It appears we're back at the head of Ask The Tropers. Someone there found this thread, saw the mention of the unreverted changes, and then Elbruno went after the ones he missed. Glad to see that they have their priorities straight.
They also seem to be systematically misreading what I'm writing here, and viewing it through the filters of their own prejudices. For instance, completely missing that the C&D was on a story of mine copied in its entirety without permission. And failing to notice that I expected things to be reverted, which is why my edit reasons and my revised troper page asked them to respect that out of courtesy.
Still, gotta love the bombastic adolescent self-righteousness of some of the posts, with gorilla-like chest-banging at how clever they are for "outwitting" me. I left the wiki without a single warning, challenging no one, without getting into a fight with Fast Eddie, and with as little fuss as I could get away with and still do what I hoped to do. They are doing more to publicize this and keep it in the community focus -- and thus perhaps get more and more people wondering what the fuss is about, and possibly raising doubts in more users' minds about the new policies -- than I ever could had I decided to put my activist hat back on and get myself kicked out for being a troublemaker. It's not something I actually intended but I'm certainly enjoying it.
I'll take exception at the characterization of removing my works as censorship. Censorship is when you destroy information out a desire to keep it from someone you don't want to have it. I destroyed no data. I simply wanted to remove any possible suggestion that I endorsed the wiki censorship regime by allowing my works to remain associated with the wiki. I don't want that kind of taint on my work. My work remains -- I did nothing more than erase an address in an address book, not blow up the house at that address.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
They also seem to be systematically misreading what I'm writing here, and viewing it through the filters of their own prejudices. For instance, completely missing that the C&D was on a story of mine copied in its entirety without permission. And failing to notice that I expected things to be reverted, which is why my edit reasons and my revised troper page asked them to respect that out of courtesy.
Still, gotta love the bombastic adolescent self-righteousness of some of the posts, with gorilla-like chest-banging at how clever they are for "outwitting" me. I left the wiki without a single warning, challenging no one, without getting into a fight with Fast Eddie, and with as little fuss as I could get away with and still do what I hoped to do. They are doing more to publicize this and keep it in the community focus -- and thus perhaps get more and more people wondering what the fuss is about, and possibly raising doubts in more users' minds about the new policies -- than I ever could had I decided to put my activist hat back on and get myself kicked out for being a troublemaker. It's not something I actually intended but I'm certainly enjoying it.
I'll take exception at the characterization of removing my works as censorship. Censorship is when you destroy information out a desire to keep it from someone you don't want to have it. I destroyed no data. I simply wanted to remove any possible suggestion that I endorsed the wiki censorship regime by allowing my works to remain associated with the wiki. I don't want that kind of taint on my work. My work remains -- I did nothing more than erase an address in an address book, not blow up the house at that address.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.