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Reporting here is fine. No problems. You can holler (the little yellow triangle) one of his posts as well, reporting him and pointing the mods to a specific thread where he's causing problems.
Just remember: Report, don't engage. At all. Even though it's likely terribly tempting.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettAll right. The person in question is here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13955282570A87068500&page=540
His name is Penguin3470 and I suggest that you go page to page until page 547 to see how... 'insistent' he is...
The thing is, it's not his single post that deserves warning, it's his series of posts.
I'll report the posts on that page
Edit: is Self-Deprecation really grounds for reporting or did these posts already get reported and removed
Edited by MorningStar1337Uh not really, but this guy doesn't play by the rules, continue to act obnoxious to other friends instead of contributing healthily and not respecting others. I think mostly everyone was pretty much done with his shits and ignoring him after the breaking point at page 545 and he's just using Self-Deprecation to make himself look... 'pitiful' so deserving attention. And even then, when it's just a few words, it's just lazy.
His latest post? Seems like just unnecessary SPAM.
This is why I'm hesitant to just blatantly hit the Report button. This isn't severe crime like vandalism or flame war, but this guy is so ignorant about the surrounding, doesn't listen to others and he just feels like spamming when his myopic and bare opinions-thrusted-as-facts get ignored.
But please, CMIIW, because I don't want to end up doing something bad to an innocent person.
On TV Tropes, that behavior IS worth reporting, because it's showing a refusal to play nice in the community and bad, self-centered behavior.
Rule #1 is "don't be a dick", and that guy is tapdancing the line at best.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettWell, exactly what you think of about the Holler button. I understand that.
When I said 'I'll give him one more chance', it means that I will just wait until he posts again and see whether he mellows down and then plays by the rules and getting along with others instead of doing self-centered behaviors. If he doesn't do that, then I will hit the Holler button.
Which, speaking of that, he just did. And from the look of it, it's just spamming nonsense instead of getting back to the good graces. So I'm just gonna press it.
Have mercy on me...
...again, not sure what you think the "Holler" button does. "Have mercy on me?" You're talking like you just put a bounty on his life...
The holler button is not harsh. You're NOT "doing something bad to an innocent person." Literally ALL it does is request the mods take a look at it and the mods here are generally lenient compared to most places on the web. Worst case scenario they take him to Edit Banned, talk with him for a bit, and let him go.
(Well, unless he does something to convince them to perma-ban him, but in that case he's not innocent.)
Edited by wrm5"Mercy"? Just trying to help :)
Whereas only mods can see (and respond to) a Holler, many other tropers see ATT questions and discussion. There aren't even any moderator comments so far in this "thread". It would be more effective to report forum misbehavior with a Holler than by posting in ATT. Sometimes there is mod response here, but that's not guaranteed; generally it's for answers and comments from fellow tropers, and there is some reporting of wiki-related (that is, non-forum) issues like vandalism.
Edited by rodneyAnonymous Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.We gave him a chance. And he didn't listen and kept doing the same old song to another character. Like he thinks that a Broken Base character means it is a devilish character that deserves to be put into the Disgraces. This has gotten to the point that we are considering to eventually make the Disgraces page locked, because it has the same problem as Complete Monster. We are still working on to see who should be put out or not, but we'll let you know if we're finished and the Disgraces is ready for lock.
But still! This Penguin... we of the Trope Pantheons will be grateful if something is done to this guy. Everytime he pushes his opinion and being unapologetic at that, he pretty much draws a Flame War...
I have also used the Holler options on both his posts.
Edited by ChrisX

This is a forum problem, but... there's one forum goer that goes to Trope Pantheons discussion and has been annoying the hell out of people, pushing in who he alone thinks deserving to be in the Disgraces and pretty much not giving a *** to any forms of warnings that he should tone down his stuffs. A lot of forumers have been VERY annoyed.
So... is there something we should do about that? I'm just afraid he's going to flood the Trope Pantheons with his self-indulged ideas without everyone else's approval... and this might become a vandal in the making. Ideas? (Like banning him, or just flat out say that the Disgraces is locked and only by the agreement of the forumers it can be edited?)