All posts by Rapmilo
Impossibubbles wrote: This is censorship. What counts as a hate symbol? This will end up just being "Well I think this one thing is bad so we should ban that." or "I think this one thing is offensive, so no one should be able to talk about it."
Where does it stop?
No.
I think that's where most of the controversy is coming from. That is the ambiguity of what a hate symbol constitutes. But to be fair I think the common sense policy can really be applied here in most cases.
It's only in rare cases that it would be difficult in discerning what qualifies as a hate symbol and what does not.
In any case I don't think passing this CV would encourage arbitrary ruling, as you imply.
Roddy15 wrote: A
I was looking for the "muh freedom of speech" reason for B, not disappointed.
Based on the long list of blocked words and phrases, this wiki seemingly does not condone full flexibility in a freedom of speech policy
I vote A, not because I feel Nazism is a hate symbol, but because I feel no one here is responsible enough to use Nazism and related images in an appropriate manner.
Hah. No one will ever use the word "retarded" in that other context you mentioned. Let's face facts, "retard" is a word predominantly meant as an offense, even though blocking it may be (somewhat) extreme.
I would say we should unblock the word so long as it is used responsibly in chat.
And on a side note, this whole consistency thing is great and all but I feel as if most of this community is taking it a bit too far. We can't possibly be completely consistent, its just not likely to happen any time soon. There will always be other synonymous words or other substitutes that users can use, and spending our time finding and opening CVs regarding these words is not very productive.
I say we drop these trivial block/unblock this/that word discussions, because frankly they seem to be a huge waste of time.
Madkatmaximus wrote:
Sky-Pirate Doubloon wrote:
thanks for making me nearly choke
Since when were you active here?
Shouldn't it be "I am running for admin. Vote for me here"? Since you, sir, seem to be Slicer Vorzakh
TheShadowAssassin wrote:
I think people like admins should use common sense because they know what they're doing. But for everyone else, no.
The administrators have proven time and time again that they lack any common sense.
Of course, the only reason I'm saying this is because common sense is subjective and my idea of what should be "common sense" is vastly differently from others, in some aspects. This is why I hate the UCS guidelines and whatnot.
That's a good point. Common sense rulings do tend to be quite arbitrary.
Dark Yada wrote: Nigma has been a cross-Wiki vandal all over Wikia those last years, so I don't believe we don't understand him: Vandalism is Vandalism and such a thing cannot be accepted anywhere, especially if there was thousands of Vandalism edits, for me at least.
Still, he was kind of funny 
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HyperFlash Studios wrote:
Rapmilo wrote: D.
Edward Nigma was cool. You guys just don't understand him smh.
Sure he was cool, but he's also done some incredibly major trolling that a lot of us have had to clean up lol
But he did make this place more interesting for the duration that he was active on here. We can at least give him credit for that.
Plus editing the leaderboard is really unnecessary; it's really not a big deal if Edward Nigma is on there.
QuantumHedgehog wrote:
Rapmilo wrote:
Brick425 wrote:
Nah, it bugs me too, actually. I just forgot Wikia was dumb and put them on the right when I posted, and I don't remember how to change it.
Hover over image > Modify > Change it
Using the source code editor is easier in my opinion.
Faster, but not as reliable.
How is it not as reliable? I've been editing using classic editor since I started editing on wiki. If you know what you are doing, it is easy and reliable.
Brick425 wrote:
Nah, it bugs me too, actually. I just forgot Wikia was dumb and put them on the right when I posted, and I don't remember how to change it.
Hover over image > Modify > Change it
Using the source code editor is easier in my opinion.
Legofrodo12 wrote:
QuantumHedgehog wrote:
Brick425 wrote:
For God's sakes put your images on the left
Putting images on the right isn't that bad
Nah, it bugs me too, actually. I just forgot Wikia was dumb and put them on the right when I posted, and I don't remember how to change it.
All you have to do is add |left, after the part where it says |thumb.
Like this:
Sky-Pirate Doubloon wrote:
Rapmilo wrote: Kat
im not sure that counts either
We can't use names?