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laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-07-11 18:49:02

Their creator page also contains this gem (along with some copious praise for themselves):

He´s simply a guy whose sick of the current woke politics panorama on media such as videogames, comics and TV shows.

It's quite a few red flags out there.

Edited by laserviking42 I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me
Zuxtron (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-07-11 19:03:17

^ Yeah, that's not a good look. And even ignoring its description, that creator page is unnecessary since they only have one work with a page so far.

And yes, most of Clean Zone is ZCE, not to mention Example Indentation issues, not using curly braces to link single-word tropes, and using the ` accent instead of apostrophes throughout the page.

EDIT: I cutlisted the Funny/ and NightmareFuel/ pages.

Edited by Zuxtron
Herbert40k Since: Apr, 2012
2022-07-11 19:16:39

Yeah, that Creator page is a "yikes" from me. Also, despite this guy's relative newness, taking a brief glance through the pages upon pages of edit history he's managed to accumulate reveals a real problem with serial tweaking.

Zuxtron (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-07-11 19:32:39

I re-commented the ZCEs.

YuriHaru567 Since: Feb, 2020
2022-07-11 19:56:21

Has anyone sent any notifiers to this person?

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Hello83433 (Lucky 7)
2022-07-11 20:32:06

There was a notifier sent on July 1st, but it appears they've already crossed Edit War territory.

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skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
2022-07-12 01:55:12

Was he suspended? Because I found this:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=113880&type=att

Followed up by this:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=113881&type=att

And he un-commented out almost all the ZCE examples troper/Zuxtron put in. (i.e got rid of the "%" marks).

Edited by skan123
RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019
2022-07-12 02:00:23

Aaaaaand... ZCE percentages begone, re-removed by the same guy just 5 minutes ago.

Erm, what's that thing called again?

Edited by RobertTYL
skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
2022-07-12 02:02:17

That's what I was saying. When I confronted him over it:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=113881&type=att

So to sum up, not only do we have an Edit War, but there's a big chance we have a sockpuppet among us.

Edited by skan123
MacronNotes (Captain)
2022-07-12 03:10:45

MRR has been suspended for edit warring over commented out Zero Context Examples.

Edited by MacronNotes Macron's notes
skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
2022-07-12 03:20:04

What about the sockpuppetry?

MacronNotes (Captain)
2022-07-12 03:34:42

Not sure what you mean. There's no sockpuppeting going around unless MRR has another account on the wiki. They may or may be the webcomic themselves but that's not a reason to ban them by itself.

Edited by MacronNotes Macron's notes
skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
2022-07-12 04:14:02

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=113881&type=att

According to this link, the MRR troper who posted it admitted to me he was one of his "fans".

I don't know for sure if this is genuine meatpuppeting or rather MRR himself under another account, but surely this arises suspicions.

Edited by skan123
mightymewtron Since: Oct, 2012
2022-07-12 04:41:11

If this truly were a fan, I doubt they'd choose such a similar name to the creator instead of at least "MMR Fan" or something. Plus it's way too soon after the creator got kicked so even if it's a different person, it'd probably be an example of meatpuppeting. Maybe a mod could check the IP?

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-07-12 04:43:48

Again, sockpuppetting means some account got suspended, and another account was made by the same person. If there are no similarities to any other troper there's nothing to do here. Besides maybe cutlisting Creator.MRR as a stub page with immature writing.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Herbert40k Since: Apr, 2012
2022-07-12 10:19:27

Sent a cut list request for Creator/MRR.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-07-12 11:01:11

Skan, you're thinking of meatpuppeting, not sockpuppeting.

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skan123 Since: Aug, 2018
2022-07-12 14:03:50

Thank you, I got these mixed up.

But yeah, I suspect a potential case of meatpuppeting.

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