User talk:Rapta/Archive 3

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I reckon sometimes you can just tell a vandal from a new user, right off the bat (before you put a ban tag on) Kering's edits to me looked like a person new to wikis floundering around. I reckon sometimes you should just temper the harshness of your words a little. Problem is that you have a bit of a knockabout style of writing which is cool, but new users don't know your writing style. Look this is just a very general comment to say you should probably just be a little bit more careful when dealing with anons and new users because it's sometimes it's easy to take things the wrong way, especially if you don't know the person. After all even older users that know each other can get it wrong too sometimes, take Sarah and Gares last night for example!

This is a minor issue to do with a very small proportion of your edits, you do tonnes of good work here and you edit a lot of build pages. Really lets face it, there's a lot of crap builds submitted here and it's going to be hard not to phrase it just like that sometimes! Still we should always try to be helpful to our new contributors, which leads me back to the original thing about banning users, our admins are not very heavy handed with the bans (and haven't been for some time, I think this was confirmed on this discussion) and us user's don't slap ban tags on except when fighting an obvious vandal. Sorry for the long post but it's pretty quiet at the moment at work so I had some time on my hands ;) For all the editing a lot of us do on the wiki we don't often get much feedback so I thought you might find this useful. Yes I could have just said "I reckon you could possibly be a bit more helpful to new users" and left it at that but I had 10 minutes to kill before lunch! --Xasxas256 23:58, 19 July 2006 (CDT)
 * You're absolutely right. I did act a bit too quickly on that, especially with the ban thing. Although I have to say, you're quite the writer. :) &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 00:03, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Yeah well I've got nothing but The Da Vinci Code to read at the moment and I think it's too heavy for reading during short breaks. Normally I GuildWiki edit all day long at work but there wasn't much happening and the "tasks" I've got to do on the wiki weren't worth starting, so I figured I'd drop you a line ;) Actually contrary to what the above long comment may suggest, my main problem with you is your sig, I hate it! I have no idea what that thing is but it somehow still annoys me each time I see it!! --Xasxas256 00:12, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * It was my friend's suggestion. He was looking at this wiki and saw that a few other people had "special" sigs, while I was using the boring old default one. So he randomly popped onto Google and told me to use this pic. Such a great story, eh? &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 00:14, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * No what I wanted to hear was "although the picture is inherently annoying (maybe the picture doesn't annoy you, probably it just annoys me but still) it's symbolises the struggle to freedom of ." So then the picture would annoy me less, saying that you don't even know what it is it's just something your friend dug up, that makes it even more annoying! Deepen my suffering why don't you! I hate you now, where's that ban template when you need it!!! :P :P --Xasxas256 00:26, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * What if I used the almighty MSPaint to invert the colours? &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 00:28, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Ha ha, I don't know, I mean it's your sig so only edit it you reckon it'll be an improvement. Oh and while I'm being serious, I should mention that you took my initial, overly long critism very well, so you're in my good books even if your sig isn't! --Xasxas256 00:32, 20 July 2006 (CDT)
 * I was being sarcastic, but anyways, good to hear/see/read that. :) I'm pretty much done for today, so I'll leave Aberrant to flood the Recent Changes page by himself. :D &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 00:33, 20 July 2006 (CDT)