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This is the thread we use to talk things over with people who have received a suspension notice. A lot of the time the notice goes out just so we can explain how seriously we take certain things, not because we want the person to feel bad and go away.

If you're suspended, give What to Do If You Are Suspended a read, then post here to begin your appeal. We try to respond to appeals in order via batch posts every few days. If a moderator has responded to your appeal, you will receive a notification in your private messages, even if you're suspended from PMs.

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Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 30th 2025 at 11:56:51 AM

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16126: Jan 24th 2018 at 12:31:18 PM

~Lunatic0verlord: I just want to be sure, before we consider releasing your suspension, that you understand where we're coming from here. Our wiki is primarily for fans. Fans like things. If you don't like things, that's fine, but the articles are not platforms for you to express your rage. Per the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment, if you can't find something to say that doesn't come across as complaining for complaining's sake, then just don't say anything. Take a deep breath. Relax. Edit an article for something you like.

You're on suspension number two. If we get to number three, you're done: no more chances. Got it?


~Vampireandthen: It's good to hear that you're getting help. There's no need to give us regular status reports. We'll still be here when you're in a healthier state, and other people can edit the wiki. A suspension means you don't get to make edits and you don't get to request edits, with the sole exception of grammar suspensions.


~Glide08: Your suspension (four years ago) was for sticking links to some fanfic in completely irrelevant places — that and grammar. You never addressed our original reply to your appeal. I'm hoping that you have productive and non-rule-breaking contributions to make this time.


~Phantom Dusclops 92: You never replied after we addressed your initial appeal, here. Suspensions don't expire; we need you to demonstrate awareness of the problem and how to improve.

edited 24th Jan '18 12:31:59 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lunatic0verlord Since: Jul, 2017
#16127: Jan 24th 2018 at 12:37:00 PM

Rule of Three, huh? The last one's left... Twice on the same subject... "sigh" Someone should put something about the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement on that page at some point... So that others know that this page is...risky, for a lack of better terms...

I understand : stay away from touchy subjects about FE Warriors (and other things, but especially FE Warriors).

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16128: Jan 24th 2018 at 12:53:31 PM

~Lunatic0verlord: The ROCEJ is one of our most fundamental site rules; there is no need to cite it on specific articles because it should be kept in mind by all tropers, all the time.

I'm going to let you edit again. We'll see soon enough if you get it.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Glide08 ...and the understander will understand from not not unofficially official secret Since: Jan, 2014
...and the understander will understand
#16129: Jan 24th 2018 at 5:08:04 PM

Well, ~/@Fighteer, a lot can change in four years.

Zeiram1990 from Bulgaria Since: Apr, 2017
#16130: Jan 25th 2018 at 6:36:24 AM

Hello, my editing priviledges have been removed and I have been suspended. Apparently someone here doesn't like me and rushed into an unnecessary action, instead of settling their issue with me in person via discussion. Could you please remove my suspension and allow me to edit again? Thank you. Good luck and best of wishes. Have a nice day or night. PS: I apologize if my writing is hard to understand. English is not my first language.

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16131: Jan 25th 2018 at 7:12:11 AM

~Zeiram1990: Edit warring is grounds for a suspension in almost all cases, and you coupled this with a direct violation of our image picking policy despite edit reasons and comments in the article — literally, right above the image link — telling you of that policy.

So you can't play the "poor persecuted me" card here. You blatantly ignored the rules, so now you get to explain yourself.


~Glide08: Well, we don't "expire" suspensions; you still have to make a case for being reinstated. At least your grammar seems better, so what the heck. I'll release you in the hopes that you're telling the truth.

edited 25th Jan '18 7:12:48 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Zeiram1990 from Bulgaria Since: Apr, 2017
#16132: Jan 25th 2018 at 7:17:48 AM

Very well, I apologize. What I did was wrong and I will try my best to not repeat this mistake ever again. Could you please tell me why this particular image is picked and used, instead of something else? I am curious and want to know the reason. BTW, is there a problem if I see a typo or spelling/grammar error on this wiki? What should I do if I see one? Thank you.

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16133: Jan 25th 2018 at 7:28:42 AM

If you look at the comment (that you ignored), it directs you to the Image Pickin' topic where the image was discussed and chosen. Once unsuspended, you are welcome to open a new IP topic if you want to suggest a different image. Indeed, once unsuspended, you are also welcome to correct grammar and spelling errors.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#16134: Jan 25th 2018 at 10:09:35 AM

Sorry, I didn't knew I had to reply to the appeal.

Anyway, back then I tried to do what it was said in the appeal, but since I'm suspended I can't use Ask The Tropers and I tried to open a thread where I explained the question in full detail, which was soon thumped because it seemed like I was trying to evade the suspension by asking other tropers to do edits for me.

AnthonyA Since: Sep, 2017
Zeiram1990 from Bulgaria Since: Apr, 2017
#16136: Jan 26th 2018 at 2:04:11 AM

Excuse me, but why hasn't my editing suspension been removed yet? I apologize sincerely for making a mistake and promise not to make another one ever again. Now, I need to go fix some typos I found. Also, I wanna report some people who are badmouthing you and this website. Thank you. Best of luck and wishes.

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16137: Jan 26th 2018 at 5:52:10 AM

~Zeiram1990: I just replied to you three posts up. This attitude of yours isn't convincing me that you're going to play nice with others. We don't need your "help"; we need you to be a productive contributor. You aren't doing us favors by deigning to bestow upon us your awesome presence.


~Phantom Dusclops 92: Yeah, we need to resolve your suspension first, then you can go about asking for what you want. If you promise to follow proper protocol when requesting the removal of articles, then we can let you get to it. Understood?


~Anthony A: We already replied to your previous attempt to appeal. If you refuse to engage with us, we can't help you. That said, I might understand your confusion given that links to Ask The Tropers are currently broken and you couldn't read them anyway. The problems with your edits appear to be, in no particular order:

  • Improper Example Indentation, such as adding sub-bullets beneath examples of The Dragon.
  • Zero context examples, such as many cases of The Dragon that you added.
  • For some reason, you have been expanding contractions, such as "it's" to "it is", when you edit, such as on WesternAnimation.Hoodwinked. That's ... weird. Contractions are completely acceptable English, even in formal writing, and make sentences flow more smoothly. Care to explain your reasoning there?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Vampireandthen In love with an Uptown Girl from Northern Ireland Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: A teenager in love
In love with an Uptown Girl
#16138: Jan 26th 2018 at 8:21:15 AM

Ah, I was not aware that suspended accounts may not make edit requests. My apologies.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.
PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#16139: Jan 26th 2018 at 11:05:04 AM

I understand. Still sorry for that.

InsanezillaXXXL from Albuquerque, New Mexico Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
#16140: Jan 26th 2018 at 6:33:54 PM

I wish to appeal my suspension.

Edit: I forgot to ask why was I banned in the first place and what can I do to improve?

edited 26th Jan '18 6:45:43 PM by InsanezillaXXXL

nombretomado (Season 1) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#16141: Jan 26th 2018 at 7:33:46 PM

~/@PhantomDusclops92, your suspension is released.

~/@InsanezillaXXXL, you re-commented zero context examples on AwesomeMusic.Star Wars, edit-warred about it, and left a rude edit reason. A trifecta.

RyCyber Since: Jun, 2014
#16142: Jan 26th 2018 at 7:48:05 PM

Hi I was apparently banned by due to an editing war with either Doctor Cooper & Tuvok, although Tuvok is the one we had the most heated discussion about. It was about the following entry from the YMMV / The Flash 2014 S 4 E 10 The Trial Of The Flash:

  • Broken Base: There are debates on whether Barry's decision not to reveal himself as The Flash was wise. Some say that his argument of protecting his fellow vigilantes are invalid and that he is endangering the city with his imprisonment. Others say that he would jeopardize his fellow vigilantes at doing that.
Though I apologize for any rudeness, I felt like he was deleted because he was being opinionated and deleting it because he didn’t agree with other’s point of views. Nor was he in a position to judge on what a broken base was, especially after I provided the following sources after he was hounding me about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcMX1pvdzAY https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashTV/comments/2wgpsl/barrys_identity/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFlash.FlashFacts/search/?query=Trial%20of%20the%20Flash https://twitter.com/search?q=Barry%20reveal%20his%20identity&src=typd

I just felt like it should be put there as a middle ground to acknowledge that people felt differently about a character’s actions to put an end to the non- stop editing that was going on that page. You can check the edit history of how many times the Unintetionally Unsympathetic and What an Idiot tropes were removed from that page. I hope you understand that’s where I was coming from and so I can have my editing privileges back.

edited 26th Jan '18 7:53:23 PM by RyCyber

InsanezillaXXXL from Albuquerque, New Mexico Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
#16143: Jan 26th 2018 at 9:08:00 PM

~/@nombretomado, I figured that's what it was but didn't know for sure, so thanks for clarifying. I won't re-comment Zero Context Examples without adding context so it isn't a ZCE anymore or start edit wars again and I will be more civil with my edit reasons from now on. I apologize for my previous rudeness. As for why I did what I did, I didn't like that ZCE was being used to remove a song that I liked. I know what I did was inexcusable, petty, and stupid and it's my fault for letting it get to me. I won't let it get to me again.

edited 28th Jan '18 1:29:43 PM by InsanezillaXXXL

70sDavidTennantFan from The Tardis Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#16144: Jan 29th 2018 at 2:08:47 PM

Hello! I am new to this site. My edits have primarily been on the Maze Runner pages, and I was recently suspended. I'm not sure what I did wrong, as I was trying to use proper grammar. It could be that I don't know how to add a link to a trope's main article or to add a spoiler warning. I haven't tried to make a big stink. Please tell me what I can do better so this doesn't happen again. Thank you.

Lauren Rogers
SkidTroper Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16145: Jan 29th 2018 at 4:06:40 PM

Hello, I would like some clarification as to why my editing privledges were suspended. I think it was related to the trope page I added for the documentary "The Red Pill." While in hindsight I realize some of the edits were confronting, I also think there is a misunderstanding. One of the edit reasons another troper gave is because they thought I was "complaining about being an oppressed man" despite the fact I made no reference to myself in any of the edits. Given the potential sensitivity of the subject, can someone please explain why I was given an edit ban and let's work out a solution please?

Hi everyone.
Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16146: Jan 29th 2018 at 7:18:39 PM

~Ry Cyber: An Edit War involves two or more tropers contesting the same or similar example in a wiki article. It doesn't matter what your justification is; it's a suspension-worthy offense. If you want to argue over evidence for your point of view, that's what the discussion pages, private messages, Ask The Tropers, and these forums are for. Broken Base is one of those chronically abused tropes that we have a dedicated cleanup topic for, and it has requirements that were cited to you in edit reasons.

These are our rules, take them or leave them. Nobody's persecuting you.


~Insanezilla XXXL: Okay, we'll take you at your word... this time. Civility is one of our most important rules and repeated violations will get you kicked out pretty quickly.


~70sDavidTennantFan: Well, your problem is exactly that you're editing articles badly: poor grammar, improper formatting, and so on. If you want to edit, you need to take the time to figure out how to do it properly. We're big sticklers about this sort of thing. If you want help improving your example writing, you can post in this help thread and other tropers will assist you. Got it?


~Skid Troper: I don't think the resolution to this will meet with your liking. You see, a while back we had to suspend you for making religiously biased edits on the wiki. Now, you add an article for an infamously anti-feminist/pro-MRA work, which isn't in and of itself wrong, but the way you gush over it in the YMMV subpage makes it perfectly clear that you're not here to play nicely with others. As this is your second time for the same offense, and it's a particularly egregious one, we'll be showing you the door. Bye.

edited 29th Jan '18 7:33:45 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
70sDavidTennantFan from The Tardis Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#16147: Jan 29th 2018 at 7:27:24 PM

Fighteer: Thank you very much. I will take your advice.

Lauren Rogers
Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16148: Jan 29th 2018 at 7:30:19 PM

70sDavidTennantFan: Alright, I'll release your suspension, but please bear in mind that if you continue to have the same problems, we aren't going to be lenient again. Also, you may want to make a new handle: your current one can't have a troper page because it starts with a numeral.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SkidTroper Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#16149: Jan 29th 2018 at 7:49:18 PM

Wow. Trawling through everything I realized I really screwed up. Half the time it was a case of Came Out Wrong, the other half it was agendas. Goodbye.

Hi everyone.
Vampireandthen In love with an Uptown Girl from Northern Ireland Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: A teenager in love
In love with an Uptown Girl
#16150: Jan 30th 2018 at 10:32:07 AM

Hey everyone. Going to another appointment today, will probably get anti-depressant medicine. Kind of nervous about that. I am correct in assuming that next Thursday will be when the suspension is lifted?

However, I feel that it should be acknowledged I will most likely always be at risk of a relapse or another mental breakdown. Often, when this happens, I aim to hurt myself the most and deliberately turn others against me. So last time, when someone gave me advice to help me instead when this was happening, helped snap me out of my funk. Almost broke down in tears.

I've learned the key cause of these breakdowns tends to be stress or situations which can make me very emotional. Course, it doesn't even need to be on this site that I get triggered.

So the best solution from now on would be to taking it out here and take a break from the site when this happens, correct?

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.

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