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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- Don't be rude. Rule 1 applies here, too.
- Don't try to negotiate your suspension outside of this thread, such as by sending Private Messages to moderators or posting elsewhere. Such activity may be thumped or otherwise removed, and may warrant an additional suspension block if it keeps happening. All communications have to take place within this thread.
- Don't respond to other suspended users. This is a place for you to discuss your suspension, not others'.
- Don't spam the thread about your appeal, since it makes it more difficult to compose responses. If you've posted, we're likely looking at it, and kindly request you to be more patient.
- Don't make another account to try and get around your suspension. This is called ban evasion and will get you bounced. (Again, read What to Do If You Are Suspended if you don't know what these words mean.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 30th 2025 at 11:56:51 AM
If you felt that someone was bothering you over PMs, you could have asked a mod for assistance. Instead, you chose to post in-thread.
Rage-quitting a thread over a private PM conversation in no way captures behavior that we want on the forum. You were previously warned that we would be monitoring your behavior in the Complete Monster thread closely. You have violated our stipulation that you not act out, and as a result you are now permanently banned from the Long Term/Perpetual subforum.
I think there is a miscommunication here.
That wasn't me rage-quitting. That was me making a tearful farewell and leaving. I wasn't angry, I felt like crying because the way the PM was worded made me feel like nobody wanted me at the thread.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.There is no miscommunication. You have demonstrated patterns of behavior that are deeply unhealthy, even after a break.
After further mod discussion, I'm sorry to have to do this, but you are bounced.
I really do try to stay within the rules. What was my transgression this time?
I was given an edit ban several months ago, and told to "fix my bizarre writing patterns". I have taken the advice in question to be more readable but got no responses to my posts. At this point, I have managed to undo the psychological stress that was affecting my posts, and would like to have my edit ban repealed. Can someone please acknowledge that I will not cause problems on TV Tropes again?
Good morning or evening, as the case may be. I have received a suspension message when I tried to post an edit, and was directed to here. I do not know what exactly the problem may be but I did not, and still do not, wish to cause offence. I merely wish to edit TV Tropes and not be a bother.
There were some changes you made to trope descriptions without discussion.
Furthermore, we noticed that you shared an IP with a currently banned troper who popped in almost two years ago but never responded to us. Does 10-13-2 ring any bells?
Looking at the various ATT reports, you got yourself into a couple edit wars. There's also a suspected agenda in your edits.
Please be patient. We'll get to you in a moment.
edited 18th Feb '18 9:56:57 PM by Berrenta
If this may be in reference to the edit problem on Black Panther (2018), then I confirm I was in one edit war. "One" being the keyword. As far as I am aware, this is the first time I have posted in this thread/subforum before, because I have recieved a welcome PM from a person called Septimus. So conversely, this is the first time there was an issue that has required an editing suspension. I have had negative experiences when editing before, and I remember two people who gave me trouble consistently, Nubian Satyress (who is the other party in this issue, unsurprisingly enough) and Elmo 3000. I heavily suspect they both are stalking me. If you tell them to leave me alone from now on, that would be very nice. On the issue at hand, I have added an example to the aforementioned page. It was removed with an explanation given. Fair enough, I thought, they went out of their way this time to give an explanation so I know what to do. Consequently, I adjusted the example, used the proper trope name, and put it back in. Then Nubian Satyress removed/mangled it again with a Moving the Goalposts kind of explanation. This made me angry, especially since this troper is not a moderator and thus has no right to threat me or the wiki this way, so I put it back in once more. A remark was written in the edit history that an ATT thread will be opened to discuss it. I was not invited to defend my position, randomly lost my editing rights earlier today, and finally directed here. I feel like this is a misunderstanding that could have been solved in a more mature way if both sides had bothered to talk it out properly, not through the backdoor like Nubian Satyress did, or me being stubborn (a negative quality I am aware of and try to work on). On the topic of a "suspected agenda", my "agenda" is fairness and factual correctness. I see many examples all over the Wiki with extreme bias (leftist and rightist alike, more usually the former) to the point that it starts to hurt the image of the wiki as a whole. TV Tropes is not susposed to spout propaganda and demonisation, it is supposed to present factual and interesting information in a neutral, fun way, and I have fun editing the wiki to improve it. If you wish to explain what you suspect my agenda is, I am certainly open to listen to your criticisms and try to adjust accordingly.
Excuse me, I've been suspended again, and I'm not sure why.
I haven't edit warred, and I haven't done anything that I'm aware is against the rules.
A troper has reported that you harassed them: attacking their character, attempting to report them for edits that we approved, and sending them a rather rude PM where you dismissed their points as "nonsense".
We have a rule that's simply "Don't be a dick." Unfortunately you haven't abided by that.
I didn't "harass" the editor. Their edit was brought up on the Discussion page for YMMV.Black Panther 2018, and I pointed out that the troper has a history of posting politically-charged edits, especially on pages themed around African-Americans.
The editor actually sent ME a harrassing PM first accusing me of "stalking" them (which I wasn't—I simply brought up times in the past that I reported them on ATT). Personally, I felt that the PM he sent me was rude, which was why I said "I'm not going to read this nonsense" and blocked them. While I can see how my behavior was also unacceptable, at the time, I didn't feel that blocking them and responding to their PM with the same tone of voice they used on me was being "a dick".
Again, I can see how I could have handled that better and wish for a chance to make it up.
Hello, I have been on this forum before asking to have my edit ban revoked, but that was many, many months ago, and I still have not received any word, is it possible to have said ban removed yet? I know I had a few problems with spelling and overuse of the editing function, but I do miss being able to at least post a headscratcher or two at least, and I do so enjoy this site very much.
edited 19th Feb '18 5:26:01 AM by finalfaw
Hello my ability to edit and make entry on WMG pages have be taken away. I request to regain said ability and vow not to make such egregiously long entry's or poorly indexed one again. I do hope for speedy reply and leave the decision up to the moderator's judgment. Have a good day.
(if this sounded fake or haughty in anyway. I apologize, emoting while being formal is a major issue I have.)
~jokevv: I assume you paid no attention to Septimus's response to you
when you last came in. We expect you to respond to us here when we speak to you.
~finalflaw: You were told to work on grammar. It looks like you never visited the English help thread. Please run examples you want to add through that.
~Nubian Satyress: I'll check the PM logs on kquinn to see if your argument holds true. If so, then I'll call them in and possibly release you, since you were able to discuss your ban in a civil manner.
Edit: Yep, the other user was being accusatory. Will release you and call them in. Remember to let us know next time instead of retaliating towards them.
Everyone else, please be patient.
edited 19th Feb '18 4:34:47 PM by Berrenta
I apologize for not responding. I had sworn I did send a reply to that exact troper and was waiting for a reply back. Looking again I see that my post was not sent. I apologize for this mistake on my end.
edited 21st Feb '18 8:40:12 AM by jokevv
Dear Berrenta
I saw what they wrote above and I would like to state my case again.
As I told you previously, the "political charged edits" the user is accusing me of are simply posts that go against their own personal political views.
This is the THIRD TIME this specific user has accused me of being a pro-Trump racist (which if you go through my edit history is clearly not true) and requested I be suspended even after those aforementioned edits were approved by the site moderators, who agreed they were not out of line with the site rules. They clearly have it out for me and it is very frustrating.
Please explain this PM you sent to Nubian Satyress that made them respond the way they did, where you were harassing them. Note the emphasis that I placed.
I don't know what your fixation with me is all about (I'm assuming that it's because some of my edits don't confirm with your personal political views but I can't be 100% certain of that) but the site mods have agreed every time you've reported me, there was no cause and the edits were acceptable.
So please do everyone a favor and stop this ridiculous crusade against me.
This is your third suspension. Please choose your words wisely.
Very well, I will respond to each of these points.
"put your pre-conceived notion that I'm some KKK member who wants every non white person out this country to rest"
As I mentioned previously, the troper has repeatedly accused me of being a racist who hates non-white people and supports Donald Trump despite there being no evidence of it whatsoever. You can find it on the Black Panther YMMV discussion page (where they also question my intelligence and personal integrity and insult me as they vent to other tropers) as well as their previous suspension/ban requests. Your team has agreed that the edits the troper complained about in the past were indeed not racially charged nor in support of Donald Trump upon learning of the contents of the edits as well as their context.
"your fixation with me"
As I mentioned previously, this troper has repeatedly tried to get me suspended. This was in fact the third time they've done it and they are the only troper who has ever had a problem with me and requested I be suspended. No other troper has ever had a problem with my activity on this wiki. In fact, I've had many friendly interactions with the other tropers on this site. The fact that they have done this more than once has led me to believe that they are fixated on getting me personally suspended/banned.
"don't confirm with your personal political views"
Again, this goes back to my point about the troper believing I am a racist despite the evidence to the contrary.
"stop this ridiculous crusade against me."
Again, this goes back to the fact that this troper seems very fixated on me personally and repeatedly tries to get my edits removed and have me suspended/banned from the site.
They have never once tried to contact me personally to resolve their issues. They just go right to the Ask The Tropers page to ask that I be suspended and my edits changed or complain about me on discussion pages.
Naturally, I got frustrated with their repeated attempts to attack my character and get my edits and troping privileges removed which you can see in the PM.
As you mentioned, this is my third suspension. This is also the third suspension that came about because this one troper out of the what I believe to be hundreds of thousands of tropers on this wiki, had a problem with my edits.
If I am in the wrong here (outside of the message I sent them which was born out of me reaching my breaking point with their behavior and in retrospect could have been done in a more civilized manner), I would greatly appreciate an explanation why.
The only thing I want is to use this website without having to worry about this one troper trying to slander me on discussion pages or try to get me suspended/banned again.
Thank you.
hello. i lost my editing privileges here about 3 or 4 years ago i was wondering if i could get them back please.i asked here sometime in 2016 about it, but (to my memory) got zero response on it. i know what i did wrong (though i am still confused about it, how can fatal frame be owned by Nintendo if the original Play Station 2 trilogy can still be downloaded on the Play Station store?) and i apologize for it deeply
also, is my grammar any better?
so, may i please have my editing privileges back please?
edited 19th Feb '18 9:29:57 PM by ComanderX
Apparently, I have been banned again for more Twilight/Teen Titans Go bashing on the WMG pages for both. I just did them because I thought it was allowed, and left the YMMV pages alone. And I didn't even touch any of the Disney Channel articles; I've learned my lesson from that.
I didn't mean to cause offense again, and I wish to appeal for my account back, and the articles for both franchises (among others with large hatedoms) to be locked to most people because of the potential flame bait.
EDIT: Again, I apologize for my edits. I also wonder if I was also blocked for removing something from the YMMV page for Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction just because the topic in question is listed as a Scrappy when he's already a hate sink.
edited 20th Feb '18 5:24:20 PM by MysteriousZorua1994
The honorable Prince of the Sea: ManaphyI have been edit-banned for several weeks now, due to procrastination, and I have one question to ask: What offense have I committed?
Hello, I found out I was suspended after trying to reign in a user who tried to cause Edit War on Flash's YMMV page a few months ago and I only realized yesterday. The closest I can think of as an offense is that I called him "sounding like an asshole" but nothing else comes up to my mind. I would like to get my editing privileges back as I believe I contributed to that page A LOT and I feel the treatment is unfair. If my offense is calling names then I apologize for sounding annoyed at a bad time.
It also seems the problem has been sorted out on Discussions page without my involvement, which ended on a note favoring my edits (I was the one added contested entry and the offender tried to erase it for biased reasons).
Furthermore it seems the offender still has editing privileges even though HE was the one causing an Edit War on the page. I want his history to be checked as well because as far as I know he's never done edits on the page or contributed anything to wiki but only made biased edits about his own personal favourite characters.
As I said; ı apologize about my offense and it won't be repeated again but I also would like fair tratment to other troper as well.
Have a nice day.

So, is it at all possible for me to get back on the CM cleanup thread?
I am aware that of the condition, however, that wasn't me trying to start anything and I think there may have been a misunderstanding about what that condition actually meant.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.