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Thanks for the catch. Suspension issued on that account.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""Ran across either someone with a very bizarre and long-standing autocorrect problem or a very juvenile vandal."
As weird as it may sound, it's kinda the first one. We can blame
xkcd's Randall
for these ones
.
It's not auto-correct OR a vandal (or at least not a willful one). It's a series of browser plugins that change words for other words. Usually it's only visible to the user, but it causes a problem because it can't differentiate between website text and editor text, and it replaces all those words when they edit.
Personally I think they're stupid and immature too, but eh.
Edited by wrm5I'm usually quite partial to xkcd (it's the scientist in me, I suppose), but if I ever meet Randall Munroe in person I shall probably smack him upside the head for those text replacement suggestions.
(Although, so help me, I find mentally replacing "Homeland Security" with "Homestar Runner" hilarious...)
I wish those who got suspend for anti-nanny will get special threatment in edit banned thread.
Something like tell them that since mods are so sick of it they got only one chance or bounce, then ask them to prove how funny it is in single reply. Then hold their case for a week regardless of answer without response.
Too bad, while this surely send the message it does no good at keeping order and thus can't be use.
Edited by KuruniWell, I've read a few of the nannybot/plugin users' posts in Edit Banned and the first part of that (telling them they get one chance before perma-ban) IS how we do it.
I'm pretty sure it isn't perma-ban threat (our mods are usually friendly, and basically they can get away with just "I though it was funny").
My imagine would be something like how they'll have impression that they have single chance to make our mods laugh with it or get bounced...any other reply ("A comic said it's funny!") will be dully dismissed as irrelevant ("What that comic said doesn't matter, Bob. Show me why you think it's funny."). Sure as hell they'll realize that the text replacement is even worse than the most lame pun.
It's not our place to tell other people what they should and shouldn't find "funny." I find most stand-up comedy to be incredibly unfunny, but I'm not going around telling people they can't watch it on their own time. The text-replacements are mostly people making honest mistakes when they don't realize the text fields are getting edited, anyway, and when asked to stop editing the wiki with it 95% of them immediately apologize and turn it off.
Rocks fall, everyone miraculously survives.Before stepping down, ~Fast Eddie made a number of tweaks that were supposed to make us less vulnerable to them.
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Ran across either someone with a very bizarre and long-standing autocorrect problem or a very juvenile vandal. Not sure how long they've been doing it, but the last few edits by the user walale12 have included the following edits to other example entries while making legitimate-seeming posts:
Fixed their work on Textbook Humor already, but there's more on Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. There also seem to be at least a few stretches of legitimate posts, but probably wouldn't be a bad idea if someone with Super OCD were to plow through their edits and check for more shenanigans.