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Those quote pages scream Johnnyfog to me; Burgerants was more interested in complaining on Sequelitis pages and then defending themselves very stubbornly. note That said, they do edit a lot of YMMV and Video Game pages too, so I can see it going either way, but I think Johnnyfog is the more likely candidate here for the sheer amount of quote changes.
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Wasn't Johnnyfog's M.O. mostly wrestling pages, though?
Edit: Ah, it was quotes and wrestling pages.
Edited by sgamer82
Bump
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Moderator discussion on the matter concluded that we don't have enough evidence.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
^So your just going to let them get away scot-free?
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"
While no confirmation they are ban evaders, if they have edited incorrectly then is a revert not permitted ?
If those edits are bad, then sure, revert. But I think we should assume "innocent until proven guilty" here if there's no conclusive evidence. Besides, I think their main thing used to be edits to character pages related to Final Fantasy which I don't really see being copied (but now it's more quote pages than that for some reason).
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
The fact that they're adding a lot of quotes by overall-Caustic Critics to quote pages for non-YMMV tropes SCREAMS johnnyfog to me. As in, I'd bet actual cash money on it.
Should we bring them over here?
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"
^ x 5 @Spidey: "^So your just going to let them get away scot-free?"
Your post above was very rude.
You might want to apologize for it.
Edited by Arivne
Placed them on watch. Need to make sure we have a clear match. If they make any further johnnyfog-y edits, let us know.
As for geolocation, the IP's are close, but also from an area where we may risk a high chance of a false positive.
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Yeah, if the mods, who have access to things like IP checks, can't conclusively say somebody is a ban evader, who are we to insist they're wrong and that the person must be a ban evader?
Ban evading is a serious offense resulting in a permanent ban with no ability to appeal. Pushing for somebody to be suspended is frowned upon to begin with (it's basically mini-modding), but we have to tread especially lightly here.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
^ Yeah patience is needed by everyone. Ban evaders eventually will give themselves away, so no need to rush things. Just keep an eye on the edits and if a match happens in the future, the mods will handle it or somebody will alert them to it.
This query could probably be locked to deter popcorn commentary as a new query can be made in case a future report is needed on the matter.
Independent of the above, their edits on the FFV character page get very Walkthrough Mode. I tried to edit down some of it, but they went tut-tut and put it back, and I didn't feel like making it a thing at the time. But that's also an issue.
They also edited the quotes page for replacement scrappy
, just as one of johnnyfog's socks did, along with johnny himself.
Edit: They also edited a bunch of quotes pages and the WCW page.
Addendum: Should they be adding real life quotes to Quotes.Sleazy Politician? That seems treyf to me. I sent them a message reminding them of ROCEJ.
Edited by SkyCat32 Rawr.
^Since the mods often miss longer queries, you probably should have made a new query instead of bumping this one, with a link to this one in the new one.
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The ROCEJ thread told me to delete the RL quotes, so taylor's actions on that page are a moot point now, aside from the possibility that they are not who they say they are.
I made a private ATT.
Edited by SkyCat32 Rawr.
Should I unprivatize my ATT? They still seem to be adding RL examples to NRLEP tropes.
Edited by SkyCat32 Rawr.
I mean... Do whatever you want. Did anyone respond to it?
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My two sense are yes you should unprivate it. The person is a probably a ban-evader so it's notable for the site.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the mid
Uh.. That link just leads to ATT.
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Just a quick heads up that the cat in question is suspended now.
Curious, but how were they able to determine that beyond a doubt?
^ Let's not give Johnny any more ammo. Could this query be locked as resolved?
^^The moderation team have ways of finding that kind of stuff out, and let's just leave it at that.
Aye, this ain't the kind of information we'll share. I see there is another ATT about cleaning up taylorswiftcat's edits so I'll close this one.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I've noticed some odd editing patterns with taylorswiftscat
.
A lot of their edits seems to consist of them unilaterally making large changes (re-organising examples, adding and removing examples) to various quote page without leaving edit reasons or checking with the quote discussion thread
.
This behaviour is reminiscent of two ban-evaders I've previously seen; Johnnyfog, and Worldbeater
who was recently caught ban-evading as Burgerants
.
And looking through their edits to non quote-page pages, they appear to editing the same type of pages that said tropers had previously edited.
So is there any possibility of an IP Check, just in case.