User:Chrisgherr

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Hello, Chrisgherr, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.Moderator Misbehavior!

In retaliation for my diligently adhering to the ISFDB WRITTEN WIKI CONVENTION, SECTION 3; the General Discussion Conventions, moderator Hauck has threatened me with punitive measures! Here is the paragraph from Section 3, quoted in full, from the above linked page, which led me to fix a typo, in a Help Desk Talk Page post. It is generally impolite to edit someone else's comments on a discussion page, except when fixing formatting (e.g. broken wiki-code), moving comments to split threads, and fixing obvious typos and spelling errors. The typo was left in a post under Topic 41, which topic I myself had originated. Desiring that no typos or misspellings be mixed into the thread, and knowing that a fix was specifically permitted -- I acted and corrected the two missing letters, an "a," and a "d." Within the hour I received his threat -- which can be found on the same Help Desk Talk Page, Topic 41. I quote it in full here: To Chrisgherr, I'm warning you. If you edit just once more my words (even if they're not enough english for you), I'm going to block you for 1 day for starters. Hauck 19:08, 3 November 2016 (UTC) Apparently his power (such as it is) has "gone to his head." I'm reminded of the adage: "Power tends to corrupt." He also seems to be unaware of numerous other ISFDB Wiki conventions; such as: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly … , then don't submit it here." and "Moderators, who are apt to also be the more experienced editors, are often among the more active editors on discussion pages. However, their opinions do not count any more than those of anyone else -- there are no second class editors here". I could go on quoting official, written ISFDB conventions whose spirit and letter he's violated -- however: I believe it's necessary for his fellow moderators to discourage his abuse of power. NOR IS THIS THE FIRST TIME HE'S VIOLATED ISFDB CONVENTIONS, AT MY EXPENSE. Ironically, he's been editing my own Talk Page posts, deleting entire posts, notably, one of several paragraphs (which luckily I had copied over to my own Talk page), which coincidentally was my first substantive post here. That post was first made to his own Talk page, in respose to his rejecting 4 pub edits of mine. HAD I NOT KEPT A SAFETY COPY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST (or so I thought, not then knowing of the extensive recovery functions). So he deletes my post, in its entirety, (which is forbidden) and then threatens me for a typo edit (which is permitted)? I also have reason to believe that he has furthermore edited, (or instigated another to edit) my entries to the Rules and Standards R&S Talk Page Topic 31, which topic I originated, being forced to post it on R&S, after he had deleted it, without warning, from his talk page. Those edits, made within the hour of his threatening me, were substantive, and changed both the sense and the tone of what I had written. After being submitted by Hauck to these edits and the aforementioned deletion, which violate ISFDB conventions, I decided to seek help from the Help Desk. I posted there the aforementioned Help Desk Topic 41, hoping to be informed by editors or moderators, that substantive edits and entire deletions, violate ISFDB conventions. Instead, I received a threat from the very person who had ignored the rules at my expense! I WILL OF COURSE KEEP A SAFETY COPY OF THIS POST. IT IS A FORMAL COMPLAINT WHICH I AM PUBLICLY POSTING.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!Chrisgherr 10:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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