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That’s not a good sign. Did you send a notifier, and do you know if this is a pattern?
^ notifiers are not the best way to deal with agenda-based editing, particularly anti-SJW BS. a lot of the time, these people blow up when called on their behavior. better to let the mods handle it.
also, three times is a pattern.
^^ Already did as soon as I reverted them - and agreed. They were also removing references to ProJared's infidelity, which, for whatever reason, became a alt-right talking point.
^^ You should still notify tropers if they're being discussed. Clear communication is a good way to avoid misunderstandings.
I think Darkon's edit replacing "X-Card" with "ban" is actually a good edit, since I know I hadn't heard the term X-Card before today and using the more common ban makes the example clearer. The second Pathfinder edit isn't too bad (I could see deleting that parenthetical statement just cause it's long and the entry doesn't actually go into tabletop gaming's history with colonialism), but they definitely shouldn't have deleted that last phrase from the Drow entry. Given these edits are so small and there's only 2 bad ones, I say just give them a warning about avoiding Agenda-Based Editing and the importance of edit reasons on YMMV pages.
I'm thinking we might need to resurrect that "should we ping tropers" thread, since the debate keeps getting brought up lately...
Anyway, I say for now we at least have to keep an eye on this person.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Darkon's on my watchlist now. I've got this.
^^^ easy for you to say if you're not one of the people they target. personally, i decline to give them the opportunity to call me a slur.
^ Wait, I don't get it. Did they use a slur?
No, but she's just afraid they would.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
I'm interested in that "should we ping tropers" thread, because honestly I don't see a reason why not, tropers should at least know when they're being discussed for rule-breaking, if they're going to be rude about it then they won't be getting any favors.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
It's here
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They haven't edited in ten days. No further action is needed yet as there is not much of a pattern established and there's no evidence of going against community consensus.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Darkon44
removed YMMV from Pathfinder about tabletop games often being criticised for being neocolonialist and white, and removed a line about drow being weird because they're drow and not because they're black.
Also minor, but they removed an 'X-Card' reference from Monsterhearts - for context, 'X-Card' is practiced by some tabletop groups to bypass or drop scenes with content a player doesn't want, usually violent or sexual in nature. As with anything related to social justice, the mere mention of an X-Card gets a lot of people pissed.
Maybe this is kneejerk, but agenda-based editing makes me wary. I've restored all three examples.