User:RansomTime/talk/2

Blocking
Hello. I have heard that a friend of mine, User:64.252.124.32 has been autoblocked for spamming on SmashWiki. While I concede that his actions do constitute for spam, I request that he is unblocked because he is aware of the mistakes he made. In the future would you mind warning him before blocking? He has made some useful contributions but I believe he was carried away with the move and took it too far. Mr. Anon 23:22, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * No. Out of interest, which of these contributions do you count as "useful"?  Random Time  23:24, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * His normal account was Doc King} and he made some useful edits. [[User:Mr. Anon|Mr. Anon] 23:32, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * That block wasn't performed by me, but by a local admin - Toomai.  Random Time  23:34, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not the block I was talking about. I was talking about your block to his IP. I'm fine with blocking his IP at SmashWiki, but around all of wikia? I believe he is even an admin at one. Would mind reducing his block to only SmashWikia please? I would also request that you lift the spam filter for the NIWA smashwiki, as some wish to link to it on their userpage. Mr. Anon 23:41, April 24, 2011 (UTC)

AWB
Hi RT, can we use AWB to send messages to many users ?


 * No answer ? !

Thanks
Hey. Thanks for clearing up that Mass Effect vandalism on the Uncharted wiki. That guy that's spamming everywhere just doesn't seem to be giving up. He's even gone off Wikia now and has started spamming external forums, although I know you can't do anything to fix that. Thanks again for sorting it out. I'll let you know if I see him/her using any other accounts. --Klock101 16:57, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries, he did state in his intital vandalism that he was going to do that, hopefully the forum mods at wherever he's posting will have the sense to delete his posts without causing too much of a hassle.  Random Time  19:01, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

AWB Question of my own
Hey, I myself have an AWB question. I have been trying to figure this one out for a while. Is it possible to exclude images from a find and replace somehow? I have been trying to correct character names on Bleach wiki but often times people don't use the japanese accents when uploading files so when I am trying to replace Kugo with Kūgo, it also changes any image names with Kugo in them, messing up the image. Is there any way to exclude those?--
 * There's a tickbox box on AWB's find and replace for you to ignore external/internal links, images, math and no wiki tags and comments - not one for only images though. For anything more complex, you'd probably need to break out regular expressions.  Random Time  18:54, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Talk Page Edit
Hey Randomtime, I know you deleted an edit to my talk page on the ME wiki a few days ago, but something keeps bugging me. While it was probably something I would have reverted, is there any way I can see what it said or what the edit was? I'm not saying to restore the edit, but rather I just want to see what it stated. I just looked at the VSTF wiki and one of the comments there peaked by curiosity and like I said, it keeps bugging me. Lancer1289 16:28, May 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Replied via email  Random Time  17:06, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Spams
Hey can you block this anon : This because he is spamming comments with external links?
 * Tommy6 dealt with it before I got there  Random Time  12:58, May 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah i saw it. Sorry for bothering you :)
 * No worries, he didn't do everything we normally do for spambots, so your message allowed me to check a couple of things  Random Time  13:34, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

meepsheep
Hello, meepsheep vandalised the glee wiki again and when I was deleting his contributions I accidentally clicked on one of the image and my laptop's failing to start-up since then. Can you delete his contribs for me?
 * Oh and I'm using this through my phone.
 * Looks like Uber's dealt with it whilst I was asleep.  Random Time  10:36, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah I see it now. Sorry for bothering you, I've have done it myself but I accidentally clicked on the image he posted which was linked to a maliciously site and my laptop was failing to start-up and I had to do a system-repairing.
 * That site as linked shouldn't have done that to your computer.  Random Time  11:05, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah I know but it did. Just after I went to the site my firefox window started moving wildly and then my laptop went off after that I couldn't start it up properly (It would hang when it shows starting windows).
 * The javascript on that site was designed to move your window about, it shouldn't have any effect on anything else, though, odd. You can turn off some of the behaviour of javascript that should stop this happening in future by going to tools, options, content, pressing the "advanced" button by the box marked "enable javascript" - and unticking the 3 boxes.  Random Time  11:20, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah but it still doesn't answer why my laptop didn't start-up after that.
 * It's still not starting?  Random Time  11:27, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * It is working now but I had to do a system-repairing. Oh and I had to re-install my firefox because it stopped working after that.
 * If your system is up to date, then I can't see it being more than a coincidence. It sounds like firefox was trying to restore the previous tabs, and crashing again.  Random Time  11:34, May 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah my system is upto date so it can be a coincidence. My firefox is Firefox 5.0. And it just wouldn't open after the incident so i had to reinstall it.

misunderstanding
im sorry Mr. Randomtimme,but it has come to my attention that you have recently blocked me from messaging. I would like to clear that up by informing you that it was a (very unlucky) typo. I hope youll reconsider my blocked status and allow me to ask your help fo the reason below.

I have had some trouble with crafting items. i.e.:buckets,demonite tools/armor, hellore tools/armor/weapons(mainly because ive searched a wide part of hellworld and still cant find a broken down building w/ a hellforge), and also i cant find any magic stars. This may be because i have a cracked version,because i wanted to try the game before buying it cause im quite picky, so if you can help me with that please do.

note:im not sure what to put for my sign so i put this V

76.175.25.145 17:58, May 30, 2011 (UTC)anthophyll (or #171or 76.175.25.145)
 * I don't know about the game you're talking about - but you've been unblocked  Random Time  20:22, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Bot (easy)
This bot should be quite easy to construct:
 * Someone create extra categories again. Articles needs to be uncategorized from this and this category.
 * needs to be removed from all pages that use it. It can be done with find and replace.
 * 's parameters needs to be changed on all sites that use that template:
 * Title = title
 * Image = titlecard
 * Back = prev
 * Next = next
 * Season = season
 * Episode = episode
 * Airdate = airdate


 * The first 3 are easy enough, I'm running them now, the last one's more tricky, it'd require some regex to check to make sure we're in BTranscript, and I don't think I can do that without guaranteeing that I'll change a bunch of other things, I'll have a fiddle, but I don't think I can do it, sorry  Random Time  10:07, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

You just need to replace "|Title =" with "|title =". I am completly sure that it will do right thing because I know how those articles look like. And, my next project will be fixing transcript pages (dialogs). That means that I will notice if sth is wrong. I just need a bot that will quickly change parameters and allow me to redesign template BTranscript.


 * Sorry, I was typing a reply whilst you were posting here, I've got it to work and I'm running it now  Random Time  10:41, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * The bot's run fully these pages didn't work with it, not sure why - but if you can see an easy mistake I'm happy to run it again  Random Time  12:03, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * On those pages template was called with {{Template:BTranscript . I will fix that manually. Thank you! {{User:AW10/SigReal|12:51,5/31/2011}}
 * That's an easy one to fix, I can run it again right now if you'd like  Random <font color="Orange">Time  12:56, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * I would like to.{{User:AW10/SigReal|13:24,5/31/2011}}
 * All done  Random <font color="Orange">Time  13:33, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Blogging bot!
Is it possible for a bot to add comments on blogs?...I just saw a user that added a comment to a lot of blogs on this wiki at a high speed:).--
 * Spambots often do abuse the blog/article comments freakture in order to spam Wikia, if that's what you mean. There isn't a wikibot that does it (that I know of), as most of them were designed for Wikipedia, which doesn't have Article or Blog comments  Random <font color="Orange">Time  11:01, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

heyy
heyyyy why doesnt my chat work? everytime i go on it it says error.. —This unsigned comment is by Lewisloftus (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * what browser do you use?--
 * (edit conflict) I wouldn't know - please, as they're probably the only ones who can get to the bottom of this  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:42, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * How come you get the (edit conflict) ..while I dont?Do you type it?
 * Yes, I typed  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:48, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * How do you know when to type it?will you (somehow)know if someone else is editing?
 * I typed it because I got an edit conflict  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:52, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * i use internet explorer...an it says error in the corner wen it loads up... —This unsigned comment is by Lewisloftus (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with !
 * I haven't heard of this error happening to anyone else, so the only real solution would be to - they may well ask you for more details to help you fix this, nobody else can help.  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:55, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for removing that vandalism from my talk page on Peanuts Wiki and for blocking the user. --Simon Peter Hughes 13:08, June 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries  Random <font color="Orange">Time  13:36, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a lot for your help on cleaning up the Mobius Encyclopaedia wiki when it was spammed by those vandals. I greatly appreciate it. -Arbiter0416

no @
I already posted this to the talk of Template:User:Randomtime, but you seem to have missed it there: The GuildWars wiki you're editing has dropped the character "@" from its name half a year ago. --◄mendel► 14:41, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Block query
i dont see what i did wrong i dont even come here all that often why did you ban my ip for spamming —This unsigned comment is by 184.46.79.29 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !
 * The IP address you posted with has never been blocked - could you paste the entire block message?  Random <font color="Orange">Time  11:49, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Randomtime
Hehehe XD, I like the name you came up with, its pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering about something, how does the Community Central Chat, works, I've tryed it couple of times and what I have typed in doesn't show up after I press enter, can only the people I am chatting to can see it, or must you wait for your comment to show up? <font color="navy" style="background:Yellow">Niko Banks <font color="yellow" size="2" style="background:Blue">Whats up gangsta!, 11:35, June 12, 2011, (UTC)
 * You should just be able to send a message into the chat. I see you've sent one message ("Hows it going?") - the messages should show up about a second after you send them, so there might be an error if they're not showing up. If this is the case, you might want to and report it as a bug --  Random  Time  21:38, June 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help, you seem to be a nice guy or girl, IDK what your gender is for sure though, which exsplains why I put in guy or girl. We should chat sometime if you like :) <font color="navy" style="background:Yellow">Niko Banks <font color="yellow" size="2" style="background:Blue">Whats up gangsta!, 11:44, June 12, 2011, (UTC)
 * I'm a guy - I'm normally online on the chat here, but I don't check it very often, feel free to send me a message, but you might have to stick around for the reply --  Random Time  21:44, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism??????
Hi Randomtime,

I visit the iCarly wikia regularly, although I don't currently have an account or make edits. But a box popped up in the comments section today telling me that you had blocked my IP adress or username across the entire wikia network for vandalism. This really confuses me, I have never vandalised or will vandalise anything on any wiki, especially on the iCarly wiki, everyone there worked so hard to set everything up. Did you block every non-user or just me???? Because I don't even have a username at the moment, but I may want to make one in the future, and I can't do that if my IP address is blocked. Please leave a reply on this talk page to explain. If the block was just an error with the wiki, that's fine, no hard feelings :)

I just want to clear things up.

71.190.140.241 13:01, June 18, 2011 (UTC)Brenna


 * IP, no one would block you across the entire Wikia network if you didn't disrupt Wikia - per that, Randomtime doesn't believe you. Just explain why you were chastised, then RT will review your block. RT did not block every anonymous user. That's in my opinion, unwelcoming to everyone if done so.
 * There's no block at the moment for your IP address, I'm happy to look into this for you, but I'll need some more information in order to do that. Did the block message give a block ID? Were you using a different IP address (perhaps you were using a different internet connection) when you got the block message? The more information I have, the easier it is to track down what happened, and see if it was a mistake.
 * MULU: It's entirely reasonable that someone could get an IP address that was recently used by a vandal or spammer, due to the nature of the internet. Please assume good faith --  Random Time  14:02, June 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry. A user account has one owner whilst IP addresses can have many owners, especially when its a public address. Sorry, I should have assumed good faith. Best regards -

Hello
I apologize for all my misbehavior today, I was bored and it was stupid. Sorry. Can you please not ban me for infinity.
 * I assumed your account was created for vandalism only. As it's been blocked on the wiki you were vandalising on now, you've been unblocked - do not vandalise again --  Random Time  21:24, June 18, 2011 (UTC)

SpamTaskForce
Hey Randomtime. Can you tell me how you became a SpamTaskForce? Because I want to become a SpamTaskForce.<font color="#00EE00 ">DarkPain14 <font color="#000000">(Dissi) @Game-Pedia 12:55, June 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * See Help:SpamTaskForce --  Random Time  13:48, June 25, 2011 (UTC)

Wiki creation issues
why can we make a new wikia becase my frinde wants one
 * You should be able to make a new wiki - if you're having problems with the wiki creation tool, please --  Random  Time  10:56, June 26, 2011 (UTC)

Help!
A certain Enyclopedia dramatica user is targeting camp half-blood wiki. I desperately need some help. Supernado 16:48, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * He's been blocked and cleaned now as far as I can see, I'll keep an eye out --  Random Time  16:52, June 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think they've stopped for now, but I can guarantee that they'll be back later. They even wrote it on their ED talk page. Supernado 17:03, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * we're watching out. It's easy to revert vandalism, and it causes no long-term harm to your wiki --  Random Time  17:06, June 26, 2011 (UTC)