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AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
11th Feb, 2019 09:37:59 AM

Definitely Agenda Driven.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
11th Feb, 2019 10:03:57 AM

I'd question the entry's legitimacy as an example in the first place since even the original form reads as "this thing happened, then this other thing with no direct connection also happened".

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
11th Feb, 2019 11:21:46 AM

Is that a "Yeahhh..." of agreement or a "Yeahhh..." of skepticism or something else?

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
11th Feb, 2019 11:42:13 AM

^ Agreement. I shoulda been more clear, my bad.

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Brainulator9 Since: Aug, 2018
11th Feb, 2019 12:39:29 PM

I guess it's verifiable in that the example refers to the #MeToo movement, but it's way too much of a stretch to count since both events do not involve the show itself so much as the creator. I took the liberty to cut the example, bad English and all.

  • The original text:
    • You think it’s worse when the series reputation being almost easily damaged by sexual allegations pushed against Page, come by three years later by the late 2017, many (male) celebrity are being accused of sexual harassment, misconduct and allegations from many affected female victims.
  • The modified text ("celebrities" was changed by someone else entirely):
    • You think it’s worse when the series reputation being almost easily damaged by sexual allegations pushed against Page, come by three years later by the late 2017, many (mostly male) celebrities are being accused of sexual harassment, misconduct and allegations from many affected victims.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
11th Feb, 2019 04:50:00 PM

My own point about why it's not an example is that the second half of that doesn't involve the creator. It's just a similar themed thing that happened to occur. Unless it splashed onto him and/or the show, which the entry does not describe, the two things are not directly related.

nombretomado (Season 1)
11th Feb, 2019 06:07:10 PM

Yeah, that's pretty nattery in and of itself.

rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
11th Feb, 2019 07:03:41 PM

Not all of the victims were female though; what about Kevin Spacey?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
11th Feb, 2019 10:24:32 PM

Does the troper in question have a history of contentious edits? Given Kevin Spacey and also Asia Argento (?), the edit itself is not necessarily bad but if it's part of a pattern.

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nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
12th Feb, 2019 02:38:38 AM

...Honestly, do we have any sort of cleanup effort for Harsher in Hindsight? Because this kind of discussion - someone removes an example in a suspicious agenda-based way, but the example itself was really tenuous to start with - keeps coming up. I know people have often shoehorned HIH and "Funny Aneurysm" Moment, but I'm starting to wonder if it's even more common than I had thought.

12th Feb, 2019 02:38:54 AM

Jaded is actually pretty new, with their edits starting on the 7th. The only other troublesome things they've done are removing an example without reason on OneHitWonder.Rock Music, and adding an uncommented zero context example to Moe.

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GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
12th Feb, 2019 03:32:48 AM

Out of curiosity, could this be Neoplan Dan 3440 ban evading? He was suspended recently, and the edit history shows that he has previously made edits regarding the same subject on the same page.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
12th Feb, 2019 06:01:07 AM

And Jaded's edits begin a week after Dan's last edit and just a few hours before their last post in edit banned, in which they cuss out the mods and site.

Edited by sgamer82
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
12th Feb, 2019 06:22:15 AM

More likely they're ~Jaded Streak.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
12th Feb, 2019 08:07:16 AM

That does line up with the Ban Evader's typical lack of subtlety.

nombretomado (Season 1)
12th Feb, 2019 05:53:43 PM

Jaded Streak isn't banned, and they don't have any IP correlation to banned persons.

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