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Bounced for hate speech.
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Banned them.
eta: Huh, seems like we ban-conflicted...
Edited by SeptimusHeap "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Um — how are brackets "hate speech"? I mean, to me, it just sounds like a newbie messed up on formatting Wikiwords.
Edited by FranksGirl
If it weren't exclusively around Jewish persons, sure.
Gah. That's...i have no words. Thanks for explaining.
Probably a text-replacement plugin on top of all of that.
Edited by bwburke94 I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
No, the way some of those edits happen around first names only shows it was a "human" who deliberately did this. Which is worse.
Also, Google banned the extension that did these particular replacements from the Play Store, precisely because it was hate speech.
Edited by LB7979
I'd wager a plugin (possibly homebrewed) since it put the brackets around the words "Don was", evidently mistaking them for a reference to the stage name of the frontman of Was (Not Was).
Not that it matters, really. Still a sign of someone the wiki is better off without.
A user called Camberf had gone and put triple brackets around the Jewish people's names on the Straight Gay page. I've gone through and removed all instances but thought I should report it.