I don't like to see people get banned.
Even though, I admit I can't really say if GWG should be unbanned or not.
I've been in one argument with GWG which had a Toady intercession (just a warning in general)... but it wasn't exactly an argument from my side of things.
I was just trying to explain my thoughts to him and he kept interpreting them in the most frustratingly asinine way. It got to the point where I wasn't even sure if he really didn't understand me or was deliberately trolling me for no reason other than the fact he didn't agree with me.
He also had a way of sounding sarcastic when refuting another person. On top of that he would often seem to frustratingly misinterpret others and sarcastically fling it in the other's face. So it wasn't just me.
Here's a conversation I stepped into involving GWG.
But Missingno isn't scrambled nor corrupted data. It's the result of the game trying to read something that has nothing allocated in it.
Minor detail. The point still stands.
(And technically, it is the result of scrambled data. I'd say "name in the Pokemon encounterable data" counts as scrambled, neh?)
I'd same the name only counts as scrambled data if it is in fact scrambled data rather than garbage data or a hard-coded default value. I'm not sure if there is any actual data in the storage or if it is garbage data or if it is something else that the game is attempting to read as Pokémon data.
If you read that wiki page you posted, it seems that the person you are correcting was correct in the first place. So there doesn't seem to be a need for your correction.
Tell me, what is the distinction between "scrambling" and "corrupting"? What would happen if you scrambled, to pick a not-at-all-random example, the data on a Pokemon?
I meant "scrambling" as in "temporarily disrupting", ala EMP bomb. My bad for not being more specific.
Ah.
Well, it sure looked like something more...you know...deep. Permanent.
... Are you serious here? I mean this is ridiculously nitpicky. Why not offer your definition of scrambling and corrupting to make it easier to it explain to you? It seems the more a person attempts to explain themselves to you the more deliberately you nitpick them.
I actually got frustrated for the other person's sake because he either was very stupid (which I don't think he was) or he was deliberately trolling the other forumite.
To be fair, other than being a bit annoyed with him I didn't dislike him. When he wasn't being a borderline troll, he had good points and ideas.
The only problem I see is that unbanning him seems unlikely, because Toady said he was specifically tired of cleaning up after him. Toady gave him warnings and mutes, so I think he was treated fairly. You also got to consider how hard it is to get banned in this forum. People tolerate a lot.
I think in the long run, he made his bed and has to sleep in it. Whatever good qualities he had, he broke the rules and ignored warnings. It is a shame to see a Bay12er get banned, but that's the way it is.