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GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2018-10-09 06:24:20

I'm seeing some arbitrary example removals with no edit reason in the edit history, not necessarily related to the problems you mentioned. Worse, the most recent ones are on YMMV pages.

Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.
Zaiketsu Since: Oct, 2010
2018-10-09 06:26:52

Edit in Acceptable Lifestyle Targets: http://puu.sh/BIccv/d6e8b9f3b7.png

I don't know what his intentions are, actually. But he just removed that entire section and left it hanging there.

"In the aftermath of the chlorine gas attack on the 2014 Midwest Fur Fest convention, and the disturbing level of Comedic Sociopathy seen in MSNBC's response."

Okay. In the aftermath...what? What happened? I don't get what he intends for it to mean.

Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2018-10-09 06:34:09

I don't see why we specifically need a comment in Bestiality Is Depraved that furries don't have sex with animals. Methinks thou doth protest too much.

As for Acceptable Lifestyle Targets, that whole page just seems like a bad idea. For the furries thing, the statement is very unclear as to what actual point is being made. It feels like a drive-by edit saying, "Look, we're sympathetic now!"

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Zaiketsu Since: Oct, 2010
2018-10-09 06:46:53

"I don't see why we specifically need a comment in Bestiality Is Depraved that furries don't have sex with animals. Methinks thou doth protest too much. "

I feel like it's practically required to mention considering how many people actually believe the myth that every furry wants to have sex with animals.

TokoWH Since: Jan, 2011
2018-10-09 06:48:56

Can't really comment on the situation at hand but I would second pulling Acceptable Lifestyle Targets, if only because what's considered an acceptable target is constantly changing and it seems like it could be prone to Opinion Myopia.

GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2018-10-09 06:49:01

Bestiality Is Depraved is No Real Life Examples, Please!, but this is related to real life. I'll add that the edit to the tech/engineering example on Acceptable Lifestyle Targets looks like legitimate Hedge Trimming, but the arbitrary removal of YMMV entries (on other pages) is still a problem.

Edit: Just saw the newly created proposal to cut Acceptable Lifestyle Targets on TRS, and I agree with it.

Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2018-10-09 09:17:56

Back to the subject, I'm not clear that the user in question merits suspension on the basis of those two edits alone, if nobody has attempted to communicate with them. "In order to give them a bad image" is something that requires a judgment of intent that is not clear here.

I am not prepared to consider furries as a protected group that deserves automatic benefit of the doubt. Our articles shouldn't be bashing them, but neither should we be defending them.

Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
tsstevens Since: Oct, 2010
2018-10-09 12:52:09

For what it's worth my understanding and this is coming from a legal position is that it's similar to the church's or military's views on homosexuality: it's not illegal but they will come after you if you do it. This seems to be a case of, "Don't ask, don't tell."

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2018-10-09 13:42:15

"From a legal position"?

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MegaMarioMan (Ten years in the joint)
2018-10-09 14:04:20

TIL furries are illegal?

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Zaiketsu Since: Oct, 2010
2018-10-09 16:31:03

Yeah after waking up I realize I went quite a bit overboard with the accusations. Sorry.

"This seems to be a case of, "Don't ask, don't tell." "

Didn't they repeal that? In the U.S Military, anyway.

MegaMarioMan (Ten years in the joint)
2018-10-09 16:42:52

"President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT to September 20, 2011."

so yes they did

nombretomado (Season 1)
2018-10-09 17:31:12

Well, since we're going off-thread, and the question has been answered, locking.

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