightforward.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Super Vegito FAN needs a suspension. Edit history. Poor understanding of bullet points. The Core additions were full of natter. Has no idea about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope. Something...odd...in Image Pickin'. Hadashi replied to my PM and basically said that he couldn't see any reason why we kept the current pic on Large... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Savage Heathen, who had an OTC ban for being an unbearable asshole, has made another handle, Politruk, and posted in OTC with that handle. This means that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread basudai (209.239.114.70) attempted to recreate the P5 cut Baldr Sky at Baldr Sky. Given the lack of edits, I imagine he is the same person or is affiliated... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't say I'm surprised about Savage Heathen.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kay's generally reasonable on the forums so I think a reminder will be sufficient.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I would not have expected something like that from Kay. A warning? Ninja'd. edited 25th Jul '12 3:49:39 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's also improved a lot in the last year. She was a bit snippy when she first came here, I remember.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember, ATC is the troper that people had to seriously work wonders of argument to get him to accept that bathing was a good idea. Bathing ever.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't remember that. Must have happened in a thread I wasn't following.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dammit, that discussion page just will not stay on my watchlist. EDIT: I don't see anything too terribly bad, just walls of text at each other. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I nuked Akiyoshi for more wonking on Nanoha after being told to cut it out ages ago.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got me a nickel that Fire From Heaven and Born In The Fires is that wacko known as Prometheus Unbound, Tiberius Blaze, Innocent Woodland Elf and a bunch... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good question...putting stuff like this in a commented-out note in the page coding's a good way to get it ignored unless it shows up in flashing letters... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am more concerned in that he seems to have a beef with Xzenu and tropes launched by him. The way he went about it also strikes me as incredibly petty... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For the record: the edit was was in the article for the French Revolution, and I banned the other guy, too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you thank Autumncomet for reporting this? ...Damn ban evaders.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread O__O That sounds even more trollsome.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On the Edit Banned topic, EJO1 can probably be rehabilitated. I was looking around for evidence of other bad edits and while I think there was some shoehorning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Redjirachi is trying to trigger the sympathy vote. Any sympathy?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd forgotten about that...he did do good work there. I just wish he'd learn to get to the meat of what he's trying to say.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Three hats would be fine if not for the fact that there's still disagreement in the comments and well, as you said, everything else. I'm not even sure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is it just me, or is this guy trying to come up with abstract ideas that are barely tropes? Look at this and this. The second one really shouldn't have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You know my feeling that YKTTW needs a big culture shift. I wouldn't call those first two things tropes. The latter one, maybe.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...what's a ModsAdmins and how would we go about doing that? edited 21st Aug '12 9:49:36 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Has he shown up since that burst this morning? Maybe he got bored.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kill him and nuke his stuff then.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've got me another shipping mess...*sigh* Orihime sent this: May I ask for a warning towards the user Saiyan5ninetails? His rabid Ichigo/Orihime and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That troper went to the Romance thread and started bugging kay, apparently. That's a huge red flag in my book.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's the Westerner, Kay admitted so when she was talking to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pigeon asked me not to tell Kay about the Holler. I told Pigeon we keep that stuff to ourselves.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He may have tried to PM her. She can recognise him easily. It fits his pattern, since he said he wants an account to PM people but not post.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do so, Best, but make sure they're not just ranting about Eddie and policy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aaaaaaaaaaand he showed up as SWAGGIE in ATT to post "I didn't know TV Tropes was about selling douchebags. I thought it was about being douchebags!" Flushed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that it's almost certainly Westerner hijacking Lord's account to use it as a sock. I'd be willing to take that evidence in front of a judge.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Permission to hammer?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread hamarad, password asdf, IP 75.150.215.89 is ilmurov, vandalising the wiki. Fullban installed. Am I paranoid for thinking johnxj with the password asdfgh... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, should we ask Sheora to use the previously agreed upon format, or is it even worth bothering with?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I workshop banned Twentington after this snotty holler about a thread he opened and yet did nothing to fix the issue while waiting for someone else to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The mind boggles. "If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hee hee hee You can use it Europe and I'll use it in the US. K?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ninja'd you with the full range of bans.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Better announce it in thread so he doesn't pull the "It's just Tor bouncing me!" thing. We really just won't waste any more time on the jerk.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread AnCatDubh2 is AnCatDubh ban evading and sent me a wall of text PM that I didn't even bother reading; I just applied the full range of bans. Puppet check... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended Zeanobia after trying to recreate Did Not Do The Research under different names twice. It would be nice if we could turn it into redirect + faux... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've noticed her persistence and inability to let something drop once she's fixated on it. I don't think it's ban-worthy or anything, but perhaps words... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Moving outta hollers... kay4today is...odd. This is today's incident. Some dumb joke which escalated to insults. She then brought the argument to another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That mod-message of mine in Fetishes wasn't directed at only one person. Quite a bunch of them have been behaving badly lately.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread T Paradox claims to have been on an in-joke with Kay about that. False alarm on that bit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think any of us have a handle there, and I don't think they're going to give this to a new user.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just warned vanthebaron in OTC for strawmanning and using insulting language. He has a massive collection of thumps and has been posting banned once... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good job, Lu. As always.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread QQQQQ saw fit to remind me that I said his suspension was temporary thusly: If you don't mind my asking - how long is this "week's break" going to continue... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got the following via PM its me again your old buddy qurail. i just wanted to message you and say that im sorry for what i said on the board. i understand... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This Arianahime fellow wants us to nuke Greek Ninja, on the basis that he is the author and it has been removed from existence. Opinions? This doesn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I got Westerner's message but I thought it wholly bullshit so I ignored it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nate Spidgewood was hitting ATT to complain about some other tropers. Handles are BudAndPenn and JoeJoe1991, both of whom were banned. He seems to be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He hangs out on the right side of the forums, has terrible grammar and spelling, and likes to edit the wiki with the same terrible grammar and spelling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread How do you know it's him, though?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right. Ban time it is. (BTW, I checked that handle before asking you how you found it; no posts, no edits, no IPs to look at, no troper page. Nothing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And now Keyseeker asked me how he can appeal his ban because he asked her on Tumblr and fed her the same BS about someone impersonating him. Why won't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hell, I don't think I have a squeaky-clean record so Im looking for some type of mod backing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was what I guessed. So I added them. He's blocked across the board now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You thought the shit vandal was gone? Well, he's back as The Enema Within (216.17.107.175, 184.22.189.123). He's also gotten sneakier—his vandalisms... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't get people who do that at all. If you are going to come back under another name just do it and be quiet. Don't out yourself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done. Always uses the same password.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM from an account hight hedgehog203. IP lookup doesn't have any overlaps. The contents are: I'm not trying to rub this in or anything like that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Blitzwing continues his wacky hijinks. The accounts dash2, dash3 and dash4 were all created to PM JHM about kerfuffles they had on other sites. I have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Found a bunch of account using the same passwords as dash3, dash4. Blitzwing was one of 'em. Wave bye-bye. He go bouncey-bounce. edited 18th Nov '12 12... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As you are mod, you must be busy with pests like me, so let me recall myself.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ugh...he's such a tough case, I don't know what to say. He was originally rather rude and dense, but I decided to give him a chance in the English thread... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Password varies and they are using a proxy. Sorry, no bouncey.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yet another Goldstone sock, this time named Wolfbog, cutlisting Black And White Beauty and Raven Hair Ivory Skin because he finds them "unnecessary" and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And has a massive eye colour fetish, as evidenced by all the Zero Context Examples of Purple Eyes wicks he added. You know, in case BELLE'S EYES ARE HAZEL... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Except that you'd expect someone banned for RP-related BS to talk to Daltar instead, but maybe Moerin hasn't heard that we now have a Mod specialising... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you look she does say she felt more comfortable going to me than to anyone else. Take that however you wish.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am officially fed up with T Beholder, as his only contribution to the wiki-side forums ever since the content policy has been obstructive, sarcastic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, CAT MOD nuked him, so that's that. We have another Complete Monster weirdo in our hands.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The mod squish team got him fast. edited 26th Nov '12 2:09:27 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban him. Correlation is very high.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In case you thought Goldstone couldn't get any stupider, this is his newest obssession. There must be a conspiracy over people writing Phillip's name with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread New arrival in my inbox. 12th Dec '12 8:19:04 AM Anno R to Deadbeatloser22: New Appeal to the Moderation I would like my ban to be reconsidered. While... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you didn't issue the ban already, based on your post I'd say the overlap is sufficient to justify a ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Internet Tough Guy-ing is one of those behaviours that erases all sympathy. EDIT: I just took a look at Kay4Today's Restrain page. The amount of Thumps... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread K:' I have done nothing wrong to fear a mod response. I corrected a wrong spelling. That's it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Definitely agree with your call there. Based on the PM exchange in Fighteer's post I'd say Marq is right about the name (addendum Who cares?!) but wrong... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got this from King Zeal: Hello and sorry to bother you, but I want to stop a situation before it gets really ugly. In short, I posted in the "Sexism and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread SamuraiSubaru is our Mass Effect vandal back again for more. He posted briefly and semi-rationally in Ask The Tropers before the conversation devolved... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Any variation of Ebb, xxx, 1993 is a creepy wonk over Lyrical Nanoha whose purpose isn't entirely clear. Ban on sight.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember Gaz Bev Moo, who was making all those weird pages and only-vaguely coherent or sensical posts about a year ago, and got banned for it? Game Spazzer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I took a look at some of your Thumped posts; as a Mod I can see the text even though it was Thumped. Quotes: You seem like the one bawwing right now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And another bounce I need after I detected the ebb sock. xxx1993xxx xxxEbb1993xxx xxxEbb1993xxx 1993xxx1993 1993xxxebbxxx 1993xxxebbxxx Ebb1993xxx... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That one's also known as Ebbebb. I'd like to request a bounce on Zakawer, AKA Zakawer2 and Zakawer3. edited 15th Jan '13 5:13:50 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread PM sent to randomguy333: Greetings. The moderation team has been discussing your situation, while also investigating your past behavior, and we've arrived... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What the hell is this?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It has a lot of editors and gives Google results. I suspect it's this group pimping their things. Perhaps Tangent who's into Pokemon knows about it?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Um, wow. Did we actually care enough to ban Anfauglith? I mean, if he wasn't causing any trouble this time he doesn't seem bad enough to ban. Then again... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfa keeps threatening to hack us if we continue his ban. That alone is enough to keep him banned. Hell, maybe it's worth replying to him to that effect... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread David: I'd say give him a two or three month ban. And make it very clear that if he ban-evades during that time he's gone for good, no appeals will be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll take on David. New voice, uninvolved in the bannings, maybe I can get through to hm.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ace of Scarabs and I had a PM exchange about David when the latter was ban evading. A relevant quote from Ace: Will keep an eye out for him. His disruptive... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sugarbabe 88, Sugarbabe 1988 and prettygurl 21 desperately needs a bounce. Her socks have made a mess of multiple articles by adding ginormous walls of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounces installed... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I checked the Horndog page and it appears someone named Real Horndog is editing it. He shares IP with Koo Koo Banana and if you look he's making a minor... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It occurs to me that Koo Koo's only forum posts are here pointing to Baranoff's Twitter and insisting we delete his porn comic. This raises my suspicions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, I'm trying to find Twentington's rude edit reasons, but there's a couple showing as blank in the edit reason list. Did you zap them as rudeness?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did zap the Twentington edit reasons. They were all like "what the fuck is wrong with you?" and so on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Honestly, Twentington's value is highly debatable. He's awful at resolving repair threads he makes, awful at brainstorming whether there is meaning in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 3855 - 3858: I've hit all of the handles associated with Koo Koo Banana and Real Horndog with wiki bans. Horndog was editing as recently as last week.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, I am once again trying to find out what Trash Man did that got him banned, without much in the way of success. His ban was on August 21, 2010.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our Asian wonk is back as iloveoprah, spamming this Wall Of Text on multiple discussion pages: Since this was removed, which is a violation of the first... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, we have very strong evidence that Kami4 is our old pal Secretist returned to haunt us. Evidence: Exclusive IP overlap with secretist. Kami4, however... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The distinctive not-sure-if-human-or-chatbot behavior does ring quite the bell. It's hard to think up a coincidental explanation.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, I'll slap an "on suspicion" ban from OTC and the wiki. We'll see if that pulls him in to talk.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our Mass Effect obssessive is back again, spamming 110 reviews on Mass Effect 3. So annoying. -__- tsstevens is being very unhelpful by feeding him and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, would you please do a password check between secretist and kami4? I'm trying to put the final nail in the coffin of this fellow who behaves identically... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it's a club it isn't recognized by the school. [1]... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've more or less concluded that kami/secretist is a college philosophy student who is bursting with naivete and idealism but has zero real life experience... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread For his debating skills? I'm more worried about the lack of coherency. Apparently, no one taught him to put his thoughts in order.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or else they are trying mightily and secretly wish he would drop the class.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread RockinPSI1 and superboy98 are socks of the same troper whose only contribution is to spam Brain Scratch Commentaries with some idiotic Bias Steamroller... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Potential security hole located, or else I don't know all the details of how the restraint system works. Voltlds has been spamming invalid page type changes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, Voltlds is still changing page types, despite a wiki ban. I'm sorry to keep bugging you about this, but something's still broken.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't look at the dA links right now, but this screams "single issue wonk".... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I want the page cut for being a haven for whiny entitled jerks with the collective emotional maturity of the demographic that the show is intended... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TrashBag seems to be KooKooBanana back to defend Isaac Baranoff. There's another handle on that IP, Thesedaysthosedays, who seems innocent. I repaired... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pokemonboy returned as Pokemonkids and Pokemon123. Both handles fullbanned. No significant damage.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. I'll add that IP to the Restrain page (as a note.) EDIT: Can you do a puppet check with that? If there's IP overlap with Rorschachwasright or ColonelMcBadass... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't take this guy seriously at all so I don't really mind. Still, if it's possible to do a bounce that would be great. (In case you didn't notice:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He also has a group on deviantArt dedicated to hating on the wiki: TV-Tropes-Reform... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, yes, Indigo Dingo. He was forum banned before August of 2011, since his entry on the forum banned list doesn't have a date. This is the reason on the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If I am remembering correctly his was cumulative. Over a period of time he became more disruptive and rude. And there was some ban evasions as well, with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've got a lively fellow on The Green Hornet. dwlow81 posted a screeching review on how we are obviously shilling the movie, and proceeded to attack another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am sick of listening to ohsointocats' whining. She whipsaws around between self-pity, suicidal ideation, threats of self-harm, and is basically trolling... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Our Mass Effect friend has vandalised Locked Pages and posting his beautiful rants in ATT: Oh, I was just leaving anyway. It's not like I'll change anything... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, but it continues! Wiks (195.69.191.70) posted this in ATT: I'm going to kill the dumbfucks who run TV Tropes. They clearly don't know how to run a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspect your generosity is wasted on that one. "I was never impolite or rude." Coming from the guy who posted gems such as "You're the one who's spewing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I want to put John Casey 21's head in a vice for a couple of hours. Regardless of whether his arguments about ZC Es are worth discussing, he's an utter... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got this PM yesterday (I think) from Comrade Claus:     my status  Back in december a post of mine was thumped. as a result,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, at least now his argument that we're biased is shot utterly full of holes. <looking on the bright side>... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, we have a password pattern on the last four accounts he's made so far (mariosonic) and a handle pattern: "David" and "Mouse" both appear in it. Is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Given that a lot of the posts he was making in the original RP thread that got daltar's attention were about characters with violent tendencies and guns... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The guy Albo is the issue, not the topic. I'll reopen with a caution.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, we aren't here to play Internet psychiatrist to a bunch of losers.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it might be just about time we send Spark 9 packing from the workshops. He has been consistently having trouble telling the distinctions between... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hunh, that is totally unlike him. He's been around forever and usually focuses on bringing newly launched pages up to speed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What do we do with this fellow? I recall we refused to unban him when he appealed via sockpuppet. Eddie?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Copying from Skype: I got a PM from Mighty Kombat. Someone called OppanYOLOswag (what a silly handle, BTW,) sent MK a couple of PMs after MK edited out... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say burn the page; we're under no obligation to let a ban evader host/pimp his work here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. EDIT: I'm reading up on the Skype discussion and I think you were talking about someone else. I'm talking about the dispute between Oppan YOLO swag... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Put a YKTTW suspension for Jess. She has some obssession with hair.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I had a PM conversation this morning (my time) with Hodor, who is concerned that Codename Bravo may be Antvasima ban evading. I'm posting all of it here... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a PM from Fiery1. Seriously, I want to know: How long did you have to blow Eddie's chode before he gave you power over this wiki?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From ATT, GuitarHero1999 may be YuiIsMyWife ban evading. I can't tell with absolute certainty, but it is a very close match.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is there an IP match at all? or is that still borked? The timing and edit style is certainly thought-provoking. edited 3rd Sep '13 12:54:38 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread the sender of that unread message about it, and she told me there was a different person using this handle before; she also recommended me to tell a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds good.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No way.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ordinarily, I'd say that someone can mature a lot in a year, and it might be worth unbanning them on a one-strike-you're-out-again basis. But something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Adding to our list of perennial ban evaders: Craver357 socked it up as jammer5179 immediately after their final strike for misuse of tropes. Predictably... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Morven: this holler about Mikuru Fan Mobile... What was the gist of it? I ask because Mikuru Fan is one of our more problematic posters recently, given... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah. If none of us saw it, then yeah, we probably should let it slide.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread & I agree, that kind of crap gets tiresome really quick.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not ALL of them. Just too many, and too loud.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I figured just final straw kind of stuff, rather than something big.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did, and she says she's going to lay it off. Let's see what happens.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread by the players there to discuss how to get this player to leave peacefully after she had caused so much conflict in this thread and had a tendency to mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread our foot down and saying that we are sick of this, and that we want to be able to post here without worrying that disagreeing with someone will bring a mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Irene has recently been Hollering about Raining Metal. This time the report is valid. After I Thumped a post by RM and posted in the thread Irene sent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread GhostofMuramasa, banned for edit-warring, chose to appeal by PM: Man, fuck you, you dipshit. Allthetropes was right about you malignanta asshats. I'm going... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I put a forum ban on superluigiglitchy4 (sp?) for making a thread asking for edits on their behalf while they were edit banned. It was reported on Ask... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Update: IP match on morriebench, plus the account age means it was created right after their appeal was rejected. Bounce installed on both handles. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Morriebench may be a sock of Masonicon. He showed up in the bounce log (by password match) immediately after those bounces. Edit: Never mind, unless Masonicon... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bluto983's first edit is to remove a lot of entries on YMMV.Game Chap with the edit reason "Malicious posts in breach of tvtropes terms are removed. Please... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's a gross misrepresentation of our rules. Suspend and revert ASAP. I'm also running a puppet check on that handle. Hmm, bluto983 is using a proxy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like we might need to ask Drew and Chris for another IP block.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wouldn't say so. Once their socks get bounced a few times, most people give up.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I distinctly remember hollering something that looked like baba not long ago... Regarding this particular sock farm, I don't think we are in need of an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bumping this up so that I don't end filling up the Skype thread. I've been doing a spring cleaning on my "restraints issued" list, that is, running sock... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Continuing: Gum8a11 may be Gummypuss. alojho12345 may be helix/prio. SgtSlick may be taylorkerekes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was supposed to write some notes about that drama we dealt with yesterday. The idea is that if there's ever any further trouble with the people involved... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More bannee sockpuppet checking: pablodepablo may be PeiraIssaNoid. jeffpiatt and jsptropes are both banned for gramma/spelling issues and the IP data... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings So, as a mod, I am opposed to making it a policy to add them.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings All of Maddy's con's are compelling. I'm agin 'em.... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings I agree with all of the counter-arguments listed above. It is not our responsibility to go out of our way to flag topics that might upset people, especially... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings I'd say in most cases if a "trigger warning" is needed it's a sign that something needs to be fixed so that it's not needed. Rarely is there a need for... More Mod Jabberings Trigger warnings I think what you laid out will work, and is clear.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Edited it.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Moleman's rants (only one is worth mentioning) in his DA group should be included in the message to DA. This one says: I urge anyone reading this who... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Personally, if I were a member of the DA staff or the staff of any wiki, I'd want detailed information up front so I can judge if it's something worth... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation I looked at that DA stuff. Founded a year ago and this is all the action they've gotten? Let's just continue to ignore it.... More Mod Jabberings Contacting other sites about drama importation Offering goodies?... More Mod Jabberings Custom Title and article/link title proposal (for 2.0) In our current implementation, the parser would have to be overhauled to make that work. As I discussed in Skype chat, in our proposed TV Tropes 2.0 implementation... More Mod Jabberings Security Of course passwords go in cookies. All that means is you need access to the user's computer or a way to intercept their datastream — we don't use... More Mod Jabberings Security More on this from Miijhal (the goon I quoted earlier; Chambered Nautilus is her sockpuppet). It really does sound to me like a valid concern. As for the... More Mod Jabberings Security I wonder about that myself. Is the idea of privately sending the information to someone who can actually do something about it really so strange?... More Mod Jabberings Security Depends on whether the point is to help or to stroke your epeen.... More Mod Jabberings Security Uh, no, that's my fault, sorry. Tropers were talking about it on the previous page, so I asked for more information.... More Mod Jabberings Security Looks like this was done while Eddie was on siesta. Anyone get in touch with him directly yet?... More Mod Jabberings Security Just heard back. He says "It's closed now."... More Mod Jabberings Security Have your white-hat try those again.... More Mod Jabberings Security He's not on right now, but Ponica and Iverum have both offered to help; I'll see if either of them is on. Edit: Eddie, I can't access my own inbox now.... More Mod Jabberings Security Try it now.... More Mod Jabberings Security Heard back from Ponicalica. He says it's still possible to edit other tropers' posts, unfortunately. He's not really sure how the "edit profile" exploit... More Mod Jabberings Security Tzetze has found another hole. The sockpuppet killer apparently does allow recovery edited 19th Aug '11 8:48:00 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings Security Uploader and 'restore' thing have been fixed. The 'restore' was to make an account with the handle that was deleted. There were still some PM's and avatars... More Mod Jabberings Mod labels If you'd rather not be flagged as a mod in the main wiki, let me know.... More Mod Jabberings Mod labels Okay. Scaredy pants.... More Mod Jabberings Mod labels Also, now that I have wiki mod powers, it would be good if people knew who I was when I edited. May I get my title back?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I want a mod panel, so I'm voting for that one. Selfish reasons. :-)... More Mod Jabberings development priorities On the other hand, a lot of people really hate ptitles. If you ever need a burst of goodwill, moving that up the list could do the trick. For the moment... More Mod Jabberings development priorities If there's anything I've learned from hanging out around the World Of Warcraft forums, there's nothing fans hate more than not being given information... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Cool. Let's put together a headhunting list, see if anyone has a reason not to extend an offer to the folks on the list, and if not, hunt them down and... More Mod Jabberings development priorities In most cases, aren't plain text redirects to ptitles just the ptitle minus punctuation? If that's the case, why not whip up a simple query to compress... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Madrugada'a candidate list list pretty good, for the most part. Why do I have the impression Tuefel Hunden IV is a little behind on the spelling/grammar... More Mod Jabberings development priorities ^ Because there are times that he makes some pretty blatant errors? I don't know if he's a little behind the curve or that he simply slips a little towards... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Yes to both. Transliteration aside, the functionality of the actual page seems fine now.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities The keep/no-keep/fix page is hooked up to do what it does. Any other nominations for Synonym Keeper? I'd like to have the invitations out and accepted... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I was planning to use the system to cut invalid or blank ptitled pages, so yeah, that's what I thought the "Don't Keep" option is for.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Yes.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities It doesn't touch the work they have done, it just removes the unused ptitles. I ran a thing to remove all the bulk of items that would have been redlinked... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Had another request for an "Ignore poster" option. I assume that's not happening?... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Question about the subscription thing- it turns off ads in the threads, but I still seem to be seeing them on thread lists and posting pages. Is this correct... More Mod Jabberings development priorities It only turns them off in the threads. Should it turn them off altogether in the forum? I suppose we could track down all the different forum list presentations... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Excellent. Cheers.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Do we want someone to Holler at the mods from the thread or flag the page that has the discussion that needs to be moved? I'm thinking that we should encourage... More Mod Jabberings development priorities I think Madge speaks wisdom.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Yeah, I guess the 30 days thing was ill considered. Back when I said extra threads were no problem, I wasn't thinking in terms of 18,000 extra threads.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Yup, sounds like a good idea.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities Ah. OK. No coding skill here, so all I could do was point out the problem. Not trying to dictate a particular solution. As long as the various different... More Mod Jabberings development priorities To be honest, I really liked the proposal (don't remember who originally proposed it) that we list the medium after the work title rather than before.... More Mod Jabberings development priorities This allows us to put any special rules or <Mod Notes> at the top where they're always visible, rather than getting lost in the noise.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters There has to be some level of gorn we don't want to cross in the places we want to be family-friendly. I guess it has to do with the level of detail, as... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Also remember that AdSense tends to SafeSearch flag anything that has certain buzzwords like "lolicon", "shotacon", etc., in it. So if the isolation is... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters I'm having a minor issue. Flipping the isolation status of an article is supposed to (by your earlier statements) flip its redirects, but it's either... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Nope, makes sense that way from an internal POV. But someone clicking on the above link might logically expect to see a content warning page. edited 16th... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Well, we can't control what people do with pothole text, either. We can't somehow lexicographically examine This obscene and disgusting pothole text and... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Tweeted.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Nice article. Oddly formatted for me, though. One narrow column; none of the usual wiki gingerbread.... More Mod Jabberings Isolation parameters Yeah, it's very plainly made.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Perhaps these people need an official outlet to vent steam? Obviously, personal insults are out, for all the reasons already stated, but if we keep squashing... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I didn't think you were! Sorry if I sounded defensive. I think there are a number of places that they are using for that function. The Wiki Talk forum... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It would still need some kind of super-moderation, methinks. And while it has intriguing implications for replicating in a microcosm the evolution of... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I have no inherent schedule conflicts now that PAX is done.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I guess I need to dust off my Skype account then. And then it turns out I'm far to shy to do voice chat. edited 10th Apr '12 12:50:34 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Yeah, I don't have a mic on this comp, so I can text but not voice chat.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting We can do text/voice/video in whatever combination the indviduals are comfortable with.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I can rig up a mic though it may be somewhat jury-rigged — I'll have to improvise a mic stand — but I can do it. Not sure about video, just... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I have a cheapo webcam that I can try to install on my laptop...I should probably invest in a headset soon.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I have a built-in webcam that I don't use, and a mic that sounds terrible. So you'll probably see me, but I can't guarantee you'll hear me. I'm going... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm on Zulu / UTC / GMT / Whatever.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm in Greece, which I think is GMT+2.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Noon on the weekend should work fabulously, at least so long as I get enough notice (>1 week) so that I don't otherwise schedule myself.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So then another option might be: 7pm Greece Finland 6pm England not GMT 5pm England GMT 12pm Eastern 11am Central 10am Mountain 9am Pacific I miss... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So I bought a webcam from Ebay and am more or less sure I'll having within a week. If there was lagging last time, this time I should not be lagging or... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So 13th May is out?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting ^^ There is just a $25 fee/annum for multi-conference skype. My daytime company picked up that little bit. Anyway. Not a concern.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting AFAIKRN, any of those dates are good.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Hunh, I learned something about Mother's Day and Father's Day. Other than, at least here anyway, you are supposed to wait till Mother's Day to plant summer... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Either/all work for me. edited 3rd May '12 10:20:32 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I guess then that I will have to *gasp* set an alarm for a Sunday morning. The horror! The horror!... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Mike can do anything. He is the new Chuck Norris. Only Canadian.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting That makes him all the more awesome. (Didn't know who he was until I looked him up in Wikipedia just now.) Uhh, I meant I didn't know who that Mike Holmes... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Any of those dates/times work for me.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Should be good but with my luck something's going to come up.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So, May 20 at 5 GMT? That makes it noon my time. I can do it, although my Sunday schedule can be unpredictable. I'll try to let you know in advance... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Here's the time zone map again. If it's 5PM GMT, it'll be 7PM for us.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting So, all the times except Greece bump up an hour?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I've found that general exam days, which occur about twice a month in our department, can be very sneaky. Usually, I've signed up for an exam some months... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting My skype name is now sasha.harlow. I have no idea how to use the software, though.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Can't accept until after work. Will do so then.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sorted.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I think I've got Eddie, Katrika and Morven.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I just reviewed the notes from the last meeting it derails pretty quickly, the first page covers it and went over this thread and I can't believe how much... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Did I miss doing something?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting If you got a request from FE you have to accept it. Or maybe he hasn't seen your info yet. It doesn't look like he is online right now. ETA the request... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting When are we doing this thing Sunday?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm not sure 5PM is doable for me, so I might be showing up late.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'll be here.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I already wrote it in the contact information thread but my skype name is dal_tar.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I added you on Skype. Accept my Contact Request so I can add you to the Skype discussions.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Same here.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Accepted.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting to all of that. I have a laundry list of tech issues/wishes to address...I need to sit down with my list and type them up.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Added to earlier post. edited 16th Nov '12 3:47:09 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I see ccoa dropped out of our Skype groups...did she respond to anyone?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm busy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, but unless extra lessons pop up, I'm available every other day.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Reposting from the Skype discussion: Our anniversary and a work trip to CA will make me all but unavailable until after the 16th, and the 16th would be... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Thinking about it...I could do the evening of the 9th after, say, 6:00 PST, provided my flight and trip to the hotel aren't delayed. I'll need to double-check... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting OK, I'm going to suggest that we look at Jan 5 or 6, 12 or 13. That gives us a month lead time for people to clear their schedules. Another option would... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting *sigh* Unfortunately, I've got another work trip during those times...I'm technically not supposed to travel until the 6th, but there's a potential snafu... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I had to check, so I'm posting here for the other non-Americans (and Daltar): MLK Day is January 15th. edited 3rd Dec '12 6:10:30 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm posting here for the other non-Americans (and Daltar) Would you listen to a band named The other non-Americans (and Daltar)? I would.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Works for me.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I can do it then as long as it's in the morning Central time.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm in, morning EST is also best.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I don't have classes on the following day, but something tells me my parents and kittens wouldn't appreciate our voices while they're sleeping late at... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting For instance, contacting a mod via PM to appeal your ban isn't stated anywhere and it might escape some folks. Many don't even know us.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Added another new item...dunno if it's feasible or not, but I thought I'd throw it out there.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Argentina is UTC-3.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Correct. >.< So UTC-4 (ish).... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Any time after noon EST (i.e. 11 a.m. for the large group in Central) should be fine for me, and I can make earlier times.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I am here before noon.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Okay, that's better. How about 10 AM Chicago time? Hopefully it's not too early for the Californian people.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm fine with it. My son will be on the call, if only by proximity.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sounds like a plan. Hopefully I'm gonna be feeling up for it, I've got a sinus infection in the works.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Is that something like 6PM in (on?) GMT+2? 'Cause I think it is, and that's the same time as Arsenal's game against Manchester City. I obviously won't... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Works just fine.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, according to the map that would be: 8 AM Pacific (Morven, Ironeye) 10 AM Central (Shima, Meta, Maddie, Willbyr, Katrika... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting standing by...... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I want a header in that thread to point people to the FAQ. That's the main reason I suggested it.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It is hooked up now. The button is that last one on the right, a clipboard with a page on it. Setting a specific post other than the first post would be... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Changed the border. How's that?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting It takes you to mod central.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Awesome. I noted these items as Done on the meeting notes post.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Since we're in a productive phase, can we make the welcome message official and send it? Or does it need further tweaking?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting I'm a bit busy tonight, but I'm going to take a stab at writing up the descriptions for the SE categories later this weekend.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting re: Welcome message I just have to hook it up to the new account stuff.... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Cool. Are there ban screens for the forums, YKTTW, reviews, liveblogs, etc?... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Septimus has been working on this for a little while: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13563794220A59215200&page=1#1... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting The Skype meetings have been useful in the past. Especially when working out policy stuff. It was nice having the video chat option. Because of time zones... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Noon Pacific is fine for me. Barring extreme unforeseen circumstances, I can make any Sunday evening. It'll be 10PM for Greece (and Finland; Best Of, when... More Mod Jabberings Agenda Items Next Skype Meeting Near as I can tell, if we shoot for a Sunday in late September/ early October there is a chance many of us can make a meeting that would convene at noon... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Is there anyone else that we want to consider for this ban?... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Cider, definitely. I wouldn't miss him at all if he got the boot. rodney can be a little bit of an obstructionist at times, but generally he does more... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Cider, definitely. I wouldn't miss him at all if he got the boot. So I opened this thread along with many others by opening everything in my thread Watchlist... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Yep. DQZ has had plenty of chances. Sort of on that topic: What is our sense of throughput on the workshops? Is it flowing? edited 15th Jul '12 9:37:32... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children Martello did a lot of the scutwork. DQZ not so much, and my perception is that Raso was very uneven on doing it. If (s)he was deeply invested in the trope... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children EDIT: After typing this, it occurs to me that a possible solution is for me to give up all other mod work, and just concentrate on pushing TRS threads.... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children I can easily imagine a mod suffering brain death from immersing themselves in the workshops, but I'm sure many of you could imagine a mod dying from OTC... More Mod Jabberings Workshops' problem children I don't either. The stated ban reason is walls of text and ruining discussions of social phenomena. He's got a very poor track record in YKTTW. It may... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. The genesis of this thread is this exchange on Skype. We are trying to find a way of getting a message to a real person at Google. [8:26:11 PM] Fast Eddie... More Mod Jabberings Thread for composing a letter to Google. How the fuck did I screw up like that? D and N are nowhere near each other...... More Mod Jabberings Mod tool sandbox Hi Maddy, glad to see you back.... More Mod Jabberings Skullfuck test That means that it works.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy I think I'll just post the message that I have so far. We can improve the OP later.... More Mod Jabberings Content Policy ...And Stick posted, proving he has not read a damn thing. "You're censoring explicit material!" -__-... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project This is a great idea. Time consuming to implement, but not terribly difficult. Data conversion would be the really awful part.... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Another property that we could attach to the work/adaptation structure is the country of origin. That way you can run filters and queries based on that... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I didn't (and still don't) like the idea in our current system, because it's a lot of work to reorganize the page and you still have the problems of people... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Well, in that case, we'd have the case where a trope can relate to more than one character in a work, in which case the text may have to be different for... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Only if there is a Characters page for the work, and I'm certain that not all works pages do it, as there are several I curate (and/or created) that aren't... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project I'm bumping this as it looks like it may actually happen, and I'd like to rewrite the concept from scratch to take into account some of the refinements... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project As long as the deletion is logged and requires a reason filled in, it's hardly any different from someone deleting an example now. Better, in a way, because... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Yep, that was proposed in the other thread here (Improving reporting systems across the site).... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Some more recent ideas about how to make certain functions work: Page histories: Instead of having per article page histories, each element (custom title... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project In relation to that last part - I believe it was suggested that pages could possibly have a slideshow type image presentation, or at least the ability... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Page-image elements could incorporate the voting system I mentioned previously, with the top-voted image being set as the page image unless it's locked... More Mod Jabberings TV Tropes 2.0: Relational database wiki project Some more notes: Forum links on discussion pages One thing that should happen in 2.0 is the ability to attach forum threads to the top of any discussion... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I definitely prefer Discar's message draft. And he does do a good bit of the scutwork. Wanderlust Warrior's name isn't ringing any bells for me, positively... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Added new candidates.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Of the music, I think JHM's is written the best.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications As no one else has weighted in, I'll hook up JHM. edited 24th Jan '12 7:08:10 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications For the others, OTC: thatguythere47 World Builder: Betsyandthe Five Avengers All Media Recommendations: Jimmyman 10 Literature: ryzvonusef all of... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I think Betsy would do a good job. She's always been reasonable and responsible that I've seen, and she's on the creative boards a lot.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Let's see. Take these posts in aggregate: Fast Eddie pointing out that the Herald position means they need to be good examples of how to behave The conversation... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I'm good with All Media Recommendations: Jimmmyman10 Literature: ryzvonusef It Just Awes Me: EarlOfSandvich Fan Fiction: JapaneseTeeth I think let's... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Hmmmm, I think Earl Of Sandvich would be fine for It Just Awes Me. Anybody else have an opinion?... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I hooked up Earl Of Sandvich for IJAM. I was looking over this conversation, and it seems we never reached a conclusion about daltar. His message explains... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Telcontar's draft looks good. I'd say go with him.... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications I probably will. Does anyone have any info/experience with this guy? There's nothing wrong with him as far as I can see, but he seems to be a newbie (57... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications All of the other handles associated with his I Ps are well-established with no thumps or bans except for lolacat. I think he's safe in that aspect, but... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications How do we feel about Septimus? He's made a draft for FAQ. On one hand, I don't like giving him power, but perhaps he'll work as a greeter?... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications He seems to have relaxed a lot lately. Might be the holidays. Based on that, I'll give him a chance. Arha has applied for Content Violations. What do... More Mod Jabberings Herald Applications Maybe the CV Herald should be one of the P5?... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread We have the thread where we talk about tropers we're having trouble with, and we've got one for things that make us proud to be a mod, but we don't have... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Martello makes me happy. He always PMs me to thank me when we work together on a TRS thread, even if we were on opposite sides.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread He's a good contributor in IP, too.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread I like Dark Confidant. He's always reasonable, at least from what I've seen.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread It's me he's mad at. I banned his friend for acting like a raging dick.... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread XD) I am to be referenced in the super secret modly forum of troping! *ahem* Sure. edited 3rd Nov '12 1:03:54 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The happy, helpful tropers thread Sterok is great. He came to help right away when I asked them to move Fairy Tail wicks, and did all 1000 of them with minimal help. When I sent him a badge... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I'm inclined to give the heroes thread a chance.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Gonna do an update-kind of thingy, but first some info: I recently killed a duplicate thread in OTC that had been locked by Fighteer. The lock-message... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads For the second one maybe "Overly Hostile OP". For the third "Too vague to keep on topic."... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads What do we think of mod-approving OTC threads?... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I've noticed that I don't have to grit my emotional teeth whenever I check OTC anymore, for fear of what new flamefest I'm going to find either burning... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads No, but I would say "No" to it.... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads Where does the OP anticipate the discussion going from there?... More Mod Jabberings Unopened OTC threads I know where I anticipate it to go. The previous thread with that name had to be locked, and the OP wasn't innocent.... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info My e-mail is shimaspawn at gmail dot com. My AIM is shimaspawn My Yahoo messanger is shimaspawn My Steam account is shimaspawn Cell 219-629-2316 You... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info rabrabbjb at yahoo.com (yes, there are two "b"s in the middle there.) 'cat knows both my Skype and Facebook info. If I'm completely computerless, she... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Ok, Then I have it. Unless you'd like me to delete it?... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Habit... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Email: jaldrich@ptd.net Cell: 610-297-2823 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fighteer (although I block non-friend-of-friend requests so if you want to... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Matthew J. Brown (714) 414-8719 (cell) - (213) 740-0186 (work) morven@byz.org - morven@gmail.com - brownmj@usc.edu edited 14th Sep '13 1:15:06 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings Mod contact info Cell: 501-960-2686 Facebook: William Parsons Twitter: FeedWillyStyle E-mail: feedwi11ystyle@gmail.com Edited by Willbyr on May 17th 2020 at 7:58:04... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Oy. Bobby this list is overwhelming. I don't even know where to begin. I even cut and pasted it to a document in Word and that did not help at all. This... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I've been less active on most of the forum for many reasons, but one of them has been dealing with moderating personality clashes among a subgroup. Has... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I'll take part of that. I'll rig up the nuclear option so that a message can be entered by the nuker. Then, instead of zapping the thread, we'll redirect... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion We can make it so that a Tropers/Tropername page is only editable by Tropername (and mods). The whitelist idea is kinda complex for so little gain. edited... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I like it. To clarify the purpose of the list - it's not a list of things that need fixing; it's a fairly indiscriminate list of "issues". My suspicion... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Go for it!... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion That's my feeling too. edited 14th Jan '12 6:59:59 AM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Is she willing to? I don't mean, "Well, since you asked, I guess I can manage it..." . I mean "Yes, I have the time and the energy to dedicate to it, and... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion (I didn't say that she could be a mod, but the subject came up in a PM discussion regarding a TRS thread.)... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion That is wrong. We have a table per thread for performance reasons, and the fact that it makes threads easy to manipulate (move, delete, etc.). The database... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion S'cool. I've been looking into Best Of. Seems to be pretty level headed. Anybody have a caveat? Also, what about Katrika? edited 14th Jan '12 10:13:10... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion In the thread where we are picking new mods, I got the sense that Flyboy was a problem. He went negative and a lot more pissed-off sounding than the discussion... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion (I would add that it is very often not reasonable and not civil, as well.) On another forum that I go to (Gallifrey Base) they have a board called the... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Yes, Eddie, I understand. I just, well, don't feel that all the people we're banning, or for that matter driving away, are the right ones. Sorry. I take... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion A heck of a lot of our problems stem from simple userbase growth. It's a lot easier to run a small site where everyone knows everyone else; no effort... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Ok, I set up Discar for TRS. I think I did it right. edited 17th Jan '12 7:52:12 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion BTW, let's not use the bulletins to draw people into the sausage-making parts of the wiki, okay? People interested in making the sausage taste better know... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion But people aren't going to just get better on their own, are they? What we see now is the same tired arguments being rehashed over and over - lumpers... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I know this came up somewhere but what do we do about people who start screwing around with crowners?... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion I think it also falls under Edit Warring if they're editing and re-editing proposals in the crowner, like what happened with the one in that loli thing... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion That too. It's a whole bunch of things that we can ban for already: Edit warring, trying to game the system, being a dick, being obstructive...... More Mod Jabberings Alleged problems and what to do about them: frank mod discussion Found it. Thanks.... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive I'm making this thread to post up P Ms to send to tropers that you can just copy and tweak if you need to politely tell someone the exact same thing for... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Removing %%'d out comments on a page: Hello. You're receiving this message because you removed commented-out notices on [[PAGE]]. These notices (lines... More Mod Jabberings Form PM Archive Ooooh, how did I forget Example Indentation? Hello. Your edit on [[Page Name]] contains incorrect Example Indentation. When there is a single example... More Mod Jabberings The Spoiler Policy As I think we've all discovered by now, spoiler policies do not lend themselves to independent enforcement: even collectively, we can't keep up on what... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes So he calls it the Scandinavian mod forum.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes No, I wasn't the one who said it first. I just reacted to it when someone else did. (BTW, Jod Mabberings does sound kinda Danish, or maybe Swedish. But... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes And I should have written "Jod Mabberings", but the meme stuck as is.... More Mod Jabberings Repository of Mod Memes Double Post! Not only is the GDP+2 Derail Squad a meme, but I guess the feud between me and my partner Lu is also officially a meme by now.... More Mod Jabberings The "limits" of fair use Fair use is complex and in the end is up to a court to decide, based on the balance of a whole bunch of criteria. The proportion of the work that's copied... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I'm going to suggest a public comment period on any new mods who agree to be taken on, just in case we've missed something negative about them.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 They have access to all the mod forums and tools. It will be a little different for the people we ar recruiting to be curators.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I like that, but it might not be noticable enough, Maddy. It...might be funny if some of the mods also swapped their highly-recognizable avatars for April... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 That'd be great. It'd be sad to see the thread sitting around all by itself through most of the year, but that pain is alleviated significantly when one... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Whoohoo! I'm a huge Discworld fan, so of course I covet your Vimes. xD... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Actually, the man in my avatar ir John Keel.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Eddie, the list of stuff we talked about says that "Numbskull" and "Spam" have been added to the thump-list, but they aren't showing on the Thumper Tool... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Fixed.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Thumped post history is installed on the restrain page.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Very nice. I'm getting No Discussion with that ID exists as an error for every single one I've tried so far though. Even when I know the thread exists... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 People came and went from the meeting and I am confused over who is who still so I'm not going to say who was there and who wasn't. I'll start the notes... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I'm going to end up posting the draft of the spoiler rules tomorrow. I didn't like my first two attempts, so I'm going to sleep on it.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I like that idea a lot.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 So, after a discussion I had with Morven in Skype, this is one thing that we really seem to need: a workshop specific ban. Judging by this recent TRS thread... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 Might as well.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 It's a great idea, but every time we've tried that, the YKTTW people just ignore it and we stall out.... More Mod Jabberings Notes from the Skype Meeting 5/20/12 I think a headline should suffice. If a big sign of "WE'RE REVAMPING YKTTW ISSUES" isn't enough for them to drop by the forums, then I don't know what... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings One of the things that we discussed during today's meeting was how productive it turned out to be and how it'd be nice and useful to have more of these... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Hmm. My computer clock settings thing says Helsinki is GMT+2, and California (Pacific time) is GMT-8. That would mean there's a 11 hour difference. The... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings So if we hit the Cali people at 10 am, that would be 11am Mountain, 12pm Central, 1pm Eastern, 6pm GMT, 8pm GMT +2 {Finland) and then what the hell time... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Australia has 4 time zones, but at 10 AM California time it'd be somewhere between 2 AM and 4 AM the next day? I think I got it right this time, after... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Something like that. But we don't have to deal with Australia as long as Cama's MIA.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings We were planning on Saturday/Sunday as the best days anyway.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings What's CST and how does it relate to GMT?... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Wikipedia, "Central Standard Time": In North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings I'm in MST (UTC - 7). Probably the best times for me are Weekends, especially afternoon/early evening. Weeknights tend to be about swimming lessons,... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings It really only takes about 10 min to download it and make an account.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings Oh cool. I'll have it in time for whenever we next do this.... More Mod Jabberings Skype meetings I, too, will make myself available if I can get a coupla days notice.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Since it's seasonal, this thread is for discussion of possible April Fools' Day sillinesses (and any other seasonal or one-off pranking or foolishness)... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The text size will be reported as a bug — you know it will. The Troll Post avatar is something funny but not likely to be widely noticed unless... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, I like the text shrink idea, but it seems like something people will raise a fuss about, too.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I want Maddy's she wants Fighteers.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Unfortuantely, I have to agree that the text size reduction will get lot of complaining and assumptions that it's a glitch. But something similar may work... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Too bad he couldn't just turn the avatar on a random post upside-down.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) You're all right. I'll just leave the forum layout completely alone. I'm just not in the mood to hear the least-little-change-bothers-me people bitch.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Darn, Best Of's would have been as close to the extreme opposite of my avy as it's possible to be. I'll take blackcat's. Are we swapping titles, too?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'd like Shima's unicorn.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'd like Morven's.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm afraid I'm not sure how to see the options. His current one is fine, though.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Is this going to be automated or do we do the avvie swap manually using the current tools? The latter is fine with me but I haven't ever had the occasion... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Sorry! Gods, #19 is the cutest thing ever. I'll take the lineart kitty.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Any particular one you'd like me to send you, Willbyr? Can I have your current one, please, Ironeye?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) There you go, Bobby. ccoa, I forgot to enable sharing on my account. You'll have to send it again. Sorry.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) @ Bobby: Done. @ Tangent: LMK which one you want and I'll send it to you.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Got it, thanks. So, on 3/25, we all switch our avs to the shared ones until 4/2?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Willbyr: How about #0? And will send Eddie whichever he wants.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think then that it'll lose some of the punch of initially confusing people as to what mod they're talking to.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, I'd rather just take Shima's avatar, sig, and location rather than Shima's avatar and someone else's sig and location.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) ^ That works too.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The 'traditional' one, Tangent.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) They're hard coded, anyway, so to change them for one day seems a bit pointless. With any luck most of them won't even see use (tempting fate). I think... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Bobby sent me his chicken pony, but that is also his mod avi, does that matter?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like that. Got it. edited 24th Mar '12 5:00:05 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) We're doing April Fools as an iDay so it would start at GMT+12. edited 25th Mar '12 2:18:43 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think we ought.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Well obviously we can't realistically expect to coordinate it to the hour, but it's nice to have some general idea so we're not going like 16 hours before... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) ...Yeah, that doesn't sound at all reasonable when you it's put like that. So, European mods do the switch around midday April 1st?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Then it would be early morning on the 31st in the US.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yes, exactly.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yeah, should've looked up what that iday thing was. You learn something new every day!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I may end up being the last switch since I'm in PST, but mornings and I don't get along. If I weren't visiting relatives that weekend, I would simply stay... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Wrote a verse to the beginning of the haiku home page.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Final verse added.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Oh. Is that this month?... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Mine: Title: Zzzzzzzz Location: —No Location- Sig: trouble is where god hides all the stories — drunkscriblerian edited 31st Mar '12 4:01:28... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Morning! Location: Here and Now Sig: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm not entirely back but I'm entirely OK. Sorry about earlier.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm all fixed up. Sorry, still feeling sick and got a busy weekend.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I must say, Katrika, your sig line, location tag, title and, most notably, avatar look splendid today!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) This is indeed trippy.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Just had one of those moments. I was taking care of something in ATT and popped back to see that I had simultaneously taken care of Septimus' latest honey... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm back!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Yep. I think this was the best response I've seen to a holiday prank yet. Nice work everyone.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I know not of this Zalgo thing of which you speak. If it won't mess up any other pages (or the index bar) then I don't see the problem, personally. edited... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It doesn't work for me, either...kind of a shame, I like that font corruption.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Hmmmm, I need to see some of your potential avatars to consider mine. LINKS! That's terrifying! edited 28th Sep '12 5:14:17 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'm trying to think of some way to make my galaxy and/or black hole avatars even scarier. Maybe shop some fake vampire teeth on them? edited 28th Sep '... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The best part is, the simplest way to do that (image URL) means that any instance of those avatars would cycle, such as those shared to others' galleries... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Whew, busy day, took longer to get around to it... Could others tell me if the effect works for them? http://tangent128.name/depot/tvtw/wa/angeltest.html... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It works for me.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) In firefox, it wouldn't flip the image on even numbered avatars. I think objections would come, as Maddy says, from replacing personal avatars. We could... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) That was April Fool's Day 2011. People were prepared for something to go goofy on the site. And there were still a number of them who were pissed and vocal... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Nah, I think people will accept losing their avatars for a day. I've gone through the reaction threads to the time when people were stromtroopers and stuff... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) This script is brilliant. Having a gallery of Weeping Angel avatars that swap themselves out randomly only when you aren't looking at them is one of the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) So, if we are doing this the way I understand, then there is a little prep work left: I need to see if I can coax the script to scare IE users too while... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Oooh, ooh, a dedicated thread!... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It only changes the image if you scroll down and then back up, right? Couldn't it work on all avatars, then? edited 25th Oct '12 1:20:30 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like 2.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) OK. Behavior clarifications for when I make the edits: we don't want it to make the swap until the avatar has already been on-screen once, right? As in... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The design is such that it should either work or be harmlessly inert on any given browser; I believe in graceful degradation. I think IE falls into the... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The "visible window" is defined differently, I'd imagine. A touch screen window does a whole lot of stuff that a static window does not.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Gathering them all in one sockpuppet's gallery is a good idea. Now we'll just have to collect/make enough of them for this to work. Incidentally, when... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I'd prefer it if we could just ignore it. I've been resizing avatars to get them under the 100x100 pix restriction, and I don't want to go back to try... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Added one. Looking for others.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Just cropped Nosferatu. Uploading it now. Also, Regan from The Exorcist. edited 29th Oct '12 10:12:45 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Uploaded the three Angels I used in the test and one of the creepier Pokémon; the list is the easiest part to change, so I'm not worrying too much about... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Works for me on Firefox, except that some of the avatars are really thin. They're normal width but only a dozen or so pixels tall. I'm assuming you wanted... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Added Candlejack. Also, in case you missed my previous edit, I recently added another Weeping A- edited 29th Oct '12 3:32:03 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Chrome + Windows Vista won't load the new images—I just get the broken image icon where the new images should go.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Ooops, yes, that fixed it in Chrome. The images still look weird when the original avatar was an odd size, but I don't think there's a way around that.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) So, with about 8.5 hours until Kitimati reaches Halloween (not that they care we be punctual), are there any blockers to the current script? All it needs... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I shared several to the gallery.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) We have enough images. Won't be adding any after installation. Which I am about to do. Which I have done. edited 29th Oct '12 8:05:30 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I will probably wait to do the deletions until the next wave is put up, to keep the numbers from shifting. Adding some user-supplied images to the pool... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Eddie, I do believe it be time to turn it off.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think that's a great idea.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like the idea, and can trim down/simplify the script a bit if it only has to affect one image. It would have to be specific to that page, of course.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) A bit overdue, but here is the minified code Creepy Changing Painting will need inserted into the page: [1] What is hopefully good news for Eddie doing... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The Funny Location List Touring with Dingos Ate My Baby The bridge of the Event Horizon "Liberate tutame ex infernis." Under the bed Behind the Fourth... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think the exact quote is "The best thing about being me... there's so many of me."... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) CREEPY UNCLE IS WATCHING YOU ...that's probably not all that good in light of the content policy, is it, even if paired with Smith? That was my first... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) "We've had our eye on you for some time now." Since that's part of Smith's opening line to Neo in the interrogation room in the first movie.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The agent icon is now uploaded to Hastily Made Sockpuppet's avatar gallery. The password, for those who don't remember, is "thatponythread". When does... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I've noticed that some non-Mods have also adopted the agent avatar. We're infecting them.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I think they can be. Eminently successful. And I think we've pinned down one of the meta-rules of avvie switching: if it's limited to only the mods' avvies... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Well, we could double or even triple the size of the logo for one day. edited 7th Oct '13 8:26:32 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) How do I mix steampunk with an outer space theme? Hmm...... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) We can do animated avatars now? That's not a bad idea as a static image, though. edited 8th Oct '13 7:54:42 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like it. Can I transfer it into my gallery somehow or do I have to save and reupload? edited 8th Oct '13 9:29:00 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Guess I'll just have to go with the old standby of trawling through Image Booru sites like I normally do for avatars.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Miyazaki steampunk! So cool! Here's what I found tagged as steampunk that seems to fit my style: [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊ [4]◊ [5]◊... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) edited 10th Oct '13 6:15:34 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I like Lu's last one the best. That would make the one that DBL also likes available for him.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I agree, but resizing it to an avatar might lose a lot of the detail. Edit: The one DBL likes seems more like Clock Punk. edited 9th Oct '13 8:16:58 AM... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Ok, resized some of the ones you guys liked. DBL can have Mami, I don't mind. edited 9th Oct '13 12:59:49 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Well, some features are more clear. Not sure what that thing is that is wearing the hat.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Is this visible? edited 9th Oct '13 8:12:10 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) OK, let's see if this one works after all.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Clockwork kitty! That is almost as great as the above fox! And Mami turned out pretty good.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) It looks like Clock Punk, specifically. Those two genres seem to get conflated a lot. edited 10th Oct '13 9:57:49 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I suppose we could give a badge for the 3 best avatars or something.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Love the logo! Avvie Costume contest? Got no ideas on how to judge right now, but badges for the top three sounds good edited 11th Oct '13 10:37:54 AM... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) The logo looks great. +1 on badges for the top three. edited 11th Oct '13 2:22:59 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Damn, good job. In the event you need a theatre person, let me know.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Did we settle on a prize for the winning avatar(s)? That's going to be question #1.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) We could do a t-shirt from our Zazzle store.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) And shiny exclusive badges? I've whipped up an OP draft, which I am ready to post as soon as we settle on prizes.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) T-shirt is a good idea. (or T-shirt or equivalent price other thing?)... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Nothing comes immediately to mind. A seasonal change to the wiki's color theme might be a bit much.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) As a non-American, while I do feel that Hallowe'en has become something like a global event, Thanksgiving is still so much an American thing that I probably... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) Thanksgiving is kind of a cynical holiday: we celebrate the original European colonists to North America meeting with the natives, sharing food, and then... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) So the turkey is sort of a symbolic Mohican baby? Makes sense.... More Mod Jabberings April Fools day suggestions (and other seasonal silliness to consider) I've added a bunch. Let's keep them lighthearted.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It comes down to mature judgement, which we can not count on crowds to display, obviously. I'm having a little difficulty separating the chaff from the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, the impression that we're creating — well, confirming anyway — is that old anti-anime bias thing. My problem is that I am not familiar... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think all fan works are an issue. We have far more pages on things like Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality than we do on actually objectionable... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd be willing to volunteer. I'm mostly a literature and video games gal, but I can do research on the ones I don't know. There were some reasonable voices... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think Martello is a very good candidate. I like him as a person, but he has a very distinctive anti-anime agenda. I'd rather we keep people of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think being perceived as permissive for pedophiliac stuff is much more damaging than being perceived as anti-anime. Neither is true, of course, but I'd... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Hunting some yes. Hopefully when the fervour dies down we'll be able to open the process to nominations. I think open nominations right now will fill... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay. I'm saying one of you should open the thread, tell them about the panel we forming and that you have used sweet reason to get me to back up on the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Excellent. Will go on an editing spree tomorrow. Should I leave the thread open or is it too early for everyone to have cooled down?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I would like to compliment the mods who have been handling the brunt of the discussion and are facilitating communication with the population at large.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I had to give Victorian (and Leradney) a verbal warn in this page of this thread about not getting offtopic/over-emotional. I haven't seen any further... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy From Martello, via PM: I don't know if I'm anything like the kind of person you guys are looking at for the council, but I just want to let you know that... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Right, makes sense. It's not like the stuff I'm thinking of is even fiction, so there's absolutely no reason to really have pages on it. Leave that to... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So we're going to cut The Simpsons then? That has pictures of nude children. The film has a long sequence of Bart skateboarding naked. Calvin And Hobbes... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm trying to be. That's why we're doing this. We need to set a reasonable bar. Naked children in general doesn't seem to be a reasonable bar. They... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This isn't going to happen unless we make it happen.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay, I'll give it a go. discar: Seems compliant, level-headed and can stave off the panic. Contributes to the wiki reasonably too, which I'd prefer to... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Oh...right. Then something like the curator voting tool?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Fair enough. EDIT: Actually, no, I am uncomfortable with cutting every work with any sort of explicit sex in it, but I didn't argue because it's not my... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy God, this is frustrating. PORN! You know when you see it. I've read the Fire And Ice books. They aren't porn. Please don't ask me for a set of rules. Nobody... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Katrika, I suggest in the most friendly way possible that you take a chill pill. It seems like we have the problem of text-based conversation eating us... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Oh god, they just won't stop. [1]... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't like giving him authority. He's a bit of a tyrant as it is without any real standing on the site. He's a hard worker, and he's dedicated, but... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think I'd prefer Septimus to keep doing what he's been doing rather than this.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Cryptic Mirror: 2 Ayes, 1 Nay Has a history of histrionics, but has been reasonable and helpful in this instance Martello: 4 Ayes, 1 Nay Does not like... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This committee needs to act. More than five members would sound a death knell for the idea. Three might be even better. I'm going to interview Japanese... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Not a fan of L Mage, to be honest. Too opinionated in my experience. I don't think a number as small as three will be popular among the users. That's too... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Seven is too many. They will not be able to conclude discussion.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think he has been a bit rude at some points in this frustrating discussion, so I hesitate to vote him up. I won't vote him down, though.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Under the circumstances I think gender is less significant than a willingness to work within parameters and to listen. I think that five is a good number... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy How about: Martello, Discar, Japanese Teeth, Komodin, and either Catalogue or Hershele? Since Katrika voted Hershele up, the top-5 would be: Discar, Komodin... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy IJBM: that Hershele still apparently thinks the issue is "no sex please, we're tropers" rather than "some of this content is really fucking creepy".... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I gotta say that his posts in the thread so far have been great. I hereby endorse him. (As a side note, I checked his thumps. There were two, but one couldn't... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That wouldn't be a bad line-up. I do want at least one person who likes and watches anime just because that way we're less likely to let things slip through... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It's been suggested that we have a min age requirement of the council of 18 because they will be looking at things with sex in them. I am ok with this... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think having two extra members is also good, if only for temporary replacements. Having a thread like Edit-Banned for them to discuss is also important... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Japanese Teeth doesn't feel like they have the time. I'll contact Martello next. edited 15th Apr '12 10:53:13 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Shame. JTeeth is more level-headed than most.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Martello is in. I'll talk to Discar next. Edited after reading the application: Seems to be a little soft on "contains plot, so is not porn" idea. I'll... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I agree that things need to go. I'm all with you there. But people are gonna freak out and think we're lying to them. Good to hear about Discar.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Is Vyctorian the one who was suspended from wiki editing for creating really bad pages on Comic Books a while back?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy An good suggestion from the WT thread: A note about reading the content policy (page yet to be created) that appears when someone creates a new page.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should stop the debate on the petition to restore works thread. It's getting drowned in the same debates again. We should let whoever wants... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Unfortunately, some people choose to ignore clear implications or depictions of really reprehensible stuff. It just seems....naive.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't believe it is entirely naïve. I strongly suspect that anyone seriously claiming that the lack of explicit sex scenes in Eiken makes it not wank... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I have to say I agree with that. There's been rules lawyering from both sides. Saya No Uta is a horror game. The character Saya (the only one who looks... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy KNJ has always struck me as the pedo equivalent of the Victorian-era salacious books about prostitutes that always had them coming to a Bad End with copious... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I declined the cuts. I couldn't make a case for any of those being porn, on having a quick look at the material.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd say no, it isn't. A day or two should do it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay. Catalogue's up next.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Certainly.    Just let him know that if the list is inaccurate in anyway we will send people to kidnap his dog.   ... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy People in the WT thread are asking for a FAQ page (possibly in the sandbox) for this situation. I think it's a great idea 'cause then I wouldn't have to... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Details.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I still think it should be "One well thought out post per troper per work. No arguing back and forth with other tropers. No point and counter point going... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we'll need to have a work queue for the panel. They should have a forum where only they can post, but everyone can read. Call that the Content... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy First in first out would work, but I think we need to arbitrarily set Lolita and FSN as the first two that get deliberated, as those are the two works... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Pulls up a stool and starts whittling I remember people screaming about Lolita when I was a kid. I read it at about age thirteen and thought that Lolita... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed with Shima. FSN is an easy 'keep', though we should specify that we're discussing and troping the clean version. Same with any other Bleached... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy So, what's our next step? edited 17th Apr '12 6:35:19 AM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That's good to know. I understand his reasoning.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds good. We should also make it clear that we will enforce such rules...strictly. *cracks knuckles*... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds great.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I just realized that the appeals thread are for works that are already cut. Do we need a thread for "information about a work being considered", or should... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^ I think maybe posting arguments against should wait until the panel thread is up. Unrelatedly, I'm thinking maybe, now that the Content Policy thread... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds fantastic, Bobby. Actually, now that I think of it, I seem to have talked about writing something like that a day or two ago, but I just forgot... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sorry if I thread hopped, but do we have a single unified article or forum thread that says what exactly is going on here, with all the details including... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sorry, it's nearly finished. I'll have it done by this evening. I've been trying to address as many concerns as possible, and it's gotten rather long;... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should start with a PM that tells her under no uncertain terms that while we appreciate her zeal, her ideas of what we don't want on the wiki... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy If you want to send her such a PM, go ahead. I'm just frustrated enough with her right now that I'm about ready to threaten her with suspension if she... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy If this is OK to post, I'll add a note at the top saying that it's mod approved so people don't think I'm acting unilaterally and against administrative... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Of course. Edit: I keep noticing things! I'm sorry, this is why it takes so long for me to write anything at all. I'm a Serial Tweaker. edited 19th Apr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It looks fantastic and is a Wall Of Text worthy of something that I might have written. However, it does make the point and does so with an economy of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'll remove the bit about the mod hat. It was probably a little too flippant anyways. Also, you're welcome. Cheers!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy There is a percentage of the population that doesn't trust us on a good day when every thing is running beautifully and there are no wolves at the door... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I did say that I was gonna make one, but by the time I was supposed to do it (which was about a day after the post,) I had forgotten about it and the next... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Who are the 5P? Which tropers, that is. I've lost the list.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We're still not reporting Ad Sense restoration, primarily because they haven't actually restored us, yet. They just said they would. If you want to edit... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy You have a quotes page?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Back when I used to hang out in YF a lot, there was a brief fad of making quotes pages for people, then taking incriminating-sounding things they said... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That might work. Something collapsible with a way to delete off topic comments, trolling, and arguments. Just because as much as I trust P5's judgement... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I honestly, I think they should. They're the established terms for the styles and they don't have any ties to the sexualization of minors. They're harmless... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy +1 to keep those terms and to the limited appeals. Also, can we rename this thread to something about the 5P? Checking it and posting from my phone's... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Hershele figured our ads are back. Did we announce that?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think it's because of the guidelines Bobby posted. As I pointed out before, "sexualizes children" is going to be taken to mean "contains fanservice... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ^^ Doesn't it?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The term sexualizing is not helping us. We need a clearer word for what you mean. 'Fanservice' is also of no use to us here. eta: I altered the big post... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I nja'd you. Please read back.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Here's my proposed modification to the initial page vetting standard. A work is presumed to be safe for TV Tropes if it: Is a film rated PG-13 or under... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Excellent standards, I approve wholeheartedly.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Honestly, I think most of those defences are silly, but when you have people reporting Tenchi Muyo and Sailor Moon as pedoshit, can we really blame them... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we should allow them if only because a lot of what's getting nominated still isn't stuff over the line. People are nominating anything that offends... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay, I'll "officially" endorse the defenses, then. I'm going to make it clear that having a defense does not automatically equate being safe, though.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Put my foot down in the content thread, because I'm tired of seeing flame wars over Kodomo No Jikan. Let's just put the damn thing aside until the P5 decide... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Here's my response, for what it's worth: I suppose it falls under the same general category as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" — if you have pedo leanings... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Ah, I have less tolerance for arthouse than you, clearly... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy In my case I found it in my father's videotape collection which he apparently recorded off of Cinemax and Showtime's late night lineups, back in the '80s... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The question [is] about whether "someone who doesn't talk about it on the site who likes X" (where X is anything from lolicon to granny sex, but in this... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And then there's a catch-22 about cutting it. Or am I just assuming there's a load of Persecution Complexes flying around out there?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That's a brilliant piece of nose-thumbing...but yeah, a ban's the way to go. And now that I see that it's who it is: I've been getting increasingly... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It certainly couldn't hurt. We have either done a poor job of communicating our intent, people are too panicked/outraged to listen, or some combination... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy None of the ones in ccoa's posts before we picked our 5 had more than 3 or 4 votes. Except the ones who we picked, obviously.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Announcement post updated.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy From Martello: Hey - I'm not going anywhere, I just want to say that first. But Triple Elation's post outlined a lot of the same feelings I've been having... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy -_- I wish I knew WTF is wrong with people.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Would locking down new accounts help and what the hell is DDOS? ETA found out. edited 25th Apr '12 9:25:47 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think we slap the full array on anyone who is exhibiting trollish behavior.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've played through both it and the sequel and they sold over half a million copies in the US. It's really easy to find at used game stores. That's not... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy ...The Visual Novel subforum is currently raging at us because they expect us to cut every visual novel in existence because it has sex scenes. ...I suddenly... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy And yet even though it's been said those pages are coming back, people still keep doing it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think a single post with the works that have been reviewed and what the verdict was should be enough. Most people don't want to wade through posts and... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm on it!... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I already did it. ^^;... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Reading through everything, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with people. I was a little leery of what we were doing at first, before everything... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Just curious - has the P5 completed their review of the fanfic recs?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd say just link the Sandbox page. No sense duplicating it in two places that have to be edited.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Catalogue would like a briefing in how the tool works/what they're expected to do. It might not be a bad idea to draft up a PM to each explaining the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That one reminds me of Taxi Driver. One of the main characters is a young prostitute. There are no sex scenes, but the movie does openly state what the... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd say if there's penetration clearly depicted, especially if it's uncensored or only marginally so, it's crossed the line. edited 26th Apr '12 4:24:21... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Rhyme Beat and Dark Confidant are subtly applying for the job. And Earl of Sandvich. And Marq. I'd definitely vote for Dark Confidant in this case. Marq... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That is something I don't think most mainstream media couldn't get away with, without being labeled as porn, and I agree with it. However, sex involving... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't know if we can make hard and fast rules without accidentally hitting collateral damage. That's why I tried to keep my guidelines as flexible as... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We are encountering the same mentality that wants a list of explicit rules of what it means to be a dick. Sadly, the phrase "artistic merit" has been mangled... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Okay, couple of issues: 1. Didn't we tell Glider Guy to stay outside this discussion? If he ignores it again, I'm forum-banning him. It would be nice if... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Bump. Meeble applied to join the council: Is it too late to ask for my name to be thrown in for consideration for Triple Elation's spot on the panel? I... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy It seems that I didn't actually vote for or against when I introduced Meeble to this conversation. +1 for Meeble. edited 30th Apr '12 11:06:06 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy 1 vote for Meeble. edited 30th Apr '12 1:36:19 PM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think Meeble is in at this point. Should we check for two substitutes in case issues come up again?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Sounds good to me.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I said that in the thread, but it takes a pink post to make people listen. :P... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Kick Octo and whale out. They aren't going to contribute anything worthwhile.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy What do you guys think about allowing examples of non-porn tropes for forbidden works? It's come up before, but I don't think we all weighed in on it.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Anyone else we need to toss out?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I really don't get why someone with this many thumps is still around. Have they done anything of value at all?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't know her very well, but her edit history is unimpressive. Hah, ragequitting! edited 1st May '12 2:53:05 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Well, Eddie, why don't you do an interview? You talked to the other folks before appointing them, you could talk to Meeble and discuss the lines we're... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I've noticed that too. :/ As for Meeble, the fact that he reads ecchi doesn't mean he'll be lenient towards paedo-pandering, because ecchi isn't paedo... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy This guy flagged something rated Teen in the US. What's our stance on that?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Excellent. Should we announce it? Since we may need someone to replace Catalogue, here are the vote tallies as last we saw them: Dark Confidant: 4 Ayes... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy We might as well just promote Dark Confidant. If Catalogue returns, DC becomes a substitute for when someone's missing.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Seconded.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I have edit-banned and P5 banned Kaiser Mazoku, because he somehow thinks he's above the process and put Morenatsu on the cutlist, while it has no votes... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't really care, but I think this was just someone trying to further his personal agenda. On Hershele: didn't we decide he actually seemed kind of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Agreed...P5 ban at least. edited 7th May '12 10:37:02 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Too argumentative to work. We seem to be at a dead end...do any of the people with less votes (but not many nays) ring a bell?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I like what I've seen of Arha but don't know too much about her.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't know how I'd be expected to know his gender. :P... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd be fine with Arha.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Arha would work, and is knowledgeable enough.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Forget it, Catalogue's back! edited 7th May '12 11:48:27 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy The ratings are inconsistent depending on the country, if I'm reading the thread right. I agree with your general sentiment 100%, though. edited 8th... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy My two cents on something I noticed this morning: Putting rape on the list of the things we want to cut is simply too much of a headache. As much as I... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I agree. Rape tends to get glorified inordinately often in mainstream works. It's really creepy, but James Bond, Gone With The Wind, Sleeping Beauty,... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I know I said I was going to stay away, but it's going to disturb my nap if I don't say it. What about using positively portrayed rape as a tipping point... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Using it as a tipping point against a work sounds good, since it's basically the last straw. edited 9th May '12 11:58:01 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'm kinda worried of the way the Sengoku Rance thread is going (don't care if the game stays or not). I tried to nip a "What constitutes rape?" discussion... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy One factor that tips things for me is when the rape is in-universe acknowledged as being rape and yet glorified.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy If it's not yet on the Wiki, we could have a liveblog of it. If, however, it's something we do not want, then I don't see why we would want a liveblog... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I am inclined to tell them to shove it. That said, Martello may need to be less abrasive. I haven't been following the P5 conversation extensively. edited... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Also, that post was two days ago. Shima and Martello have talked privately since then, or at least I remember something along those lines. I wish I would... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Martello seems to be getting very aggressive. He may need a cooldown.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Looks like he doesn't edit the wiki except for his own page and some WMG stuff. On the forums, he hangs out in Writer's Block. His entries in Write A Sex... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Lu said in the Skype discussion that this person is also known as Nomadic Lurker, so you might wanna look into that, too.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I think I'd like to have a person who doesn't get anime conventions, because we have to go with Western conventions, not make excuses for Eastern ones.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I don't think we need someone who's an anime expert. That's a fallacy. On the other hand, Martello has openly stated he reviled most anime long before... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Meeble sent me this PM: I missed the drama surrounding Martello and am not 100% clear what the situation is now, but if you guys are in the process of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I'd be fine with tgoodrich based on his contributions so far.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Anyone else? Should we promote him?... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy What the...he's been deleting stuff like Cardcaptor Sakura and Detective Conan which have nothing to do with the purge...bring him in to talk.... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I went back and skimmed through this thread from scratch, and had to chuckle about when we were bragging up Martello and TE for the P5 position. *sigh... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy In fairness, we couldn't necessarily see at the time the problems that they would cause. You can't always know what someone will do with power until you... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy "reasoned constructive criticism only" I got a good chuckle out of that. While it's not that we haven't gotten a lot of good suggestions in the past &... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy "You shouldn't extend the censorship to porn" is a criticism of the policy. Not one we haven't heard, but... And yes, we closed all the previous discussions... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy They are cutlisting things before they go through p5? Seems like the kind of person more interested in short circuiting the process than in being part... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy That's what I was meaning to say; that Kuro is constantly ninja'ing us, which tells me that they're involved in this in the sense that they pay a lot of... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I never read it but I remember seeing it on bookstore shelves when I was younger. I said ages ago when the P5 was just warming up that if that a work... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Piers Anthony himself is going to be a problem in general for us, I think. His works always involve sex or at least sexual situations, and they're frequently... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Got this from Komodin: Hey, Lu, I've gotta tell ya something. See, as you've probably noticed, Catalogue hasn't once been active here since early June... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I am against keeping examples for two reasons. First, it inevitably leads tropers not familiar with the policy to try to create those articles, which causes... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy I can't add anything to that except a blanket "Exactly."... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy In that case (or any other potentially problematic trope), I'd say nuke 'em. The option I suggested (and have implemented in the past) is strictly for... More Mod Jabberings P5 Stuff and Policy Once again: Do we want to do anything about Calatogue? And if we do want to do something, what should it be? I started this discussion on Skype, too. Copy-paste... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats One reoccurring advisement in all those articles: Lock or remove the thread. In our case that would be a thump or thread nuke.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Beats me. Seem like the kind of hearsay that it would be hard to allocate to an individual.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I think a form PM is likely to make their problem worse, as it exacerbates the "no one cares" mentality. If it is a form, we need to take pains to hide... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I disagree. Suicide threats, whether a plea for help or an attempt to garner sympathy, are absolutely intolerable because they disrupt the wiki. Proposed... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats I'll change it to "not less than one week".... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats This is Peaceful Apocalypse's Nth forum suicide threat. For values of n >= 3, I believe. edited 24th Aug '12 9:47:42 AM by Morven... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Bumpage. Have we heard from everyone on this? I'd like to get it up sooner rather than later.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Sounds good. Send it.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Eddie, as much as you love brevity, we have to consider that there are potential legal ramifications to our actions here. If you think the language can... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats It looks like all suicide prevention articles agree on these points: remove the threat from view, contact authorities if you can and point the person threatening... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Here's a shortened version with non-salient bits cut out. Suicide threats As a matter of wiki policy, we take threats of suicide (and other forms of self-harm... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats Alright. That works.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats It's posted.... More Mod Jabberings Research about online suicide threats https://www.imalive.org/ This is a well-regarded online crisis counselling service for anyone. Also putting here in case the need should arise.... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread Numbskull is my favorite thump. :3... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread Numbskull is just too popular with us. The confirmation message for thumps is amazing. "Wack that sucka!" makes me think I'm wacking someone on the head... More Mod Jabberings Supersecret Made of Forum Win Thread I prefer to think of it as a giant game of whack-a-troll.... More Mod Jabberings Idea: Official Analysis Competition Just an idea I've been kicking around to lighten things up a little and hopefully get people in the habit of writing analysis pages. I'll put up a $20... More Mod Jabberings Idea: Official Analysis Competition I like the idea. Another possibility for a prize might be $20 worth of badges, or a month without ads or something. We are going to have pay stuff on... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Sorry, I almost came up with something witty for the British flag but didn't put it up because I'm scared about breaking it.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Maybe a little broom leaning against a trophy. Or something. Will make that tonight. edited 17th May '12 8:59:33 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Since it came up elsewhere, what became of the British Flag badge? It was in the test shop and the settings thing but it seems to have vanished. EDIT:... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Oh yeah, sorry. It's on the right.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Awards will be free, but only mods can buy them and thus distribute them.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! I put $.25 in luq27 and Willbyr's accounts. Anybody else need an account seed?... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Wait, no I don't. Huh.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! Final award badges are up. The cleaner one is for all those large scale clean up efforts. Let me know if you need medals for anything else.... More Mod Jabberings Badges! One tropie to one USA dollar, right?... More Mod Jabberings Badges! If we do it that way, it's easier to link to and easier to find as an Administrivia page. And we can pothole it in the current thread for badges.... More Mod Jabberings Testing thread locker Since the tool stopped working for me elsewhere on the board. And since it jammed "locked" I can't add a post to say, "yup, did the same thing to me.... More Mod Jabberings First pass on page images that may violate Google's standards For the record: I think most of these are fine and shouldn't be a problem, but when I was screening the list, I was trying to think at least sort of like... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Here's the rest of page 12. If there's any of these that aren't going to go anywhere, go ahead and lock them; I've locked everything else on the page... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 9: Auto-detect "ThisTroper" (turned into auto-detecting certain no-nos...might be helpful beyond just YMMV/Trivia wicks) Commonly used tropes by medium... More Mod Jabberings Tech Wishlist cull and checklist Page 3: Bug in Namespace index Pre-emptive block on creation of certain pages (meant to be an anti-trolling feature) Keeping folders from collapsing with... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned Good points. I know that I've been guilty of not making it any priority to deal with Edit Banned because I think "Fighteer will get it."... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned Honestly, for me it's not "Fighteer will get it", it's a lack of time/motivation to do the research on why people were banned and a struggle to phrase... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I get that. There are definitely mods who have more talent for softening the blow than I do. Doesn't mean I can't at least try to emulate a nice guy.... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I like Maddy's responses in Edit-banned most of the time. I think her tone has the right amount of scolding but also gives the banee the hope of reforming... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned On the note about the "help with English" thread...is there any way to lock a person's account so that any time they try to make an edit, it has to go... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned I'm not sure Help With English is effective enough to put any time into developing a way to funnel people into it. Has it cured anyone? I don't recall... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned We seem to be falling behind a bit on these.... More Mod Jabberings Thoughts about Edit Banned Yeah, I',m doing some history digging.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Kevster99410 has put the following comment in Scandalgate's discussion page: Go home Anita, you're drunk.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker This was formerly a review by Christopherweebling1 with the following content: He Fucking Hates Ruby! Seriously, am I the only one who gets it? He wanted... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker The depths of gullibility can never be plumbed...every time you think you've seen the bottom, someone comes along with a shovel. edited 11th Mar '15 6... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker This is the only post of a new handle named Reberca: [img] http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2015/06/michelle-monaghan-julianna-margulies-cfda-awards... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker It's pure spam. Bounce 'em.... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker Kadie1bo was caught spamming links to an unknown reddit thread under the guise of linking to illegal NFL streams.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Regarding the TRS/IP banner links, the issue is that the new site doesn't recognize the URL with a period between the namespace and the title anymore.... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version There is no longer a button to get back to the forum you were reading at the bottom of the page for when you are done reading. This makes navigation much... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Double quotes in thread titles are rendered as "&quot ;" in the browser tab's title. (without the space) edited 9th Jan '15 8:28:12 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Two more things that have been reported in the other tech threads, which I'll repost here since the processes we need them for are troublesome enough:... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version The article history seems to progressively and gradually indent itself as you go down the page. Noticed on /pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.Sword... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version I had login problems yesterday but it appears to be fixed now, so I presume that's one you already noticed & squashed. Seconding Shima's request for... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Not a bug but a standing request - Image Pickin' threads need to lose the "pic style" screen that you have to go through before closing; this function's... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version troper=Exenteration Exenteration]] (YAY to restored Mod powers!)... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version Here's an issue: if a page has been blanked — that is, had all its source text deleted — the editing menu does not offer a History option,... More Mod Jabberings The TV Tropes 1.2 bug thread, mod version In the Mod Central panel, the input boxes for "research IP", "reason" and "lock page" all overlap.... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. Yep. Tone should definitely be how cool things are going to be now that Chris and Drew have stepped in to make it so that the wiki can be ever cooler for... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. Hello Chris! Nice to meet you. The side bars thing is because we have two different sets of users on the wiki. There are a whole big bunch of people who... More Mod Jabberings Announcement about site ownership change. Oh yeah! Completely forgot to add the markup. A HUGE rat just ran through our living room so I had to make that post from the top of the couch. Itcdr... More Mod Jabberings Improving report systems on the site Worth noting that if my suggestion here on DRAGON about private wishlist/ bug/ Ask The Tropers reports is implemented, we can use Ask The Tropers for handling... More Mod Jabberings Update Well, it's been about a month since we've taken over from Eddie, and I think time for a quick update on our progress. Development Server As many of you... More Mod Jabberings Update I'm aware that it didn't work very well. I'm not suggesting that we go back to it. But something more like that, something which actually shows the relationship... More Mod Jabberings Update It seems to be a pretty common practice on Kickstarter. I got a preview from another company yesterday and there were already 11 backers. I don't have... More Mod Jabberings Update Neither do I.... More Mod Jabberings Update Yep. "Seeding the tip jar." It's a tried and true practice. People are more likely to give if they see evidence that someone else has already given. If... More Mod Jabberings Update I have a Kickstarter account but if it's easier for you to make me a new one feel free to go ahead with that.... More Mod Jabberings Update I do have a kickstarter account if it matter, though we're past the point where we need seeding.... More Mod Jabberings Requests for large queries This is the place to request the admins to query the database and generate lists of pages for future editing projects. First off: Pages featuring the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Whichever mod picks up the item can reply by PM, I suppose. That might be an okay stopgap. edited 13th Apr '10 12:46:02 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Then hope that the mod they sent it to is on and notices that there's a PM.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So the crowner will be displayed in the thread itself?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. The prototype of what that looks like is here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Makes sense to me. The title and OP of the crowner seem to be a kind of blank link, if that makes sense.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Be good to yourself. We'll cope without you for a day or so. Worst comes to worst, we'll rout out Janitor if something comes up that we simply must have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mostly over PMs. Some of the details were posted in the Insecurity thread in YF (where it's not normally considered drama, because angsting is tolerated... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't feel any real need for a boilerplate warning. If someone's acting up enough that I feel they need to be warned, I figure they at least deserve... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree with Madrugada. How would the clock be used in the event of a stalled discussion? Is the idea that it would attract attention from people with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. Him. I was just thinking a few minutes ago that the forums seem to be improving, in terms of collegiality, and that the crackdowns have been working... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Up to you. If you think he's worth working with...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I don't forum ban without explaining that's what happened in a PM. But I never put a forum ban on Devil May Cry because Eddie IP-banned him for being... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Actually, he's still using the name Devil May Cry, somehow. I assumed he wasn't IP banned, so if he is he's evidently found away around that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here's to hoping that a few days away help, and hopefully real life issues will abate as well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think most popular public sites eventually figure out that their forums are at once their most active and least productive areas. With this site, it's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can't do #5. If we run a campaign asking the contributors to click ads, google will rightly come down on us like a ton of bricks. The whole system works... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And already get complaints on its own. Anyway, it will be gone by Sunday night. edited 1st Aug '10 7:24:30 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Camacan looks like a good candidate.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Interesting...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about simply "Wow. That was rude." And "Thumped for trolling." edited 12th Oct '10 8:38:03 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. I'll do that one for 'civil'.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Behold. It worketh.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll lift the forum ban then, and keep an eye on him.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What bugs me: idiots on the internet who think we care about their lameass little hate-war.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are we getting any value at all out of the Just Bugs Me forum? Would we miss it if it was gone?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would be nicer if more people here (and the overall web) actually groked civility. The worst parts of IJBM are like cockroaches, though. Nuking them just... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. They do seem particularly prone to that error. Is there anything we can do about it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. [ [bait] ] is in. I'll use it on my next post.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I notice that Myrmydon was the person who kept trying to fan the flames.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? offtopic... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, moot banned them from 4chan and 7chan's /i/ got closed down, and everyone was getting sick of telling the newfags that they weren't their personal... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I tried inputting the names of several banned users. Guitar Bizarre has one of the same IP addresses as Rifflet, although she has a very dynamic address... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ...huh. Not seeing it here, either. Could indicate a problem. edited 26th Oct '10 12:11:25 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, now I do have a real request. Can we sticky/unsticky threads as forum mods? I can't find anything to do this.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can't. It sure would be handy if we could actually; I've been asked to do that a few times in the past.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here are the top 100 posters in the wiki-related right column topics. Slopes off pretty quickly after top 20 or so. (takes a moment to run)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I could swear I've seen Tzetze in all three columns. Dude's everywhere.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably wouldn't do anything to curb the use of whitespace in the article and nearly every page would want the banner, creating a vast and tedious ugliness... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a point. Quite frequently things like character pages have warnings of "This page will contain unmarked spoilers" — it's just too hard NOT... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any mods want to lend a hand with doing the index and unlock drill for the Big Page Lock items? They aren't getting ahead of me by a good bit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Where's the setting for the page type? Last I remember it was on the 'Edit Page' screen, but I don't see it there anymore. Did it get moved? Ah, found... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's on Tools.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just found it ;) Please look at Older Than They Think and tell me if I did it right.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks good to me. I neglected to mention above that the banner can then be removed or set back to what it should be. The tool to do that is on the left... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How do we unlock a page?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have an assignment due Monday and a frightening amount of reading to do (including three novels) before I can even start, but I'll be happy to help out... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maddy, go here and press unlock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, I think we're caught up to page 17 now on the unlocking-pages-that-have-been-split initiative, except I'm not sure what exactly this guy says he... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, Leigh Sabio's contacted me via PM asking about the rules regarding threads about other tropers. Leigh: What would happen to a troper who made a thread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is he also a forum mod for the rest of it, or just for there?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe RPG could use a subforum-focused mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good Christmas, Meta!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay! Now no one can complain about having to pay attention to the Twitter feed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi everyone, glad to be here. I'll be reading a lot and poking around and trying not to touch any bright red buttons that say For Emergencies Only. I would... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are they not just deleted? I know that it's not possible to bring them back (as was attempted with the old TV Tropes The TV Show threads).... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds like fun. Enjoy your vacation! edited 4th Jan '11 7:04:37 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, vacations away. I need one. I'm not getting one. Meh. At least I just got a week off.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hard to say. My impression is of someone trolling via that persona. Of, course my memories of tween angst are exceedingly faded by time. He could sincerely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed. It's getting really old. And I've warned him about the "making everything all about me" thing too, at least once by PM. edited 4th Jan '11 4:13... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I warned him by PM too over his little tantrum over the IJBM closure. Who/whatever Chagen is, it's getting too annoying for this wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed, he reminds me of that kid about a year ago who was invited to leave by other tropers. Does yurifanboysama later Apple3 sound familiar?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow, wow, wow and wow.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No issue with having some episodes in the can before going live. I think the thing is to get one person who has an interesting delivery. I think some editorial... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Forum Time —Pacific... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm gonna hang until I can't.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going down now; may wake up before the axe drops.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am sitting in my living room laughing my ass off. Does this mean we have to call you?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The sixty day limit on TRS/IP threads has been implemented. I guess the next thing to do is to automagically put up a three day clock for everything that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we're going with an inactivity clock, it should be well shorter than 60 days. If a topic doesn't get any posts within three weeks, it's probably dead... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We're had threads come back from over 4 months, so any cutoff is going to be fairly arbitrary after a point.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not having any sense of urgency around TRS/IP is not good, I think. Not just that there is no progress on the specific threads, but that these threads... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I did not know that. Now I do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Madrugada and Ironeye, I have to applaud you guys for taking my silly post in the IJBM wasn't deleted thread and running with it. I was just going for... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup, I agree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In other news, the video thing seems to be going nowhere real quick. I'm tempted to offer (not offering it now, haven't talked to Janitor) to pass through... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There isn't any chance of Travis Bickle being unbanned, is there? Given that he ban evaded, I'm guessing probably not, and I can understand if he isn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, duh. You know, I really do need some kind of remedial Basic Human Communications refresher course. I'll do those things.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I trimmed natter and conversation from John Cena and locked it from this end but the little lock didn't show up on the page.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oy! I wasn't trying to make anybody feel bad. I was being informative. So... so you guys quit picking on me! edited 15th Jan '11 12:44:47 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So far, out of about six submissions, this fellow seems to have a delivery you can understand and good tech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv_HcFVHb8E... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sent messages to two former students. One has already written back and is interested. I told her to come to the wiki and look around and warned her it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Of the two I've seen, Geoff's is better in every respect. Both take the minimalistic, traditional vlog approach, but Geoff keeps it snappy and to the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think you nailed it with the "other elements", Bobby. I could see Geoff's delivery working well with something like a Mr Wizard parody or (Fast Eddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? At the moment, I'm leaning toward alternating teams: Geoff and BriGuy92. Geoff has a pretty good editing suite and is willing to do edits on other's raw... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I generally leave the text unless I'm thumping someone known for unthumping their posts, like Dick Richardson.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see. Then what about "Works set in Jamaica frequently involve the following tropes"?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That sounds like it could work. Cautiously. It might be better to work them into the description rather than bulleting them, though. That way it looks... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That particular script would be much better for Technobabble. But I like their sense of humor. And very good production. and the presenter has a very... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've asked the Bri Guy 92 crew to do four scripts. The rest have been sent pm's asking for something different or thanking them for their time, kindly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I may have missed the "snowfoxofdeath business." Is it in "Edit Banned..."? I'll have a look. Edited later: I've put in an exception in the google bouncer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Couldn't get to it. Message from Google docs saying that the file was unavailable, but if I wanted to create a Gmail account and use it as my primary email... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some potential there, though maybe some polishing's needed. For representing Eddie, there's always the distorted-voice-played-over-a-still-card option.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Falls off couch laughing and is stripped of mod status for lack of seriousness edited 25th Jan '11 7:25:13 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mourns loss of pony and sockpuppet edited 25th Jan '11 7:47:48 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ha.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That could work really well. And it can be taken as far as desired, since it's a one-shot in multiple videos — Who's/What's under the ski-mask this... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yikes! Nothing serious, I hope.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK it is 7:11 on January 31 and I have had precisely zero videos submitted from my previous employer. A couple of thoughts about this: Asking people who... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, thanks for trying. Here are the first three scripts from Tom et al. http://216.151.212.48/vidscript/1-showwithinashow.pdf http://216.151.212.48... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's good. Very like the site.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would be nice to have. Thanks, Bobby. I was following the advice of our resident graphic-arts pro (at least, the one I know about) who said, "The... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Show within a show isn't working for me, the other two do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I asked rodneyAnonymous's opinion of that layout. He sent back this◊ as the way he'd tweak it, to make it even more like an actual TV Tropes page... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think they need to do the Show Within A Show to see what works. I'm thinking that notes won't help them as much for that script as doing the shoot would... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's the feeling I had. If it doesn't gel, we can remark on it then. I do think they'll catch on themselves, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Coolness! Maybe the results form could say whether the locked page exists in the db, as feedback?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Should be back. Looks like I had zapped the banner by accident. edited 3rd Feb '11 6:52:10 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. That's closed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see it. It disappears when I log in as a sockpuppet, so yeah, it works.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? To take one example, let's say a page is cut. Someone recreates it, but makes no other edits. In the current system, we (mods) can't figure out who did... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nice. There actually is a use for IP's, though, which is to see if somebody got caught in a ban intended for a different troper. Maybe some way to expand... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Those ptitles won't know what hit them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool, I started responding to 'em. I also saw some rather odd formatting but that got cleaned up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did you read The Ptitle Replacement System? If so, please help me identify what part needs additional clarification. edited 18th Feb '11 4:39:05 PM by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Rat Cheer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So I put in the old name, then it shows me the old name, then I change it to the new name, and it does the rest. OK. You might want to add something like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or we'll tell you to stitch in the ditch and see how far that gets you!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Installation was still acting up when it got to be 1:45AM in my zone, so I'm backing out and will try again tomorrow when the screen isn't so blurry. The... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? *snicker*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's awesome.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, that's good paraphrasing. I think there will be a net gain in overall user experience, as each main page will present more quickly. edited 21st Feb... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would be a very unpopular move.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Attempt at translation: XML is overcomplicated magic that the hipsters want you to use for everything. I think we can get away with using much simpler... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now that I think about it, those are only issues when transmitting from the browser. Okay. I like it. You stay on the page when you open a folder and wait... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. I'll fix 'em.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, in a staggering bit of irony, The Ptitle Replacement System appears to have a blank title when it appears on the watchlist or recent edits pages... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. How long does it take the forums to "catch" custom title updates, out of curiosity. Having an issue with Main/SchrodingersCat (Schrodingers Cat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No Japanese, unless the entire article is translated. I did away with supersecretspoiler. More like superannoyingspoiler. edited 23rd Feb '11 10:49:32... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Miiiight wanna tell people about that last one. edited 23rd Feb '11 11:14:38 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ I've stuck it in the headlines. Is there a way we can find all the pages that were using it to mark a subjective as "in-universe" or "invoked", so that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we get the edit-banned IP list back in some way or other? I know I complained about the page size giving my browser a headache, but it is now... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is that list, sort of. I'll see what I can do about showing banned IP addresses.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Perhaps a locked (that is, mod-editable) wiki page that records finalized decisions would be useful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, when I view the Title Requests form, the "link" to PM the sender comes up as "< href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/wiki_pm.php?to_troper=Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? yup. Missing 'a.'... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. Gee. Thanks... I forget about all those at times. Edit: Random Chaos' reply to me was ... bizarre. Slapped him with a ban. Okay, I get he's an... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we come up with new ones, there should definitely be a theme of some sort. Is there any theme that works well for 8 mods + 1 admin?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There were nine members of the fellowship of the Ring.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? nine muses. I call dibs on Thalia. nine Weasleys.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we do muses, I want Polyhymnia.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fancy. Err... just checking, does this work with touchscreens? EDIT: I'm game for a theme, though my sister is the family's Firefly watcher, not me. 90... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would it be too evil if we all had the same avatar for the day? Edit to add: like multiple Calvins? edited 11th Mar '11 9:01:07 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Better. And cute, but I wonder if something like a Care Bear would work even better...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would be funniest if we could somehow randomly determine which way up people's avatars were, so they would look like the were rotating. Being an English... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe program it so that, regardless of poster, the first post on a page has an upright Rei, then the second has Rei rotated 90 degrees, then number 3... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Spartacus-spin? Ooh.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looking forward to it!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I should mention that I will be MIA on Saturday as well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oooh. Wait. That could present a problem. No one who has access to the forum banhammer will be available for most of Saturday. It's here. I trust y'all... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, you need to enable the forum banhammer for at least one of the other mods.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, please take a look at the Tom Clancy article and tell me why the [index] tags are messing up indentation in the list of his novels.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Red October and on to (and including) Executive Orders should be a second level bullet. I'm seeing the same thing as Fighteer (on Windows Vista with Seamonkey... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks fine to me on Firefox (I think it's Firefox 3.6.15) on Windows 7. edited 21st Mar '11 6:14:12 PM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose that replying to the auto-PM would be the first and simplest mechanism, but I'm concerned about a bunch of "moderation protest" threads cropping... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can we add a [spoiler] thump for the media sections? Some people are pretty bad about spoiling unreleased content without using spoiler tags.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll generally either just tag the spoiler (if it's only part of the post) or delete it and leave a note if the whole post is a spoiler.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Editing is available to everybody logged in. Stuff that is not in the work is not an example. Whether the guy is the actual author or not doesn't matter... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On these pages I think it is the references to the religious zealot from the Ukraine who scuttled the work that is questionable. Even though those are... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you, I have felt the need for something like that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woops. That's fixed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, first off, it belongs in the Just For Fun namespace, not Main. Second, Just For Fun does not mean dada-esque bits of randomness. It should at least... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Customizing your name to Spartacus? I'm in for that. ...or would be. Every poster trying that would be a bit much chaos.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? heehee... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? An hour early? Let the wonderposting begin.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Actually, adding an automatic lock on the title when the page is cut would be fairly simple. I'll try to do that between messing with the troper's heads... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm, we might need to add something to Locked Pages though, since that's where people will be redirected if they click edit on it, and without a manual... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Make a list that can be viewed by anyone of "Pages that are locked because they were cut"? Put a widget on it to request that a cutmaster override the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some guy was bitching about the avatar changes and demanding to know how we knew that it was official and not a hacker and why didn't Fast Eddie post to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very fancy, thank you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No sweat. Anyone else amazed by the number of wet blankets around the forums?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? tvtropes lampshade... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ideally, Reispin would close out the night, yes? Though I don't know if the post templates work that way...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fair is fair. Still, some sort of clear climax... Can you modulo every avatar that's been used today?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Calamity Jane is in the top 20 now?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would like to put a headline up about the changes to the home page but can't find Eddie's post on the forum that people have been referring but not linking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? For anyone who cares, there's a human back in charge of the original TV Tropes Twitter account—it just started re-tweeting comments.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anybody have a link to the "mirror wiki" referred to in the strike-through thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow. Had no idea that ever happen. Seems to have fizzled out, but it is almost disturbing to see our hard-won text being just wholesale stolen like that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, when you finish clicking through the Natter Notifier page, it returns you to the Home Page rather than the history you were previously looking at... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't duplicate that. It returns to the correct history page for me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Has to be something like that. That, or an IE 7 defect. edited 11th Apr '11 3:39:22 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any ideas on where to look? Edit: Hmm, okay. I won't worry about it too much but it's strange. edited 11th Apr '11 3:39:50 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, that can happen when the inital request and a request to change it are in the same request-handling batch. The change is being attempted to something... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No images on the wiki?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They're still there for me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Problem with the title customizer I haven't noticed before: It won't let me decline a "change"-type request. Specifically, AMNK's request to change Hey... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I got a PM from arha and here is the text; ''There's currently something of a confused debate going on in this[1] thread. To summarize, the crowner that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, regarding PMs, a question. When I'm looking through my mailbox to see whom I've sent PMs to, I noticed that when I send one, the sender is shown... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If the browser is smart, I don't think so... it may or may not still make a request for the metadata.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ See the "White List" thread, please.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Has it popped up somewhere again?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Loan Sharks was discussed, Morven. Back in September of last year. The thread is gone, but I did the name/redirect swap myself back then, and I recall... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? First, from a veteran ... do not take it personally. All the cool people know better. Second, I am not a sure as you that it will turn out well, but I'll... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Heh, inclined to agree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think dumping conversation on the Troper Tales pages periodically is a great idea. It might be more palatable to the majority of users if the solution... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just curious, did somebody log into the Twitter and forget to switch back to their own account?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome to the team, Camacan!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As it is, I'm mildly irritated by the "let's change all spellings to American/Commonwealth English" types, though I daresay if a standard were imposed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be OK with us saying we'll generally abide by Strunk & White ... though I don't own it, it seems to be a sensible standard for most things. I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to start banning tropers who discard YKTTW's without clear consensus. Seems that we've got some people who think that launching to discard is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So I can out Camacan on June 10? Cool. Thanks for the go-ahead, blackcat. edited 20th May '11 7:31:26 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's still an unnecessarily awkward way to go about it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby G: We had a troll attack within 12 hours after I got my weapons and supplies. Maddy gave me a bucket to throw up in after I got done.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oddly, the same happened to me. Is it the universe messing with us by delivering a trial-by-fire?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes he makes mistakes, so auto approving would be bad. The green alerts make me feel rushed sometimes but we don't have to approve everything in... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Charlatan? Overreact? I just can't see it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The odd capitalization usually goes with other grammar markers for ESL. Lack of capitalization, no punctuation and random letters appearing in the middle... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This PM comes from Ardiente: I would like a special provision to post in the European protests thread and only that thread, in order to keep a discussion... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. I think I'll have to make it so that banned people can't PM.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the other hand, the term "moderator" is familiar to just about everybody, and we do act in a debate resolution capacity, when people can't behave themselves... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just a thought. The phrase 'staff editor' seems to carry more clout, to me. Next question is, is 'more clout' a good thing? In other news, I'm going to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. You're hired. What's the plan? What do you need from me?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I figure the best way to start will be a forum thread that discusses the new tech and allows people to ask questions about it. We should immediately link... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. Anything we can do to fuck up that guy's day would be great. Lawdies, how I hates me a bully. Quick, somebody talk me out of redirecting all referrals... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You weren't hired to hang your head. The hire order was to effect a perfectly smooth roll-out on the Troper Tales change. Okay. Now I am channeling Mr.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How's this for the opening post? On June 13, Troper Tales will be moving a new format. Any troper will be able to add a new entry in a manner similar... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Leave my name out of it. It invites the people who have an Eddie hate-on to take a position.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm a little disheartened by the number of replies to the effect of "this is bad because it will make it harder to do [dreadful thing that Troper Tales... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And the "This is bad because it won't let us do [thing we have stated we want it to be able to do]."... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just read through that thread. Typical human reaction to change. It must be bad, we must jump to conclusions, we must perpetuate misconceptions and we... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good trip, Maddy. Hope the meeting goes well. And the evening.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Ironeye — I'm not an expert on Troper Tales but I'd say we avoid adding features to appease those who wish to discuss personal stories. My instinct... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Collapsible, of course. The spoiler idea is silly bad.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like the idea of moving ownership of the story from the individual to the site by way of allowing edits. The story becomes the property of the site any... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But if we establish that editing is acceptable that diffidence will fade.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In YKTTW, up until recently, editing an entry changed the only name attached to it to the editor's name. So it was considered to be a form of hijacking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You mean editing your YKTTW comments or the main article?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Comments. This was ages back so I don't want anyone to get in trouble for it, but yeah. I'll be honest, I think it's a failing of the YKTTW system. People... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would it be possible to make only the original post open to editing? I have to agree, I really can't see a burning need for John Q Troper to be able to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Spelling/formatting fixes. TT gets a lot of post-n-runs from careless editors.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But if the post is credited to Q Troper Wordsmith (and therefore, implicitly, not the Wiki itself) if they make spelling errors, it's not going to reflect... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I get the impression from the current furor over Troper Tales that the wiki as a whole does get judged by the content of the posts. edited 1st Jun... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It does, but currently Troper Tales are anonynous. I mean, yes, Something Awful will still judge us, as will This Troper on You Tube, but they're more... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably any post should note both the original poster and the latest editor. Also, maybe it would be most convenient for the entry's edit history to be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ugh... why does that vlog attract so much drama here?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool. Try not to jones too badly. Just added a new tool to Moderator Central. Troper IP History can be used to tell what IP addresses a troper has been... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The mod consensus was that we don't want or need trigger warnings on any wiki pages, right? edited 5th Jun '11 2:41:52 PM by MetaFour... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup. That's the way I read it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm getting edgy. I will be asking for second opinions for a while. A lot of what I am reading in the forums is just pissing me off. Maybe I will just... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Could the tool be modded to show number of edits, so we don't have to click each entry to see if they did anything? Also, and maybe this is reaching,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I figured I'd pass this PM from Drunk Scriblerian on: "Indeed. Have I mentioned lately how much I like the people who run this place? You guys run a good... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? indeed!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There was an edit war on the Busy Street page. I edited the description so that it was a bit more neutral and locked the page. If anyone feels that was... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, FE, I know you're probably busy, but would you consider changing the code on the actual "thump" tag back to a simple "Thumped with the stick of mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, boss, check this out. I set a Custom Title on the Heinlein novel Methuselah's Children, even though we don't have a page for it, because it seems... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, I got some interesting info about the efficacy of the "Headlines" box. When I put up the note about the Periodic Table of Storytelling Elements being... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? For future mod reference, this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/donate.php accepts free-form donations for the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Umm... I put something on the Cut List and it vanished instantly: Music.Quadrophenia. It's not even on the recent cuts list. Do mods have some new superpower... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks like you were on when Meta Four was doing a slash-n-burn sweep.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Quick note- I found out the hard way that custom titles with <angle brackets> do not get escaped. So probably best not to approve them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just a heads up, I locked The Irate Gamer page because the most recent edit included a paragraph describing the previous editor as a bully who was harassing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's been OK for me. Could it be intermittent trouble at your end? Also, quick question: during the HG 131 cleanup you deleted some reviews. How does one... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here's a freaky thing. Silver Lucario blanks Kiwi Blitz and gets banned on the 24th: Silver Lucario 66.65.8.158 Then along comes Melon Frost and blanks... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ban evading to continue the battle. I wonder what he's got against Kiwi Blitz?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would that matter? I thought a ban on a handle got all accounts on that IP. I have no idea how anyone could have anything against Kiwi Blitz. So innocuous... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Registering on one IP and editing on another. I'm getting tired of assholes, folks. I'm this close to putting requiring an email address with a click-back... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Refresh my memory.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Yeah, I'm cool with Tsundere, and I think it makes sense for the various anime genres to have Japanese titles when there is no English translation in... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've only been reading manga and watching anime for about five years and do not have the degree of knowledge that seems assumed on some of those pages.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm also strongly opposed to what I perceive as the anime fandom's habit of taking general tropes and applying No True Scotsman to them to make them anime-specific... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I assume this replaces the old "<mod hat on>" pseudo-markup?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or this: That's warm and friendly, right? edited 28th Jun '11 2:23:28 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll want to see what it looks like before I give up the <Mod Hat> completely.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe we should ask for suggestions on what the Mod Hat looks like...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe this kepi◊ could be a Mod Hat? I can mirror the image and shrink it down easily enough.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was thinking something like this (just an example):... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's enough impressive hat pictures out there we could give each mod a distinct one. Do we want to do that, or have a standardized mod hat?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am utterly charmed. Perfect!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think I found my mod hat◊, as long as that's not too tall.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can you snag Lord Nelson's hat◊ for me? Pretty please? And I like your shako. It suits you. er, Annie. Whichever. edited 28th Jun '11 8:20:33 PM... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pretty slick.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I see, so it changes shape depending on the shape of the avatar we're wearing? Hmm. I can live without the customised title, it's cool.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I nearly always use 100px squares, anyhow. Will submit a hatted avatar when inspiration strikes. Not quite sure what headpiece suits the colored-yin-yang-thing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll see if I can figure out something to do with my avatar when I have some time. No hurry.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, I see, they all say "With Mod Hat On". That's fine. And it looks good, if I do say so myself.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We need a place for the mods to write common documents out of view of the wiki. Things like building a list of the older threads that need modmode, for... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. Will the mods all please send the address they want to use for sharing googledocs to fasteddie@tvtropes.org? I'll build the 'share' list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't have a problem sharing my e-mail address with the mods (and only the mods), either/... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I will be on a family trip for the long weekend. Online-ness will be sporadic. Back Tuesday afternoon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have a good trip. Don't do anything you don't do, that breaks reality. Not an urgent matter, but we have a "Fan Fic" Debt which looks like a hate fic.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does anyone know what happened with RPG Codex? I got a PM asking if it could be unlocked and recreated in a less negative manner, but I don't recall why... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Another helpful column would be the mod who did the banning, in the event we need more details and can't readily figure them out from context. edited 11th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Groovy. Working my way up to keenest. It'll be a hard hill to climb, but I'm sure the view will be worth the work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There was a hole in the anti-spam measures. It's closed, now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I do like that idea Cama.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that just makes us feel better about zapping them. It likely wouldn't do much to stop 'em. Actually, I think I may be able to detect a nannybot... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Common words that nannybots target: shit, ass, fuck, God, damn. I know we had one guy whose nanny killed "bastard", "Jesus" and "Christ" as well. ^ It... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, and no. Recs are signed, right? (I don't go there often, or at all, really.) If so then they are indisputable unless they are clearly trolling.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cleanup Day sounds like a good idea to me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about doing one and seeing how much gets accomplished, then schedule accordingly?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we think that any troper who has been around six months could be trusted with hooking/unhooking crowners? edited 20th Jul '11 4:23:30 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Louie W isn't assertive enough to be a mod, but he is on top of which threads need crowners hooked, unhooked or swapped.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Maybe when we reach an open thread threshold, only mods can make new threads?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They weren't working earlier this morning, which is why he wasn't doing that batch himself. The new powers should be working, now. I like that holding-chute... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If a fic is published, we can comment on it. You publish, you take your chances. That's the nature of it. edited 22nd Jul '11 3:12:58 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie locked Nietzsche Wannabe because of people shoving stuff about Friedrich Nietzsche into the main text. Got a troper asking for the examples to be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer has much better ideas.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The only thing I'd change is for LOCK: "The thread is resolved, but for any of a number of reasons, the thread is not locked. (Willbyr and Shimaspawn have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Antidyslexic, huh? Be that way. SIS is an acronym. I'll let you guess which S is first. edited 23rd Jul '11 11:11:23 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree, looks good. Pin it? edited 24th Jul '11 8:01:46 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Glitch... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, if one of the objectives of the maintenance was to install the "mod mode" button in all threads, it didn't work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, yeah. I discovered a way to do the move/restructure that was faster, but there was no way to make it also do the modmode change. That's still coming... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I made the call that it is an attack page, suspended c7102297 and put Sodi on the Cut List.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It should be working, now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there any way to recover Counter Clock's account or allow her to make a new one? She deleted her old one a while ago using the sockpuppet delete function... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Technical question, Eddie. I know that you have a way to determine if a given IP is one of those proxies that our resident trolls and spammers love so... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Apologies if this is a noob question, but is there some easy way to see which Troper Tales have new entries? The index lists every page with archived... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, cool. Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Had a go. First time I've written a headline, hope that's OK.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have computer problems. I'm going to have to go offline, possibly for some time. Random reboots without warning, "Overclocking failed" on boot —... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dang. Good luck.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Daaaaammmnnn. I'm gone for a little over a day and five pages of hollers. I see that it is mostly TT flags, but still. I'm only partially back. I get tired... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Zudak has expressed the desire to flee his immature antics of the past to me, so I imagine it has to do with that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There are still votes trickling in, (the last vote mention was 194 "No"s, at 8:12 PM forum time and there are 198 now, at 10:56 forum time, so, 4 in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have to admit honestly that I probably nuke too fast sometimes. But, I don't see a point in leaving bad threads laying around once they've been locked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Will be away with no or limited connectivity until Wednesday evening. Sorry for short notice; forgot to mention it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Zapped it and PM'd. No idea how he did that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm leaving in an hour or so for a family trip, back Monday evening. I will have Internet but my ability to be online will be sporadic at best.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I nuked most of the comments before I put that note in ATT, by the way. And two of the comments I left have been edited out by the people who made them... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, mod dreams sound shitty — could be a Sign that a break is more than due.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not A Mod Expert/Authority Figure, but removing an unsuitable image sounds entirely reasonable to me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since it's phased as "some part of this comic", I'd say it's not a correct choice, since it can be a vote for any of 6 panel combinations, if order doesn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. It was in the thread about alphabetizing examples on the trope pages. One of the things being discussed was how many people use the page histories... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's very little that got wet that there's any chance of saving, except for stuff that can just be hosed off like plastic tubs and lawn chairs and tools... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Glad to hear you're safe, dude. Good luck with the repairs and everything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer I am glad you and your family are safe, what a disaster.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It does sound like good progress. And like you have a really good landlord. I can't count how many times we had to persuade a landlord that yes, the big... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow, this is making me really glad that I don't live in an area where "flood" means "Aaaaah! My entire shoe got wet!". I'm glad things are going so well... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? They can use the account zapper. Latest repair shop control idea: Give each troper a fixed number of repair shop threads they can have* meaning threads... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right. Not to single DQZ out. There are probably ten tropers or so who clog up the works with lots of marginal, easily dismissed repair shop O Ps.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer: I don't know if you saw this but Shrek Fan 100 has waited out his "come back in September" and is asking to have his ban lifted. edited 6th Sep... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Heh, I'll be bailing out the basement. My wife just told me I can still get in, as long as I don't use the creek road. Wish me luck.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best of luck, Fighteer. Take care.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good move on the Fox article. We're heading into the season where people begin to parrot the talking points of their parties even more frequently.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If you can give me a list of all the tropes (ideally, in clickable format, but if not, there's always in wikiword form and I'll cut-and-paste) I can start... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We can't construct the blueprint for this from indexes? Would save a lot of time.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unrelated problem that needs Eddie attention: here. I can't duplicate the error message.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that works, Eddie. The plan's just to have a separate page to edit a trope's relationships, lateral and upward?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, I didn't realize that. I will henceforth confine myself to commenting on what I'd like it to spit out and let you figure out how to make it do it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We don't really have a thump tag for "inciting flame wars" — the closest thing is the one that says, "See the rules".... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thumped for being purposely annoying? I kinda wish we could have "thumped for being a pedantic rules lawyering wanker", but I'm guessing that wouldn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about "thumped for flaming?"... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? "Sorry, we couldn't tell if this was a post or an asshat's fart, so we thumped it." That seems like a measured response, right? edited 9th Sep '11 10:29... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's hard to tell what he wanted to accomplish with those posts. They didn't seem to me to calculated to start flamewars. They were just there to disrupt... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey, where were we talking about doing the trope/subtrope input? There is a beta it would be cool to get some feedback for. It is very beta-ish right now... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I tried it to see what would happen. Something did. Did I break it?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh? Reading it across has no meaning. Each of the columns is a list of parents or kids or sibs for the article. There is no relationship other than that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very true.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hrey Eddie, would it make sense to make another subforum for Works Page Repairs separate from the Trope Repair Shop and Image Pickin? Looking through the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, you may be hearing from Jack Butler, over at the mirror wiki about this. Someone's attacking them with bots that are creating new, gibberish... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? True.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The table that records edit per troper has also been dumped. Not edit history, just the table that says what edits they made. This means the "find edits... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, it's a good thing we don't have to show a profit or support a payroll. As long as the ad revenues keep up with the expenses, which they just about... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are there other sites that host those things for free? And since we started hosting the forums has peak usage periods been consistent? What I mean is,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's ... an interesting concept. That bears considering.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I was thinking about ebb and flow on a yearly basis. Do we have an equivalent to Black Friday? Are there times of the year that are slower? Does forum... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's not TMI at all. A thought, that may or may nor do anything, let alone anything useful: Would it help with the processor load if locked threads (... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not at all. A quick analysis of top-level forum use based on the latest page of most recent updates (so, 200 posts) shows: 82 Media 44 Just For Fun 23... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, if you can run a top 200 forum side and top 200 wiki editors list again, I've got the time to do a cross correlation today. I won't be able to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Here you go: Name Forum rank # of posts Editor rank # of edits X 2 X #26 108 53 21 shimaspawn 30 103 6 89 Willbyr 35 92 34 27 Hidden Faced Matt... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It worked a lot better when we had more than two days worth of history. (Not a bitch, Eddie, just a statement of fact.) The intersecting set was more like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is it possible to define the term Network Allocation Table as if you were talking to a very intelligent person who knows a lot about theatre? Because you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Can I call you PonyG now? edited 19th Sep '11 7:51:57 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? D:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That made my day.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've deleted two reviews in the past week or so that were aimed at the MLP fandom and another that was aimed at an author on the Sonichu page. On each... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been working on the assumption that a review is supposed to be about the work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cant Have Sex Ever is on the Sex Tropes index but the index doesn't show up on the page. I reset the Sex Tropes page as an index with no changes. ?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've found myself more willing lately to just go and lock stupid threads launched in Yack Fest. Does anyone consider this a problem?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have no problem with it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That sounds like a pretty good policy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hmm. I'll rig up a thing to mark threads as 'pending final action', then. That might help clear up the backlog.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yikes. Yeah, I'll decline the offer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ok, I kind of suspected you might already be on the hunt.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm glad you're thinking about it, though. I worry about your burnout, Eddie, quite apart from anything more serious. I worry about burnout for a lot... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll confess that the fun has been harder to find for me, lately. You put stuff like this together so that people who are like you will dig it like you... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I find I am getting a little aggravated and I need a break.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks like Cat has quit us on the social media thing. She's not responding to emails and hasn't done any tweeting (for us) since the 12th. So, if anyone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On the intern thing some more, let's try it this way: We'll drop the 'volunteer' and make it available to people seeking supplemental income. As in not... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ptitlelyh80l6b Can you look at this page and fix it someone?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sweet. I'm on it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I not be seein' it, boss.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Do we have to manually move freshly locked threads, or is it automatic? Not that it'll be difficult now, but I'm just checking. edited 28th Sep '11 8:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? and Is there a prize for simulposting?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That was the biggest thing, yes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And why go through the duplication of effort when we already got that far? sidles over to the cupboard, pours a hefty shot of grog and slides it across... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So, shut up and drink, then. Always good advice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now it is getting too complicated. Are we drinkin' or talkin'?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm inclined to think we don't need that article.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm appalled. ETA: cutlisted. edited 29th Sep '11 8:39:15 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, a request: Can you bump the mod post red to something between the almost imperceptible pink it is now and the milk-of-magenta red it used to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? With Massive Story Inside and The Trash Heap Of The TV Tropes Forum I'm wondering if we should have pages on the wiki for any forum thread. Seems too self-referential... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I also got a PM from him, but I've been gone since 1pm (PST). Someone seems to think that mods treat this as a 24/7 job.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So one of the young'uns in the forums that I actually like went and took an overdose of acetaminophen, semi-accidentally (in pain, too depressed to care... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yikes. I'm very sorry to hear that happened. What a good thing you knew about the dosage, and what a good thing she PM'd you! I really hope the hospital... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. That should be fixed now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the average launches per day is something like 6, so you could have a good point about the workload. Hmm. Say we have something like "request final... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, no reason that we can't give a subset of tropers the permission to do it. Just not randoms.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I know. Music was a poor example. Still, a look at the Creators article shows our challenge there. Namespaces for each of those categories? If... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People and Company? That would suit my lumper tastes. Edit: Seriously, Company is an existing work page? That's just absurd enough to be funny. Needs... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think that people will mistake all these specific-creator-type namespaces as the wiki expressing a special interest in the subjects. I mean, 'Actors'... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People and Organizations are good. And now I am going to have the opening number from that show in my head all day. edited 4th Oct '11 8:50:11 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On a related note Eddie, while we have you in planning mode, any chance of getting the page type auto-populated based on the namespace? It wouldn't necessarily... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I received the following PM from user PDL: It came to my attention that Ponibooru has allowed pornography of underage characters on their site. For the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't care if he removes the links. However, he is talking about a members-only section of that site which he says he hasn't seen, followed by a bunch... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, thanks. I'll pass that message on. This is the first time I've received a complaint of that kind, and I wasn't sure how we normally deal with that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, nuke his ass. We don't need that kind of rules lawyering.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This page history [1]is for a page started today by a new account Relic Kimah. I have pm'ed them explaining the problems with the page. ETA: How do I cutlist... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi folks. I'm more or less back today, took a four-day weekend and had guests over and ended up with far less wiki time than I had anticipated. I agree... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to see you Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think it is fine in FAQ.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seems appropriate enough.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? MS Adict launched Renowned Selective Mentor despite it not being up for grabs, but then didn't actually create the article. Dawnwing complained about that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does anyone know what happened to Rationalist Literature? There was a overly-gushy article which got cut and put back into YKTTW. But that one's been launched... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Two things: First, although I think that the Made of Forum Win thread is fine on the FAQ subforum, other people are not so sure. Second, in light of this... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hate to do this to y'all, but I'm going to be fairly scarce for a while. I don't know how long. The business I'm starting with Chris is suddenly in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooooops. I just clocked the Hollers thread by mistake. Eddie, can you unclock it please?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We have already panicked. We have already panicked. We have already panicked. Thank you, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh! Good luck!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie: Fighteer is a mod. Then The One who tropes: So, cut them all?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, so One Who Tropes is pushing his own agenda or jumping to a conclusion, I guess. I'll decline the cuts requests.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? When Nakama was renamed True Companions someone decided to make all the runners-up alt-titles. Many of these have been collecting wicks from folks that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm against it. Several of those, (Coterie, Fellowship and Ohana, possibly others) predate the rename thread; they were redirects created to improve searchability... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? OK, maybe not Ohana, although I think almost everyone around my age knows that word and has strong associations with it. But the others?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? By the way, Richie has been on vacation (in Mexico, the bastich) for the last coouple of weeks and will be gone for at least another week. I will still... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks FE! You rock.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is awesome. Wildcards are wonderful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, heavy. I'll (or someone will) have to update Know The Staff later. My three-day meeting ordeal is nearly over, by the way, and I will probably have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Double-post, and it may just be that I'm tired or not looking in the right place, but where is the tool to apply a forum ban? I looked at the banlist... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FE, I just got a message from Sporkaganza that Buttercupistiny is trying to bake a new cookie and is getting a message that her login information isn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ga-roovy!! Thanks loads, Meta Four.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There can't be many writers who know about us but not about Wikipedia.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That is not our hostname. Listing it does them no good, nor will bugmenot remove it on a request from a non-owner. edited 22nd Oct '11 8:40:10 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nice work guys smooshing the troll. It's amazing to walk in and the streets have already been hosed off.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm less caught up than Bobby G is, but so far I'm in agreement with him.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Post your random thoughts (start here for context).... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seriously doubt their influence. You do realize they get about a quarter of the page views that we do? And that the one thread where they beat up on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? On a related note, kyfhv is asking me why the note on SA as the origin of Lets Play was dropped. I can understand not wanting the link to SA if it's not... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No disagreement from me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The big problem with these tempests is that they pull energy away from the mission of the wiki. Instead of working on clearing threads out of TRS or on... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Talked to her on Skype. House guests... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yep, sorry. What was supposed to be a minor supporting role in a meeting and gathering turned into full-fledged co-hosting duties.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Try sveawartooth , then, or svea.wartooth . It's like my cel phone number. I never have to call it, so I don't have it memorized. edited 23rd Oct '11 8... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? (Whew, busy so much lately... school, some minor employment, a forum RP... never thought I'd ever get involved in an RP, much less engrossed in one.) Losing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And yet I've also had people complain to me that we were irresponsible for not taking the time to check through tropers' posts and edits before banning... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hunh, maybe that was another account at a different place? I have to set up a lot of accounts when shopping for shows. edited 24th Oct '11 4:21:06 PM by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Enjoy class, blackcat! No mail yet from the account creator, spam or otherwise. I am absolutely certain I got the email address correct. I'm also looking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If someone has time to make one, I can put it up. Elsewise we still have the pumpkin. edit to add: Well, maybe not. Can't seem to locate the pumpkin. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's about how people identify, I guess. Okay. edited 28th Oct '11 6:18:57 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, it is just a CSS change. Nothing needs to actually move. If we're going to do it. edited 28th Oct '11 6:54:55 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, keep safe and warm! I may be somewhat scarce during November since I am participating in Na No Wri Mo. Attempting to kick myself into giving birth... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck Fighteer; you need to move somewhere with less weather!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woot, mod immunity! And I'm back, by the way. Got power back sometime between 1 and 2 PM EST, when we were out getting lunch.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a couple of folks in "Forgot my password" complaining about an error "Sorry, we couldn't match your login information.".... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got it, thanks for the feedback.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Cut List is a mystery to me. Real Cartoon: a Japanese animator gave an interview in the 1970's offering his idea of what was and was not a "real cartoon... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I was wondering about explaining your executive override bringing back Hollywood Thin. I could re-open the TRS thread and make these points: TRS... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^Sounds like a plan on Hollywood Thin. There was a thread in progress about fixing the article rather than cutting it. No idea why it was cut, with that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anybody want to bet against this pedophile showing up today is actually an SA goon trying to plant stuff to ridicule? I notice that whenever there are... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is obviously an SA goon planting stuff to ridicule. He knew when it was posted and bounced because it was him.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Amen.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Soma bras, product testers and some refurbished something or other says "No".... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay. I'm not running an ad blocker. I wonder if my company's been jimmying with its Internet access. Let me try a restart.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I skimmed it. Doesn't seem to have any objectionable material in it. They are just talking about objectionable material elsewhere.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you, Becca. I'm also glad he's taking some down time — I've been worried about him. I think in this case we should keep it quiet. Transparency... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah. I can't remember him actually getting time off anywhen lately.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you, Becca. And if you're reading this, Eddie, enjoy your break. You've more than earned it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome Becca and thanks for stepping up. I hope Eddie gets his rest. We don't have a PM blocker to the best of my knowledge. The only way to block... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm very glad that Eddie is getting a break; I've felt he needed it for a long while. Thank you, Becca, for standing in while he takes a sanity break!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Tuesday morning, I'll be departing to go stay with my family a bit. I'll be there at least until Christmas. Hopefully I'll still be able to get on here... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It wasn't even as bad as "had no respect for the people who wrote it", as I recall. It was just a statement that they saw no point to it. And she kept... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I haven't seen her and Kashchei get into it again after that, either, but I've notices Kashchei, for all her prickliness and argumentativeness, does learn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's the way I understand it. It's kind of counterintuitive to say that recs can be pulled if no one has seconded it — that would mean that every... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That sounds reasonable to me. I don't like it, but given the capacity for self-pimping some people are capable of, it's reasonable.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be on and off the site for the rest of the week, due to spending Thanksgiving with family. Good luck everyone!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck Bobby. Hope you get to redo that module. Wondering about this thread on the True Companions discussion page. On the one hand we had a massive... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I looked at that and ran through a series of possible responses and ended up with deciding to ignore it. I thought about posting links to the Nakama discussions... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Back from walkabout, having achieved Slack. Felt really good to drop just everything for a while. My focus will be on improving the moderation tools, getting... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Awesome, that's great.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd prefer the latter, personally. Just make one blanket statement instead of trying to flop around the concept with lots of specific rules. In fact,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There are also liability issues to consider. However you may feel personally about the Copyright Police, it's Serious Business and a site that is perceived... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oooh, that's even better. Forcing page creation to assign a type and namespace will fix a lot of issues. Can I make a suggestion? If a page doesn't exist... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, it's similar in principle. I see no reason not to give it a try, as long as hellbanned threads are visually distinct so we don't lock/delete them... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did I leave anything off of this? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/restrain.php It should allow you to look up restraints for a handle, but it does not yet apply... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ooh, I had a thought — might want to add "new handle restrictions" to the list. Right now you have a thing where new handles can't post external... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Those last two would simply require integrating the current Troper Watchlist and Watched Troper Activity widget edited 1st Dec '11 1:30:17 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Please nuke any thread about the This Troper webseries on sight. No way in hell are we spending money to advertise for that asshole.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is a holler that states that because The Chick is locked all of the changes are going to have to be made by a mod.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, let's have another look at the new problem child restrainer. It doesn't actually apply the restraint yet. You should be able to add a faux troper... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks good. There ought to be a simple way to go back to search, other than the Back button.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I like it. I like it a lot... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Keeping the account new to make sure the new-account restrictions stay in place.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's how I found out it was on. I tried to post in the forum and got the "Posting has been turned off for this account" message. I didn't try to wiki... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It was definitely me that set Maddy's restraints. All better now. Liveblogs and Reviews are now handled by the new system.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ If anyone could succeed, though, it would be Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ahhh! "Keep in the new user status". Duh, should have guessed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I recall someone (Eddie?) saying PG-13 is about what we're aiming at, in the forums at least.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Despite all my efforts, I'm sick and down for the count. I'll be spotty for a bit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What do we think of the idea of putting the restrain reason on the suspension page? Might cut down on the "why'd I get banned?" stuff. Of course, that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does the restrainer keep a history of disciplinary action? Or is the record gone once the restraints are removed?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's got a history now; Eddie did that at my request. It's pretty cool. Would also be good to have the restrainer form have a link to IP history and cross-ref... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The restraint page now controls access to YKTTW. You'll notice a change on the wiki edit history display. A link to the restraints page for the editor... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All subsystems are controlled by the restrainter. Including the wiki. edited 10th Dec '11 2:03:38 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Possibly even the bestest tool.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Answered in thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Also, I have never seen a post like "Forum Such-N-Such really rocks!" It is always a bitchfest.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie-san, you might want to check out the last couple of posts here. Are our ad providers slipping our folks a mickey? edited 13th Dec '11 4:33:26 PM... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Awww Camacan I'm sorry that happened.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think you're probably right. It didn't used to be that way, though. Actually, I think it's appalling how bad it's gotten. Must be the influx of teenagers... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My computer lives again. Like Granny Weatherwax's broom, over the years it's had the handle replaced, and the bristles. Yet it is the same broom.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? May as well, since attempts to tell people not to post there are failing.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The thread as it currently stands is really borked. It's showing a page count but only one post. We need an intro post too. And you just tossed out... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ "Please link us to any additional posts elsewhere that are also concerning, so we can deal with the problem as swiftly as possible", perhaps?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You aren't being unreasonable. The problem is that the forums represent a wide range of opinions on what's acceptable to talk about and what isn't. Trying... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be mostly absent for the rest of the day due to holiday stuff. Probably back on tonight. Other than that, little plans 'til new year's.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What do we think of changing the Prime Guideline from "Don't be a dick." to "Be friendly."? 'Friendly' is still vague-ish, but I think those people who... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, people have accused us of wanting the forumites to be Stepford Smilers, and this will just add fuel to that particular fire if we're not careful.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Still — the big advantage of the prominent mod hat is that it (can) stop further trouble before it starts by waving the flag of authority.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I find that tropers are quite prone to being intimidated even if I don't use the mod hat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mod hats are only worn at specific occasions, so they're more akin to a porcupine shaking its quills.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But on the badge thing: I'm a mod all the time. But I'm not speaking as a mod all the time, and I'm not posting as a mod all the time.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Recapping: Essentially anonymous mod posts aren't what we want.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @ Maddy: Point taken on not all mod posts being equally serious.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to have to cut down my time here for the next few days; I'll be very busy tomorrow and I'm travelling on the 12th. Probably for the better since... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been a bit scarce the last few days. I've been sick and have been having to deal with some crap in my real life. Looks like I'm going to have to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hi, all! In case you're wondering, I'm here in the lobby of Inova Fairfax Hospital waiting for my mom to get out of surgery on her foot. I've got a brand... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All the best Fighteer; tell us how it goes. (My mother is having eye surgery later on in the year, as it happens.)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Surgery went well and I'll be bringing my mom home this morning.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Considering that you just posted in the other thread that they're mods now, let me be among the first to welcome our new moderators!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And I'll be the second. Welcome, folks. ^_^... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The "mod tools" post needs updating. edited 15th Jan '12 7:26:11 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Shima: I just found this, and it looks absolutely wonderful. edited 15th Jan '12 7:52:21 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know that there's a post with screencaps of all the mod icons in it with an explanation of each one, I think I made it when Camacan came onboard, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best Of, Katrika, Shima, I'll need to hook up a mod-hat image for each of you. Pick an image that is the same width-n-height as your usual avatar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Alright, thanks!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No reason why you can't. We aren't confining you to OTC, merely encouraging you to focus on it. edited 15th Jan '12 3:52:02 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Parable sounds like an excellent choice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Me Too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think mod-approval for new OTC threads is all hooked up. We should be getting an automatic holler when someone starts a new OTC thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't know how to make a Wiki headline... Maybe I should make a Pinned thread in OTC? We can keep it up for a while and then when we know that the sub-forum... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That would go in Wiki Talk. I locked it again. And stickied it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You am de man.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? NEW RESTRICTION: New accounts can only post once every ten minutes, which might put a spike in the wheels of Baba's next run.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh-ho-ho! Thank you! Flood control is a good thing. And it will put a spoke in his wheel: on this last run, he hit 75 threads in just a hair under 5 minutes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I still have my old Engineer badge when I post in the TRS.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? in on top of that, especially as someone new to the thread wouldn't know where I quoted from in my Mod Hat post.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Mod Hat post is their warning.... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt Potential Scavenger Hunt Items This space is for listing potential search items for the scavenger hunt. Anyone is free to edit it and leave suggestions... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt Previously used Scavenger Hunt Items This post is for things that have already been searched for to prevent too many duplicates. edited 7th Jan '16 11:... More Mod Jabberings The Official Unofficial TV Tropes Scavenger Hunt Just going over the rules: I don't think you can edit a PM after it is sent, so that first one can go. I made some other changes in the OP. See if you... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes The whole thing is meant to be read. The rules are the point of the thing. Not sure why we'd hide them.... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Um, yeah, that folder idea wasn't such a good one. If there was a markup that allows for text to display exclusively to logged in tropers, that might work... More Mod Jabberings Governing The Use of Character Named Archeypes Well, I would rather be running scavenger hunts, but no one else seems interested.... More Mod Jabberings Colocating forum threads in wiki discussion pages (and vice versa) My vision is that each forum topic can be tagged to be related to one or more wiki articles. When viewed from the article's Discussion thread, all linked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good 'nuff.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nice. We've got 2-5 coming in overnight, but I don't expect it to be a big deal. I need new gloves though; my old ones are toast, mostly.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, there are days I could find it in my heart to hate you.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ooh, Eddie's going to be in town. He'll get to see all our lovely snow.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have to agree. The most flack I've gotten so far has been from a troll. A lot of times people are bitching because they're angry. Read through it,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, and another thing: If it does start getting to you, take a break. Let us know that you need some down time, and don't fret about modding for a day... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, blackcat. All right, here are the questions I'm supposed to ask as per my teacher. You can PM the answers to me or post them here. I'm not really... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This◊ is what a PM looks like if you start it with a < sign (title content was "<careful derpy", if that's relevant). This is not the same... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's fixed. It wasn't really an injection danger. Anyway, '<' and '>' will now be stripped out of the titles.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dear god, the introversion/extroversion topic was driving me nuts, because it was nothing but 'blah blah aspergers' from a few people, with asperger's... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? :D... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My guess is that his computer broke for real this time, but I worry, I do. Do we know his real name?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's being really sluggish for me too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looking at Arha's restraint history, it appears he got the full suite of restraints for being difficult on the "loli" issue. Is there any reason why his... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope you recover soon Katrika.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Very spotty this week. Moving house on Friday, signing contracts Tuesday, and I've been sick as a dog this weekend. Had I believe bad shrimp in a supposedly... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @ Katrika and Morven: I hope you both feel better soon. And hope the moving goes smoothly, Morven. edited 6th Feb '12 10:01:10 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anybody have any idea of how we can find out what is up with Camacan?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No idea. He's all the way in Australia.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think Camacan is a programmer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The age and location are right though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Granville is in the Sydney metroplex. Armidale is about 300 miles north... ^^ I know. And he's exceptionally closed-mouth about leaving identifying information... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If I disappeared and Maddy called me I'd assume it's because she's still got my cell number. That said, I sent him a friend request on Steam. Much less... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just added a Camacan on Skype. Of course, no personal information.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? A mod contact list doesn't sound like a bad idea. I can sympathise with Camacan's desire for privacy, I suppose.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? New thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I didn't have the yahoo address. It might be worth a try.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Lemme temp lock it so we've got time to comb it over.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I just realized that too. Unlocking the thread. We should keep an eye on Tam, though.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ It does send a PM, but it's an impersonal, non-specific one and in my experience often generates confusion. For example, I am currently explaining... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mark's "girly drinks" thread in YF a while back, Ramidel's infamous "Africa needs fixing, by genocide if need be", My God It's Full Of Stars' stupid posts... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The response from SC Bracer was certainly out of line. BTW, on the averages, women are less massy than men. That's all he's saying.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd put Sandbox and Tech wishlist in the left column in that case. Those are pretty grunt work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks. That's what I figured. Just had a PM argument with a very-obviously-massively-offended Flyboy because I thumped him for calling them "fuckwits... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There really is no nastier thing you can call a human than neocon. No need to heap 'fuckwit' on top of that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ Looking at the PMs again, it was actually "racists", not "Nazis", but as I understand the term "neocon" it's sufficiently broad and politicised that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's a shame how far he's gone down that anti-Western angst that he'd doing now. I guess we all get that White guilt at some point in our teens, but considering... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry I've been so spotty lately.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back and should be around regularly, having survived moving house with few scars (but much exhaustion).... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cat heaven indeed. Congrats on a successful move.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Don't cutlist the main if it has inbounds. You're breaking links. The main has inbounds for So Random.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Looks like either Eddie or Meta saved it. Welcome back, Morven! :)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good idea. I'll see if I can squeeze that in today. eta: That's in. edited 15th Feb '12 8:00:27 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's possible that I've overlooked the inbounds for some pages, perhaps when the list has been long and I've inadvertantly skipped over some things. If... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I had a thought about the Workshops vs. All Forums view, Eddie, and I wanted to bring it up here outside the noise of the other thread. How about having... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And the FAQ forum should be on the workshop, especially since it has forum rules and Edit Banned. edited 15th Feb '12 12:35:20 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wow, so many Chicken Little's, so little sense.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've locked the Kay 4 Today thread for the time being on the Westerner's request. From what I can gather he doesn't know whether to believe Kay is dead... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm mostly recovered from being sick and a bout of college stress, so I should be able to retake on a more active mod role.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Glad you are back and feeling better Katrika.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm spending more time there now that I am back. I keep an eye on Ask The Tropers, watch the edit reasons and the recent edits lists for unusual activity... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I also watch the new accounts list.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^Ooh, good one. Most useful around whenever we get one of those Baba-style vandals.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm gonna be with my family and that of my girlfriend over the weekend, won't do much if any moderating before Monday.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun, Best Of!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might be sparse here over the next few days due to having an essay in for Monday and a broken keyboard (the replacement just arrived; it is also broken... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just wanted to let you know that I'm not sure if I'll be going back home today or tomorrow; but in either case, I'll be able to do a little something here... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've moved the issue to this thread so that it didn't get lost in Hollers: I know we have a clear policy about not positing links to pirate sites. What... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Last week Willbyr and I had a short discussion about some stuff and he asked me if there was anyone that I would be comfortable nominating as an engineer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We could do a Skype. I'll get his skypename and set something up. If we think it is necessary, that is. Does an Engineer candidate seem obvious to anyone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There are some people that I think are bucking for the promotion and I mistrust them on principle.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, Discar's off topics I think have all been in OTC. I do agree though, it's not the best record.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It'd be nice to get a few other mod types about.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is an open invitation to all the mods to attend although that late in the evening may be kind of early for the Europeans. The reason we are going... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can be there.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ccoa does not have Skype and has children that go to bed at that time in Montana. She isn't sure she will be able to join us but has shared her thoughts... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, I've got Fighteer, Katrika, blackcat, Madruagda, Tangent, Willbyr, and me set up for the conference. Looks like I still need skypenames for Ironeye... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, I am free tonight. My Skype name is shimaspawn.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How do you get contact requests? I don't think I've received one.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Does Rei Kevin mean anything to you? That's the name that shows up for 'shimaspawn'.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's my name. It should be what's showing up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm still not getting anything. Stupid program. Why don't you give me yours and I'll try to add you instead to see if it works in reverse? edited 5th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Your status is set to 'online?'... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I kick this thing off at 9 Central Time, right?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Won't be needing a reminder, thanks. We has timers that go bing bing when it is time to do something. Only thing wrong with the system is the time spent... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm ojohierro on Skype, but I have an existing obligation in 15 minutes. If the meeting is on the longer side, I may be able to catch the tail end. Also... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Check in on the Skype Minutes thread and the April Fools thread, please, Morven. Oh, and glad you got the chaos vaguely diminished.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry I haven't been on much recently; I've been up to my neck in schoolwork and I'm not out of that yet (so I might not be on much for the rest of the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ugh, feel better soon. I hate allergies.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I've stopped taking the meds that were causing it, so hopefully the swelling should go down sometime.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bumping this because I'm bringing up a new issue: That Human made a Holler a while ago about Aiko Heiwa having the word "fucker" (as part of the phrase... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be offline tomorrow and Tuesday. Heading out-of-state for a job interview.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I think that's part of why they fell all over themselves to help me come up with a solution that would let them keep linking images they wanted to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since the Hollers thread keeps getting interrupted with Hollers (darn those tropers!), I'd thought I'd bring this up here. This Prometheus Unbound Unbound... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Woops, posted in the wrong thread. ^^; Sorry. Is there a way to split and merge, or is that too fancy for our forum software? edited 13th Mar '12 11... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yay, I have a computer again! I missed you, photoshop!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If I don't, we have the mod contact info thread - which, BTW, the new peeps should also check out and put their info there.)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Great list. I think we should have it in this thread. *Surfing sites that I used to love, but which have gone downhill: my personal form of ruin porn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Excellent point in comment #23... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I concur wholeheartedly with that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It occurs to me that our current forum rules don't say anything about deliberately glitching the forum. Should something be added, or should we just say... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Might be wise to mention it in the forum rules anyway, 'cause then we could more precisely point out why a post was thumped (and a user banned, if it happens... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^ Agreed. I think when there's a particular kind of dickish behaviour which we can identify and say "this always leads to disciplinary action", and which... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The name customizer is back. It has had a redesign. You can now make an adjustment to the requested customization if you need to. This release also squishes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Will it keep the link to the article when it's fixed? That's really handy for checking the accuracy of the suggested change.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Poor wording, my bad. What I meant was, when you get it fixed, will it still have the link to the page or will it just have the wiki word and the requested... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Cool! That makes me think, I'll be in Memphis, TN May 4-6 for the Beale St. Music Festival and will likely be completely away from the site during that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes I really wonder if people get the "no prudishness" part. There are a couple of people who are reporting things that don't even rate a PG-13... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Get well soon, Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It seems to run deeper than that. Even after explaining our standards several times, I still had people arguing with me that we should remove anything... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, and I think part of it was I kept getting ads next to those images that seemed much racier than them. For whatever reason I'm getting a lot of Evony... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, huh. Frickin Evony. I'm just getting ads for insurance and betting on that page.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I feel much better and will be back on duty tomorrow. I'm sorry I had to bail on all y'all, but staying completely away from Hollers and TTT was the only... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You needed a detox day. We understand. I'm going to be most likely poofing for a couple of days coming up. I'm going to be in Nashville from Wen to... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? After being almost absent throughout much of the weekend, I'm again rather exhausted after my ill-conceived decision to try to clear up that mess in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry for not getting to this earlier...I thought I'd PM'd ccoa last night but I just found out that I PM'd myself somehow. At any rate, I haven't been... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fare well and take care!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The stuff he's talking about has already been ruled as non-kosher—the problem is that the people who post in those threads are the last people who... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Unless mangafox has changed, they were always very, very lax about that.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I suppose it could be kept sub rosa if the editor was Maddy or blackcat. I don't think other moderators would be too jealous of the stipend in those cases... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aw, drink lots of fluids and rest up. :(... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I must have gotten you sick over the Internet; this damnable cold is still making me cough and hack.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Question from Ask The Tropers: Which medium do these shows go into — Thumb Wars, Dirtgirlworld — Animation or Live Action? They both combine CGI with live... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I agree with your reasoning.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Exams and end-of-school-year?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I mean, we already knew you were all those other things.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? *pops out of Annie's bag* Shut yer yap, I'm trying to sleep! *back in bag* Welcome back, Bobby!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ban at will. Ban if you are just a little unsure. Time to clean house.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Happy trails Fighteer!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It used to be you could do it by picking the blank option from the dropdown, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? If we need to, I think that is a workable model. I'm certain I am not the only person tired of the harassment directed at the wiki.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We could, alternatively, just put the social fora on pay mode and see how much revenue that generates. We wouldn't be losing as many editors that way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Off-topic for just a second - is the text in the last few posts orange for a reason?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I figured they'd put two and two together fairly soon. I'm surprised that no one's mentioned not seeing any ads. EDIT: Hey, the orange text is gone..... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The ads that are appearing are not Google ads.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This is quite suspicious, agreed.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Of the items listed on the link to the help page: : Lewd or provocative images Crude or indecent language, including adult stories Sexual tips or advice... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nevermind. I just axed them and locked the page. edited 5th Apr '12 1:55:23 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It certainly wasn't me, but while I hate that Google pulled the ads, is anyone here honestly surprised? Really? (Apart from maybe shimaspawn I guess,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't understand how reporting an offensive site that refuses to clean up its act due to an apparently esoteric definition of "family friendly" is bastardry... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think it has more to do with the suspicion that this was done either as trolling or for reasons of petty prudery. If it really was lolacat, the latter... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm of the opinion that the people who filed the complaint don't want to destroy the site per se they just want to impose their value system.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But everything is apparently prudery here. The problem is not sex, the problem is sleaziness, but you try to argue that here and you just get Raso calling... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The prudery lies not in saying "I don't like this. I think it goes too far." The prudery lies in saying "You are creepy and perverted for not agreeing... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I get the sense that there are two different things being discussed here. In fiction, people write all kinds of stuff. And sometimes the things that they... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I understand what you're saying, I just don't agree with you. I apologize if I offended you, I guess I really do have a different perspective on it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bobby, from the way you are talking it sounds like this place is awash in the dirty nasty stuff. So, I went looking for it, I don't run into that much,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You really did. I've been expediting stuff all afternoon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie's post was good, and probably the best possible under the circumstances. Sorry for being slow to respond to stuff. I have an overdue and urgent... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? deal if people who have paid for at least one page can select a specific avatar from their gallery for a post; it supports different "voices" (think Mod... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought you were making some weird metaphor (that started with throwing the baby out with the bathwater) until I got to dogs, at which point I realised... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have to go out of town today, sorry.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd be fine with the "outbound site" wall, too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's not a substitute for banning inappropriate links, but it'd be a nice precaution as far as ads and censors are concerned. Exactly.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Didn't we already have no-follows on outbound links from the October Situation? Do they not count anymore? Further up: The avatar talk is in the Merchandise... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How long would a background job that reparses each page with the updated parsing code take? A naive guess at 100/second suggests under half an hour, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Correct me if I'm wrong, but when a page is edited, is it not run through a parser to generate the html code? Could we have it added then? It would spread... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I posted a question regarding that plan. edited 7th Apr '12 9:05:34 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What do we do about Accidental Nightmare Fuel / Nightmare Fuel / High Octane Nightmare Fuel? The wiki overwhelmingly wants to keep them, but no one wants... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There is a Special Efforts thread for it. Other than an initial post and a bump, it's a ghost town.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ha ha, double post. Hey, Eddie, did you make a final decision on High Octane Nightmare Fuel? If not, should we try giving them one last chance to get... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? People are saying that they have the old ads up. What's going on?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The mod-hat thing was kind of funny. The google wall thing isn't.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am feeling really confident that we'll get through this entire day without any major drama. I just have that feeling.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... ... ... edited 10th Apr '12 8:46:00 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So my evil twin took my cat hostage and is making me quit Tv Tropes. (Had to have some drama!)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, I don't expect actual sense out of Google until a real human talks to you. If then. Didn't you say the offending page didn't even bear Google ads... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wouldn't be surprised if it is.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we cut Chibiusas Seventh Birthday please? I can't manage to make my brain process it enough to clean it. I'm not sure it can be cleaned.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now, another work which is really bad. Demonophobia. Apparently, it's a Ryona where you play as a small girl who gets brutally murdered in every conceivable... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just cutlist 'em as you find 'em. We are out to purge anything pedo.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mildly off-topic, but: if someone goes whyyyyyyyy tv tropes I may have to leave the website for that on a discussion page, should I just nuke? It's blatant... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Complaints about how we're running things on the Discussion pages may be safely nuked. I have no qualms about unleashing a suspension on the account in... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take a break if you feel that that would be good for you. On an unrelated note, I'll be off for most of the weekend but I'll try to drop by a couple of... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I hope you feel better soon, Katrika. Take care.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's from Neon Genesis Evangelion, I believe, although I don't think it's an official image. edited 12th Apr '12 7:03:54 AM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? My current av is an official artwork of Rei from Evangelion that was run through an editing program that creates parodies of Obama's campaign posters.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? From then on, the Mod Hat avatar's size won't change if you change your main avatar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That explains a lot regarding the content of her forum posts. EDIT: There must be something about thumps that IE 7 doesn't like, because it's started... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Orange text thing? What's that? (A thump message is supposed to be orange, but I assume you're talking about something else.)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I actually pegged Booky as younger than that. I didn't nuke the thread, but if it continued to be an outlet for the drama after we told them to knock it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As mentioned previously, I'll be visiting my family over the weekend and thus won't be online much if at all. I know I'm gonna have a huge archive binge... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I really want to dive into the council thread and get caught up, but the wife and I will be out and about for a while so I'll catch up when I can.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Aww, keetums! Post pics when you get a chance.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I had a very productive day today doing manly non-geek stuff like cooking breakfast, doing laundry, watching baseball, mowing the lawn, playing outside... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I am making preparations to move, so I'm going to be scarce until Friday, at which point I will have zero internet access at all. I hope to regain net... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, Meta! Hope the move goes well.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? <smack forehead/> Never mind. I asked Martello and Discar to do it.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good luck, Blackcat. Take care! edited 19th Apr '12 6:27:13 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just got off the phone with the Ad Sense representative and am a little reluctant to report that they are reinstating us. It is good that the dollars will... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm fine without making an announcement about it, though I will point out, our clean up efforts started before we lost them.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? our clean up efforts started before we lost them. But you see, that statement isn't one that the bitching population is gonna listen to: It doesn't have... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's certainly a relief. I have no problem delaying the announcement. Gives the merchandise thing more time to get off the ground, too, and I'd like... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The whole thing makes me uncomfortable because the trope clearly exists, even though it is stereotypically associated with hentai. That association is... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Referenced? It's definitely something works imply even weirdly in a lot of G rated stuff. Not just Japanese either. It's really hard to describe, but... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't think anyone will miss the images or the links.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? All right, cat. Let us know if you need anything.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Real Life has let up on me, so I'll be back. Still probably won't be on nearly as much as I was, but as much as I can be, and still make the bucks —... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's ok, two is plenty. But thanks for the welcome back, folks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We've got company staying with us this weekend, and the wife and I are going to a Tom Petty concert Saturday night, so I'll be hit-and-miss until around... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you both. I'm sorry, I'll do that. *hug*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sometimes a mental health break is a good thing, Bobby. *hugs* Go away for a few days and things will be easier. I know there was at least one point... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, when you're not too busy, it seems we have these faux-redlink requests from TRS: Bad Writing (is actually an index but people use it to pothole... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Easter break is officially over. Will be on less since I have to return to school.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Once the Nightmare Fuel special efforts thread is up and running, would it be all right if I announced it's presence and called for volunteers in a Headline... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It might be useful for the new account finder to list the number of forum posts as we do seem to have a number of new accounts right now just showing up... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Arg, WTF is wrong with people. I tell them not to ask for/link to pirated material, and two pages later they're doing it again. Rawr! AFDGJAOT!@#$(FJ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Send a warning shot over the bow then hammer at will.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Question: Can they talk about sites with pirated material as long as they don't give out links? For instance, we often talk about how these sites work,... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Our collective ass. Nice image there. On a more serious note, we rely on people to report this stuff, just as we do other violations.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That analogy associates with "bounce" rather nicely. Oh, and he needs to go bye-bye. edited 27th Apr '12 12:31:24 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? He uses a proxy, a different password and even different browsers from time to time. Hard guy to bounce.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It would be really nice if we had a sockpuppet checker for usernames on the wiki, just like the one on the fora. ...unless we already do, in which case... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone asked me if I could tell them when the 10 minutes time limit on their account will be lifted via PM. Can I tell them? I know we can't say it in... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I thought it was two weeks.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Isn't it "TV Tropes goes Fourth: Why do these dickholes write so much child porn?" Anyway, googling something awful tv tropes brings it up.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sunday is our busiest day, actually. I think the announcement was confusing. Everything is being consolidated into Nightmare Fuel, keeping the examples... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Start from here. ...And I think this post is where it died down, probably, for now. edited 30th Apr '12 9:37:24 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think the topic went down fast because of Flyboy's return (which gives me another sort of headache). If it comes back up though, I think it would be... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We do seem to need another person on the cutlist, especially since we don't know when Meta Four will be available again.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I wouldn't mind a cutlist nomination but Eddie has disagreed with some of my proposed cuts in the past, so I'm not sure I have the right mindset.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Best of luck, Bobby. I hope everything goes well for you. I always looked up to you as a moderator.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Based on the ban note, it seems he was banned for this post: @something awful: Because I've never really given my opinion on that site yet, and everyone... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Cute's PM ban should be lifted. I had a conversation with them where I asked them to tell me what's been troubling them recently, and in their... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is there a way for us to delete other users' accounts? I was sent a request.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie can do it, of course, but we do not ever delete accounts that are not in good standing as removing them removes the information needed for the system... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Axe it with prejudice. People should know better.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Put my foot down. "You've never cut BIG tropes before!". Yes we have. He should know better.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The people in The Legend Of Korra thread would like to split the thread into a shipping and non-shipping thread, similar to how The Order Of The Stick... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Why not?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Are there shipping storms? Either way, if the shipping and non-shipping groups are big enough and annoy each other, splitting sounds good.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Apparently, the forum rules thread says that "link-discuss" is a universal rule. Am I wrong about it being OTC-only, or is there a mistake in the forum... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sounds like a plan to me.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oops, you're right. I just cutlisted it, too. Copied over to Just For Fun. I think I need to tell them to put the kibosh on making fake game pages. edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The ridiculous Mass Effect nonsense has caused DethroningMoment.Video Games to become a magnet for a ban evader who can't accept people weren't happy with... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mods can now see who flagged an article in the Violations list. P5'ers can't.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you. Fired a nuke.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, that's odd. I tried to sort Ars Goetia and any folders I tried to add seem to have broken. I'll fix it, but any idea why that happened? edited 6th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can run a report for that. Here you go: Most Active Report edited 8th May '12 2:59:03 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It takes a long time to delete things. If you submit batces of ten, it will work a little smoother. It doesn't delete article history. It probably should... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Doing them one at a time is not so hard, and sometimes things with the same title occur in multiple namespaces.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, get better soon, ccoa. I'm starting to think that Mass Effect moron isn't a single person, but a bunch of deranged immature fanboys who thought they... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sadly, it happens.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Errr, Eddie, I know you've made the password visible to us, but did you make it so that a new account only shows up in the list after they've made an edit... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome back! :)... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I mentioned this on Skype chat last night but I am in very long work meetings today through Wednesday and won't be able to mod much if at all.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Probably another victim of Goldstone's redirect cutting spree.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? May be spotty today. I have a Byzantine lesson in the afternoon and it's raining like crazy. Already had one blackout.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think I've figured out the problem with the crowners' icons that don't show up. If I hook a crowner after using the "unhook crowner" button to get rid... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Since ccoa and I have been made full mods (thanks for that, BTW), do we need the engineer badges by our handles anymore?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Revenue from badges: $200. Offsets the $130 cost of the secure certificate (for two years). Everything from here on out is gravy. Not a lot of gravy, apparently... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? So it has to be kept fresh. New badges, an inventive game that uses badges (not that lame "describe the badges above thing"), an so on. I;'m not sure even... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yup, me too.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just remember: We're the only fraternity you'll ever need.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That rule isn't obvious or anything, so we should probably still go with a policy of "you get one warning for this; one more message after the warning... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take That, Baba!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's a fairly good idea, Eddie. It occurs to me that if Baba figures out that we've got an account age restriction in place, he'll just start aging accounts... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, because unfortunately, the majority of people with accounts are casual readers who just want to turn spoilers off. Not actually editors.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The forum and wiki "new account" checks should be independent of one another, I'd suggest.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, the bottom row of forum buttons looks squished together on my Chrome browser. Screencap◊.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fighteer it's like you're reading my mind. edited 30th May '12 6:47:44 AM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Would it be a good idea to post a headline for heralds? I'm not sure all the applicants are still up for the job...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think I already locked it. Can't force people to enact the repair, and it keeps sinking to the bottom of the forum. It got two chances already.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's exactly what I'm smelling and it worries me. Can't we file a complaint at Google? Someone clearly has an agenda here. edited 6th Jun '12 9:47:48... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Now that it's worked, they're almost certainly not going to stop with just the rape tropes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thank you! Imma test that... Works. edited 13th Jun '12 6:31:23 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Huh. I would actually rather it did show up and was clickable. But I suppose it doesn't matter who executes a reversion.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? DC PM'd me about a couple of holes. Namely, it's possible for unauthorised users to post in Edit Banned, as well as to create a thread in the Content Violations... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is it Septimus? He really is the last person who should have those powers.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It's a good concept if we can find the right people. I can't think of anyone in TRS though, since Discar is too busy with the P5. IP has a couple of people... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, it would appear that the ykktw ban still allows the bannee to edit other people's posts in ykttw. Today, our Mass Effect vandal exploited that hole... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The new account restrictions should have YKTTW be read-only, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, a few months ago, there was talk of an automated welcome PM for new accounts. Is it possible to implement this idea based on this thread? I think... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? More to the point, his damage seems to be getting contained rapidly by the new measures - no 150 page vandalism sprees. I'd say an unlock is okay to try... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'd say so, yes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The season finale for The Legend Of Korra is tomorrow morning. I am really going to try to stay out of the thread, because I won't be able to watch it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? FYI, tomorrow I am departing for my company's annual national sales conference. I'll be too busy to actively moderate, although I'll be on whenever I... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That day zero hole is closed. No activity on that other account since January. The account may have been cleared out by the thing that gets rid of unused... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is probably the single most discussed topic in the mod forum: how to reach a balance between how open we are and what kind of things we hope to reach... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's something really wonky going on with new accounts. I brought this up, where a 0 day account made a thread. Then there's the Susanoo account we... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Something is up with Masonicon's accounts as well. This one banned by blackcat posted in Wiki Talk. It has no age listed, just null. This one banned by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't feel quite comfortable editing his page...I mean, the position is always open if he decides to come back. Back on the appeal thread, I find it... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Wonder if it's their password patterns matching a recent bounce Eddie installed. That's happened before.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Those two no-age pages are that way because the account was deleted after they were banned. The reason they were deleted is because they had no wiki or... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah, that's good to hear. I'm just making sure because Masonicon is poking around for holes to post in less than 24 hours. At least he's not as damaging... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? none here.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Nope. He's shown himself mature enough for the job.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I really hope they're okay. Give blackcat my best of luck wishes.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As a heads up for the Cut Masters, we're getting rid of everything on Headscratchers.Tropes per this thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hello everyone I'm kind of back. Long version here. We don't have internet at home but I do at work so I will be able to check in, but not much more than... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sweet...now we just need to determine who to apply that to.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, there is a bug with the PM banner. At times, the green banner notifying me of a new PM won't disappear unless I erase it. This has happened... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't recall anything negative about the top four candidates. Of course, I don't recall much positive about much of them either. I'm really just glad... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Understood! Thanks for all the information Best Of and thanks to you, deadbeat and blackcat for the welcome. edited 11th Jul '12 3:49:18 PM by daltar... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? From AHR: Hi Morven, just pming you because I'm not sure how to contact all the mods, short of reporting a post, but I recently blocked someone from sending... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ugh, the amount of bitching in that discussion page is off the chart.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Blocking the discussion page for Lolicon from accumulating new items would actually be great, if possible.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie can lock discussion pages. I'd suggest that this one be blanked and locked.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It looks like it is giving a bit more information.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? She's active on the Skype conversations. I think the break was for like an hour or so.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No. No it isn't. Get the chainsaw.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm back from my trip to Helsinki. (Actually, I was staying at a small town near the Helsinki metropolitan area, but it doesn't really make any difference... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It looks like the faux-redlink is going crazy with newly created pages. [1] [2] [3]... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Take a look at this. It appears Xiphoniii has somehow uploaded an animated avatar.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Or that. I haven't checked to see if he's been causing trouble elsewhere in OTC.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The Restrain page now has a Comment Activity link showing the wiki page comments for the individual. edited 28th Jul '12 6:14:25 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!~... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Um, are we supposed to have this page? It seems like better suited for the forums instead of the wiki...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Who nuked the TRS thread for Pedo Hunt, and why? It demonstrated misuse had a perfectly reasonable solution that was still in keeping with our official... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, the feature to see a troper's Discussion history is awesome. I just used it to go through my own history and follow up on some comments I'd made... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I didn't say censoring them, I'm just concerned about the current definition of Lolicon as "harmless".... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Didn't Detractor Nickname exist at one point but was cut or merged with Fan Nickname? EDIT: Detractor Nickname is cut and locked, sooooooooo... edited... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That's weird. I can see it. It's several threads down (17th from the top at time of print), but it's there. edited 4th Aug '12 2:55:40 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Make it like the "moderator" tag that appears next to our names when we post in Discussion pages, Ask The Tropers, and in history? I remember debating... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Fast Eddie, why the rename on But Your Wings Are Beautiful? It seemed to be working okay, from what I can see. edited 8th Aug '12 9:29:05 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Dialog like name. Overly specific as to wings. Had already spawned "But Your <anatomy element> is Beautiful" snowclones.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun, Shima! I want pics!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, the last post here asks for a mod decision on whether it's okay to brainstorm new names, and there's also a holler to that effect.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Have fun, Shima!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^There is nothing wrong with the new name. No name can be too literal or too exact for Septimus. I locked the thread. edited 9th Aug '12 8:12:41 AM by... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We do fun stuff. See: UsefulNotes.Flying Spaghetti Monster Just move it to useful notes. edited 11th Aug '12 9:46:45 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'll be offline for most of today.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Not sure it is a full on rule. Although, potholes in captions don't make much sense. Especially when they make an all-blue sentence. In this case, we had... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Did somebody nuke this review at some point? The comments seem to imply so, and now it's flagged.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think this page needs to be killed. It's a bunch of Troper Tales. They even talk about old Troper Tales.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Any chance we could revisit the ideas laid out here? A cleanup day would be great. I almost invariably need more manpower to clean up the jargon I find... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Kewl. Then what do we have to do to make it happen? I'm all for bringing the idea to the public. edited 20th Aug '12 10:25:22 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Pretty much always been that way.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I seem to recall that I saw an actual list somewhere. Do we actually have a list of stuff that's on your queue?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The wki tech wishlist forum.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. That. Honestly, I haven't looked at it since. Everything is pretty much on hold until the ARG goes live.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, this is a weird one. I was having a PM convo with Arha and accidentally changed the subject from Custom title display to !. After I hit send, the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, am I correct to believe our restraint reason field has limited character space? When restraining this person, the comment refused to register until... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Kewl! Thanks. You've totally eaten a hat.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? It is close enough to joke to remain. Unless you have a better replacement, that is.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been around much recently. Something died on my computer, so I've been trying to fix that at the same time as doing my research... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I still miss Camacan every now and again. And I miss Bobby. That is all.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Clearly an agenda, and quite possibly missing the point that we are talking about the perception of Dubai in fiction, not the reality - or rather, if we... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I certainly didn't know about it. Honestly, for long pages, I prefer related tropes to be sorted that way when it makes more sense than simply alphabetical... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Someone adding a trope in alphabetical order could easily miss that sorting, resulting in duplicates.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think perhaps one of the things we can put on the TV Tropes 2.0 wishlist is the option to sort by alphabetical or by subtrope/supertrope grouping.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Next biggest problem is that sometimes the trope that others are listed under is in no way a supertrope. Gotta remember there are people who have absolutely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh. I'm just confused by your reply. The impression I'm getting is that people are reporting delays much longer than a minute before they can edit again... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Is that Spark calling other people out on literallism? The guy who's never satisfied if we don't have a mouthful clear name? O.o Pot. KETTLE!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm asking because jargon furigana makes me mad, so I don't want to be making a move that only annoys me while contrary to wiki policy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Why can't we pimp our own product? We pimp everyone else's. I'd say let the vids stay unless there is a compellingly better image. Will post in thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That sounds easy enough and will help remind people when there was a TRS thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just realised that we can't do Mod Hat posts in the Welcome to Tv Tropes thread.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know we have a policy against acronym redirects, but what about things like MMORPG and PS 2? They have hundreds of wicks because they're easy to type... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've been putting IP thread links from old threads on pages...Drill Sergeant Nasty has a "don't change the pic" notice, and I was wondering if that was... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't recall, but I believe that was mostly a quality-swap. The original pic was also of R Lee Ermy. Ah, found it. The "Ermy pointing" pic was removed... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In an all-day training session... *sigh*... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Israel and Palestine. Debates between theism and atheism. Justifications for piracy. edited 4th Oct '12 8:46:38 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We had to be explicit about "Don't post porn." I think being explicit that Pedophilia and rape are verboten topics is necessary.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? What is this new thing about not having spoilers on character pages? We definitely shouldn't have spoiler tags on character descriptions, but the trope... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I know that real people aren't supposed to have YMMV pages, but how should we handle comedians? Bill Hicks has a YMMV page that mostly covers his material... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? YMMV about an artist's work are valid but must be limited to their work.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm going to be away from the computer all day tomorrow. Just letting y'all know.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Eddie, can we get mod mode enabled for the "Pokémon in General" thread?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That too. Eddie, why did you decide to do it now?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That good colors example is a good example of the problem. nobody on yhe planet who can see needs a reminder which color is the green one. edited 16th... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? No, not which one is green, Eddie. Which green is which; the difference between the unnatural green that's usually a villain and the lovely healthy natural... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes. Luck and fortune to you and yours, Fighteer. And people wonder why I risk earthquakes instead.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Stay safe, Fighteer!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Just open a can of chicken soup. A chicken was sacrificed to make it at some point. Should be close enough to an appeasement sacrifice for any reasonable... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? But I want Fighteer's stuff...... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh wait, is this a video game? I thought it was real life.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Marq PM'd me about the thread for Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong being shut down...Maddy, has he tried to get in touch with you about that since then?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? AWS is mostly right now in an office tower on Virginia between 8th and 9th, and that's probably where I'll be. I'm aiming for at most a 45 minute public... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? @Eddie: It does seem like a nice part of town. We'll see if things there are within my budget and credit, though! If not, I know enough people in the... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I just got a PM from Earl Of Sandvich, asking about the Cut List. Just barely noticed the additional note on the description after having made my last... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Death by Kanji. Great name for a band.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, that's idiotic. One article; if he can't say what he wants without making the whole page white, then it shouldn't be said.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Same to you, Best Of. Hope you survive your visit.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ah, good. That'll do.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Got a virus ping on my work computer while I was browsing the wiki...with my luck, I'll come in tomorrow and it'll be blocked.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The ones I locked and moved I did the old fashioned way by using the "move the thread" tool. It added 15 nanoseconds to the task. "Psssshhtt, young'uns... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yeah, I didn't build a morgue-ifier for those threads. UPDATED: I built one. Couldn't have our hard working mods spraining any mouse-clickin' fingers!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've moved the focusing thread to Wiki Talk for a bit, so people know about the move and can ask questions. We can morgue it when it's sufficiently served... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I figured I'd crush the Finnish's hopes in case he thought he could get rid of me. Buuuuuuuuuuuut, since the damn thing keeps crashing after two minutes... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm also leaving tomorrow for a trip to visit family. I'll have site access sporadically, mainly in the morning and evening.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? There's a boring meeting I'll have to go to. It's on Saturday, and it's in another town and I'll have to be overnight. So I won't be available on Saturday... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? We have one. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lostpass.php You get to it from the login page. edited 25th Sep '13 9:41:22 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Oh, okay. I'll tell the password request thread, then.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Let Irish Zombie know he got caught up in anti-vandalism measure and that his password has been changed to 'password'. He can change it to something else... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Make that 3G / Mobile access in general, since there's a few in my list and I don't own an iPhone and am in the wrong country to be on Verizon.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Going back through the 40K thread, I found this and had a good chuckle.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? ^^ I drafted it. Making it clear we are not giving legal advice is much more important than giving clearly detailed legal advice.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? How about this, then? Advice for Protecting Your Publication Rights We aren't lawyers here, but we would like to remind you that if you plan to publish... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? That works.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? You may also wish to upload a "mod hat" avatar and let Eddie know which one it is so he can hook it up to your "Mod mode" posts.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Agreed. Fortunately, that's not a constant thing. In the Hollers thread, the red-circled exclamation point (currently) means that the holler either hasn't... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I change the red to green if I look at a Hollered post and decide it doesn't warrant taking action. I figure that serves as a signal that it's been looked... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks for linking that, I've been meaning to make some changes to the IP message for a while now.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? 41 as of when I stopped checking.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Okay, so, here are my thoughts about a minor revamp to the site's security. This mainly involves how we treat banned accounts and IPs, not how we manage... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I think Willbyr might've been referring to the fact that as long as we're only fighting Nate reactively - by blocking IPs and e-mail providers - Nate will... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? His passwords, not so much...blocking any account request with a password of 5 characters or less or requiring mod approval of such accounts might be feasible... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I would still support the idea of contacting the police about the death threats. If we accumulate evidence until we have a strong enough case we could... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? As a point of warning, the change to spoiler tags on Characters/ subpages was noted in the Drama section of our Encyclopedia Dramatica article. That might... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm not quitting as a Mod, but for the next 3 months the rest of you will be burdened a bit by my absence.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Sorry to hear this, bestOf. Don't forget us. Looks like we'll all need to cover OTC in the meanwhile.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I grew up down there as well, albeit in the next county over.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Good to hear from you, lu! Things are going okay around here, if a little dull without you.:) edited 8th Aug '14 5:47:07 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I can't wait to hear this! Excited!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? One thing we wanted was a search function for Hollers. If somehow we could find all Hollers by a given handle or all Hollers about a given handle it'd... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Well, I wish we had something that could facilitate wick cleanings without resorting to tabbed navigation. Not something fully automated, something that... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Right, I think I've actually broken my laptop's ability to connect to the Internet. Not sure what that's going to do to my activity, but I'll definitely... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I have the same doubts as Septimus. Limiting tropes to "Narrative purpose" and/or "Advances the plot" eliminates all Characterization tropes (The Stoic... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Anyway, the mod team has thought about this and we've come to a conclusion: these things aren't written as tropes as they stand.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I changed it to: They may have started as tropes, but they inevitably accumulate examples that aren't part of a trope but are instead mere happenstances... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Watch It Stoned seems like an excellent candidate for an In Universe Examples Only trope. Wait, it is. Oops. Well, then it doesn't belong on that index... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Making a few notes, after a minor incident with the pagetype system this morning and some related tech requests: All article URLs with wick-unsuitable... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Given some past discussions on how to use colours, I'll store this link here: [1]... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I'm off to Lapland. I'll be back Saturday (or very late on Friday).... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Lost the previous post due to a browser reload, my ideas regarding a mass edit function: Access to the function is granteable by moderators, but is not... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? At best a "Possible" case of sockpuppeting; maybe a good hand/bad hand style thing. Imma post that thing about the Content Policy.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I don't get what Eddie is asking. Let people hack away at articles without any rules save that we use TRS to resolve edit wars?... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? This review was discussed in Moderator Skype and has just been reported in ATT. It is libel by an account who hasn't got any other site contributions.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Done and posting here for posterity: It's obvious from her videos she doesn't play games. She's a liar, con artist and not a feminist. The fact that people... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Ah. Must be slowly coming back around the world.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Mine hasn't caught up yet, but that could be due to crappy reception.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? In the same vein as the "Banhammer" used by mods on various fora out there, Open Blue features Kukulu, a mod parody of Cthulhu, who threatens... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Bumping this, because we are currently in the process on setting up a Slack channel for moderator/admin communication as replacement (?) for Skype.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? And the beauty of the law out here is that it is all subject to interpretation - so the more we change things the more difficult my life becomes should... More Mod Jabberings Wiki proposal: Unified media genre/category tags Twilight is both Urbam Fantasy and Dark Fantasy. Dracula is dark fantasy. The genre need not be modern. I do think a full list of genres figure out here... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 From the Skype channel: Tangent suggested: April 1st: Add Clippy to the edit window as a "Troping Assistant"? Could probably even key some phrases to... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 More: "You keep using that word. Are you sure it means what you think?" "It appears you've discovered Castle Anthrax. Are you prepared to face the peril... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 Did you know that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true? Did you know that friendship is magic? Do you know who put the bomp in the bomp... More Mod Jabberings April Fools 2014 Easiest if I leave the name in your local code. Write it when I write the page, that is. No need to send it back and forth if it never changes. I suppose... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Was that the ATT rant that was posted earlier?... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Most recent edit reason on Doonesbury: Mike's marriage to an aging woman who started out as a BABY early on has NOTHING TO DO with the strip's eighth presidency... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES That would be better. For a screencap to be any kind of convincing evidence, it would need to be the whole screen, showing all the browser gingerbread.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Nate's back, on a relay in Latvia, 10 handles as of this post, all null edits. I'm going to bed soon, so someone else has to babysit the new accounts... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES I got a wonderful PM from Nate. It seems that I'm his current favourite. Full text: YOU'RE the one who RUINED the life of an important troper like me!!... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Discussion in the Skype thread has been moving at a brisk pace today, and it looks like we may be moving to a system of manual approval for all new account... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Hidden note inserted on Trivia.Josie And The Pussycats: IF YOU KEEP REVERTING BACK TO ST. FAN'S BUTCHERED REVISION, I'LL COME OVER TO YOUR FRIGGIN' HOUSE... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Did you get screen caps?... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES They're still there in the history. If screencaps are necessary, can someone else, bitte — I'm on my laptop again.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES He left similar rants on Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels each time he got a sock in to edit that page. I've got screencaps of them.... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES Maybe the "mod approval for new accounts" thing we were kicking around a few months back could be installed for certain IP ranges instead of across the... More Mod Jabberings NATE FILES By now, one would think we have more than enough data for a Bayesian filter on his handle, password, mailhost, and IP combinations. Even if the filter... More Mod Jabberings Zazzle Shop Because of the way Iverum loaded it, there's a 24- to 48-hour period that it has to be reviewed before it goes public. He's figured out what he did to... More Mod Jabberings Zazzle Shop May have helped to mention that. edited 29th Nov '10 3:48:09 PM by Tangent128... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist So that we can get all the tech requests into one place: A thread for listing wishes/feature proposals for moderator tools that are not urgent and are... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I started updating the Restrain page this week. Still got a long way to go, but what I have so far is up on the dev server. *spoiler, some of the functionality... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Two requests: The "release edit locks" button doesn't seem to be working anymore. I wonder if the "delete all by" button on Ask The Tropers can be removed... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Not just localhost, but any private IP address.... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist I agree with this notion, "1" is not enough. Also, for the record on DRAGON I've submitted the tech feature that threads in the wiki-side BUGS and WISHLIST... More Mod Jabberings Moderator Tech Wishlist Closing this, as we now have the wiki-side WISHLIST and BUGS which can apply private reports.... More Mod Jabberings Discussing the new site design Rather than clogging up the Skype channel with discussion on what can be done with the new design, let\'s corral it here. Here\'s my take/suggestions:... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Yes, that's because that thread tag is a different part of the title than the thread title proper. The thread title edit button does not affect a thread... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it's a great idea to keep using this thread to post stuff that can be useful for compiling evidence. It's better to have it in one place, and a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Reached out by PM re:slack.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Posting here because Slack (like reCAPTCHA) does not play with slow connections... Should anything other than full ban be applied to tyciol? He's making... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations Anonymous Mc Cartney Fan — He shows up regularly in the discussion pages for pages that are cutlisted but disputed, and 9 times out of ten, he'll... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations I think there is only one at the moment, Camacan. edited 22nd Feb '11 8:55:01 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations The Troper Tales pages that have curators are all listed in the crowner. (or at least, the tropers who volunteered to curate troper tales pages are listed... More Mod Jabberings Wiki Curator nominations I have a couple of names as possible curators for differing reasons. Willbyr pretty much runs Image Pickin' and he seems to have made that his project.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre amreenleela 182.186.242.173 The website said "dietplanusa" which is very similar to the URL used by the previous spammer IIRC.... More Mod Jabberings Spambot pyre jharapalo 39.36.91.102 Complete gibberish post, link makes me think it's some sort of diet plan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a problem troper, as such - just me f-ing up: I tried to leave a note on Brutally Honest's Restrain page about alternative handles (Nithhoggr Nith... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Recording this post for posterity: No.you can hate them,hardly unfair considering what they are and what they do edit:They're terrorists,murderous thugs... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Some moderator tool issues with the recent overhaul: being banned from the mod jabberings forum does not prevent hollering.... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Seems like the Spy function for PM isn't working.... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff text... More Mod Jabberings Davy Jones's Locker What the hell? That's a zero-day account per the restrainer but isn't in the new accounts list.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks, Lu. Good to see you're still around.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's awesome, lu, congrats.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread [[quoteblock]] Yeah, tell me about it. The train to Birmingham every morning is not fun. I'm hoping to find something in Coventry so that I can stop moving... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Reposting this here since I don't know if any of the people concerned watch Slack and since it gets buried there otherwise: I am wondering if we are currently... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? The main question that has come up in the moderator thread is whether we should appoint one or two additional mods, and who these should be. Slack link... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am wondering what to do with Troper321, subject of this query in Ask The Tropers. They seem to have an obsession with making an "Ice King" trope, given... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? I've just clocked all the various old TRS threads from last year. ~Berrenta and ~Willbyr and anyone else, do you think we can keep up a steady clocking... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Welcome!... More Mod Jabberings What's it all about? Thanks, I'll try to get it downloaded probably tomorrow. Today is already a super busy day for me.... More Mod Jabberings new thread markup test Testing bullet indentation for a logged task. Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3 Bullet 2 again Bullet 3 again Numbered 1 Numbered 1 Numbered 2 Numbered... More Mod Jabberings Test thread for testing stuff post 11... More Mod Jabberings Handydandy tool links for the mods What's the link to the chat site? My browser crashed and, of course, my dumb ass didn't bookmark it ...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby I could kiss you. My sense of exasperation with him has made me feel like an ogre. Thanks. Any one else care to weigh in?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why hang on to someone who causes furor that isn't about ideas? Just kick him out. It is a very big internet. We get to pick who we hang out with.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I bounced him. Moving on.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. We are not a support group for Internet problem children.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've just dropped a seven-day (at least) forum ban on Josef Bugman for his behavior in OTC: "Faith vs. atheism on behavior". Every post he made in that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, our "misandry" troll seems to be back, with a handle this time, but without a way to compare IP's on discussion threads, I have no way to tell if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Seems like too many indicators, to me. I really get the sense of someone trying to social engineer. In other news, I have finally had it with Cryptic Mirror... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's the last one, though. I really do sense that I need to check in more with mods on these margin-calls.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Robbie actually did have a brother, both Phineas And Ferb fans. His obsessive crush on one of the female supporting cast always unnerved me, though... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Still entirely unsure about Robbie, but I do think that the fact that he was editing and posting here for a long time before this Nigga Hater business... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eyeballs on Oh Silly Us, please. I thumped him twice in OTC, and got this lovely PM: Gah rude my butt, a bit abrasive I 'spose but they gave me no reason... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Me again. Any one remember crion87? This is a list of his edits [1] The one I am a little concerned about is in Ask The Tropers. I am kind of remembering... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we got him in time: edit history shows last 200 — he did 135 vandal-edits before he was stopped. (Damage is repaired.) But I agree wholeheartedly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I had noticed the uptick and was blaming it on summer breaks. But there is a pattern isn't there?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Uhm ... Sure. That's the ticket. It is all a great compliment and we should be proud. However, the compliment has now been received and we should help... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It could be lifted (or applied) by a mod via the Mod Central console. We could also add a filter to Recent Edits for greylisted accounts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK. I'm probably being too soft again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As a temporary measure to allow us to start new accounts again, how about autozapping new accounts that edit a Tropers namespace page as the first action... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not seeing much new spaming so far, just this one: chris1313 24.107.96.4 4th Jun 11:33:40 Tropers.Captainpat chris1313 [Adds:] http://www.premier-kitchen-design.com... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, sorry, that wasn't clear in my blurb. Edited. edited 4th Jun '11 8:02:16 PM by Camacan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread 220.253.250.212 amejohns 68 spammer wiki banned cutlisting requesting bounce. edited 6th Jun '11 3:44:08 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread By the way, the page was not the spammer's. Won't be cutting it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pentadragon? He used to be an editor here, but I haven't seen him in over a year. He is legit, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Sprained Ankle is another spammer: one edit, in Tropers, with an external link to a commercial site of with the same name as his handle. But the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, he's another who's very keen on seeing his pet issues in every thread and turning it into a discussion of them (again).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I requested the Bug Me Not people to exclude us from their service, which they should grant based on us being a wiki that is viewable w/o an account. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Locked yet another neoYTPism gender thread, on the understanding that he's not supposed to be making those right now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Neo's not a bad guy, he just has Single Issue Wonk problems, and failing to get the point repeatedly despite application of hammer to skull problems.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cuchulainn has been wiki banned for creating YMMV pages on actresses with all the fetishy entries we decided we didn't want on the wiki. I also cutlist... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can he get the PM I sent if you deleted the account?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's the one that got him banned, all right. And if your sarcasmometer is broken, so is mine and so are a lot of other people's, considering that the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was advocating that IF men where gangraped by women for dressing like sluts, the entire argument fronted by society, would fall apart. The argument is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is it just me, or is Cider wrong about everything? Seems like being as uniformly wrong as this guy would have to be deliberate.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cider has his head up his ass and locked a great deal of the time, yes. I'd say roughly 85 %. His first solution to almost any problem with a trope is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Precisely this. Either they are notable enough for us, or they aren't. Personally, I feel that roleplays, unless published in the sense of, "This is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The name arcadiarika is ringing a bell for me, and not in a good way. I think there were problems around their edits before. edited 16th Jun '11 2:58:07... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Yep, that's it. Thank you, Morven. Yeah, she's a Drama-llama. edited 16th Jun '11 4:25:14 PM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've just forum-banhammered Ukonkivi. His last two posts in the Race thread in OTC did it. I've told him in a PM that he can try to convince me to lift... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think Ukonkivi is the type to vandalise, but perhaps better safe than sorry. (Completely supportive of a bounce at this point, though, as should... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Miru's lack of a clue seems on the verge of becoming disruptive. They started an "Unpopular comic opinions you have" thread, stating "The original just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, we have a troper about by the name of Edgy. He's apparently a (disturbingly) frequent contributor to Troper Tales, and not much else. To go by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Diamonnes is proving to be a real handful. He made a slip on the forums and was was rude to another troper, prompting a holler. No biggie — I thumped... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't get Edgy. His reply to my PM was basically along the lines of, "Now that I know you're watching me, I'll be good." No contrition, just a kind... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have TT for Darker And Edgier? Man, my faith in humanity is slipping.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry, sorry, and sorry: I need to go to bed now. PM'ed me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, that's kinda creepy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread She's not a character from anything, she's a hoax idol singer who appeared on the cover of the Japanese Playboy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh. That's the context I was missing, then. He is advocating for a younger-than-legal nude? Yup. That's creepy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bizarre... I'm pretty sure The Apple Freak (from the member list) is a legitimate (if low-activity) editor, though. What namespace is most appropriate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Or Just For Fun. But yeah, that one makes me twitchy. I doubt that it's really serious about whatever their "Great Edit" is, but all it would take would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A dispersion is like an aspersion, only more vapid. Jeysie's problem seems to be identification: I do X. Someone doesn't like X. I am X. I shalt smite... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's seems to be it exactly. Anything that relates to her, an interest of hers, or a belief she holds is by default directly and personally about her... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I am fed up with 9Darthmaul and issued a ban for repeated edit warring over the Five Bad Band subpages. I don't think we should let him back; he's had... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nah that's fine. I felt sick today and left work early to take a nap, so I'm not really in a moderatin' mood at the moment. You said what I would have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I had noticed that you were not around nearly as much as usual, and assumed that you were either feeling sick, swamped in Real Life, or were simply taking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, we've got a problem. Background: lee4hmz announced in Absent People about a week ago that he was going to take a week or so off for emotional and mental... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm completely over English Ivy at this point. He is no longer good company. edited 28th Jun '11 10:12:59 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You guys are much more saintly than me. Lee is kind of sweet, if occasionally a touch pitiful. English Ivy is pretty much being a dick, for whatever reason... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bash his ass. Do I still sound saintly?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Physicists theorize the smallest measurable distance may be 1.6 * 10^-35 metres: The Planck length. Oddly, my surprise at ShrekFan100 going back on all... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Things I found while looking at the new accounts page: 0 dalecredit 0 dalecreditorg 0 Credit ORG 0 Nationalcreditorg 0 creditorg123 0 nationalcreditorg123... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Brought up in Ask The Tropers: Pupu shares many characteristics with our old friend Antvasima, including IP history and, apparently, love of the same topics... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Eddie, mostly I wanted to wait to see if he shows back up and/or has the wits to figure out how to get around the IP block. That was before you told... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This isn't Remedial English. If he is too much work, edit ban him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Freeman isn't exactly an uncommon name. I know a Freeman IRL.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Deep breaths, and the certain, sure, knowledge that he's going to make a flying dive over the line sooner or later...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Didn't he announce his hatred for the entire community and wish a painful death upon every last one of us at one point? It was my understanding that he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What in the heck got up neoYTPism's craw today? [1] Didn't he get his new thread privileges revoked at one point for going off on weird sexuality rants... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread anonymous proxies blocks installed edited 21st Jul '11 11:42:47 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds fine to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread True, true. Chemical Fire doesn't have many edits, so I thought they might just not be familiar with how we do things around here. But There Is No Such... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just found this account on the new account list. It may be that guy again. Garbabareeb... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Have to agree there. Psygas, on the other hand, appears to be salvageable.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread jayday12345678910 is PM-ing me asking why forum banned. Anybody know?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just wiki banned jayday for arbitrary deletions without edit reasons. Seems like we do have a problem.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Toolshed and Predaking — likely antvas socks. Both suspended.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So it looks like, from the two posts above, that this jayday item doesn't need an answer from me. Or, that is, I don't need to answer him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Those changes from #291 above are in.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aminatep is already forum-banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I put him on bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Please do. Whatever level block it takes to keep her from trolling the reviews section.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There really does seem like there were, not too long ago, more cool people on the net than uncool people on the net. Or maybe the uncool ones are just... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If, that is, fewer editors means less good content. I'm not sure it does, anymore. A rather large amount of editing mindpower is spent returning things... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Your suggestion from post #302 is sounding better and better, and it sounded pretty good to start with. This one, specifically: "We could disable handle... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The comments for this review seem rather troubling, in particular if you scroll down to the bottom one, where Chickenzhit admits to having trolled the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fast Eddie, did you google bounce The Dead Mans Life? I got a PM from another troper on his behalf asking what he did. edited 9th Aug '11 4:59:34 PM by... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, am I going doolally here? Is not that last link exactly the kind of thing Raw Power would post? I mean, I look at that and I'm thinking, anime reference... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought I'd seen this come up before. From this Holler and subsequent posts, he claims not to be Raw Power/Ardiente but many many posters seem to think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raw didn't goof, though. Part of what made him a pain was that he was so dead earnest about everything. Greg's got the opposite problem; he doesn't have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I didn't realize Barkley was Raw.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like the idea that forgiveness can be "snuck around" by pretending to be someone else. It is distasteful.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't like it either, but it's de facto true no matter what.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Though Kashchei's former identity was never proven even if strongly suspected. If the guess is correct, she learned when to stop, is the important part... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Requesting whatever level of blockage is needed to keep Ben10Fan from using PMs to keep picking at HeavyDDR about Loonatics Unleashed. edited 12th Aug... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The way Eternal Pride is talking in the unban thread is ringing red flags and waving alarm bells for me. Rather than saying "I understand the rules now... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread After noticing that he contributes to the Kodomo No Jikan thread, and the style of his contributions, I'm now about 99% certain that Good Guy Greg is Raw... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Jeysie has requested that her forum ban be lifted for the purpose of participation in Article Talk, now that we no longer have discussion pages. She says... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks okay to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we need to have / use more finely grained bans. Most forum bans are for behavior in the social and debate areas of the forums. I think people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also agree.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess the main Pony should be unlocked so it can be repaired.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a Sandbox of it going, Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In general, people who misbehave do it everywhere. The rare exception is not worth a big effort.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do these people use the discussion pages? My bet is they don't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is anyone willing to take over the duties of editing the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic pages? I know nothing and care nothing about the work and now... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I dunno, I thought it could be a variant of the The Purloined Letter. Edit to add: Hide In View? edited 21st Aug '11 5:59:25 PM by blackcat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Please excuse the doublepost. I've added ekuseruekuseru to the troper watchlist due to the content of this post, which zeroplusalpha informs me may be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maddy, can you give us a link to an example?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it is always going to be a struggle for balance between that perfect definition and what we can achieve. Despite our numbers and group intelligence... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Watched Troper List was originally for the forums, but since there isn't a different one for the wiki, I don't see any reason to not use it for both, especially... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think you are right Bobby.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Done and done. He still might harass you via pm's. Don't read 'em.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread USAF? What's he done? He always seemed like a nice guy to me. I could swear I've seen him admit to ignorance on occasion, which is more than could be... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread trotzsky. What's his deal? Over in the Literature/Harry Potter thread, every post he makes is an amusing fount of misinformation. He seems to be advancing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Trotzky — the name is unpleasantly familiar but I can't place it. Ah, he got mentioned in Ask The Tropers back in June. Also, Manwiththe Plan is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Signed is back as Signer. Not exactly subtle, especially since the I Ps match.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So sympathetic and understanding, our head honcho is...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, being banned is inconvenient? Go figure. You'd think they were being punished or something.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Now that you mention it, asses are kind of silly, aren't they? Or maybe they're creepy. I mean, it follows you wherever you go. You'll never be able to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I draw comfort from the fact that, whatever I do, my ass is always behind me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for the feedback. I've suspended Troper Almighty for now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned Simulated Knave for edit warring a Headscratchers article. He's being a bit of a jerk about it PM's. A heads-up in case he goes nuts anywhere... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've got a feeling that's it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fortunately, but the time they are old enough to drive the world, we will be forgetful and drunk and sleeping in the backseat. edited 12th Sep '11 6:46... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We should have a staff party some time. Even if it's purely virtual. We'll all get on a big Skype video call and drink and get crazy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bleh, that's why we have things like Skype — face to face meetups are so last century. Although if we're serious about it, maybe we could frame... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Had a short PM discussion with Shichibukai after I queried this post. He claims not to be racist, merely concerned about British culture. This smells... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just IP researched BunnyTiger and it is definitely antvas. Suspension issued. He likes the 85.224 IP range, maybe we can just put an auto-bounce on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @Bobby: that's a long way off from the most racist thing I've seen him post. He is, in my opinion, very racist indeed, and sometimes sounds like a BNP... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Kino has ended up Flanderizing himself into an exaggerated caricature. We see this a lot. Now he has trouble climbing down.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspended Zankplus for a 100% natter-to-content ratio in his edits. Must be some kind of record. Just a heads-up in case he comes calling elsewhere... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thought we were always bouncing antvas, sight unseen, in any incarnation he takes. The only issue is confirming that it's actually him. edited 14th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay then. Will bounce.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Zankplus' reply to me: "Don't give a shit, ban me for all I care." So, not exactly a productive, contributing troper. Please bounce. I'm honestly surprised... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Antvas is being very creative. BunnyTigers now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Easily done. Both of 'em.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is this, National Asshole Day? bouncing edited 14th Sep '11 11:40:27 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Tedious. Let's just run off all the assholes, shall we?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Meta, you want I should hammer Scarface? I'd be happy to. ETA: Never mind, I see that Fast Eddie has already applied the hammer to him. edited 14th Sep... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got that PM too. There is clearly an Edit War going on but further details elude my tired mind. I'm going to bed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm flat confused by the whole Muse Zack / Mr Pingas Is Here / Snickerdoodle Hamster business. Mr Pingas Is Here writes "True, he's more prolific than... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And, forum-hammered.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is it banworthy, though? Mr Death has not been covering himself with glory, either — while it's very responsible of him to report these things,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's not our fault for wanting to deal with these issues in simple ways; it's the fault of the idiots who can't stop mouthing off.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ Don't start letting an account start accumulating age until its first edit. Hmm. Problem with that is avoiding having to check to see if a "first edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I went through and deleted the flaming and attacks. I'm tired of saying "Now, now, Be good posters and don't light these oily rags laying around... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wish I understood why people think their hate for something is of interest to the world. Or maybe I do understand it and I don't like it. That's it! Fuck... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gah. Is it worth the effort? Not somebody you'd want to hang out with, is he?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll go ahead and bounce him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, Mads, it's not your fault. It, quite frankly, it's Kara's fault.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anyone know a troper called Faye Kane? They wrote a long entry on the discussion page for Beyond The Impossible Film about how the movie 2001 was an extended... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread presedent is a Vulchak sock, pretty sure this is the guy banned for edit warring over eye color tropes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread presedent is the name. Disney Princess eye color bandit is back. I had the IP a second ago and I dropped it somewhere edited 19th Sep '11 11:52:55 AM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Faye Kane needs a bounce. She also barfed a huge screed into the YKTTW for Women Prefer Strong Men. Morgan Wick took it back out but saved it in the replies... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm beginning to suspect that Lolicon is one of those things that people mention when they want to push buttons. Porn and/or sex tropes don't seem to get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, want to restore Silent Reverence? He was getting nasty with you over a YKTTW, as I understand, but it's a first time offense IIRC.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A question came up in Ask The Tropers about a page made for Koko The Gorilla. I cutlisted the page because the page is not about Koko The Gorilla in media... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Torquey appears to have been getting around the Sonichu page lock by posting reviews attacking the author. After blackcat nuked the review it looks like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Karalora told me that she submitted her appeal this morning. I was wondering what the status of that was for, well, obvious reasons.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not sure that's better, given that on the 22nd he re-posts a review attacking the author of Sonichu — after that understanding was reached? edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Understandable. He can be a nice kid when he's not in that mode, but damn. Especially his "I think everyone hates me ..." complex.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it's the irrational hatred he has for the OFH that did it. He posted in the COBbie thread. He's completely aware of what it's all about. Tis a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did he ever explain why he changed his handle again?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I used to get along quite well with him, but lately he's seemed so unapproachable. I, uh, made the mistake of pestering him the other day because he'd... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I took a swing at it, Fighteer. Don't bother reading the second one, it doesn't address his behavior at all; it's pure political science on the development... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspending editing for Moby Duck. Bunch of bad edits, nothing spectacular but a problem with every edit. Jordan said in Ask The Tropers he thought... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced Undead Harlequin.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Scapegoatboy is Antvasima ban evading... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Put on a wiki ban just in case. I assume you got the forums. You know, Eddie, since you're reluctant to bounce his IP's, he's doing a good job of locking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Really? Huh, I stand corrected then. Can you rig a research-accounts-by-IP thing for the wiki, as opposed to just bans? I just hate playing defensively... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Right. The "that's nice" guy. He wants back in now? That's nice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I looked through some more of his posting history and in general it was supportive and helpful in Writer's Block and good elsewhere. And the "That's nice... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Like I said, I dunno. I'm passing it on for whatever it's worth.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Unfortunately, you can't get the MAC address across the Internet at large; it's used for routing within local networks.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's what I thought - the TCP/IP layer doesn't transmit the MAC. I just refreshed my memory of how it works a bit from Wikipedia, although I am still... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah I was mostly thinking Antvas. Mostly. At the risk of being petty I notice that The Government made two misspellings in his ban appeal where he says... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Need a nuke from orbit on Fag Eddie; IP 201.41.137.3. Already been forum banned, skullfucked and wiki banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Interestingly enough, when the Grand Theory of Everything is elucidated, all the OTPs can be derived as a trivial corollary. Then there shall be peace.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread According to Anonymous User, The Dead Mans Life has ban evaded before, under the name of Perma Banned, so that handle probably needs a forum ban, too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm watching the new accounts page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You will note a new button on edit ban central that allows a mod to release all edit locks, in case we get another vandal parking sockpuppets on an article... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I thumped ekuseruekuseru for this post: Is it because you're very stupid and kind of like a cow? I got a reply explaining that it was a joke, a play on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have no tolerance for racism. If we have a racist, dump him out the door immediately. Well, I suppose one warning would be in order, in case it's a Poes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's definitely not Poe's Law. He means what he says and he knows the implications. I've warned him previously to refrain from hate speech, but I've never... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I get the impression he is getting his ass handed to him, debate-wise. One of him is not a problem. If he starts attracting a choir to sing to, it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And on that note, DeadbeatLoser22 would be one of my candidates for getting the official "curator" tags. Dude is an absolute monster at vandal cleanup... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Combination of pit bull and weed whacker. Couldn't agree more.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I support a ban. What a piece of work.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^^ All those bounces installed. ^ Too much collateral damage. edited 11th Oct '11 6:39:51 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've dropped a preventative edit ban on Shichibukai, but I think a forum ban would be more appropriate, under the circumstances.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a message back from MS Adict claiming that their blank launch of Renowned Selective Mentor was a mystery and perhaps a a friend using their machine... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Beginning to feel that way about all YF drama, TBH. Please don't ban them just yet. Neither is a bad guy and both have a lot of friends here, so I'd like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sure. Unban. Check me on this. Bouncing Antvas clones has no effect, right? Doing something the same way over and over and expecting a different result... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I unblocked ~/Lightflame because of his explanation in the Blocked Tropers thread. He claims it was due to his misunderstanding of what was meant by "... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alert: Marssin here smells like the kind of troper likely to make trouble over his ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That guy is a moron.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just sent a PM to rosemaryblood asking that he/she not make any more pointless OTC threads. I will leave the decision to ban or let this pass as a warning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread S/he has a fairly extensive posting history but I only looked for threads where s/he was the OP. Have at it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dracosketch was a YF contributor and every bit as bad as the people she was complaining about. She almost certainly only said it to get banned. Anyone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a banning candidate to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ban him. He just came off a temp ban and swore he'd behave. His definition of "behave" is clearly at odds with ours.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks Eddie — that could come in real handy if the baba vandal changes his attack pattern again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Because this way she gets her drama fix.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I said something in my response stressing that we are not into that. We'll see.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm pretty sure Pacific State is Raw Power. Thoughts?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What do we think of Stovepipe? Based on this response, I don't think we can count on him to edit reasonably, even if he says he will. His acceptance... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Damn, should have put that wiki ban on immediately. Sorry, lazy.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yousuke Hanamura, Dracosketch bounced. I'll add a wiki edit ban to what happens on a skullfuck. I already did that, I thought. Was he editing the wiki... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was not aware that skullfucking applied any kind of ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can't think of a single case where someone who asked to be banned was particularity missed by anyone.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread high-fives Bobby... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been following the Joesolo thing and he doesn't want to play by the rules. I think lifting the ban would be a mistake.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Working in its favor is that he's been here long enough to value being part of the forums community; some of those are willing to change their behavior... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thank you. I really needed to laugh. Now he's demanding that I tell him how to write the post so that it won't get thumped. It's like Theatre of the Absurd... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The only mechanism for that is a full bounce. Is it warranted?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Getting bad feelings about restoring Stolas' editing privileges. Given their consistent history of bad edits I don't care for the extremely casual way... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. I warned him just yesterday to knock off the PMs. He was pestering me, as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We need to make Pedophile Priest more about the trope, not Real Life. Discussing real life implications of controversial tropes in the description is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I bounced that pedophile.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^^He saw examples of opinionated, this-troperish, overly emphasized text and thought it was the rule de facto. I think finding the biggest concentrations... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IM Boring needs a "definitive" ruling in the edit banned thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sorry Fighteer, you got the reasoning spot on in your post and I mentally added a definitive statement. I've told him to come back in a year. I figure... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread IM Boring is really not getting it in the unban thread, and in PMs. I'm wondering if a bounce is called for, preferably one where they can still read the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hope you don't mind Eddie but I unbanned Omuran after he demonstrated that he understands Example Indentation now as per your ban reason. I'm not 100%... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No problem. In fact, indentation is too small a reason to ban a person. Personal peeve of mine, is all. That, and spelling. And capitalization. And people... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've lifted the ban and asked Friends of Anno R to ask 'em to post. If it's not listed as a bounce then it never was a bounce, right? I'm wondering if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmmm. Maybe we should contact Tachi directly, since he's the now intermediary.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why would, I mean, who would, I mean, why would. Well, I guess they would. But why would... Ok. Back to Deboss. Sent a note; I'll see how it goes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've lifted the temp-ban on USAF713 a day early. He sent a very mature PM with some background info and a recognition that he'd knew he'd screwed up and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd agree with that. Seems like a fine line: on the one hand if there's trouble elsewhere and someone drags us into it, that's obviously not acceptable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Makes sense to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I'd leave darthyan alone for now. I'm unkeen on believing one side of a fight that the other guy is EVIL AND WRONG.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I sent a PM to Alrune stating that if she goes off on any more paranoid sociopolitical conspiracy theorist rants, she's going to be permabanned from the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Do you really think I should build a hellban capability? It seems more honest to just kick him out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just sent an rather cross note to Xzenu about another poorly conducted rename. * Didn't get proper consensus: one guy agreed with him. Missed of the wicks... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Poorly done renames are almost worse than no rename. Tell him not to do it if he's not going to put in the effort. Edit: Madrugada, Morven, Bobby, and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We do not. I'd say he and secretist can go fly kites.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I honestly can't recall him contributing anything of value.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks for booting Gaz Bev Moo, they have been on my list for a long long time. With any amount of luck the other one on my list will go soon too.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just kick 'em out. Anyone that is any kind of problem long enough to bug a moderator is not an asset.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dropped the banhammer on betatesthighlander1. He once again made a thread to complain about the fact that people complain about stuff. I believe that's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wanted to do that but you were nuking the threads so fast that I couldn't read them to see what he was talking about.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've extended the ban on Gaz Bev Moo and his sockpuppets John Luck Pickerd and the charming Hitler Sucked To Death to the wiki and asked him not to come... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Groupie is in the Edit Ban thread asking why they are suspended. The restraints indicate they are "fixated on Ghaddafi". A Groupie was removing the edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oops, didn't see you posted here. I've already offered an unban on the condition that he stays away from Headscratchers/TheLastAirbender and doesn't get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woops, yeah. I clicked the wrong handle.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I see Fighteer's upping SBK's condition to "No more headscratchers" and actually explaining the situation rather than huffing and brandishing a stick like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have a theory that for many of them, the forum is the first place they encounter adults who are not obliged by either love or job description to put... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread While we are asking, I think St Fan should get his edit privileges back. He was incorrectly folderizing something and wouldn't stop doing it, even after... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM about a volatile comment on this liveblog. I have to ask: why do we even allow that? Also I'm not familiar with LB management; can I delete... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Of course, he's whining about it to me now. I'm not inclined to be forgiving. "I *need* the forums" and the like — I guess he should have thought... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Any objections to closing WallBangers.Professional Wrestling?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's my vote.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He enjoys poking people to see how they react; there's a bit of the sociopath about him. And we tolerate that, why?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Because at first it was less obvious and passed better as poor social skills. Which are definitely there, but work less convincingly as an excuse now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's a very different read. This is why I don't want to intervene in cases like this; never know if my ideas line up with what's really going on. I read... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wish to boot Kashchei: [1] "Free will, equality in the eyes of the law, etc. etc. There are plenty of totalitarian states you could move to if our liberties... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks Eddie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure I entirely agree with a permanent ban on Kashchei, but I'm not sure I'm up to arguing it either right now. Eddie, you placed a posting ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ I also got a PM from Some Human about Uberwitch possibly being a Shichbulai sock. He mentioned that Uberwitch's very first wiki edit was a substantial... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe we really do need a "Thumped for being a stupid thing to say" tag. Either that or we need to use the Rude thump more freely on the people who act... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We could make posting in the forums a more difficult privilege to attain. The principle being that wide open membership seems to be part of the problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure that I'd care, ethically, for the task of screening desirable forum members. This also creates a Begging The Question problem: it assumes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can we examine why "becoming an insular little clique of insiders" is such a bad thing for us? I'm not sure I see it that way, anymore.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Generally across the wiki proper or just on the forums? Don't we stagnate if we fail to attract new editors? edited 19th Dec '11 12:08:21 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll reiterate the fact that really we don't have that hard a problem keeping the forums in check. The amount of issues we have to deal with, absent a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well it's not been a year like he's saying, it's been since 23rd July this year and that was a second strike. He hasn't mentioned his banning reason which... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby, I don't think you are being melodramatic at all, it is a shock to see what some people are willing to say about the mods and the administration.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nope. Too tired of assholes to continue. People fuck with me, they are out. This is a thing I do to entertain friends. These people are not friends, or... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread More civility is a bad idea?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it's just, "ban for incivility, period", then I can get behind that. Just have to be careful to watch for provokers as well as provokees, or the simplest... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bobby is on to it. We need to shift the culture back toward friends hanging out. Fighteer, I think something like the demerits system you suggest can and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So if size is the problem, let's work the size problem. There has to be a soluton. How do we make smaller groups with clear membership? edited 20th Dec... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ We can't be wide open and not have the problems of being a big group. Something has to be done. Better ideas solicited.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There are hentai and lolicon threads? How long has that been going on? Bomb 'em now. One sex thread applies, being anime doesn't make for an exception.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There are threads for discussing works that contain such things. Not the subject itself... I hope.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The purpose-built hentai thread, for one. The thread in which Yeah Bro was banned is certainly on the borderline (for lolicon, not merely porn). (Did... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No arguments. If it's going to cause that kind of furor, best to kill it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Killed it. And... I'm going to make a locked, pinned thread about this on that board, to reduce the inevitable confusion at our apparent 180. Is that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree, and I think it has a bad tendency to derail the threads towards SA, which we really aren't supposed to be discussing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pink Heart Chainsaw has apparently admitted to several users that he's deliberately trolling for attention. Goodbye.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What is it you really want to slow down? New posters showing up in the forums? I'd rather do that than slow down things for the people who would just want... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds good to me too. A waiting period decreases the fun in creating sockpuppets to post in the forums.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Er... Facebook prohibits accounts for anyone under 13, last I checked. Well, whatever, not relevant. That kind of dickery is exactly what we are talking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I zapped the pedophilia as art thread. I mean, for fuck's sake.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been on the train to that zone for a while. Your laying it down smart and calm during the Banning Policy thread was inspirational. My understanding... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have restored Kashchei's PM privileges only, so that she can contact people she wants to keep in touch with and give them her email address as she wishes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's my impression of Aoede too, but I'd go a several steps past somewhat, at least recently. Early indications aren't so good, but we'll see. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread kasch was was certainly an intelligent individual who added a lot to some discussions...but then also did things like speculate on how pathetic someone's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I personally like her a lot and regret her not being here. However, I won't deny her abrasiveness in debate, though she's become a LOT better than she... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that this is almost exactly like what happened with Bon Sequitur, although I didn't think that any incident which resulted in Kashchei's eventual... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm willing to look at the idea of doing away with OTC. Let us all imagine what the place would be like today if we hadn't dumped IJBM. However, I think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do think something like that may be helpful, assuming it's not too difficult to code.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wiki banned Anne Beeche, btw. Lately she's been nothing but trouble, and she's certainly a goon now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Danke Shoen... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have no problem at all listening to the critiques of tropers. Those goons, though, are not helpful.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ Morven: Firstly: [[youtube:-tJpyJkrq5k]] That out the way... I actually do agree with most of your assessment of Anne and your thoughts regarding her... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (Hopefully) brief derail: I'm unsure what to do about Justice Man. I was about to put him on the troper watchlist for being rude and condescending when... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been thumped, warned, and temp-banned before for condescension and overt hostility to other posters who disagree with him. Ban his ass. He doesn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, Justice Man lasted less than a day. He simply moved the nastiness back to the DC Universe Reboot thread this morning. I hammered him every way but... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FE: In the edit banned thread Xzenu is explain a kerfluffle with the Dominatrix picture. I pm'ed Dramian this morning about the switch out he did on the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I barely ever see Enemy Mayan.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That mini-mod may be worth watching.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He didn't say, but I'll ask him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, you banned whaleofyournightmare for having 18 thumps, but I don't think offtopic thumps should count there, which would leave him at 8. What's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (Eddie-question contained herein.) I see that Pacific Mackerel finally got an edit suspension. Eddie zapped him for rude edit reasons. Pacific has been... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just got a PM from Raso, Bobby. As follows: I seem to be banned from the forums, I get "Sorry, editing has been suspended for this troper handle, IP address... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But the High School Seifuku seriously means she is not a Loli, an actual Loli would not wear a school uniform as they arnt worn till Middle School at minimum... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Get a room. Holy crap, it's like an orgy in here.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Look out, it's the Grinch! I'm really on the fence about a couple of the folks in Edit Banned right now. Urban Prince isn't pushing the right buttons... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread FYI, Ironeye, I full-banned Synjo Deonecros on the basis of that post in Edit Banned. We don't need to put up with that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Awww, I was having fun giving him exactly what he asked for. But, yes, it was the right decision.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hidden Faced Matt's comments in that rape culture thread are precisely the kind of thing people mean when they say that rape apologism is a problem here... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^Bingo! That is a good way to look at it. In the whole picture, is this guy making the place uncool? Wave bye-bye.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've got a bit of a pile-up in unban. Cyber XIII: newbie royally screwed up a YKTTW. Said "sorry", but I always get misgivings when, in this case, Fighter... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was my tone rude? I thought I was reasonably polite. I don't have any particular grudge against this guy; I didn't even know he existed until he was reported... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Troll Trapdoor Spriggan made a bunch of puppets; blocked 'em before they got used: Spriggans Friend, Sprigganocide, Spriggan Of Arabia, Doublemint Spriggan... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldstone, a new account, has 52 edits. I thought we had tighter limits than that on new accounts?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We don't limit new accounts at all.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I just got PM'd a question about why Kris Mahai was skullfucked. I assume this was a mistake? AFAIK she didn't do anything. I mean, she's gone now so... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna have to agree. From what I've seen of her, she's not the flouncing sort - a disgruntled but honest goodbye from the forums is about as far as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lifted, and thank you. Edit: She says she's very grateful. edited 15th Jan '12 11:02:44 AM by BobbyG... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread J Bridge rage quit. I nuked the thread to stop the commentary. This is his last post for posterity. I can't figure out bans. Working on it. Hello,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks again. I wasn't sure what that one did, but that one but it didn't seem fitting in this case.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a PM from Bro asking why his edits to Music.The Libertines were reverted. He seemed to think that they were good edits; here's what he said: What is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did — on the understanding ban evaders do not get to edit, period. Asserted the same idea here a little earlier over YMMV.No More Heros but I coulda... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread To my mind that would be an encouragement: guy means to edit by fair means or foul. And his edits are not reliably good: chap's got an agenda. Also occurs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, I wonder if you could rig something that forces mod review of new accounts created on shared IP addresses or from proxies. Hmm... maybe...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a Verizon MiFi device the other week from work; gives me WiFi anywhere I have a 3G or 4G signal. I can edit from my laptop as easily on the road... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If the IP in use at registration time is in use by another account, we disallow registration. The only reason the Yeah Bro clones could have a shared-IP... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. Final Starman was a big help. Made it much easier to keep thumping when all I had to do was follow where he pointed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread TEHLASTTROLL is also a baba sock. EDIT: And TEHLASTERTROLL. edited 16th Jan '12 4:12:26 PM by shimaspawn... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Roger! Well, I was mainly talking about in the forums. I don't know how their edits have been. edited 17th Jan '12 6:59:06 AM by Katrika... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, Baff misspells things and leaves out apostrophes, but they're understandable. I'll let it rest.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yep. I just PM'ed him about it. We'll see how he responds.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have publicly and privately warned him. He's on his last chance and he knows it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aside from OTC, as far as I can tell, he does very little posting. A couple of the media threads and an RP. Maybe an OTC-block is the way to go... And... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No Limit was teetering on the edge of a ban from me after repeatedly telling another poster to go to hell, but I warned him instead.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember to ask me later and I'll see if he's read it. He hasn't, yet.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Uber Shy Guy labors under the misapprehension that I'm the most reasonable mod. .... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, he's read my note. What pisses me off is that I honestly though you were human, unlike the other two mods I've had the displeasure of meeting, an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I love the anger. It's like he thinks we give a damn that he's mad at us, or that his threats matter. edited 20th Jan '12 8:41:41 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The response he intended was probably not me giggling madly. I mean, Best Of incompetent? Really?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I generally take that kind of response as a compliment. I figure it like this: When I'm dealing with that type of Internet Tough Guy, who thinks that he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oooooh, good point.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Theatrical And Proud is concerning. He seems to have a similar attitude problem to Indigo Dingo (hostile and abrasive, derails threads), and he holds... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't think of a reason to unban Tedofg. Everything in the edit history is a deletion sometimes accompanied by snotty remarks. He's no fun. I'll build... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Earg. That last sentence wouldn't be a good sign even if the rest were totally true, which I highly doubt.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The abortion thread clearly isn't going anywhere, and they don't have to go back and forth sniping at each other. Each is trying to have the last word... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Smack 'em down. Seriously. Tell 'em one is too many, and that he should check his own shit. And here's some time to do it. edited 23rd Jan '12 6:26:08... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In the thread about fat people in small airplace seats, I had to thump a post by Ohsointocats because it was getting really hostile. They're strawmanning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently, Kex was just trying to make a joke, not realizing exactly how badly it would go over. I had a talk with him and he promised not to do stuff... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree that we would have a net gain in coolness if he wasn't around. I do think the guy is just clueless, rather than consciously malign, but there is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm done with him, and I'm a lot closer to his political ally than you are, I suspect.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Despite warnings to Dragon Quest Z and Ckuckoo in this thread they can't keep it civil. I think they need a forum time out and the thread locked until... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, Give 'em a week off to think about it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Where am I supposed to announce SH's OTC ban? I know that we are trying to be more public about such things but it's not like we have a general "ban announce... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Chris appears to have put real thought into that appeal. He clearly saw what he was doing that got him banned, and why it wasn't acceptable, and what he... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think so as long as we keep an eye on him. He seems to have gotten the message.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Blah made up PC pronouns. English is a delightfully vague language at times; I just roll with it rather than trying to make up new words.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's usually discernable from context whether you're talking in the plural or singular.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Torquey needs watching. He's been advocating goon policies and has been pushing the TV Tropes is creepy and should never mention anything sexual ever... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got an odd one. Trotzky and Glyndwr share IP's. Trotzky was forum banned (but not wiki banned) back somewhere around October. This other handle shows... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (SA is self-contradictory anyway; they pretend to be all squicked out by sexuality in TV Tropes yet it's in their same subforum as 'Post your favorite... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not at all — we should be considering whether things fit our purpose or not, not what segments of the online peanut gallery think. Which in this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes. His insinuations of "eww get away from me you pervert" are straight out of the trolling playbook. I've messaged him asking him to not regurgitate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did we conclude anything about Glyndwr?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I received a PM from Niddick stating that he had edited a page with internet filters on and that it looked weird now. I did a revert and replied in a pm... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We can talk about our position as a mod and our authority and powers and so on in Wiki Talk, but in a random thread, people should know that we're the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rennerthe2nd is being a nuisance. In the Israel thread, he said (in the post I linked) that he wished that the rockets fired on Israeli civilians would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I guess I should PM them about their incoming ban... They haven't replied to my previous PM yet, though. Should I ban first and PM later, or wait for a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sure, full ban. This guy has nothing to contribute.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't find any edit activity around Feb 5 that constitutes reverting a mod edit.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rodney is generally reasonable. I'd say talk to him. I'd also ask DQZ for the P Ms those were in response to. He can be quite abrasive and tenacious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm in favour, if we don't want to ban them altogether.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that'd be a good idea. edited 9th Feb '12 9:00:58 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, let me rig it up. Today is a busy real-gig day, so it may take a day or so.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's one: http://216.151.212.47/posters.txt edited 10th Feb '12 7:03:31 AM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm surprised I wasn't anywhere on that list.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe he needs to go on the OTC ban list? He's really useful in TRS and he's one of the few people who actually does a lot of the grunt work. He doesn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It does seem to be the place where he is ever a problem.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would gasoline and a match be going too far?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, looking through the thread it's mostly pretty innocuous. That one was just trolling. Just because there's one bad post isn't reason to close the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Excellent point. Don't you hate how that whole speech against women is more or less the official reason why those rules are in the Sharia law? At least... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That Tam H 70 guy is giving me heartburn. I know we recently had to warn him off of some blatantly antagonistic statements, and now he's more or less... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we must have been having PM conversations simultaneously, as I just asked Eddie about the ban on Mousa's request (he wanted to know whether it... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Essentially, equivalent of groups friending each other. I'm not sure why they expected it to be approved with a statement like this... This group is dedicated... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I'm well-versed in the saga of Moleman. I was an avid reader of the "banned Troper" bloginations and the thread when they were around. It was this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread abk is fairly new to the TRS and IP forums, as far as I know. Like, "just came in in the last two or three weeks" new. And up to now, they've been reasonable... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What he said, especially since we have people who manage just fine around here who also exhibit the syndrome.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have mild OCD. You'll know when I'm having a fit because I'll suddenly do large scale wick cleaning. Mental illness won't stop you from editing. The... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kind of a shame, since my political philosophy is similar. Oh, well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I frequently agree with him, but not with the way he argues.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I support lifting his post ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can I see some of that stuff? ('Cause I've seen that person get thumped before and I seem to recall that their responses back then weren't helpful, either... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, why do it? I'm curious.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Word.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Umm, was that the one where Tropers A and B are in a relationship and Troper A slept with Troper C? If that was the one, then, how could anyone handle... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm glad I've had the chance to see you guys at work for a long time before I became a mod.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Best Of, Haven had been willing to show to me the relevant PMs all along, and I let him down. I never seriously entertained the possibility that Weiss... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, here's what I can find of the way the weiss/Haven/Aon thing went down: Holler by Haven about a post pf Weiss's here. (That's the first I knew that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The way I read Haven's original message is that most of it was on the forums with only a little side-order of P Ms; he did not make it sound like the P... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Goldfritha was a pain in the butt. Goldstone looks like a high-quality troper, in general. edited 29th Feb '12 7:42:21 AM by Madrugada... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is more of a troubled troper's message. Classy Myths sent me this: Classy Myths to Shimaspawn: Question Someone keeps on messaging me. I'm asking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, and, no, I hadn't noticed Rodney being something of an asshole. Granted, I pretty much only interact with him in IP, but based on his behavior there... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I was wondering about it when he wouldn't send me the messages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He was wikibanned for edit warring actually. He hasn't come to appeal it yet I notice.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, yes, but it was based on him not caring about copyright issues. His insistence that "if we credit them, it's not infringement even if it's the whole... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He seems to be on a tear reporting other people for personal attacks and trolling. I suspect a passive-aggressive "look how hypocritical you are" message... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like an OTC ban is in order. I'd still wait until the next offence to have something to point to as the last straw, if it's all the same to you.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are there any restraints on Doma Doma? He's using a sock to post in OTC and I can't figure out why. I mean, I checked and there was nothing, but...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Check out the vegetarian thread, end of the second page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His old account is already wiki banned. I just banned the new one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree. Also, I find it hilarious he implied via pothole that his plan to return again and again makes him a Magnificent Bastard. Ego much?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And whatever you do, there's no way you can harm us in a way that wouldn't be fixed in a couple of hours of Wiki Magic and persistent mod action.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Woodhouse and I have been PMing since I thumped a bunch of his posts in the LGBT thread. I had hopes that he got it, but now I;m not so sure. PMs: Him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread when someone says "I'm not a homophobe" and you repeat that "Straight people are homophobes", you're calling them a liar. Not really, most prejudice is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And there we go. The post was three very long dense paragraphs, stirring up the coals of three different digression, followed by one paragraph suggesting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's 18, I think (I can believe it; I was similar at that age). I think many people aren't terribly concerned about offending people they take to be homophobic... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We can post an explanation in the thread in question. It seems like this particular troper isn't very popular there, anyway.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's just about the only place he's posted, except for a gush for himself in Gushing and a writer's block thread about how to write a character from... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Buh, wuh? To quote an ad: "That's one dumb dude." It's based on the definition of racism as "[racial] prejudice + privilege", which is supposed to emphasise... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Blackcat, I agree with everything you said. But I think, well, hindsight is 20/20 and we're looking at this from outside the thread. Woodhouse didn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, rather than using this discussion as a means of drawing a dividing line among the moderators; "those who saw the initial post as hostile or inappropriate... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmmm. Honestly, I think his second post in the thread was very easily read as rude (I read it as essentially "this is the way things should be, so sit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There is also one here. [1] On the restraints page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I civil-thumped "brainless censor-hound" (which, by the way, was me.) It's possible to be offensive towards mods, and it's as much a rules violation as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bump! After the PM I mentioned in the post above, I sent them one about how they should read the rules and the message above the box whete they type their... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Why would Anonymous even care? 9_9... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh wow. He's like Jim Profit-lite or something. I can't believe he'd be genuinely so dense as to think abusing Best Of like that could possibly be a good... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, right now she's getting in the way of cleaning up her mess. I'll make a note that there may be more of these out there that need to be dealt with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread reason for the suspension, how and whether the suspended troper demonstrates that they have seen the error of their ways and sometimes, the opinion of the mod... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread (carrying over from Hollers) I banned him from the forums just a second ago for that issue, as he really threw a monkey wrench in Image Pickin's clocking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A for Anonymous already has Wiki edits, though. With 4 edits, they have as many edits as Rorschachwasright had accounts, and all of those accounts together... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Check her post right after yours. Cryptic's treading on thin ice, but I haven't paid close enough attention to everything that she's been harping about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's going to be a problem either way we go. If we forum ban her, we're feeding the perception that we don't allow criticism; if we don't, every single... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got PMs from Rorschachwasright again. This time, the handle was "Mr Malicious". They had edited "Best Of and myself" into With Great Power Comes Great... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie has to.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a fun one though. I can't even remember the name of the one I had but I do remember the last reply I made: "Not a compelling argument" and then I asked... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, that's sounding like evidence of sock puppetry. Also, I'm trying to decide what to do about this. I told them not to turn the new Mass Effect 3... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Maybe we should just lock the ME 3 pages until things calm down.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Probably. Given the rage over the ending, to the point where there are petitions to change it, and the designer released a statement, this one could stay... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread One of them (96.237.120.146) stood out from the rest, and when I used mod central to research that IP, it said it matched an IP used by someone named Snuggie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll see what I can do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aaand he's back, as G0R0XGun, making a mess again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread All so he can taunt us with his ATROCIOUS GRAMMAR? This has got to be a new record for pathetic.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've added Lady Gaga to mine because meowzer was ban evading.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a very convincing PM from that Applelight person I banned last Sunday. Even though it hasn't been a full week yet, I feel confident that I can lift... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think that guy even knows there is such a thing as ATT. EDIT: Seems that Rorschachwasright came back again as "Worst at," which as at least slightly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say yes. The ISP is required by law to provide customer information to the police in the case of a suicide threat, according to both the IS Ps I contacted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If you look at Aiko's troper page he has posted his Facebook, Twitter and an email address. Plus some other website.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've called the Ft. Lauderdale police.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Good job.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This sounds like a pattern of bullying.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There was no note left about the banning, so I don't know whether or not he deserved it. edited 6th Apr '12 12:00:47 PM by Ironeye... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I'd call that forum ban-worthy at the very least.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm thinking it may be necessary to make some kind of stickied, mod-hat announcement in the RP discussions subforum.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Here's the announcement. Flame Haze 17 convinced me that their PM-sharing was the result of a legitimate misunderstanding and not malice. They've promised... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, what's up with anoni's edit ban? I can't find compelling evidence in his/her history and you were rather vague about the reason.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And it has since fallen off, unless there's some way to research the archives... at least, I Ctrl-F'ed the page and didn't see that handle anywhere. You... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^ I'm not certain that she has; Hydronix and Loid know each other on at least one (and previously at least two) other sites. The chat itself is also... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes we do. Doesn't say anything about inviting people to cyber offsite, though, but if someone tried that as a defence I would not be impressed by their... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crossposting from Hollers - yeah, Hydronix was using this site to advertise a sexually explicit chat and solicit cybering, and has been banned.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hydronix's plea: Wait, there's some confusion. I thought she(he) was 18 at the time I offered. I explicitly said I will not allow that. I also very specifically... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is there any sort of publicly-posted suicide threat whose url we could give to the authorities? Or will the police accept "So-and-so sent me a suicide... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Note also my post in Hollers. It's got PM exchange, IP tracking and stuff. I'm gonna be offline for some time, too. I would've left sooner, but I didn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Self-destructive behavior is very common in suicidally depressed people, especially males.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Was he soliciting or did he simply offer an option in response to an inquiry? That's another place I see a difference (especially in lieu of the doubt... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Things I am thinking: I am concerned about the suicide threats we have been getting lately and our reactions to them. I am also concerned about the effect... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Actually, and this may be me completely missing the point, the original post which was reported doesn't seem to make reference to cybering. It notes that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got one from Rhyme Beat. You used to be an R Per right? Used to know Hydronix. Well I need to save her. And the only way I can sure to save her is to get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There is a fair amount of people hollering on days or weeks old posts. I don't understand what motivates that activity although it may be something as... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We can exert authority over people linking offsite or telling people in forum posts or PM's to go to places where illegal/immortal activities occur. We... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree with Fighteer.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But is is a cybersex site? Or is it just a site where cybering occasionally occurs, and which has a declared "no minors" policy? In looking back through... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread SA doesn't have to be involved for their methods to inspire others to dig dirt.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got another PM, this time from Quarterman: Hey, you don't know me very well, but may I take a moment of your time? It's concerning the troper Hydronix.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't know if anyone caught this, but this conversation has deathpigeon claiming that Hydronix rescinded the invitation after finding out AZ's age. However... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Deathpigeon at least responded very well to my suggestions to stay cool and take a break. They even agreed that the thumps I laid down were just, which... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You can PM Rhyme Beat, Bobby. I think it will be better if she receives a message from someone who has been a member of the staff for a while.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree absolutely with Bobby: there are some tropers who would do better with a new name and a clean slate, but Hydronix is too recognizable, and it would... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So Fusionman came to me on another forum and asked about getting his ban lifted. Would anyone mind me playing the conflict of interest card on this one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks like there's edit warring/rudeness over at Horrible Music. I think The Rat Squid needs watching. ...On second thought, they seem to need a wiki ban... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's why I brought it up. In some ways I consider his being banned to be my fault; I tried to help him after all. edited 11th Apr '12 1:52:06 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Watch out when hitting the checks on the restraints. Goddamned Batman was un-wiki banned when all the other restraints were added and he went on a second... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I just got my first troll PM. Something about molesting animals because I thumped an obvious troll. I suppose I should feel proud now? I restricted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone who is a full-on troll needs the full range of bans without any questions or hesitation. We just make more work for ourselves if we leave them... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, giving every ban. What's the "keep account new" thing? EDIT: Gah! Best Of is a ninja! edited 12th Apr '12 6:48:12 AM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread djmaca just told whale to "bite a rock" in Yack Fest. I thumped him, but I'm contemplating posting suspensions for both.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This thread needs watching, as it's been spiralling since yesterday.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspect this cleanup wave is going to lead to a lot of bans and suspensions. Some people (justifiably, I will admit) get upset when we cut discussion... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Agreed. We're just confusing others if we're contradicting even ourselves.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Discar just made a thread about questionable works in SE. I'm really not optimistic. Should I lock it until we ourselves work this out?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread SNDL is really getting on my nerves. They make threads on notability and snark on ATT even though I told them we're working on it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, I think Goldstone just won't get it through his head that we need redirects for searchability. He's put more on the cutlist. Just what is going on... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No kidding. This time the suspension will last at least a week. I mean, what the hell?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think he's helpful enough with his edits, but he seems to have some Single Issue Wonk with redirects and has no idea how to use the cutlist properly.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We may need to apply a cutlist ban to people who use the cutlist to "prove a point", such as Iaculus did today, if they don't stop after being asked to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be fine with that, or at least enough time from her banning to add up to a month. edited 12th Apr '12 9:48:45 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I suspended a guy since he's constantly going to every Audience Reaction trope and inserting hate on a number of characters, even though I keep removing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread People who set themselves up as martyrs are more than welcome to become them, in my opinion. Edit: Do we want to let Lightsaber Guy back? He's getting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If it helps, he went back into the Mortal Wills, Mortal Hearts RP discussion asking more or less the same thing he always does.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is that guy stalking you or something? He's already made some edits, and I can already see the flames. I'm going to place preemptive bans.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread whale has been increasingly obstructionist. Nothing individually banworthy, but collectively...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It seems to be her sockpuppet, however.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Me too, FE, me too. I just don't know how to fix it. I guess in my perfect world they wouldn't be here unless they were exceptional and had a hovering... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sockpuppet. I put in the ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looks fairly clear what happened to me; guy used the word "drawfag"* (constructions of this type are strongly discouraged here and often result in bans... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that trolling is just rude. I don't know about telling them about the sock. Lola's pretty popular, and right now she's set herself as the victim.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We have ways, but some of them are more effective than others and there are always ways around it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmmm, what's our mind on this one?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bump! That Lorialet person in Edit Banned seems harmless. They said that they made a stupid mistake they won't repeat, and it seemed sincere to me. I'll... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On a different note, we have a query on ATT saying neoLightning might be websurfer. I notice Fighteer has unbanned the former once, but he had suspicions... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, seriously, Cryptic Mirror has basically started inciting panic at this point. She knows we're treading on thin ice and yet she keeps at it. What to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Temp ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember Rich Reeders? The person who felt the need to make some tasteless joke about pneumonia or something when someone said that it's serious 'cause... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well I'll go with the PM first. It's kind of uncivil, though, isn't it? Oh, well... I don't think I care much about etiquette with this person any more... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You're right. Silly me...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok, update: Gave Cryptic Mirror some time to cool off. I don't know when I'll lift her posting ban, but she's really unhelpful right now. I talked to... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Myrmidon says he will stop cutlisting stuff, but wants to know if he's permanently banned from using the cutlist.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I do think that too many works were cut too quickly — it fed into the feeling of OMG URGENCY PANIC that sets in way too readily among the more volatile... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I went and posted in the thread about some common misunderstandings, just in case you're right and my name means something "more" than a Mod Hat.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cutting anything after the first wave was a big mistake...all this has done is feed paranoia and mistrust toward the staff and Eddie. *sigh* What a cluster... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just curious - do we have any kind of running tally as to the number of pages that have been cut so far?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Since as far as I know we had removed some proportion of the worst stuff on the Wiki since the last incident, and walled off others.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wouldn't be surprised. Let's keep an eye on him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm gonna at least lock the thread. Ninja'd. edited 16th Apr '12 8:25:52 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Re Doctor Thunder: Did we decide what to do with the Unholy Trio (Raineh Daze, Anno R and Moerin)? They've been causing drama for a while now, including... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread SNDL Rage Quit so I banned him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got the same set of PM's. Here's what Jessie had to say to me: I'm really, really sorry about appearing to be a giant pain-in-the-ass in the forums... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Then again, mine came from a third party (Motor Runner).... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Rich Reeders, whom I failed to ban when I was anticipating a response to my challenge about his homosexual remarks (which he didn't acknowledge at all,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No problem, Best Of. S/he was really being an ass. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not feeling sympathetic. Just found out that the guy Deadbeat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread JessieTheCowgirl's response: Yes. I'm not always passive-aggressive...my emotions got a hold of me at the moment and I didn't stop them before they could... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been a pain in the ass for quite a while, arguing with us on Ask The Tropers and generally being obstructive. I have no problem with suspending him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We did. I think it's ban time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended Caspers Wish from PMs for the following PM: Uh, I never said that I was (always) ashamed of my race, I said that when people come up to me with... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread BTW I send a report to a mod about it. Anyway...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Let's hope that those two people never talk to each other again...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crossposting from Hollers, I'm gonna talk to Booky just to be safe. If we decide to let djmaca back in, I don't think we should let him have PM privileges... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Temp ban? I mean, that's just childish and petty and stupid, the way they're reacting to this. edited 18th Apr '12 11:31:52 AM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My gut is telling me to leave them be. Unless they decide to continue, in which case I'm no longer interested in them. Something I just noticed: Caspers... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think a brief timeout from PMs for both should do it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I can't cope with this, I really really can't. I just got this pm in response to my pm to Arcades etc about the holler from Martello. ''Thank you for looking... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread With all the constant strawmanning and circular arguments, I can't blame some of us for coming off as scary. I don't know why it's so difficult to get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I felt the same way, actually.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If she wants to explain herself, I'll listen. I haven't really had much to do with her prior to the current controversy. I wouldn't dream of actually... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It was his brother who was upset because the dog ate the second page of his homework while the first page was already in the mail along with the check... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, if Fast Eddie said so, it must be true. I wouldn't pay much attention, but it seems they've got this argument over PMs as well, and Monsund is not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread OK, here's what's troubling me about punishing tropers for putting things up for review. Obviously, the review system doesn't automatically mean "this... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think we should punish them for putting up things for review. Cutlisting stuff though, even though we've PM'ed them with a warning, makes me grit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As do I. I'm just trying to get rid of the people who are listing in either bad faith, or kind of completely laziness. I've tweaked my post to the commentary... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, I'm really sorry about that, Fighteer. Another thing A Groupie needs to hear is that we do not appreciate people circumventing procedure. Deleting... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His behavior is bizarre and obsessive. But mostly harmless, so long as he learns to stay the heck away from the cutlist.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have just received, on my own request, a rather lengthy PM from Tomu concerning paedophilia. I do not believe that Tomu is a paedophile, and nothing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think that it is time to escort Goldstone to the door. Look at his restraint history. I also think that there is an over-reliance on examining the sub-textual... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread People seem worried that we'll ban Spooky for sharing that. I don't think we should, though it is true that sending a final message kind of is ban avoidance... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ad hominem attacks are in the house. We had this blatant vandalism on condottiera: You realise that this is just a website about TV Shows and shit like... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo is giving me heartburn in the content discussion threads. He seems to be veering towards some kind of extreme position wherein if it contains a child... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread On an unrelated note, what's up with the new mods' mod hats? If you haven't picked ones yet, you should take a look at the mod hat thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, I haven't found anything amusing enough to make a mod hat, but my current avvie (or the other crop in my gallery) kinda click with me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Apparently one day, by account age. He just PM'ed me again as JimmyCuervosRevenge. I banned without replying.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ah, I didn't know that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, wow, if you search antvas instead of the whole name, it gives a ton more! Zidane, Transcendent, ToraTora, Toolshed, Tokimi, TetsuNuno, Telestar, Prototype... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, I say leave him. His protest has been one of the mildest so far, and I'm vaguely amused. Also, I get to make jokes over the lack of his hilarious avatar... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, it justifies to some people's way of thinking that he's on the side of the pedo apologists — something he's been hollered for in the past.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ....and now, the mental image of Fighteer as a galaxy that talks with a Valley Girl accent is cemented in my head. -___- Ahem. On-topic, I don't think... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread raan made UsefulNotes.Bra Size as a recreation of UsefulNotes.Bra Sizes. I suspended him, blanked, locked, and cutlisted the page.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From his edit reason, it sounds innocent. He noticed that a page he'd seen before was missing and the page wasn't locked. He made a note on the edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He just showed up...shima, sounds like you called it right. edited 24th Apr '12 6:32:42 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You sure you don't want to just lock it?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, that's why we have ban tools I guess. Agree. edited 25th Apr '12 10:05:35 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...and we're keeping him around because...?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...I'm currently rolling my eyes endlessly. I won't miss him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread While I have no attachment to that thread, trying to close it down would bring a huge shitstorm and a new storm of headaches. Not to mention I'm afraid... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm pretty sure Fetishes already has rules about talking about purely illegal stuff, doesn't it? No "I like little kids" posts, and such? Anyway, blah... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, I'm just thinking that people talking about how they have a fetish for horse-shaped dildos is pretty creepy and embarrassing, but I don't know what... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just saw that. Argh, /b/ invasion + goon invasion = my head hurts at the stupidity. Only baba is missing from this wonderful equation.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It does seem borderline trolling and a lot of the works nominated aren't porn at all. They just happen to have sex in them.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have an issue on my hands. I have this psycher7 guy coming in the Spank The Cutie thread and saying the trope is perfect as is, and that we're prudes... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not as far as I can see. You're just dealing with someone who's nailed their colours to the mast and is convinced they're in the right.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone who takes that attitude does not belong on the wiki whether they are on your side or not.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gotta hate martyrs. Help, I'm being oppressed! EDIT: Got a PM from another editor defending Raso by proxy: Well, from what I gather from Raso, it seems... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, the stupid panic should die down at least, since THE SYSTEM'S WORKING. I think they should review Kodomo no Jikan next, so they can say it's not... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he sets foot in that thread and continues his behavior, or starts similar behavior elsewhere, then ban, I'd say. He's determined to make himself a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah. Guy's obviously not looking for a civil conversation.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Septimus Heap is really starting to get on my nerves. He has a tendency to get very fixated on rules. Unfortunately, he isn't so good at getting the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have this DKN 117 guy bitching about his PM and forum ban in ATT. He seems to think that because he received a PM, we should lift the ban. Does anyone... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He has a posting ban, too, so it was probably something that happened on the forums.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's an old-school ban from the previous system. Without the forum banlist linkup, there's no way to find the reason. Well, Eddie can probably dig... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've had dealings with him. He basically threw a hissy fit over in the RP board for various reasons related to not being allowed to do what he wanted... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's his PM ban he's protesting. Apparently, the fact that he received a PM means we have to lift it. He doesn't seem to understand he gave up that privilege... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hopefully that'll shut him up for a bit so we can actually get this sorted.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I CAN'T READ A PM!!!!!! THE MODS AREN'T LETTING ME READ IT, BUT THEY SHOW THE BANNER TO ME IN ORDER TO MESS WITH ME BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Awesomesauce. :3... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh. <sheepish/> Well, it would have been easier!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bump! That Dentaku person in the edit-banned thread seems okay. I checked their edit history, and the only grammar issue I found was their last edit. Probably... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I agree with lifting Jordan's ban.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He (or she) joined it after being banned. But, yes, he has been very vitriolic since joining and I don't regret his ban in the slightest.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hanging with us all casual-like here and joining the hate crowd elsewhere is a particularly vile form of hypocrisy that I can't stomach. edited 30th Apr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think most of the goons actually practice their "look, but don't touch" policy. The ones who don't can be a problem, but 4chan has verifiably caused... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I haven't received anything.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, she asked me to pass this on: Anyway, he did not, that I saw, join the thread until after being banned, though Goons were talking about him before... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That was Marq, wasn't it? Bobby had already sorted it out with Raso way back then. I got a PM from Raso himself: Any word on if I can come back? I seriously... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, that one seems to be one of the issues with drawing Japanese teenagers that look like actual Japanese teenagers. Flat chested girls just look younger... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have no idea of Raso's gender, but Raso just feels like a girl to me talking to Raso. Also, it's really hard to talk without pronouns. I think Raso needs... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Raso can be useful to drive TRS threads. Quite a few have gone through because of her persistence. The problem is when she latches onto a particular... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Octo needs a ban from everything but OTC. Of course, it'd be silly to have such a ban in place, so it's better to let this be. I hate it when people lose... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That idiotic arcsin vandal is back as arcsinx, trolling in Yack Fest and vandalising the wiki. Thankfully, only one edit before I hammered it. Can we get... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ? Where is this coming from?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Aw, MTCFF Ultra was awesome back in the day. Of course, that was collaborative writing.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just now, a mod discussion led to the ban on Cute getting lifted.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Out of curiosity, how many were booted and who were they? I've lost track.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Martello has asked that we remove encrypted from the Content forum for being too aggressive defending pedo stuff. Does anyone have any objections?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's been non-constructive in his defences. I don't see how he contributes, so no objections.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I put him out for now. We can always make it temporary if he promises to behave. I'd hate to have any more P5 members quit because someone is being a... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I suspended Looney Toons. He was on a "delete every mention of any of his works from the wiki because of the Second Google Incident" rampage. I did discuss... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @ccoa: on the other hand (a) I suspect he wasn't serious, and (b) he may not have even known how old she was; the thread was pretty damn flirtatious (in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd be loath to axe ongoing media threads, especially when most of them are causing little trouble. Also, if we purge RP threads, we'll get all kinds of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wiki-issue here: I intervened here after a request in ATT. Rudeness aside, this frogout guy shares an IP with Pacific Mackerel (who's been suspended for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Black Humor. Said the bans of Octo, TE et al were the last straw. Said goodbye. Was thumped and banned. Came back as BHClone. Sent me a PM. Did any of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got the following PM from Catbert. To me it reads like Catbert was PM spamming Martello with the same stuff he's already getting deluged with in the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, the ME vandal has created at least 6 socks so far. All banned. They tend to have names including "We are legion" or 1183. I have to go to bed,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, hey, another Con sock. Jamandseen. He sent me this bizarre PM. if you and other tropers are insists that my English are sucks no matter how decent... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lismaker seems to be sincere and has promised not to mess with the flag system again. I think we can lift the ban. (Didn't do it yet 'cause this is one... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's promised not to flood the index, but he doesn't seem to get where the bar is in the first place. He seems sincere, but he's not listening. That's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And not just that. The fact that there's so much rage over the ending indicates there is something wrong with it, even though the hate might be exaggerated... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Full-banned him and deleted the ATT thread. Trolls...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think we need to keep an eye on new accounts because this guy apparently lacks any life outside of fucking Mass Effect. And what do you know, there's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At anytime. I preemptively suspended it. edited 4th May '12 3:40:19 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I asked deathpigeon about the incident, as perhaps the troper that talks to her the most, and this was his response: Personally, I think that she's a bit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I recognise the handle from somewhere... Looking at their edit history, it seems that they're one of the folks who post in every megathread in YF. So I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, maybe. It just seemed a bit...homophobic?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Similar interests. The edit history contains ponies, Ruby Quest and The Weaver, all of which Lightsaber Guy and his socks were editing. edited 5th May... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You'd have thought he'd have realised that by now.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, it's a stretch. But truth be told, he did seem needlessly offensive with the whole "You aren't Asian and only Westerners would say that". Judging... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I dont think she gets what the issue here is. In other news, someone lacks any life outside of Mass Effect! Again. Latest socks include: My Little... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Regarding our Mass Effect vandal, he mentioned one of our editors, Tiamatty, in his edit to Locked Pages. It seems likely that his original account, whatever... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's the 8th. Should we unban Irene/Hydronix, according to Bobby?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yay, another Con sock. Galacardmax. Yay, more incomprehensible PMs. -_- He's not putting "Con" in his socks anymore, which you'd think would mean he's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Definitely Goldstone. Using the same password. Big ol' bounce for that dude.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I get that a lot too. I've developed a habit of IP checking what looks like potential troublemakers. edited 10th May '12 4:29:08 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Forgot to mention - I gave Code Robin a forum ban. He'd been verbally warned for being rude while (rabidly) defending his points, then got three thumps... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Argh, frigging Mass Effect again. Hollered post. Supposedly, it's our vandal. Claims he's not. Claims that 1183 is a group which is out there to stop the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Alright, so it looks like there's a lot of IP overlap with Remus D Duck and all the vandal IP adresses. And then there's this holler over his behaviour... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The problem is that there's no overlap between Duck and Caius, or between Caius and the others.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I say we wait 'till we're sure about Caius. The known sock (that Duck thing) needs to go, though. (If they haven't already.)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Caius is back as Anfaglith with this golden piece in ATT: [Hollering] Clearly doesn't work, since the user is still active on the forums and the users... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So he's got a persecution complex then.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If Anfa isn't listening to P Ms, he needs a temp ban from the forums. Give him at least 3 days off. His vigilantism is not helping.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We've got another one. Vandalised Locked Pages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Preemptive ban on new account: Mass Effect 3 Hate Dumb. I think we all know who this is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Bounced based on basis of handle having the pattern "anf[caeiouy]", that is 'anf' followed by a vowel or a 'c.' That's one pattern that stands out. edited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's just my snarky overexaggerated version of his mentality.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfa has asked me if it's permissible to create a sock to only view the threads but not post in them. Is that too close to ban evasion?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think Mazz is trolling, but Bound is definitely giving me some trolling smells. What the hell does funding have to do with anything?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Where's this?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It fits the pattern. Nuke him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The side of my personality that likes to give trolls a taste of their own medicine wants to let him back in but ban him from the Mass Effect threads. Even... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Someone sits down and for the duration of writing those three words thinks that they're helping their case.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wow, that's what I get for not hitting him with the full range of bans the first time. Sorry, blackcat.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Let's keep an eye on SOCIALJUSTICEWARRIOR. His account is one day old and some of his edit reasons show a good working knowledge of the place. I had thought... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He shares IP addressed with 5 other accounts, but A Hundredand Sixty Acres and Bing Crosby stick out to me. Both were banned, I believe for rude edit... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Who is this Serpent xy? (From Edit Banned.) edited 16th May '12 2:58:11 PM by BestOf... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thread in ATT: Soti Coto: Just what is the purpose of "Ask The Tropers" anyway? From what I've seen from reading down the page, it seems to be a place... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread -flips a coin- It landed on its edge! Grrrr...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It appears there's a user on the discussion page for blackcat who says he can't read PMs.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well if he's posting on moderators' discussion pages rather than ATT, he is quite possibly someone who needs the dunce cap surgically inserted, even if... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'll keep that in mind for the future.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But that's why we have a mod team and users who report these things. At worst it costs us a bit of time.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not "good company" but not worth the fight if we ban him outright. I will put a note on his restraints page for future reference.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I really think he needs an edit suspension. The amount of natter he produces is insane.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Natter is a valid ban reason. I checked the age of his account but not his post history. One wonders if he got the Natterfy message a few times and is... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's Easily Forgiven when the troper in question is popular, or at least well-known. edited 17th May '12 2:13:22 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In the vote for OTC mods, Flyboy was one of the three candidates with more up- than down-votes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What precisely earned him a ban this time? A specific post, or the fact that he was taking his normal OTC self (self-righteous, judgmental, argumentative... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heads up. I've lifted Anfa's posting ban. I'm almost certain the Mass Effect moron will go in a rampage again. Best be careful.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I find devilsnowcandy's attitude retarded.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, indeed. I wonder if he/she will get the picture or not. When this sort of person comes along, it's usually a hopeless case, but in my eternal optimism... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eh, for that particular trope bitch is the appropriate word and the connotations of it matter. The bowdlerized words used on it actually change the meaning... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's his page. I think it's alright, since he isn't coming back. Is anyone else worried about The Handle? I've noticed we get a few hollers about him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I went ahead and cut Flyboy's pages.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Latest Mass Effect crap includes: You Take The Hint Get The Hint Yet Retake TV Tropes Retake R Trollz Chibi Sheep Cheap Crack Of Ass poo127 Hat... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds Aspbergers for real, actually.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think The Handle has been any trouble before, and they've actally been helpful in some discussions (or that's the impression I have,) so we shouldn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread What do we do with someone who consistently whines on discussion pages? Name is Stoogebie.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread See Stoogebie for insight into her personality. She claims to have Aspberger's and lists Deadpan Snarker, Cloud Cuckoolander, Bitch in Sheeps Clothing... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Wait, lemme get a few things before we make blackcat too weary. Hard Drinking Party Girl: "Oh look, another changed trope title. Apparently, Bottle Fairy... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hammered Windmere as the latest one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Remember Soti Coto in ATT? He's currently trying to shitstir in the discussion page for Hanlon's Razor. "Hanlon's Razor is decidedly on the side of Enlightenment... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well, he's not really breaking any rules. If it were from some random troper, I'd hardly even look twice at it.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Semi-protection of pages is what I think he's referring to. There's a tech wishlist topic about it. Essentially, a level of protection between open and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Whacked Red Stripe Of Valor for replacing the content of Video Games with that of Bio Ware. edited 24th May '12 11:53:17 AM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Soapy Mc Soap Soap got wack-a-trolled by lu, but in addition to his wiki edits he left a bunch of obscene comments on 90% of the Mass Effect 3 reviews.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I should have copied it before I deleted it. It was basically just "the Retake movement is not as big as they want you to think, here's some flawed math... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It sounds too amusing! Oh and he dropped by ATT as You All Are Mthr Fckrs to post "Retake motherfuckers." Gotta love how rich his vocabulary is.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He actually had a cocksucker in one of his review comments! And something about tongues and places that it's unsanitary to put them. But mostly more... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread "so i guess were not allowed to say good things" Permission to whack?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, Seamanon Tropes came to my attention. Judging by the edit history, the edit reasons, the minor Edit War on Touhou and the IP overlap, I smell another... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nothing on the scope.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread A Hundred And Sixty Acres, frogout and Bing Crosby have all been suspended as possible socks of Pacific Mackerel. I'm suspicious because Seanamon had an... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned Gannetwhale from OTC and trollthumped him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Amazing Lagann is ban-evading. Permission to hammer?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ROW ROW FIGHT THE POW*crunch*... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That's what the troll bait thump is for, but since the comments are usually "I wonder what that one's all about ...EDIT: And now it's gone," I can't really... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Full range of bans applied twice, I see. Both with the reason "Baba."... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *joins Deadbeat in the Brain Bleach get* Who's that plushie avatar?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did we ever come to an actual decision about this? I only ask because people are still asking about it. edited 25th May '12 12:29:00 PM by Deadbeatloser22... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread So, I was looking into that Sullesk vandal who was reported today. And my puppet check fu gives these results. All four accounts have been banned for vandalising... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Baba is back as fishavenger. Wacked with every single hammer. Huge wiki vandalism. Time to clean up. EDIT: Vandalism all cleared up. Account age 0 days... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^^Bounced that IP. Nice reporting on that, Lu. All useful info. Turns out he is using a rare browser. Maybe there is something that can be done with that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fast Fry is the fourth account Goldstone has created. I gave a fullban. Keep an eye on new accounts with a lot of edits. Common cues of his behaviour:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Not a "trouble" post per se, but the last post on this page is one of the most spectacular humor fails I've seen in a while. It was a struggle to keep... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Edit: Wrong thread! edited 30th May '12 9:04:49 AM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Check his edit history. He's been removing entries from cut works, even though we said we haven't reached a decision.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds like a plan to me. edited 1st Jun '12 8:17:51 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No commonalities.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread and what the mod team wishes for me to do.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wasn't aware he was banned when he said he was having trouble logging in. So, he's ban evading. I guess if he were to show some understanding about the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Can I kick him out now?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread If he's not going to even attempt to be constructive, I think we can do without him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I wish I'd have known of his response first, I'd have been harsher. Darn.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Fighteer, that madfoot guy P Med me earlier whining about how he didn't do anything wrong and how unfair it was that I took the other guy's "side" and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh god, it was a stupid rant I couldn't even read. What was it that got under Telcontar's skin? I imagine it was something severe.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That handle is old, too, it may be compromised. Blackcat put a note on the account but didn't apply a wiki suspension. I think one might be in order,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The hell? What is his problem?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, I mean check these threads: [1] [2] [3] Why would you whine about namespaces? You're perfectly free to ignore them, it's others that do the work.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread It's our evil cabaliciousness at work.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Record Needle Scratch edited 5th Jun '12 7:19:12 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That ban was given by Eddie, wasn't it? Although I don't know about those PMs, I suspect said person harassed Loid. I suppose it all depends on the severity... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would it be possible to sort the new accounts query by account creation timestamp? It'd make glancing through the list for socks a bit easier, since you... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Streetcleaner is extremely suspicious. Only 4 day old account, but shows up and starts posting in the Rape trope rename thread, claiming that they... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh yeah. Anyone think I'm baselessly paranoid about the SA Goons any more?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Heh, never thought it was baseless. Didn't always agree with the conclusions you reached in individual cases, but those people are unpleasant in the extreme... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, that seems unnecessary.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Pedo apologist... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Did you ban all the accounts?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread My favorite part is that his handle is Raw Power EX and yet on his page there was a bit about "not the same guy". Ummmm. Gollllleeeee he sure is clever... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I banned all the handles by the above creeper. I'll go on a cutlisting spree soon. Probably all of his unpublished works. edited 11th Jun '12 7:15:51 AM... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I certainly told her that any more of it would end up with a ban, but that was before the latest stuff. I vote for "ban now", frankly, but it might look... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yup, wait for the next shitstorm. Otherwise we'll just be the insensitive bastards who show no compassion to her. edited 12th Jun '12 2:36:48 PM by lu127... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'm not sure how we can stop them, given how easy it is to get around a ban. But they probably do need disciplinary action for exporting drama. From Mazz... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Interesting to see that we have people who think we are deleting too much (these guys) and people who think we aren't deleting enough (SA). I guess the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Are you going to bounce them? Their attitude doesn't sit right with me. I think they need a ban, but maybe I'm overreacting. Source theft gets under my... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I noticed that thread by Brent Laabs but I forgot to address it. That was right after we lifted his wiki suspension for putting Moral Guardians and Censorship... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Huh, Brent Laabs has been a decent contributor in the TRS. A shame.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He has a Single Issue Wonk over this. Arha told him god knows how many times to cut it out (not that he's innocent though), and instead, he kept edit warring... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh... Edit: I'm getting no edits or posts from Toreno1910, and there's correspondingly no IP history to check. edited 14th Jun '12 1:18:... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Well we can't see views, only posts. Eddie can investigate his PM's. I'd say it's fine to issue a provisional ban, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Don't jinx it! I told him to knock it the fuck off. If he doesn't listen, I'll just kick 'im out.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ^ Sounds like a reasonable response to me.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have to agree. She was temp banned once back in spring, then attacked a moderator out of the blue, threatened a hoax suicide and has been responsible... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Radical Taoist is trying to talk with the OTC mods and cannot post in the Edit Banned thread. I have posted the content of his PM to me on Skype but I... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I used a sock I wiki-banned to try and post in Edit-banned. The same thing happened to me and I couldn't post. Something's broken.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, is it possible to make a tool that would let a mod view all the bans they've issued?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Matt is rules lawyering his IP ban. Grumble mumble. I told him he is not allowed to participate in IP in any way, but he has the same rights as any other... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And again I recommend blocking new accounts from the cutlist.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Troll report before I sign off for a while: King Peel Cannonizer Darth Nihlus Kryik Shall Not Pass Retroller In A Sock (no, really?)... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I was getting that for a few minutes as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread That girl needs to learn that emotional blackmail is not an acceptable way to deal with the world.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, and this. What the hell.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...She's blaming someone else for posting what she wrote as ruining her chances for being unbanned, when the post was clearly directed at us? Serious... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This is getting really surreal...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread *cues up A Perfect Circle's "The Outsider"* edited 21st Jun '12 10:32:12 AM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread banditpoeyahoocom has returned as bigJoemama and bigJoe to cause yet more trouble. Anything bouncable there?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, that idiot. I left his posting on so he could (dubiously) argue his case; evidently he's too stupid to figure that out. Or knows we won't let him... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Gannetwhale is a ban-evading sock of Mullerornis. If there's anything bouncable there, please get rid of him.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Have I mentioned I hate that guy? He's bound to have messed up a bunch of pages again.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread His OCD-ness is scary. I haven't seen anything too terrible in his edits so far except an obsession with "correcting" British spelling, though.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Thanks. Does this look like the moron that got Final Fantasy VII locked over Shipping Wars? For context, both Its Cali Bitch and clerith4eva are zero day... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Lu recently banned someone called Sir Edward the Quick for trolling. I did a puppet check and found someone called doomSAyer, a month-old account. I gave... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread done... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think she's the vandal, but I strongly suspect she's in cahoots with him. Add to the fact that the vandal is always behind her, something smells... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Sounds good to me, Best Of. Put the bans on lily. "She'll" be back. It's like a bad rash.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Nate says he's not coming back. I imagine he thinks we're somehow unhappy about that...... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Would a "...seriously?" or " ;:-/ " be too snide? edited 26th Jun '12 2:16:06 PM by Willbyr... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I lifted the ban on Redjirachi. They seem to have learnt their lesson. I'm stepping on Lu's toes a bit, but this one seems straightforward enough, and... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I don't think we should worry about who gave an edit ban and who lifted it—unless the person in question has multiple offences on their basket, it's... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Banned Evilneko. A look at their page history should tell you why. Someone who admits to being a Lolicon with loli lust? Don't give me that crap. We have... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Password pattern bounced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread From gingerninja (yes, already): I don't suppose there's anyway I can apologize to Somber and everyone for being a collosal and be allowed back onto the... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I recall he had been banned once again back in October. Found it when going through some socks. Oh, it was November. No third chance from me. edited 28th... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Oh, no. He's also been in the Song of Ice and Fire thread, the Avatar: The Last Airbender thread, and the Legend of Korra thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd say no reprieve. He knows the pattern he acts in. He knows that it's not an acceptable way to behave. He does it anyway. His excuse is "I can't help... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Ok. Really creepy stuff found. A while back, Eddie gave a wiki and YKTTW ban to someone named Chaotic Dreams for having a fixation with rape topics. Around... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And now he's posted about how we're lying, even though I laid out the evidence before him. And he threw out some stupid strawmen about how we're all fanatical... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've announced Anfauglith's ban in Absent People and the ME 3 thread.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes, I did thank Komodin and told him he was doing the right thing. And yes, it was all about "Fighteer the no negativity tyrant".... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread There isn't a single piece of wiki or forum software that doesn't have some sort of "display all handles/edits/posts with this IP" and "find all I Ps for... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think in this case the issue was encouraging someone to ban evade off-site and before that knowingly posting their huge rant in the thread. Posting that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I have to agree. Those three (Moerin, Raineh, and Anno) have been in the center of almost every kerfuffle I've had to mediate in the RP section. Never... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've been trawling backwards in this thread to find the point in their saga where I jumped in, and I found this lovely bit that I completley forgot about... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Okay, I found some recent hollers: This was a holler by them where an RP fell off because the GM apparently had a history with them on another RP. Aha!... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Back to the RP crowd.... All three of them hollering in this page someone who insulted them or something. Looks like Raineh drama. More hollers about The... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread @shima - Will a wiki ban stop him from flagging works? Because it sounds like he needs access to that tool removed. He's obviously not mature enough... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread No, a wiki ban does not seem to stop flagging. I tried it a few days ago. The flagger was not malicious, so it was sorted out, but I realised the wiki... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread In response to the PM that I sent them (quoted above,) Anfauglith says: There are several issues with this. First, I wasn't aware of a rule that prohibited... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Also, there is not and never has been a "no negativity" rule. That's something he and his buddies made up out of whole cloth.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I did a followup with a somewhat more detailed reason for the bans. I suspect that despite leaving a number of games orphaned, there won't be a lot of... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Incidentally, lu, you finding the one Bobby had to deal with gave me the anchor I needed to find the one I was remembering — The Digimon Game, in... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfauglith had 2 accounts when they got banned. We quickly disposed of both accounts, so now they've made 2 more accounts. Both of those are banned, too... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think it is time to start calling him on it and on hiding behind weasel words. He can never say "I'm scared". It's always couched in terms of "everybody... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread As Fighteer said in Hollers, be sure to nuke everything that Anfauglith posts with any new sock. Also, Eddie, could you try to find something else that... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Serious ban evaders figure out the password thing rather quickly. It's hardly unknown that we bounce people on that.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Cyrok Centimental Nasty Herion All these accounts belong to that rude immature jerk who couldn't stop Edit Warring over Pokemon and Kamen Rider something... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The Alruhn handle is on a new password. On the PM question: what would it mean if there were? There weren't. edited 7th Jul '12 6:02:03 PM by FastEddie... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Komodin sent me this PM: Hey, Lu, I'm sorry if I'm bugging you, but I have to ask you something. See, lately, I've been receiving P Ms from the user Desine... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yeah, no blocking mods.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I've done some digging, and here is what will help us tell Anfauglith apart. The guy is not subtle. He has a penchant for flowery, Tolkien-esque names,... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Is anyone else having concerns about Westrim's capacity on YKTTW? He seems to launch pages without a sufficient number of hats and full of Zero Context... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Yes.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Suspended the lot of them. Shippers are barking mad.... Worst part is, that's my favourite ship. People like that give me a bad name.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I'd gladly sectonectomy most shipping and yay tropes. *sigh* Caught three Masonicon socks: Trope Smasher: 7 days old, posted in the TRS for Super Weight... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread This account has made some odd edits — dropping some rather malicious Take Thats. It also looks like a sock of this account, whose edit history... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Anfauglith socks, caught in the Dragon Age thread, banned and skullfucked by me: Glaugnir The Sparrow Uthvard IP: 95.141.28.53 All these are exactly... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread And this is the kind of golden stuff you find when you Ctrl+F the right words on edit reasons.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Got a persistent ban evader here: ickymameshiba efcargot geewhimpers edited 12th Jul '12 6:22:08 PM by ccoa... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Umm, Fast Eddie, this account appears to have been made without a password. How is that possible? Our elegant ragequitter, IAMNAMTAB, decided he couldn't... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread At least temp-bans for all the players. I'd say at least a week. That'll give us time to go through histories more thoroughly, plus their responses could... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Dammit, that's the fourth time that discussion page has fallen off my watchlist. Eddie, any idea what causes that?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Took a look through new accounts today. Found: Handle: 982998299829 Password: ♥♥♥♥♥♦♦♀☺♥♥♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪â... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Carrying this over from Skype: That seems very fishy to me, but with no more than what we have, I don't think we can do anything ATM.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Abuse of the old delete/recreate tool, before we closed that gap? edited 16th Jul '12 12:17:07 PM by Fighteer... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Eddie, would you do me a favor and compare these two accounts: VictorZsasz29292 and Simpson17866? They look like the same person on the basis of IP address... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Reply from Logically Dashing: "It's the literal meaning of the line that I interpret as trolling. Saying "pedophiles are bad" is like saying "sadists are... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread ...We are trolling paedophiles for saying that attraction to children is bad? ...I don't follow. I really, really don't.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Mr Fixer came back and I nuked his thread and put on a posting ban as well.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hmm... The entitlement is strong with this one.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Looking back through edit-banned, I found this conversation about The Urban Prince. It appears he was fullbanned for being a hopeless case. Now look at... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I think Toxin 45 needs to be edit-banned hard. When I first suspended him, I didn't notice he had serious grammar and capitalisation issues. Here. He was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We should probably get an IP bounce on Fat Eddie, the troll from this afternoon.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread We probably shouldn't. He has way too much overlap with non-trolls. emisaacs for instance does not deserve to be bounced.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Waaaaaaaaaaaay too close to gaming the system. And doesn't that pic have an admin tag?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Hadashi was suspended for reasons entirely separate from his Image Pickin' behavior, but if he's changing images without consensus that's yet another nail... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread JHM told me Blitzwing has once again returned as whitewyvern to harass him. Similar IP range and stupid PMs out of nowhere. -___- Permission to hammer?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread You don't need to ask for these numbnuts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I got a PM regarding that user: I'm sorry to bother you, but since this is the first time I've need to get in touch with a mod for this sort of problem... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread I believe buslot_sando is echelon_002 ban evading. They both show tendency for natter, share IPs and have an underscore in their usernames. Furthermore... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread He's from the goddamned pony thread. Those people always stick up for their own. See: gingerninja.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread CDRW was mostly okay in pony stuff, but the BS he pulled in OTC is inexcusable. According to the Sydxelia, he's gay himself, so the post that got him banned... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread But he needs to use the provided channel for appeal. The conversation in ATT is basically, "He's paranoid about having his email address be known, so... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Crocoshark needs a watchful eye. He's been up to some questionable stuff, posting some very odd threads in Trope Talk, launching a Headscratchers article... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Just got this PM from ATC: Subject: My keyboard works now I can post intelligibly now that I did a complete system reboot. Will you repeal my ban? Was... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread The last things that I saw from him were those crazy gibberish posts.... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Where do these people come from?... More Mod Jabberings The troubled troubling tropers thread Kill it dead.... More