[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

[Stephanie M. Clarkson]

About 2 or three times a month, though, I revert vandalism with the term 'Funny, but...no.'

Because though I *do* take vandalism seriously, some of it does indeed make me giggle. From time to time ;-)

S.

David Goodman wrote:
> I would not encourage your doing this. Sarcasm is difficult at best,
> and can really hurt--and edit summaries are very visible and almost
> impossible to modify.
> I know every time I   tried even mild sarcasm in any context the
> recipient has been offended--and I soon learned better--at least I
> hope I have not relapsed.
> 
> The nature of edit summaries is rightly a frequent issues at RfA--not
> just whether someone is using them or not.
> 
> 
> On 10/16/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> In all fairness, this is probably a consequence of RFA's culture of "must use 100 percent edit summaries before passing"! ...
> 
>> Reverts I tend to put a slightly sarcastic summary on, especially is
>> it's a clear bad joke. Keeps me amused... :)
>>
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