Uh, yeah, we've had no ends of issues from tropers using such scripts.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
{nods} It's difficult to keep your leopard in check when you're running them. Besides which, the humor was starting to wear thin.
I don't understand the appeal at all. I also assume there's probably no programming sorcery that could detect one, or a nannybot, making predictable sweeping changes to a page? Something that would know if I edited a page replacing all mentions of "trope" with "boob" and censored the profanity with asterisk strings—then send a PM to me or call a mod for reversion?
edited 30th Mar '15 12:40:36 AM by Rotpar
There is such a functionality in the edit page, actually:
<input type="text" name="nbf" value="fuck" style="color:white;" />
<input type="text" name="nbc" value="cloud" style="color:white;" />
These are part of a filter installed back in 2012 that catches nannybots. To my understanding, a nannybot can't distinguish between this text and the page text (the human eye can, though) and if the "value" field is changed the page doesn't save.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Still just awesome like that
I have never understood why anyone would use an extension that changes the word "cloud" to "butt".
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
If you work in webbased programming, you get kind of sick of people saying that they'll store data "in the cloud". Seeing all of their lofty descriptions rendered as "We will store all data in my butt for easy access and backup" helps keep you from murdering the coffee machine.
In Love with Homura and Love itself.
i just found and fixed this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=GameBreaker.FinalFantasy
Today, I learned a valuable lesson. When editing pages, Cloud to Butt
is not your friend. Because the text of an edited entry is just a served webpage, it gets served to you with those replacements in place. Fortunately, I think I caught it before I accidentally vandalized any pages...