User talk:PintlessMan

Different meaning of "god"?
Regarding your edit at The Master (Terror of the Autons): you're obviously right to hew to the stylisation used in the source, but what "different meaning" do you have in mind? Surely with "a", it would only ever refer to "a g(G)od" in the sense of "a deity", as opposed to, I guess, the Abrahamic God. You'd have to say "the bearing of God", surely, for that to be the implication. It seems entirely unremarkable to me to capitalise "God" even when it is used as a 'species name', much as one might capitalise Angel or Genie or Ogre. Or am I missing some other thing? Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 10:23, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Move the page to Keller Master and I'll illumine for you each orielled nook of the metacosm. PintlessMan ☎  10:38, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 1. You're supposed to reply on the other person's talk page, not your own.


 * 2. This is close to a textbook T:POINT breach — not its side-application for "don't restart old topics without new evidence" but the actual core policy of "don't disrupt this Wiki's function to make a point": here, trying to highjack a discussion pertaining to a completely different edit as an opportunity for activism on an unrelated issue. Please don't do this. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 11:25, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * 3. When you start a conversation with someone you have known socially for years and they reply with an obvious joke, it's pretty weird and rude to respond by threatening them with your admin powers via a bulleted list. Honestly, just ban me at this point. I'm done, this has finished me. You can wonder about the Gods for the rest of aeternity. PintlessMan ☎  12:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)


 * That more impersonal tone is the price of having this interaction on the Wiki. I am an administrator — if a remark is the sort of thing which, from a complete stranger, would prompt a warning about policy, then surely you see that it would be totally improper for me to refrain from making that warning just because I have a long-standing acquaintance with the particular user I'm talking to!


 * Also, as you've indeed known each other socially for some time now, surely you know me well enough by now to expect that bringing up the Keller Master and showily not answering my question would annoy me. Nothing so very strange, methinks, about someone reacting with a degree of coldness if they came to you with an earnest question, and you decided to push their buttons instead while ignoring the question! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 14:14, 10 July 2023 (UTC)