Bob Schroeck Wrote:I want to do that -- the IP ban, I mean -- but I can't find the option any more! I remember it was there when we were on Orain, but now I don't see it no matter where I search.
Edit: And I don't think that restricting the Complete Monster pages will send vandalism elsewhere. There seems to be some kind of obsession about Complete Monsterism among a certain portion of the troping community and I don't think they'd spill over into vandalizing unrelated pages if their instant gratification were denied.
The IP ban is easy. Block an IP the same way you would a user account.
Special:Block/(insert IP here)
As for the CM autism (I'm autistic myself, FYI), I can explain.
Wikia has the Villains wiki, where a bunch of people in the troping community go to basically obsess over who is CM worthy, and since they are a spinoff of the troping community and use a lot of their lingo, they often return to their parent and cross pollinate, and soem were banished from TV Tropes for one reason or another, some weren't, but as for the ones that were, it was usually for getting into incessant edit wars.
Unfortunately, it's unavoidable, and while we've gotten some good editors out of this (like DocColress), we get some spergs (a contraction of Aspergers, commonly used as an internet pejorative) who seem to think, much to my chagrin, we'll let them get away with that crap since we have slightly less restrictions than TV Tropes.
Unfortunately for them, both we and TV Tropes don't tolerate wheel war nonsense, so we're basically getting some spilloff that TV Tropes rejected, and the only solution is to ban them until they get the point.
P.S. - I've discovered a weird sympathy for Fighteer on this subject, since he had to deal with some of the same imbeciles we're now dealing with, over the exact same idiocy.
Special:Block/(insert IP here)
As for the CM autism (I'm autistic myself, FYI), I can explain.
Wikia has the Villains wiki, where a bunch of people in the troping community go to basically obsess over who is CM worthy, and since they are a spinoff of the troping community and use a lot of their lingo, they often return to their parent and cross pollinate, and soem were banished from TV Tropes for one reason or another, some weren't, but as for the ones that were, it was usually for getting into incessant edit wars.
Unfortunately, it's unavoidable, and while we've gotten some good editors out of this (like DocColress), we get some spergs (a contraction of Aspergers, commonly used as an internet pejorative) who seem to think, much to my chagrin, we'll let them get away with that crap since we have slightly less restrictions than TV Tropes.
Unfortunately for them, both we and TV Tropes don't tolerate wheel war nonsense, so we're basically getting some spilloff that TV Tropes rejected, and the only solution is to ban them until they get the point.
P.S. - I've discovered a weird sympathy for Fighteer on this subject, since he had to deal with some of the same imbeciles we're now dealing with, over the exact same idiocy.