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So Super Duper Zoe might be edit warring—is this is a "spirit of an edit war" situation, or is this OK?
Edited by themayorofsimpleton Works That Require Cleanup Of Complaining | Troper WallAgro's reasoning for deleting the entry was a post from October of last year
, and a previous ATT
noted that Criston could still count, but just not as it was written back in October.
Seconding that they did try to make an effort to clean up the entry, but it could still use some work.
Eh, I think the entry flat-out doesn't count no matter how it's worded, per what Silverblade2 said in the Hate Sink cleanup thread: Criston is a pretty despicable person, but there are moments where he's given sympathetic or at least tragic qualities that an outright Hate Sink wouldn't have.
I agree it's kinda in the spirit of edit warring. That said, I don't think Super Duper Zoe should be penalized for edit warring when the Edit War page doesn't say anything about "similar but different" edits or "in the spirit of edit warring". Penalizing someone for an undefined rule would be unfair.
Edited by EievieI would like to see the standards defined with more clarity before charging people for breaking those standards. What does "functionally the same" mean? Is "functionally different but on the same topic" possible? Or would a second attempt at a previously removed idea always be "functionally the same"? In this case, edit 2 has the same thesis statement as as edit 1, but it's totally rewritten so ¯_(°-°)_/¯
That said, I'm not trying to defend the troper, just questioning the edit warring charge. I just went and looked at other edits from SuperDuperZoe. This is the second time this week
that this troper's over-zealous use of the term Hate Sink has had to be undone. I think this is someone who needs come in and have a chat about their recent editing.

In the character section for House of the Dragon, people have been adding Hate Sink under Criston's folder even though it has been agreed he doesn't fit. Or at least, I think it was agreed. The only reason I haven't reverted this is because I can’t actually remember if it was agreed that he wasn't a Hate Sink. This appears to be a ping-pong thing between Tropers, so I’m not sure any one suspension would work here.