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And now she's edit warring
again, re-adding the word "vastly" just minutes after I removed it.
Did you try sending her a PM?
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
Yes, multiple times.
Considering the number of times this Troper has been reported, for various reasons, I think this might be a lost cause here. This Troper doesn't seem to want to abide by any site rules.
Yeah, her usual habit is to break the rules, apologize, break the same rules again, apologize, break the same rules yet again...
I didn't meant to edit war. I didn't know "vastly" was there before. I would've asked beforehand if I did know.
I keep thinking that being deliberately inaccurate when writing about one's work is rude to its creator, especially when it comes to sensitive issues such as sexual abuse and nudity or sexual content that I worry would be too much for children, so I can act quite rude to people I think are being rude. I apologize for coming off that way and should've assumed good faith. I'll act that way from now on.
Myself being a rebel who deliberately breaks the rules is not true. I do want to abide by the rules and would not break them if if I knew they are rules. However, I am quite simple-minded, so I may skirt the lines if they're not obvious to me.
Does this mean I'll be suspended or even permanently banned?
Edited by PrincessPandaTrope Content Warning: My posts may involve my actions dealing with R-rated or Not Safe For Work content. Same for my edit history.
We don't decide if you're suspended, the mods do. The issue is not just this one specific instance, it's your repeated pattern of break the rules, apologize, break the rules again. It's understandable to make mistakes, but it seems you're not trying to familiarize yourself with the rules beforehand. There are several Administrivia pages explaining how things work on the wiki.
Like I said, it's not our call, but the mods usually don't take kindly to people who have to be corrected time and again.
Also, I can't speak to the content of the work, but I don't see how deleting or changing an adjective suddenly misrepresents it.
Edited by iamconstantine
Nobody's being deliberately inaccurate. There's nothing inaccurate about not using the word "very". If I say that North America is a big place, that's not inaccurate just because I could have said "very big" or "enormous". Inaccuracy is saying things that aren't true.
On the subject of "vastly," I realize that I've made a mistake. You added it to a different entry than I removed it from, and I didn't realize that. I'm sorry that I falsely accused you; that one's entirely my fault and you did nothing wrong.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro
I don't think it's the end of the world if something says "very big" instead of "big" (if it serves a purpose it's not Weasel Words; I would prefer the former in the case where the house's largeness is meant to be emphasized as uncanny, like for a trope like Bigger on the Inside) but it's not worth snapping at somebody for removing it either.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
The thing is, "very" is the kind of word that doesn't have much of an effect on the reader. Not nearly as much as writers often think.
Like... imagine that it says "Harry quickly ran over to Ron's unconscious body." Okay, it's clear that he's in a hurry. If you'd write "Harry very quickly ran over to Ron's unconscious body," that doesn't make much of a difference. There's no clear difference between "quickly" and "very quickly."
Now, if you say that he ran "as quickly as he could," that tells people something. If you say he ran "quicker than he ever had before," that tells people something too. But "very quickly" says almost nothing. There's no way for the reader to know which velocity the writer defines as the minimum required to qualify as "very quickly".
^ You're applying it to an adverb instead of an adjective in this case, so I think that affects how it flows. "The house is big" and "The house is very big" do create different images in my mind. I do agree that maybe it would've just made the page better to substitute "very big" with another word like "gigantic" or "enormous" instead of just leaving the blandest possible word. So I do understand where Princess is coming from, though I still think she was being possessive and resistant to change.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
PrincessPandaTrope and I are the only two people who frequently edit the page for the Sonic the Hedgehog fan comic Ghosts of the Future. I'm starting to understand why nobody else wants to edit the page. She keeps sending me PMs after I edit, saying that she's "very disappointed with" me for not phrasing things exactly the way she wanted.
One example would be my latest edit, where I removed the word "very" from a lot of edits, since it's a word that usually doesn't do any good. Saying "the house is very big" doesn't actually give you any more exact info about how big the house is than if you just say "The house is big."
She PMed me and said that I should have replaced it with a more descriptive adjective instead, without explaining why she couldn't do that herself.
She also said that I was giving the middle finger to the comic's creator, Evan Stanley, by replacing "very [adjective]" with a plain "[adjective]". She said that I was misleading people about the content of the comic this way—as if I had changed an exact measurement to one less exact or accurate.
And then there's the time when she asked people to cut down the wall of text
in one entry, and then when I did that, she asked me to explain why I deleted things
. I tried to be polite, but I wondered why she even asked for help if she expected people to follow rules she never bothered mentioning.
(Then, in an act of Edit Warring, she put back things I'd taken away.)
It feels like she's decided that my only task is to fix the grammar and spelling mistakes she keeps making again and again. It also feels like she's got this idea of how the page must be written that she assumes everybody else knows and she therefore chooses never to tell people about.
To be frank, she's acting like she's Knuckles the Echidna and the GotF page is a Chaos Emerald. ('Cause she's acting like its guardian, geddit?)
Short version: This troper is rude, keeps edit warring and has page ownership issues, and it's getting very tiring.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro