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Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 30th 2025 at 11:56:51 AM
So, I guess I should say thanks for warning me. Next time, when someone disagrees with my edit, I'll talk to them first or discuss the article and I'll make sure to not break any other rules. My sincere apologies for the trouble.
Here I am, waiting for the second chance to edit.
edited 14th Aug '17 9:51:21 AM by KanekiKun
~Kaneki Kun: OK, you are back in.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIf that is all that you need me to do, I can do that without trouble.
edited 14th Aug '17 6:05:10 PM by MBG
I would like to take away my suspension of editing; I do not know how I came to have it but there are edits from before the account was created somehow.
So, yeah, not sure where the ban is coming from. Did I not fix an example indentation? I'll try to get a better grip on when to use * and ** and *** respectively. I'd like to have my edit permits back, please.
~Kuma
Looking at the suspension ticket, the ban was in place 5 years ago for lack of proficient writing skills. Due to edit histories being cut off at some point, I am unable to track the edits made without firing up the wayback machine. I even tried using the browser's search function with your username as a query.
Do you remember making edits on March 8, 2012? If you cannot recall making those edits, don't panic; I won't hold it against you. It's only human to forget certain things.
I had my account created on January 8th, 2015 and those pages are ones that I have visited only once or not at all. I haven't actually edited anything on Tv Tropes at all and when I tried for the first time; I learned that my editing privilege has been suspended thus leading me to post here on this thread. I also checked my profile and it says for some reason that I have been part of the site since January 10th, 2010. I do not know how this has happened but I believe that someone has accessed my account for their own purposes and made sure that it looks like I have been with the site longer than the account's existence. Also, thank you for researching more about these "edits" made with my account before it's creation.
edited 15th Aug '17 4:26:50 PM by Kuma
That's quite odd.
I'll go release your suspension, since I am not seeing the major writing issues that resulted in the account's suspension in your appeal. Account age will be addressed in the report.
Um, hello? So, I apparently got banned out of the blue, and I don't know why. I'd like to find out what I need to do so I can get my edit rights back, please.
Hello, a friendly frequenter here. I've received a suspension and I'm afraid I have little to no idea why... the most recent potentially controversial thing I did was make a post on the discussion of Undertale's character page, specifically for the character of Sans. I made a statement explaining why I believed certain edits to the page should not have been made, and waited to hear the other person's side before making the reversion. Can somebody please tell me if this had anything to do with my suspension, and if so, why? I do not believe I was being inflammatory or unreasonable, but if I came across that way, I can assure you it wasn't my intention. I was merely trying to make the page as good and accurate as it could be.
edited 15th Aug '17 9:23:42 PM by FossilsDaDaDa
Now that I know why I was suspended, I promise it won't happen again.
Now that I know why I was suspended I would to talk about removing my suspension.
Because you are sockpuppeting (using the handle 'weareonekimmi') to pursue an Edit War. This is grounds for an automatic, permanent ban. We let you come here to pass the message along.
~Hapless Crocodilian: I've lifted the forum ban. Remember the terms on not spamming threads. You might want to take a trip through the English thread
before asking for the edit ban to be lifted, though.
~Jake18: Suspension lifted. Remember that trope examples need to say why they are examples.
~Fossils Da Da Da: I'll ask ~Berrenta to comment on this. Apparently you were edit warring on Characters.Undertale Sans
~Wandering Browser: You have some issues with Example Indentation such as on Our Dwarves Are All the Same. Seems like you were treating the previous example as a thing to comment on, instead of as an example to explain. You also get a lot of notifications for problems with your edits.
There is also an argument between you and on Characters.Game Of Thrones The Dothraki Sea And The Red Waste, but I am not so clear who is in the right there.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman~Fossils Da Da Da: You and another user were warring on the page Septimus has mentioned just now in regards to Sans's strength. If an entry is disputed, it would be best if someone brings it to discussion the first time there's a revert. Will you be able to do that?
~Septimus Heap: Yes, I do keep forgetting about the // "paragraph" coding. I promise I'll try harder to stop mixing up when it's appropriate to use that vs. the new indentation example.
~Wandering Browser: Umm, no, that's not it. Making paragraphs in examples is almost never the right thing to do. Examples should be Clear Concise Witty. Wordy explanations, justifications, and elaborations are poor style. If an example can't be adequately explained in at most two sentences, there's something wrong.
Fair enough, I do run into problems with word-cruft in my writing elsewhere. I can certainly try to work on making my posts more clear and concise in the future, as much as is possible for the example in question.
Okay, and we'd also appreciate it if you would lay off the long-winded rants on Game of Thrones articles about how evil various folks are. It's not relevant to our mission, which is documenting tropes.
I'll release your suspension.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"~Berrenta: I beg your pardon, but what I was doing on that page was specifically avoiding an edit war at all costs. When the original user, Kaneki Kun, made the edit removing all of the comments on the page about Sans' strength, the only reason they gave was, and I quote, "removing cancer".
Since removing content from a page without sufficient reason is not allowed, I undid the edit, adding the following comment in my reason: "No substantial reason was given for any of these changes. Just because you feel like something is "cancer" doesn't mean you should cut it out for no good reason. From what we are shown, Sans is demonstrably stronger than any other monster in the game. That is a fact."
I do not see that as warring, I see that as reverting a poor, unsubstantiated edit, and I have done similar reversions in the past without ever getting a suspension.
Later, Kaneki Kun removed all of the lines acknowledging Sans' strength again, this time giving the following statement: "It's pretty obvious that most bosses fought are either holding back or fighting fair. Just being the most difficult boss doesn't always equals the strongest character"
Now, because I could smell an editing war about to happen, I specifically avoided making any edits on the page, and instead made a thread on the discussion page so we could discuss the matter over there. I explained, with evidence from the game, why I believed my stance on the matter was correct, and waited for Kaneki Kun to reply before taking any further action. Unfortunately, at this point I cannot look to see if they have replied to me, because I have been suspended.
The only edit I ever made on the page was reverting Kaneki Kun's original edit, which was made without substantial reason. Did me creating a discussion thread also count as an act of edit warring?
edited 18th Aug '17 11:04:20 AM by FossilsDaDaDa

~Vanessa Taleweaver: Alright, you are ready to go. Remember to use proper Example Indentation and to not comment on examples.
~Logic Meister: Last chance given. When people disagree with an action, you don't simply add it back in.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman