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I'd love to post some rebuttals on that page but I'm afraid I'd get a warning for whining about the whining. (The whining about the renames, that is.)
Edited by FinalStarman I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn!
Deleted the notes and posted a mod notice. I'm also watching the page so I know who to ban next.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
So does that mean if I come across a discussion page with lots of whining I should report it? Because I know of a few more. The discussion pages the most popular tropes that have been renamed are full of whining about the rename, including AwesomeMusic
, Punctuated! For! Emphasis!, Lampshaded Double Entendre, and Creator's Pet. Also, the one for Conversation In The Main Page is full of people complaining about our anti-natter policy because they enjoy reading natter (something I just don't get).
Yes, these all need to be cleaned out. I'll take a look at it.
Edit: And done. Report any more please.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The discussion page for Fox News Channel is filled with bitching from the farthest reaches of both sides of the political spectrum, especially in response to the lock.
Cleaning that up, thanks.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The discussion page for Screwed by the Network has an entry that is complaining about the trope disguised as page discussion that includes the line "Every executive at Fox desperately needs to be lynched." Yeah, that entry really needs to go. Most of the rest of the entries are fine and are actually about discussing the page.
Edit: Even though that entry is over a year old, is a comment like that worthy of suspension?
I'm not sure if this is worth reporting or deleting, but that discussion page also has that really Fan Myopic rename suggestion at the bottom.
I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn!
I think this may be better suited to a forum thread.
Not banning over a year-old comment. At best I'd delete it. And wacky rename suggestions, while they belong in TRS, are not really anything worthy of mod action.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Speaking of whining, I would suggest a mod hit the Discussion page of the Let's Play page with a chainsaw, as it has complaining virtually everywhere.
EDIT: Thanks for clearing that up, Fighteer. :)
Edited by battosaijoe
I need to report a person using the name of theshunner. theshunned2, The Shunned 123, and countless other uses of "theshunn" who has been deleting my site's tvtropes page to many times, are Tvtropes page is to be used and edited by are members of are site, but this person is repeatedly removing tropes or changing them to offence ones
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Roleplay/BleachPlatinumHearts
If you go to are site itself, we have a Xat look for Zefonse for more information or check the history of are page
This should be it's own topic, not a reply to this series of posts.
It's true, though. We have a variety of handles that are going through and blanking the page, followed by replacing it with some rather strong bile.
On a side note, the page doesn't belong to people of your site, nor is it only allowed to be edited by people if your site. One a page goes up on the wiki, it belongs to no one. It can be used and edited by all, freely. That said, what theshunner is doing there is vandalism.
EDIT: For reference, the handles that have been page-blanking and replacing content with some rather horrific accusations are theshunner, theshunned2, and TheShunned123.
Edited by battosaijoe
Banned.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Maybe the discussion page for Renamed Tropes should just be locked? Since the forum is really the only appropriate place to discuss that anyway...
If it's of some help, Pass The Word's complaints in SugarWiki.Moment Of Awesome still remain.
Also the discussion on Main.Wall Banger (Yep, Main, not Darth Wiki) has some Tropers Law abuse and whine as well.
Edited by AMNK
I deleted all the discussion from Main.Wall Banger. That one comment that remains on SugarWiki.Moment Of Awesome isn't complaining.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
There's yet more rename whining on the True Companions discussion page.
Infinite Tree: an experimental story
You know, people could just make new notices instead of digging up the old one.
Good point. I was just doing what everyone else did >.>
Infinite Tree: an experimental story
I'm kind of thinking a "rename whining thread" needs to be started in wiki talk, since it's mostly clean up work.
Doodles
That probably better goes into Special Efforts, since we are trying to 'clean up'' a problem.
or never mind maybe we should just direct efforts to the general clean-up thread.
Edited by OriDoodle Doodles
AFAIK, cleanup is usually for bad edits and other damage. Discussion page cleanup is something better left to the moderators, so it fits a separate thread better.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Is there a policy against whining on the discussion pages? Because sometimes on the discussion pages for recently renamed tropes I see a bunch of whining about the rename. One particular example is the Renamed Tropes discussion page
, which is full of whining about renames in general. Should we remove this?