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Complaints, deletions, and other nonsense (updated Oct. 4)

WDS has two big problems: a knack for complaining and a tendency to remove chunks of content without approval. I've just sent notifiers for the former, but the latter is what presses me to post about the issue now.

Complaining examples:

• Made the Super Soaker page, which consists of just five (no-context, badly formatted) items, three of which are complainy YMMV, one (Ruined Forever) being a Flame Bait item, and the other (Jumping the Shark) being In-Universe Examples Only. The description's also pretty complainy.
• On the subject of Ruined Forever, they keep adding Ruined Forever wicks to main pages despite that being against the rules. One example; more can be found elsewhere in this ATT as they're often lumped in with other complainy edits.
• They add a lot of complainy natter to pages, such as seemingly trying to force a Running Gag on Franchise Zombie (at the expense of actual example context) and this bit about the Matrix franchise (as well as more deleting chunks of text and adding what seems to be a justifying edit in its place) on Torch the Franchise and Run, which they later tweaked to refer to one specific Wachowski sister, referring to her simultaneously with her current name and deadname which isn't rule-breaking but just kind of inappropriate (though probably not intentionally offensive).
• This one isn't even a complainy item, but they just had to complain about "slappable titty walls" whatever the hell that means. Also it's basically a ZCE. And they posted the exact same entry on Alien Kudzu verbatim, which is a good example of why ZCE make for bad trope examples.
• More complaining, mixed in with deleting stuff only to replace it with complaining, with the oh-so-tasteful change from "[this game] was well received" to "[this game] looked like it was drawn by a retarded five-year-old."

As for the unnecessary deletions and other unilateral changes:

• They removed a lot of context from an entry about the Supreme Court on Word of Dante and replaced it with some complaining about the Supreme Court, even though the content they deleted did give more context for how judicial review came to be.
• More huge deleted chunks on Word of Dante. It'd be okay for them to make the entry more concise, but they don't really carry the material over and instead put up low-context entries instead.
• More deletions
• A lot of deletions!
• Deletions from RuinedForever.Live Action Films, which is concerning since that might just be them pushing their personal disagreement.
• Removing this section from the description(?) of Gender-Restricted Ability (granted, I don't love that text as it comes across as weirdly bioessentialist, but either way it should have been discussed).
• Changing the description on Sliding Scale of Continuity to be more narrow than it previously seemed to be.
• Big removals from the Catholic School Girls Rule description, removing the context for the trope and replacing it with something along the lines of "the origins are unclear, and nobody plays it straight anymore."

Other issues:

• More natter, not necessarily complainy but seems to be a Justifying Edit. Complete with a smiley face emoticon.
• This gushy edit on Testosterone Brigade which specifically points out that one of the actresses is underage while lusting about her wearing a bikini.
• Lots of ZCE, formatting, and natter/justifying edits in general (one more example of such), but that's not as egregious to me as the deletions and complaining.