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DracMonster Since: Jan, 2001
2015-12-31 11:15:19

Looks like he loaded every single substitution add on into his browser at once.

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bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2016-01-01 16:27:46

^^ Every one of those, except for the one we usually see.

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Elbruno Since: Nov, 2011
2016-01-01 17:23:41

"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.

Edited by Elbruno "Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
Carnildo Since: Jan, 2001
2016-01-02 00:02:31

Oddly, I haven't seen a replacer based on xkcd 37.

wrm5 Since: Mar, 2014
2016-01-02 02:05:53

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 wrm5
mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2016-01-02 09:38:16

I'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...)

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
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Kuruni (Long Runner)
2016-01-05 00:01:05

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 Kuruni
wrm5 Since: Mar, 2014
2016-01-05 05:16:50

Well, 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.

Kuruni (Long Runner)
2016-01-05 07:34:21

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.

Darksilverhawk Since: Oct, 2014
2016-01-05 08:52:27

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.

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nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2016-01-05 16:15:02

Which makes me wonder whether there's a more efficient way of warning them in advance, rather than having to suspend them and clean-up whatever harm they've done before then. It's not like most of them know what the plugins do when editing the wiki.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2016-01-05 16:38:17

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.
Kuruni (Long Runner)
2016-01-05 20:55:59

@Darksilverhawk: I known. Our mods working toward keep the order and make sure things go on peacefully. The whole thing is just my fantasy of what might be if they're more like devils bend on giving people trauma against text replacement XD , thankfully they aren't.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2016-01-06 01:25:04

Enough with the chatter, please. Regarding crazysamaritan's statement, yes, he did, but these functions have been neglected lately.

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