During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
(Okay, made a double-check: it can also mean "to expose a woman as Defiled Forever" - used in another Bible translation to describe that Joseph didn't want to expose the Virgin Mary's pregnancy - but it's hard to imagine it used in that meaning in conjunction with Galitsky and co.)
I would personally say they are, Patil is the weakest out of our current keepers but he is aiming for a massive death toll beyond what most try with very few resources. Denise while also mainly a city destroyer has some nasty additional crimes beyond that, including one that was missed that needs to be added.
You know what I will just handle it right now along with some slight fixes.
- The Conspiracy: Denise Daniels is the head of the Space and Aeronautics Research Agency and The Chessmaster behind Ad Astra. Obsessed with human enhancement, Denise had attempted to create an invincible race of artificial humans for years. She had raised her first experiment and daughter, Rozetta Pierre, only to quickly abandon her after she turns out to be no different than other humans. This in turn causes Rozetta to become a social outcast, with her attempts to impress her mother falling on deaf ears. When the meteor dropped a year prior to the plot, Denise manipulates Rozetta into building a dome and extracting the meteorite's Berzelium, hoping to brainwash Grimsborough with the chemical. Behind her back, Denise uses the Berzelium to create an invincible race of humans under her command, she would both physically and sexually abuse one of them, Otto Kessel. When Ad Astra's plans are foiled, Denise plans to dispose of them and then sets her plans into motion by obtaining the meteorite, hoping to use its core to destroy Grimsborough with a nuclear earthquake. She promises to spare her lawyer, Martin Davenport if he helps, only to execute him after he fails. When confronted, Denise releases her neohumans, wreaking havoc across the city, before taunting and killing Rozetta.
The added crime is Denise's sexual abuse of Otto, as during an interrogation he admits that Denise coerced him into sex, using her position of power over him to do so.

(Had to check half a dozen dictionaries to make sure of that :))
Edited by AutumnLeaves on May 13th 2022 at 12:36:07 PM