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I'm trying to fix them but people are fixing them before I can. I don't know whether to be happy or sad about this.
EDIT: never mind, found some to fix. Racing ColorPrinter to see who gets the most fixed before he's banned =D
Edited by TheInferno "The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - Charlatan
Banned Mohammed Wu.
Thanks.
I think I already know the answer, but... given that chasing a dedicated troll is taking time that The Inferno and Color Printer could be using for other things, is there any way to proactively stop this kind of thing? Either an autoban when someone blanks a certain number of pages in quick succession, or not allowing new accounts to make anything that would be flagged as a "major change"... there has to be some way to let the software do this so that the tropers don't have to...
Edited by robster2001 I am not a mod, and I don't play one on TV.
An anonymous IP is keeping Useful Notes checked out. I thought they couldn't edit?
[grumbles, admits defeat]
There is a "Major Change" flag on recent edits, but it doesn't always work quite right, especially with smaller pages. But yeah, an auto system would help.
Edited by ColorPrinter
I'm guessing that that Imoruv twit had locked the page for editing when he got banninated.
I am not a mod, and I don't play one on TV.
Welp, it's checked out no longer (that honestly was weird, maybe he did check it out) and I fixed it. Tied.
I'll get you next time. [shakes fist]
Shouldn't Mohammed Wu page be locked?
I'd be much obliged if someone could double-check Unexpected Reactions to This Index. The attack was piecewise.
^^^ No need — nothing there.
^^ I did a diff against the Google cache. Two changes: one was a new custom title, so that's fine. The other was a missing line:
- Like You Would Really Do It — Fans aren't fooled.
Added. Great stuff guys, I don't know what we'd do without you. I think it was just that page that got minced, the others were more straightforward replace-everything-with-rubbish, right?
Edited by Camacan
I just remembered that the edit history lists all his edits... so I'll just check the ones he edited twice or more, make sure.
EDIT: looks like the few he edited more than once are fixed. =D
Edited by TheInferno "The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - Charlatan
Imoruv is back!