TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Ask The Tropers

Go To

Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help. It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread for ongoing cleanup projects.

Ask the Tropers:

Trope Related Question:

Make Private (For security bugs or stuff only for moderators)

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-03-11 21:45:16

Looks to me like a text-replacement bot, since the word replacements are even within other words, like Berserk Button becoming "Berserk Bumon".

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
nombretomado (Season 1)
2019-03-11 21:46:49

They are suspended. Please revert.

gjjones Since: Jul, 2016
2019-03-11 21:48:15

Good call.

He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-03-11 21:50:03

Can non mods revert these things? I can't figure out how, if it's possible, and you aren't just speaking to other mods.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
gjjones Since: Jul, 2016
2019-03-11 21:55:18

Actually, yes. I've reverted some of the edits as a matter of fact. You can go to the history page and restore the ones that were changed by the suspended troper. Hope this helps.

Edited by gjjones He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-03-11 21:57:53

Manually, you mean? That I can do— I was referring to a system revert, which would be faster, but ah well.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
gjjones Since: Jul, 2016
2019-03-11 21:59:25

Yes, I was referring to the manual reversion.

Anyway, if my estimates are correct, non-moderators can do a system revert if absolutely necessary simply by clicking the "Report Page" and explaining why you think it needs to be reverted.

Edited by gjjones He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-03-11 22:02:40

Hold on a second, their edits to Fruit Basket seems to be the only page they've edited affected by this. On Characters.Samurai Seven, which they also edited today, they even added their own, unedited, Berserk Button wick.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
gjjones Since: Jul, 2016
2019-03-11 22:03:41

Hmm, I see. Maybe that Fruits Basket bowdlerization thing they did was an unintentional use of nanny bots. I could be wrong, though.

Some of their legit edits to the page (i.e. non-bowdlerized entries) can stay.

Edited by gjjones He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-03-11 22:07:08

Yeah, it's possible they downloaded something in-between their edits today that caused this to happen. Bizarre, but at least it's manageable since you caught it (and cleaned it) so early.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Top