Thread:CzechOut/@comment-4674838-20120825232426/@comment-188432-20120826040144

Having just read the thread you linked to in your last post, where you again assert that aborting the RTE is somehow a violation of TOU, I feel I compelled to write yet another message.

You speak of "proper function" with this other user, just as you have with me. Bu it doesn't wash.

It is the proper function of the RTE, as it now exists, to abort when it encounters complex code.

I'm not causing it to do anything that it's not programmed to do. I'm merely confirming that such programming works as intended. You're basically accusing me of botching the spelling of a word so badly that my spellchecker can offer no suggestions. There's nothing wrong with this; I've just reached the limit of the spellchecker's utility.

Similarly, the RTE simply doesn't have the functionality to display complex code. I don't think there's any reasonable interpretation of the TOU which would suggest that because I made the RTE reach its limits and quit — just like it was designed to do — that I've violated the TOU.

Your interpretation would mean that I could never write a template with mathematical functions, that I could never have an infobox that used SMW, that I could never have a table with switching, or that I could never have any kind of parser functions. Most of what I do on a regular basis at Wikia causes the RTE to abort. I've never, ever been told that any of this activity is a violation of the TOU — because it's not. If I can write a parser expression that makes the thing abort, then I must logically be able to also make a signature which causes it to abort.

I also think that the target of your inquiry is off base. You really want to address the admin of w:c:community, because they will have to enact local rules to take care of this. Staff aren't going to get involved in setting some kind of signature rules that apply globally. How would they police such a rule? Go around and check everyone's signature on every wiki? Yeah, they've got the time for that in the middle of a massive upgrade to MW 1.19.

My advice? Let it go. It doesn't really inconvenience you, anyway.