All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVIII

[robkelk]

I begin to wonder whether User:Eeveegirl‎ is an AI bot.

I'll evaluate her edit in the mod queue shortly. I glanced at it last night, but it was late and I was a bit too tired to do a proper job.

Done and approved, but I honestly think she didn't write it herself. It actually has punctuation and reads too well compared to her every communication with us. She may not be a chatbot, Rob, but I suspect maybe she had one rewrite that passage.

Anyway, now that that's taken care of, I'd like to discuss her insistent claim that despite having made 140 edits to the wiki over more than four years that she is "new to editing". I'm getting tired of this catch-all excuse for every problem she doesn't want to address. I'm inclined to invoke a "failure to learn from mistakes" tempban on her -- and make it big because of how many months it usually is between her appearances on the wiki, maybe six months or so. And possibly use it as a lead-up to a perm ban based on repeating something that led to a tempban. I wanted to see what everyone else thinks.

I see that "Adding incorrect text and presenting it as fact" is on the list of reasons to warn then tempban on All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here, so this is definitely bannable behaviour.

As for an immediate tempban... it isn't written in so many words, but "Violating the Terms of Service or the Content Guidelines" is on the immediate tempban list, so we do show that we take our core policies seriously... and ATT:1WAY is listed as being a core policy. "You may not agree with an editor, but you should always be able to respect another editor." Repeatedly lying to us shows a distinct lack of respect to the people that Eeveegirl‎ lies to.

So... yeah, if you do an immediate ban for this behaviour, I won't undo it.