Elliot and Drama. Is Anybody Shocked?

Well my request for excitement on UESP has been answered. Once again it all gets fun because Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick is back on the site.

It started with a suggestion from The Great Deceiver that the gold and mercantile be removed from the place summary. That makes sense, I suppose. It's not the building that sells you your potions, after all. Joram RobinHood70 agrees, so all looks good. The Great Deceiver adds a little more information to "reinforce" his opinion... but also adds a little comment as an HTML comment that doesn't show up: "given that I've now discovered who added it in the first place...". Since it turns out that the person who originally added the parameters was Elliot the Thick... it's not too long before Elliot the Obnoxiously Thick is involved.

EtOT ignores most of TGD's comment so TGD tells him so.... and then we're off to the races!

EtOT posts an insulting comment in reply and then an anon reverts it, calling Elliot a Troll in the process. Corvette789 gets involved and reinstates it; revert by anon; revert by Corvette789; revert by anon; revert by EtOT; revert by Timenn; then EtOT removes TGD's comment into the bargain.

Meanwhile, the anon warns EtOT for his personal attack, which gets reverted, reverted, reverted etc (can't be bothered with links).

Also meanwhile, EtOT warns the anon, followed by revert, revert etc, and eventually EtOT uses section protection to make the warning permanent. He obviously doesn't know that you're not supposed to use protection to further your own arguments.

Timenn has tried to clear things up, but as it stands, EtOT is doing what he always does: being a total fucking asshole.

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: Elliot should never have become a patroller. He is an obnoxious troll and never does anything useful. Block him now.

SerCenKing's Images - The Return!

Back in November I commented that SerCenKing's images were not up to scratch, in a post that seems to have been largely responsible for getting rpeh back on the site. SerCenKing had uploaded images like this, this, this, this and this (look down at the bottom of each page to see his version then compare it to the previous one). The Great Deceiver took exception to his images (and they mostly were his images) being overwritten and reverted many - though not all - of the changes. That was his first edit in two months (under his own name at any rate).

Today, somebody called Saya created a brand new account purely to attack more of SerCenKing's images. This time, the difference is that several people (including The Great Deceiver) defended the images, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus responded to the initial insult in typically regal style.

I'm sure somebody will accuse me of being the one who made all the reverts: it wasn't. For the record, I think LTS's image have improved out of all recognition (although he still uploads the occasional real piece of shit). Certainly, I think the batch that were reverted were all good. Some were better than others, but all were better than what went before.

The Unmasked Man

So it turns out that Joram was RobinHood70 all along. He "retired" back in mid December citing "recent events" and is now talking about "drama" being responsible.

At the time, RobinHood was working on his project to kill the Lore Dictionary articles, which he did, but what other drama was there? The big debate over Elliot the Thick's Editor Id template was going on (and somebody should really delete Template talk:NPC Editor ID - it's still there long after the template was deleted), but it looks to me like this discussion on the Admin Noticeboard was a bigger factor. Basically, EtT and RH seem to have had a falling out over the job queue. Both those discussions involved EtT, so is his continuing absence the reason for RH's return?

Is there more than that? Let me know, people.

Striving for the Top

Despite previous protestations to the contrary, it seems that The Great Deceiver is taking his loss of top spot on the Active Users list quite hard! His latest attempt at regaining top spot is to make lots of unnecessary changes to Tamriel Rebuilt pages that change one way of saying "We don't know where this book is" to another way of saying "We don't know where this book is".

To be fair, I can see that it makes sense to some extent, but there are far better things for TGD to be doing than this!

Comment Moderation part 2

I turned comment moderation off for recent posts over a week ago and it doesn't seem as if the idiots are around any more, so I will leave it like that.

It is still ON for posts over a week old. That is mainly so I can spot when there are new comments for old posts and respond (if necessary). It means there may be a little delay before things get published though.

On the other hand, there has been so little silliness over at UESP that there is not likely to be much activity here either. That is obviously a good thing, but on the other hand it means there is less of a need for UESP Watch.

Come on!

I had a lovely Valentine's weekend - a romantic weekend away with my better half - only to discover absolutely nothing worth writing about!

Come on, people! Isn't it about time somebody started another campaign to have inactive patrollers and admins removed? Something!

Can't be Bothered

I had an email asking why I wasn't following the User Categories debate. I'm afraid it's because I simply can't be bothered.

The debate can basically be summarised as:
Elliot acts like a moron
Everybody else tells him to stop being a moron
Elliot continues to be a moron
Everybody else decides to ignore him

Been there. Done that. Blogged about it.