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Edited by Mrph1 on Mar 29th 2024 at 10:55:20 AM
A procrastination in of itself
Just a quick thought, on the page telling people what to do if they get suspended it says that it's fine to ask for an update on your case if you've not had a response after a couple days. Might it be worth changing that to a longer period of time? Not that I'm convinced many suspended people will read that far down on the page, considering how often not reading what's in front of them is what gets a person suspended.
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Redmess
Why do you want it to be longer?
Optimism is a duty.
Susjection!
"A couple of days" is open to interpretation. The only thing that should be changed about it on What to Do If You Are Suspended is specifying how many days it's ok to ask again. I also think anything longer than a week is too long.
Edited by Kevjro7 on Dec 31st 2020 at 1:41:14 AM
I agree that saying specifically "One week" seems both clearer and more reasonable in length.
A procrastination in of itself
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X3 Because we don’t have enough mods to respond in that kind of timeframe.
Redmess
If that's the issue, then I agree a week seems to be more reasonable and clearer.
Optimism is a duty.
Powered Armor feet go 'clomp clomp'
A week sounds good. It is unambiguous and should reduce the amount of clutter posts, and at the same time make it easier for the mods to sift through pages looking for possibly unanswered cases.
Susjection!
Hey mods, remember the discussion we had here 2 weeks ago about the CM and MB cleanup thread notes? I started a thread for the matter of editor notes going on trope pages period, which was the original topic I brought up, and that didn't reach a proper conclusion. Just thought I'd let you guys know since this seemed pretty important, both for you and the tropers that participated in the discussion. Happy new year!
Redmess
What is the policy on having a work's spoilers unmarked and having a warning that all spoilers are unmarked?
Gjjones and I were working on the Film/Labyrinth page, and it is not clear to me why the warning is necessary.
I didn't know where else to bring this up.
Edited by Redmess on Jan 8th 2021 at 8:30:53 PM
Optimism is a duty.
I'm helping!
There's a thread specifically for discussing the spoiler policy.
Redmess
Thanks!
Optimism is a duty.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Hey, can we get a little...insight into how the cutlist/video/custom title approval process works? A lot of things lately seem to be getting approved that...really shouldn't. The video rubber-stamping has been discussed at length, but we also just had a page get cut (since restored by Septimus) with no cut reason, and we keep running into that title-changing custom-title shenanigan. Can I just ask how exactly these things work? It feels like whoever's doing these things isn't paying any attention to what they approve.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Best Ogre
Why choose Hedge Trimmer as the featured article? It’s not even a trope. (Also, it might warrant bringing up moving it to Administrivia, but that’s a discussion for elsewhere.)
SoundCloud
If this is about Scarlet Hollow, I would like to know why it was cut as well, there seems to be no obvious reason as to why it was worthy of that.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the mid
Well, I can only speak of custom titles and cutlist. The custom titles have a list with checkboxes, you mark these which you want to approve and these which you want to decline then process a whole batch. The cutlist does not display when a cut was challenged, only the first portion of the page content.
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The Unknown
The Custom Title tool doesn't provide a means to relay your intentions or reasoning like with the Cut List. I can see how random bad titles would be able to get through.
Edited by Karxrida on Jan 9th 2021 at 11:21:08 AM
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Is there a thread to ask about how the plague and the new vaccine is affecting the admins' plans? I don't want to make a pest of myself, but I am curious.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Lost in Space
We haven't heard from the admins in detail but we are in regular contact with them and discussing what issues and enhancements to prioritize. It's a long list.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Okay, so discussion is happening. I can content myself with that. I'm picturing hundreds of anthropomorphic petitions all doing the Potty Dance in front of a dozen outhouses. I do not envy y'all the task of sorting them all out.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Redmess
What IS the plan for this year, anyway?
Optimism is a duty.
Horrible.Lets Play was recently cut without the consensus of the thread SBIH Cleanup Thread. To avoid something like this happening in the future, I'd like to please request that the mods not cut pages in the Horrible namespace before making sure the thread reached that decision. Would that be okay?
The Camp Crystal Lake Slasher
Once again, a long-running thread, this time Trash Heap, has been locked due to an overexaggeration.
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
Back by Unpopular Demand
This isn’t right.
Two threads got locked because there were a lot of thump requests, and someone didn’t want to do anything.
They even said that if we “Bitch about this anywhere else on the forums“, we’d get banned last time.
So you know what?
I’ll take that chance.
I’ll fight for it.
Look, you want us to not thump rule-breaking posts in TANG and the Trash Heap because why? Why?
Happy new year mods! Newsletter.News 202101, first issue of Trope Report, is live now. Requesting a bulletin announcement (and a lock).