Thread:Dopp/@comment-188432-20120828033541/@comment-188432-20120829174827

You're welcome.

I have to say, though, that I don't feel that my needs and concerns were ever represented in this matter. Mathmagician made this discussion about whether it was a TOU violation, and so that's what most of the posts were about: right and wrong. You handed down your ruling without, I feel, examining the practical, knock-on effect that changing my sig here would have on other wikis. Your ruling was along the lines that Mathmagician framed the argument — "Isn't it wrong of him to force people out of the RTE?" — instead of, "How can we offer a compromise that gets him to stop using that signature here at this wiki?"

As Eladkse was eventually able to make me see, I was wrong about everything in the above post past the first sentence. So it's not quite as onerous as I initially believed to change my signature. Nevertheless, it is making me add a lot of templates all over Wikia. And that's just busywork. If I had obviously violated a written policy, I would understand that that was my tough luck. But, as I didn't, and as I mostly contribute where the RTE is disabled by community assent, it seems unfair to force me to do work on other wikis because of a ruling here, where only a tiny fraction of my global edits reside.

Had I been given the chance to advance the technical case, rather than defend myself against an allegation of TOU violation — had I been consulted at all before you made your ruling — I would have simply offered to manually sign my posts here at Central, and left my structure in place elsewhere. In fact, I started manually signing here prior to reading your ruling (see Community Central talk:Spotlights). That would have made the most people happy with the least amount of work.