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He just appealed in Edit Banned, so he was either already suspended for something else or was suspended for the report.
Huh. Didn't know that; thanks for the headsup, friend!
Oh, yeah, I suspended him for the issues noted in this report + multiple indentation notifiers among others.
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Okay, he's unsuspended, and keeps going with the zero-context stuff. Nothing all that serious, mind you—just "is this" and "does this" phrasing—but there's a lot of it.
Some examples from his edit history:
- "...are both portrayed as this..."
- "Vance becomes this..."
- "subject the General to this..."
The examples aren't that many, though, so I figured that a notifier would be a good solution and subsequently I sent one.
I sent him Word Cruft notifier.
Caught an example of him in the wild
not understanding context rules.
I attempted to fix it and eventually removed it as a bad example.
Sorry for the backslide.
I really want to be better on this and have improved in large part thanks to everyone's help.
Edited by CharlesPhipps Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
There's not, but it did jump out at me that you still just don't seem to understand full context rules since that example was, at the very least, partial context. I wasn't judging you for participating, I was noticing a recurring pattern of behavior already discussed above and figured I should mention it because it was something I stumbled upon incidentally.
Edit: Since you altered your post, this one won't really make sense anymore, but I still think it's important to say.
Edited by WarJay77 Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Gotcha.
I admit to continuing to participate in those threads primarily as a way to learn. I want to master my bad habits instead of tell people how to do things (incorrectly). I accept I still have a way to go.
I appreciate everyone's patience and the forum threads have been very helpful in educating me. Thanks again for directing me to them.
Edited by CharlesPhipps Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Since you're learning, take note of other issues mentioned and remember, when in doubt let someone proof-read ahead for you instead of cleaning after you. Examples need to describe events that'd show the trope occuring without fluff words.
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Absolutely.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Hey, I'm having some trouble with Charles Phipps. Nothing big, but I felt that it still warranted a thread.
First of all, there's "is this" and "does this" phrasing in examples, even after I sent a notifier (though to be fair, he did decrease the amount a lot, so clearly he did listen at least a bit). Here
is an example and here
is another.
Then there's this edit
where he changed the indentation into the wrong kind, creating a single-example third bullet level. (The original formatting did use two different list points for different parts of one example, but this edit made things worse.)
Here
, an example is said to be "somewhat subverted", which isn't a thing. Also, there's a comma missing from the phrasing "Its protagonist, Colleen is a shepherdess".
Here
he listed a High Elf pretending to be a Wood Elf as an example of Pretty Fly for a White Guy, even though that trope is specifically about Caucasian people acting stereotypically non-Caucasian.
Here,
he doesn't pothole a trope and instead sticks its name in the middle of a paragraph, even though that doesn't work grammatically, creating the sentence "He's also an Aristocrats Are Evil bastard."
Also, he's got a problem with under-using commas.
I know that I might seem nitpicky, but the thing is that every single edit of his that I take a look at contains at least some clear error and it's getting a bit much.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro