All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[robkelk]

Sorry about intruding in the discussion as the 4th bureaucrat, maybe I should just to back to lurking.

No worries. It's as much my fault as yours - neither of us were doing the heavy lifting in that thread that Bob and Geth are doing.

Besides, it just might work out for the best, if he realizes he doesn't have any further avenue of appeal.

But I've done things with various rules committees for a long time, and very often you have people upset, but they tell you the wrong reason they're upset.  The problem might hinge on a different rule entirely.  No one is really upset about the self-promotion itself, they're upset about how distasteful the self-promotion is. To me, this guy is Refuge in Audacity in action -- all of the perverse stuff is hiding that he's just not a very good troper.  Lots of these examples don't actually apply to the trope, or they provide little to no context.

When you start talking about censorship or lewdness you just play into his hands.  He'll just apply Parody Retcon.  Stick to standard style guidelines, and he won't know how to fight it.  The only thing is someone has to have the stomach to brave the Augean Stables.  That might have to be me.

Whoever does it needs to be prepared for complaints about changing the pages. Should it become necessary, reminding people of this part of the user agreement might - or might not - help:

If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.

Granted, the way that it might help is in driving away people who don't like their text changed...