User blog:TDIFan13

First and foremost, I’d like to say that each and every person in this Wiki has made it a better place. Even the vandalists have made this Wiki better, because we get to learn from the experience and then we’ll know what to do the next time there is a vandalizing freak…er…I mean, friend on the wiki. The administrators are also doing great, and I honestly can’t think of one that hasn’t been kind and helpful to me. And no, I’m not just saying that. However, I’d like to discuss something. While I said that the vandalizers help us learn from the experience, I unfortunately have to say to you vandalizers, “Go get a life.” And I’m not only talking about the vandals who blank out information, move pages, and swear like crazy, such as Bubby or Airbellium. I’m also talking about people who put false information on pages.

I understand some of you are not doing it on purpose, but for those of you who are, I’d like to say that I am very proud of you for completing your lifetime wish of getting everyone to hate you. Now, moving on. For those of you who are not doing this on purpose, I think this blog might help you.

This isn’t going to be long and boring, but I do want to start a new rule. You see, a popular belief is that Cody will be a competitor of Total Drama Action. I’m not saying this because I don’t like him, but I highly, highly doubt that he will return. To be honest, I’m not so doubtful if Izzy/E-Scope/Explosivo/Esquire will return, but for now please do not write that on her page. I want us to all lay down a new rule. If you put false information on a page, that’s it – you’re banned. I thought about a “three strike” rule but it eventually gets too annoying. For now, if you put false information on any page, especially Cody’s page, you will be banned. This could go for any vandalism at all, if you’d like.

Now, don’t freak out. This isn’t official. I’m not a rollback, let alone an admin, and even if I was I’d still write this, because some people have different beliefs. Please comment about what you think and what could please you, because if this rule is enforced I would like each and every one of you to have a little bit of your part in it. I think that this kind of behavior should be banned indefinitely, but one of you might think that this kind of behavior should only be banned for a month. However, we could negotiate and come up with a year, or maybe a couple months. I personally hate being banned forever. My old account that I created in October of 2008 was banned by Zak because I misunderstood the shipping feature and reverted all the pages back to their original state, due to me not knowing Zak was an admin. However, this will not happen as if these new rules are enforced, we should make sure everyone knows about them. New template might help, as it is very helpful. However, I do not think we should only ban non-users from using certain pages as they could easily create a user account and then write false info on the page.

I, personally, used to revert vandalism and not care because I knew that it would pay off since I’d get more edits done. However, now I’m ticked as this drives me nuts, and I don’t care if at the end of the day, I have 4,000 main edits. I just want all this nonsense to be stopped. Cody may return, but unless it is official, do not post it. By “official”, I don’t mean it’s official if you heard it from your cousin Steve, your best friend Jacob, or your imaginary friend Melinda. It’s official if you see a trailer for the episode, a blog post on the TDI Blog, or if you see the actual episode. That makes it official. However, if these rules are not enforced, I still want all of you to understand that some people come for this Wiki for actual information. Maybe they don’t know anything about the show. If someone who doesn’t like the show vandalizes a page, and says “THIS SHOW SUCKS MAN DON’T WATCH IT” then someone might feel bad. Please, don’t write false information, as you might get someone’s hopes up.

Suppose someone’s favorite character is Cody and they see that he’ll allegedly be returning. Then they’re all happy, and when they find out Cody won’t be returning, they jump of the Eiffel Tower, break all their bones, and end up brain-damaged and in a coma. So, would you like to vandalize Cody’s page, or put some sweet innocent kid in a coma? YOU DECIDE.