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General Chitchat and such

Hey, as per your comment on Main Page#Create my user page, I created your pages. Welcome to the wiki! Please always remember to sign your comments with --~~~~, and ask in the Community portal if you don't know something. If you want, you can read the the Editor FAQ! Welcome. --FaviFake (talk) 18:02, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 19:11, 25 February 2025 (UTC)


hi btw :) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:11, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
hello, how are you doing this fine morning, my dear fellow? DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 16:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Hiyo

I'm trying to lurk less and be friendly so I just thought I'd ah drop in :) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:53, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
Bello. me editor guy who edit much. edit fun! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
hahahahaha edit fun indeed. ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:20, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Question: How do you add those user boxes that you have on your page? Those would be nice to have. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 16:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
copy and paste this and remove the nowiki tag:

{{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = alastor jumpscare | info = [[User:Definitely Bill Cipher|This user has a pet cannibal deer.]] | float = left}} and replace it with what you desire, for example:

{{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = ;) | info = [[User:DollarStoreBa'al|This user _____ ]] | float = left}}

⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Dude thanks! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 13:48, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
You're very welcome dear. WEE WOO ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:18, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Wow

Am I so cool that I got a mention on your user page just because I showed you how to make userboxes? I mean, if I am... thanks. ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:44, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes. Yes you are. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 15:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
YAY TYSM i will get you free jambalaya for you immediately due to that (if you're into that) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
No need. Also, I see you're from Louisiana. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 03:44, 29 March 2025 (UTC)]]
Haha or maybe I just like jambalaya :). Also you are not 4029 hHHA ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

The 5s and Es and Os

Reply to this if you've figured out what the meaning of the thingy on my user page is.

it's base 3 Caliban (talk) 09:07, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
 :O ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:31, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
Nope! I'll give you a hint: talk to sam. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 14:33, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

https://voca.ro/1Akmh0zRqa8Q Caliban (talk) 16:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

uhhh...DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 20:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
sorry, that's not it. Don't know what to say to that.DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:54, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

You have one week! Hint: beep boooop --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 16:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Morse code? BobcatInABox (talk) 19:33, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Morse code of what? You are very, very close.--DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 20:47, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Time's up! If you put this into [1] and click play, you get the intro to Bad Apple. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 14:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

It's better than 2869: Puzzles BobcatInABox (talk) 11:11, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Want to do some repetitive work?

Hey dollar, I noticed you're very active here! I don't have a ton of time, but I recently overhauled the template {{comic}} to add many new features. While we figure out Header text, would you be interested in editing the contents of about 50 pages (the early xkcd comics) to make these new features work? It's a lot of repetitive work, you'd just need to make the same small edits on 50 pages. (If you're interested in why the OG comics were in a different order, see LiveJournal). Just let me know and I'll finish the documentation for the template! --FaviFake (talk) 17:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

What exactly would I be doing to get these features to work? DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
If it isn't super-complex wikitext things I can totally help! --DollarStoreBa'al Converse 19:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Right so you'd just need to move things around and remove some useless code. This process adds a second white navigation bar at the bottom to browse the OG comics in the original order. You can follow this example. The steps are:

Start from comic number 4:

  1. Based on the short sentence written above the explanation, add "ognumber =", "ogprev =", and "ognext =" (so the navbar can work)
  2. Add "oglink =", and move ONLY the link from "before" to "oglink" (so from HTTPS://..... until the end of the link, move that to "oglink")
  3. Now, from the edit preview, copy the original title.
  4. Delete everything in "before =" now that you moved the link
  5. Add "ogtitle =" and paste the original title that you copied.
  6. Finally, in "titletext", add two couples of apostrophes ('') in these places: https://imgur.com/a/BewKKr1
  7. Now save the changes, and click the new white "Next >" button you just created to go to the next one!

And you're done! It's much simpler when you try it. Of course you don't have to do it, feel free to work on the header text! --FaviFake (talk) 20:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

me am do. --DollarStoreBa'al ConverseFaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)com/wiki/index.php/S--FaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)pecial:Contributions/DollarStoreBa%27al My life choices 20:51, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh and I added friendly errors for when you forget to add one of the "og" labels. Just note that if you don't provide "ognumber", the cool white navbar won't show up. Remember to always insert a pipe before a label, like this "| ognumber =". And once you get to comic 55 you're done! That's the last one --FaviFake (talk) 20:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey, I don't really understand where I'm supposed to put these. --DollarStoreBa'al ConverseMy life choices 21:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind, I got this. --DollarStoreBa'al ConverseMy life choices 21:05, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Erm nope the OGnumber, OGprev, and OGnext you should take from the first sentence above the explanation. For example 24 says it's sixth. Anyways, I found a pretty big bug in the template, so I guess we should stop until it's fixed. The Original title doesn't show up! Arghhh! I'll fix it.
I'll let you know when you can continue. Thanks! --FaviFake (talk) 21:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

alright, sounds good! Dang tho. Let me know and I'll get right back to it. --DollarStoreBa'al ConverseMy life choices 13:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey, I, um, undid all your edits because they broke the template haha. I guess this was more complex that I thought! Don't worry, I'll finish them myself over time. I'm more experienced than I thought it seems! Thanks for trying to help anyways! --FaviFake (talk) 18:52, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
Reviewing them, it seems you were not isolating the link correctly and leaving there some HTML elements that closed other open HTML elements that weren't finished! It did look, interesting, at least! --FaviFake (talk) 18:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
So sorry about that, I noticed those random Html elements. Thought they were part of the bug. oops. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 22:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
No worries! --FaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

The mistake

Kynde's talk page

You might want to expedite the actual deletion of User:User:User:User:User:User/Mr. Beast is trying to aquire my bones (and its User Talk counterpart). I believe the editor concerned was sleep-deprived (but wouldn't put it past being instead a chemical imbalance of some legal or illegal kind). I'd have added the Pages To Delete category, but there's already a few of those hanging around unfulfilled... 82.132.246.176 17:02, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Ok man, I created that page because I wanted somewhere that would
  • Be private (which it is. It's impossible to create the account User:User:User:User:User. I checked.)
  • Affect Nobody (which it shouldn't. The only person it's affecting is you.)

You've also vandalized Template:DGAF, which I created, is inspired by 42.book.addict, and affects nobody but me. This makes me think that you're just looking through my contributions and immediately flagging things you frame as 'wrong'. This is not only incredibly creepy, but is also completely pointless. I'm a high school student on the internet. Also, I believe you're the same person who insulted me about DSBContribs, which I no longer use, and was fixed. Just stop and let me do my own thing. Amusedly and angrily, --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 18:11, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Given other recent activity, it looked like another example of editing whilst insensible (together with statements about returning to school, put me in mind the situation of which the Eternal September was the next step). i.e. honest errors of judgement.
To term the "UserUserUser..." space 'private' is erroneous. It can be seen by anyone. It can be edited by anyone. Though, by convention, only the User Talk should be edited by anyone other than the ultimate named User. Which you aren't, BTW... create for someone else, if you must, if they're too new and unwilling to wait the trivial amount of time before they can. Creating the spaces for someone who didn't request help or doesn't even exist needs some form of justification that you're well short of.
It affects everyone if random, meaningless and context-free pages are added to the wiki 'just for fun'. Data isn't free. Storage isn't limitless. Potentially obscuring real useful (on-topic) information with stupid semi-vandalism (that I didn't think you'd do intentionally, based upon prior behaviour), is not something I expected. But it looked like a momentary lapse that (being on the scene) I tried to helpfully deal with as much as I could. (If I'd have been an Admin, myself, I would have just deleted them. 'Luckily' for you, I have no interest in that amount of leverage, I'm sticking what anyone can do, perhaps the next person along would have reacted the same, or worse.)
No, I'm not stalking you. All edits are visible, you made edits, I saw them. I remember DSBContribs (or similar, if it's what I think you mean), but didn't recall it was your work. And others, including a named user, 'insulted' you about that. Or, as I recall, questioned the reasoning behind it, and didn't get a sensible answer. So 0lease accept my apologies. It seems that you are the kind of person to create useless pages like these last few. If I had known that, I wouldn't have come here suggesting that they were in error, but come here to just draw Kynde's attention to them as effectively being vandalism.
And, because your template page tried to link to a non-existing wiki page, I also just made it go somewhere that works. That was before reading here how this may well have been culpably intentional, so again was done out of more good faith helpfulness than it turns out I should have been employing.
That's regardless of your age, BTW. Whether you're at "High School" in the US, at maybe 14-18+ years old, or a High School like I attended where I am (and many years ago), which was for 11-16+ then workplaces or college (then maybe uni) beckoned. You don't need to be older to be more sensible about these things, and you don't need to be young to act idiotically.
And, lucky you, you get this shiny wiki (and everything else) to work with. I had no access to the Internet until I was 18 (though, at that time, the web itself hadn't been invented, let alone wikis), and of course made my own goofs (asked whether I needed to buy an estamp to send an email!).
But let me not bore you. I'm not in control here, only a fellow traveller who would give advice and assistance to those who might need it, and cares perhaps more than you might 'give a fuck' about various corners of the online world, like this. Reasoning over, lecture finished, friendly advice concluded. I just shoved it all in one reply to save you the trouble of having to deal with an impatiently slow conversation. And to not keep 'pinging' Kynde's email notification more than necessary (sorry Kynde!)... 82.132.247.23 20:47, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Do you wish to know something? I'm 14. User:User:User:User:User is (and I checked) completely impossible to create, as shown in this image: refutation.png But, if you wish, I shall make it a subpage of my own account.
Yes, of course it's technically public, but unless people specifically search for that page (which is still a subpage, btw), it won't affect anybody. Also, I'd like to point out, everybody editing any page is the whole point of a wiki. Yes, storage isn't limitless. Very cool. At this point, that page is a drop in the ocean of data already contributed by all the rest of these pages (including the lecture you just added, which is more bytes than the pages I created).
Thank you for that edit, by the way. When I previewed it, it showed that it did go to the correct page (Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism), so I published it that way. However, your edits make it seem like you're definitely stalking me. From what I've seen, all you've done is edit recent comic pages and berate me (and Kynde) about my mistakes.
DSBContribs was my work. I did, however, provide a sensible reason as to why I created it. If you didn't see it, here it is:
DSBContribs was created specifically for my signature. At the time I created this, I had no idea what subpages were and I was running out of characters on my signature. I created it because I thought it wouldn't be a hindrance to the wiki and it would save me precious characters on my signature.
However, I do still apologize, even if the insulting on the template was a bit far and not in the least helpful. I will move Mr.Beast is trying to aquire my bones to a subpage of my own. I will fix that template (which was not useless) and subsequently delete the content from the three unnecessary redirects. I had no intention of vandalizing the wiki, as I've stated multiple times. No page I create is meant to be vandalism in any way, and I try to do my best to help the wiki be the best it can be. Sometimes it gets boring being 'sensible' all the time (especially in IB classes, where I regularly have 3+ hours of homework/night), and I wanted some sort of way to let all the wild shit that my ADHD makes out. That's what came out. Again, I truly apologize.

I bid thee well on wherever the journey of life may take thee, fellow traveler. May we see each other again, be it in life, in death, or in the cursed month of Jancember. Take Care.

Ba'al, teenage Soul-Eater, out.

Wow that was a long read. I do give a f**k about not having such a template her so I deleted that instantly! I'm going to wait till you have moved relevant content of the user:user page somewhere with a more sensible name. ASnd no I do not think you should just write random gibberish on any pages here. And no I do not think we should have such a confusing page on here. So yes I will delete it eventually. If there is anything valuable on the page, make a different page, call it your sandbox or something, I don't know, but not something which is impossible for me or any one else to find out what it is supposed to be, like this many times user page. We have so many random users being created and many of them begin to spam us and has to be blocked. I do really not have the time to such a debate as the one here, so I hope you will do as I say and we can end this nicely. --Kynde (talk) 15:38, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
Something you probably didn't see: The fact that I did move the page to a sandbox YESTERDAY. Good day, and make Jeff proud. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:42, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
No I did not see as I do not stalk anyone here: So I can then delete this page now? And please try not to insult me with any mention of Jeff. He is no longer active and no one has any contact with him on these pages. I'm not happy about being the only active admin here, but you should reply decently! Thanks. --Kynde (talk) 15:45, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
Well, I never accused you of stalking (unless you were the IP in disguise), and I never meant to insult you with making Jeff proud. I like to imagine him as a father looking at his millionaire son with pride. If you wish to, delete the page. Go ahead, it won't affect anyone. Except me. And maybe mystery British(?) IP. This feud is over, and has been for hours. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:57, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
DollarStoreBa'al, I would very strongly recommend you to relax a bit and stop being so attacking/condescending. A lot of your edits don't make sense and aren't helping or contributing towards the growth and improvement of this wiki, so of course other users will be confused and annoyed. Maybe take a break from editing for a bit and mull over your edits for a bit? 42.book.addictTalk to me! 16:01, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
You're right. 42. You're always right :) --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 16:07, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
I'm so sorry. You don't need to forgive me for this. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 16:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

My talk page

N 19:49 	heADer TExt‎ (diff | hist) . . (+25)‎ . . DollarStoreBa'al (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Header text)
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N    19:46 	hEaDeR TeXt‎ (diff | hist) . . (+25)‎ . . DollarStoreBa'al (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Header text)
N    19:46 	HEADER TEXT‎ (diff | hist) . . (+25)‎ . . DollarStoreBa'al (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Header text)
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N    19:45 	Header Text‎ (diff | hist) . . (+25)‎ . . DollarStoreBa'al (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Header text)

...now that I know you're doing stupid and unnecessary things deliberately, I won't try to provide help. And you, of course won't be taking my friendly advice, so I'll try not to disturb you further, if I can help it. 82.132.244.82 20:57, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

I KNEW YOU WERE STALKING MY EDITS! Now that you have discovered that I've done unnecessary edits (which are only affecting you), try zooming out a little. Specifically, to the 2,000 bytes I added to What if? Chapters. I didn't get almost 300 contribution score by doing meme edits all day. Besides, three of those are genuinely useful, and I'm not going to listen to a random IP with maybe 10 edits tops telling me how to edit a wiki. If you want to fix my work, go right ahead. That's what wikis are for. I invite you to fix everything. If you stop stalking my contributions page.--DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 23:07, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Also, I would like to point out that it's harder to get more unfriendly than making a template which only links to my user page insult me, thereby vandalizing my user page. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 23:11, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
There was going to be no further reply, but you need to know these things:
I KNEW YOU WERE STALKING MY EDITS!
Read what I said. All edits are visible. That's an extract from that list of all edits via the Recent Changes link. You are not being 'stalked'. Though, if I could easily do so, I'd now specifically hide all your edits and let absolutely anyone else work out what (if anything) to do in response.
Specifically, to the 2,000 bytes I added to What if? Chapters.
That looked good, as far as I saw it. Would you have me edit something that didn't need editing, just to congratulate you for a job adequately done? There was something I might have changed, but so trivial that I actively chose not to, and I am now thankful of that.
I didn't get almost 300 contribution score by doing meme edits all day.
Good for you, if the contribution score means so much to you. Quality over quantity is better, and doesn't have a hand macro to show it. But you do you, if you're chasing the scoreboard rankings alone.
and I'm not going to listen to a random IP with maybe 10 edits tops telling me how to edit a wiki.
As you point out, elsewhere, my IP will keep changing. (And I'm not the only person who may have appeared on any given IP.) I shudder to think how many edits I've made here, in reality, but shall I show you edits by various IPs across a decade or so and claim them as mine? No, because the merit (or otherwise) of one's latest contribution is all that matters. I'm usually happy to be an anon-IP, amongst other anon-IPs and named-users (both venerable and fleetingly transient alike).
If you stop stalking my contributions page.
I can reassure you that I've probably never even looked at your specific contributions page, certainly not for a long time. I normally only ever check those to check whether "one-edit vandals" have perhaps made other edits that had temporarily slipped under the collective radar, but I don't think I had ever considered you as one of them, before, even back when you were new here. (How long is that? Six months. Two years? Maybe a bit longer?I could look it up easily by checking your contribs page, but I'm now firmly resolved to not do that, for your sake.)
If any what I have written reads as less than polite, it's perhaps partly my exasperation leaking through. By the time I felt the need to add another word to "unnecessary", above, I can see that this had happened. For which I am sorry.
But text-only communications, like this, also tend to be read in a way that the reader's mood dictates. And I think some of my more straightforward initial contributions got misread at your end, tinted with reflected emotion.
And, please, let this be it. The world doesn't need to see this, nor does the server need it being added to, and of course there's no alternative backchannel to conduct a lengthy private conversation about it all. I shall read what you reply, just because it's hard to not read anything that isn't deleted/overwritten, but please no more needless creation of fake user pages (or, indeed, IP user pages). Unnecessary and as likely to be removed as anything else out there. 82.132.244.228 05:07, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

It is probable that you didn't see the reply I gave you on Kynde's talk page. Here is that reply:

Do you wish to know something? I'm 14. User:User:User:User:User is (and I checked) completely impossible to create, as shown in this image: refutation.png But, if you wish, I shall make it a subpage of my own account.
Yes, of course it's technically public, but unless people specifically search for that page (which is still a subpage, btw), it won't affect anybody. Also, I'd like to point out, everybody editing any page is the whole point of a wiki. Yes, storage isn't limitless. Very cool. At this point, that page is a drop in the ocean of data already contributed by all the rest of these pages (including the lecture you just added, which is more bytes than the pages I created).
Thank you for that edit, by the way. When I previewed it, it showed that it did go to the correct page (Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism), so I published it that way. However, your edits make it seem like you're definitely stalking me. From what I've seen, all you've done is edit recent comic pages and berate me (and Kynde) about my mistakes.
DSBContribs was my work. I did, however, provide a sensible reason as to why I created it. If you didn't see it, here it is:
DSBContribs was created specifically for my signature. At the time I created this, I had no idea what subpages were and I was running out of characters on my signature. I created it because I thought it wouldn't be a hindrance to the wiki and it would save me precious characters on my signature.
However, I do still apologize, even if the insulting on the template was a bit far and not in the least helpful. I will move Mr.Beast is trying to aquire my bones to a subpage of my own. I will fix that template (which was not useless) and subsequently delete the content from the three unnecessary redirects. I had no intention of vandalizing the wiki, as I've stated multiple times. No page I create is meant to be vandalism in any way, and I try to do my best to help the wiki be the best it can be. Sometimes it gets boring being 'sensible' all the time (especially in IB classes, where I regularly have 3+ hours of homework/night), and I wanted some sort of way to let all the wild shit that my ADHD makes out. That's what came out. Again, I truly apologize. I hope this marks the end of this little spat we've had.

I bid thee well on wherever the journey of life may take thee, fellow traveler. May we see each other again, be it in life, in death, or in the cursed month of Jancember. Take Care.

Ba'al, teenage Soul-Eater, out.

See my reply there: Reply --Kynde (talk) 15:42, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
I just did, and I did just respond. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:43, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

My Mistakes

Your signature is in violation of WP:SIGAPP

Hey, I wanted to let you know that your current signature doesn't follow WP:SIGAPP (specifically the first bullet point). Kindly change it. Thanks. --FaviFake (talk) 12:48, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Changed to 14pt. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 13:02, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Any height that's taller than the other text on the page disrupts the way that surrounding text displays. 14 px is no better. --FaviFake (talk) 13:25, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

FINE --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:14, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

That still disrupts the page flow... I think you signature is already more eye-catching than any other signature on this entire wiki, why do you want to increase its height too? --FaviFake (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
I thought the issue was the height? Doesn't the wiki use 12pt font, which that Sig is? --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:27, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
I don't know, I just noticed that it does increase the space between two lines. It might be the superscript's fault then. Well, at least the current one is much better than before. --FaviFake (talk) 15:49, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Mass-deleting links

Hay, just letting you know that maybe you've misunderstood the "incomplete" notice. You shouldn't delete every link on the page until there are no links left, but rather include these links, if they're helpful, directly into the explanation, as explained in the editor faq. Thanks! --FaviFake (talk) 18:09, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Creating someone's User pages, without being asked

In short, not worth the bother. You were helped, above, because you asked (and now, obviously, have become capable of doing the creation yourself, within a very short time). But this wiki is littered with "Welcome, I created your User pages for you" (including for IPs, which is particularly unuseful), where the user concerned has not then used them. However active an editor they are, if they don't know/care about them then it's effort done for nothing. 172.70.86.130 08:50, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Yup, I also pointed it out. In case you missed my reply to your message, here's a copy:
”It's relevant to note that we only create User pages when people explicitly ask for them. On the other hand, User talk pages are created if you want to talk to that specific member privately."--FaviFake (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Sorry about that. Just trying to help! --DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 15:34, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

NEWS

Hey uhhh does anyone know about this? Should we make explanations for these? --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 20:48, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Google's Ai says there are multiple exclusive comics for the textbook, but I've only been able to find Inside Body, shown here: Inside Body.jpg

Just so you know, the standard method for announcing something, big or small, to the community is to create a post in te community portal. Just so you don't have to copy and paste every message and reach a wider audience. --FaviFake (talk) 15:50, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Why [...] is DSBContribs a thing?

Did you seriously have to create a page in the main namespace with the sole purpose of redirecting to your user contributions page?

Firstly, the main namespace is supposed to be on-topic. Why, you may ask? Because "DSBContribs" literally appears in the search results for "D" alongside "DSBSig/sandbox" (???), right between DNE (comic #259) and Danger Mnemonic (comic #2487).

User specific stuff should really go as sub-pages of your user page, and nothing is stopping you from directly linking to your contribs page in your signature instead of using a pointless redirect.

As I've read more of your talk page I've realised you're [...] 86.143.223.93 13:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Highly disagree on the tone but agree with the message. I redacted the message and scheduled both for deletion, use your user page for this. thanks! --FaviFake (talk) 19:38, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
Sorry about this. At the time, I did not know subpages even existed. Thank you random IP for the advice, even if slightly unhinged, and thank you FaviFake for getting to those deletions. I would have done those deletions eventually. I created DSBContribs to save characters on my signiature, assuming that the pages would not show up on the search (linking to special:contributions:DollarStoreBa'al is much longer than linking to DSBContribs). Evidently, I was wrong. I created DSBSIG/sandbox while trying to create a sandbox page and being stupid. That was me trying to work out the wikitext to create a signature. I have perfected my signature now, and these pages are no longer needed. The 'FINE' comment was meant to be a joke. Maybe that would have worked better with a rolling eyes emoji and an 'ugh'. I will be putting this into the 'my mistakes' section of my talk page as this was definitely a mistake. Thanks for bringing my attention to this! Gratefully yours, --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 05:01, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
By the way, I looked at your little message Mr. IP man. First, I see where you're coming from. I am a little bit immature, this is true. However, this should probably come as an expectation with someone going into 9th grade. This has been acknowledged on my user page and my comment on 3123. Please do your research. Second, swears are fine for basically all purposes EXCEPT to insult people. The fact that you are willing to insult someone who you think is an 8-year-old shows how mature you truly are. Maybe you are the one who should, as you put it 'grow the fuck up'. Thank you, and have a good day. Sincerely, --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 05:01, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
Hi, it's me (on a different IP because I'm at home now).
I'm sorry for being so aggressive in my original comment, I thought you were a grown adult, not a teen. ("think is an 8-year old" is incorrect btw, I was saying you were "acting like an 8 year old", but that itself was too harsh).
I made stupid mistakes too when I was around your age, and I should have assumed good faith rather than take such an aggressive tone.
Sorry for that, and good luck with school! 90.219.64.93 13:50, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
I accept your apology with open arms. I truly hope we can work together to improve the wiki in the future. Best regards, --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 19:11, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Possessive and contracted "its"/"it's".

This also confused me, oh so many years ago. Then I was given a handy way of knowing which was the exception, which has served me well, and I've never had to second-guess myself. (Naturally, I've probably typoed/thinkoed it wrong, unconsciously... But since then I've never had a moment of doubt when I've deliberately kept myself/others correct.) Maybe it'll help you. - I tried to summarise it in the edit I made to the message concerned, but not enough space to do it justice...

  1. The possessive version is "its". It is one of a number of "irregular possessives", "his" instead of "him's"/, "hers" instead of "her's", "theirs" instead of "they's"/"them's".
    • Basically all the very common and basic pronoun-based possessives that (as I think of it, although not entirely correctly) were added to the language long before anybody actually tried to regularise the use of possessives, so just stuck that way. If it belongs to "him", "her", "me" "you", "us", "them" and "it", you're in the realms of using a completely irregular possessive, none of which use apostrophes.
    • Personally, I think that "one" (the equally 'basic', IMO, impersonal pronoun) should be included in that. Not for the likes of Ones' complement (that's belonging to (a number of) digit-ones), but in the "one is speaking sense. But (as noted in that last link), it isn't. So don't do that.
  2. This leaves the contractive version as the one that uses the apostrophe. With two interesting caveats:
    • There are irregular contractions. The word "forecastle" contracts to "fo'c'sle" or "fo'c's'le", which is a lot more overkill than other similarly complicated contractions. And "will not" becomes "won't" (or, some suggest, just "wont", though that's also a different word), despite not having the right set of letters in the right order to remain after (at least) the "not"->"n't" contraction.
    • In reporting speech, where someone says "it's just something I want to say", use it without fear. But, when writing, I find that (except for very casual use, essentially speaking in text ...or of course when tending to write in abbreviations/limited space) it's [sic] just much better to write "it is", in full. Can't(cannot) be written wrong, couldn't(/could not) be read wrong.
  3. Oh, and then theres "its'", the plural-(non-irregular-)possessive, which could be used in certain circumstances... "There are loads of its in this text, without apostrophes... please check that each its' punctuation is correct!". But... not a common occurance. (Far less than "belonging to the word 'it'", the sole reason to use possessive "it's".) ;)

...TL;DR;, irregular possesive "its" because of all the other irregular possessive pronouns that have words of their own. And you might just find it easier to uncontract "it's", most of the time, especially if you're still not entirely sure about it. (Or, perhaps, you're happy to not let go of such a minor degree of gravitas, and it's not transcriped real-world enunciation, which might even feature such monstrosities as "couldn't've" as the contraction of "could not have"!)

Don't know if that helps, or is understandable, but there you are. Overexplained and overly rambling, as it is..! 92.17.62.87 21:51, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

While you have way too much time on your hands, it'sn't (it is not) hard to understand, so thank you! As I said, it's basically my only grammatical flaw, so this helps tremendously. Damn my brain and its grammatical irregularities. Its a pleasure to talk with you! Sincerely, --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 00:40, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Definitely didn't just make a mistake on an it's. After reading a full page worth of why not to. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 00:44, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

excuse me

but it appears you have discovered that I was a spammer in a past account or maybe this account. who's to say anymore? anyway i'm trying to fix that hehe ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:02, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

template

What is a template? What’s a

trout.png

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.
and

WhaleSmash.jpg


Smash!

You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.

?
If it looks weird, click edit Aprilfoolsupdate!(talk) 12:20, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm assuming you're asking what a template is and not about sea life. Templates are basically shortcuts that we use for commonly used things. For example, {{cn}} creates [citation needed]. You can create one pretty easily. I made those because they're commonly used on Wikipedia, and wanted to transfer them here. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 13:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
how can I create one? Aprilfoolsupdate!(talk) 13:21, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
Here's something that may be able to help: --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 13:43, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
thxxxxxxxxx Aprilfoolsupdate!(talk) 13:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
You are very welcome! I hope you are excited to start contributing to the wiki! --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 13:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
By the way, please don't be afraid to ask me any questions at all. If I can, I will help! --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 13:48, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
Thanks DollarStoreBa'al, which is {{Thx$store}} (if I can call you that)

Template Tips

Ok. Sorry, needed to get that out of my system. Thank you for the supplement. Truly. It's a good warning. Just please don't start randomly insulting people towards the end. This is a wiki. Speak the facts, and nothing more. In this case, the facts are:

  • Templates are easy to create.
  • It's useful to learn from other templates.

Those are the facts. Now, you're done. Don't go on to insult them about how they're too stupid to do something useful.

No insult intended, no mention at all of stupidity, just the obvious eagerness. Tried only to give caution not to run before you've learnt how (and, ideally, where) to walk. All edits show up, to anyone looking. The initial query had not been answered, when I started the reply, and I had to hastily rewrite things to fit back in on the end.
To the above, I'd add:
  • Know what purpose your template will have.
That way you're less likely to create something that you later regret, give or take a rename/delete. (If you want anything totally deleted, it may take a long time, a meanwhile you can only edit it 'clear', but still findable and the history checkable.) Most templates are not there to add pictures of sealife, but to grease the wheels of common (or not so common) Explanation page scenarios. And we might even thank you for a good shortcut for something we maybe never realised was needed before.
For a more technical 'manual', Help:A quick guide to templates might be a useful next read, and from there jump around into other Help: items. There's a lot you can do, though you certainly won't want to use it all right from the start. Take your time and know why you're doing something, as well as what'.
Good luck for the future, I've probably said as much as you need me to say for now. 82.132.246.73 17:39, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
While this is very useful, it would be nice if you posted this on User:Aprilfoolsupdate!'s talk page. He's the one learning the ropes, and it would probably be very useful to him. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 17:47, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Requests/favors

If you need anything done, reach out to me! I'll let you know what I can do to help you! --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 19:49, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi DollarStoreBa'al, are you good enough to have the link to my user page? Aprilfoolsupdate!(talk) 01:57, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Done! --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 15:56, 18 August 2025 (UTC)


Hello again Darling :D

I'm back after the summer hello sir O) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 13:59, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

A fellow school-based follower of the truth, I see! Welcome back, and I wish thee well on your adventures. --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 14:00, 26 August 2025 (UTC) P.S. I use monobook style now.

Category thing

Hey, can someone tell me why my talk page is on 'pages to delete?' -- DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 18:08, 27 August 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I have tracked it down to this edit by User:Aprilfoolsupdate!, where they used a (fairly useless and unnecessary) template (that they created themselves) called Template:Thx$store to thank you for helping to teach them the process of creating a new template. Since I marked that template for deletion, when the comment calls for the template, it also marks your talk page for deletion. I have changed it so that the template is replaced with the text that it would substitute in and your page is no longer marked for deletion. Also signed off your unsigned comment. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 18:30, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
When someone says "I have tracked it down" you know they mean business. Thanks, that's quite reassuring. Another mystery IP (not sure if it's the same guy as today) did warn him not to make meaningless templates. Of course, I also made a meaningless template, so.... --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 18:33, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Do you not learn?

You say that you've learned from your mistakes, yet I don't see any changes. You say that you're an incoming 9th grader and that's somehow an excuse for your immaturity, but I'm also a 9th grader and can compose myself perfectly fine. You say that you won't do the same mistakes again, yet you still create useless pages. How many more are you going to create? I really don't want to be yelling at you like this, but I just don't think you'll be able to change without it. FYI, I've marked User:DSB and the /C pages for deletion. Grow up. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 21:41, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Look. You aren't a bad person. In fact, I wholeheartedly believe that your passion can turn into a positive thing for this wiki. The thing is, you have a tendency to try to fix things by doing even more things, often panicking and making the situation worse. I've already told you this before, but I'll reemphasize it for you. TAKE A BREAK. Go for some walks. Work on your homework. Talk to people. Hang out with some friends. Don't just spend all your time on here. Trust me, I made the same mistake before. I would recommend a couple days of rest. See how it feels! It might hurt in the beginning, but nobody NEEDS you on here so badly to work on things to the point of such fanatic editing. I don't think Kynde, FaviFake, or any of the other editors hate you, to be honest. We're all just annoyed that you seem to not listen to our advice and keep on making the same mistakes. It's fine to make mistakes-that's how we learn! But you need to stop worrying so much and just step away from the screen for a bit. (Also, I'd recommend talking to a friend or a trusted adult. Your /PRIVATE page seems to be filled with quite a bit of self-hatred. Don't listen to that voice in your head. She's a bitch and none of it is true. I've dealt with poor mental health too. In fact, that's one of the reasons why I had left for so long. You should try to get these feelings out in a healthy way, instead of taking it out yourself or spending all your time online. Nobody thinks you're stupid. You just need to learn how things are done around here. If that's on a steep learning curve, so be it. Just keep on pushing through, and listen to people more.) And finally, you can make subpages, but try to reduce the number that you have. Think to yourself before you make one: do I TRULY need this? Will it help me out positively in the long run? If not, just put it in another section of your userpage (or make a proper sandbox!). Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk, and I wish you all a good night. Tori, signing off. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 04:05, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
Take a break / Hey, our kid is pretty great / Run away with us for the summer / Let's go upstate / Eliza, I've got so much on my plate / We can all go stay with my father
There's a lake I know (I know) / In a nearby park (I'd love to go) / You and I can go when the night gets dark / I will try to get away
Such a good song, Lin cooked with that one. --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 13:03, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

are you ok?

do you need help? raeb 06:11, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Would you prefer to get a Blog?

User pages are sufficient to give an idea of who you are, and User Talk ones for people to talk to you about your contributions/etc.

Maybe create sub-pages if you have a relevant site-related project and need 'a space' for them. Such as, as an off-the-wall example, "a list of all the instances of comics that have less than the average number of vowels in them". Perhaps in the hope that it'll be appreciated and made into a more regular page.

But from what I've seen of your 'contributions' this week, none of that applies. Drunk-typing? Well, probably not if you're still so far underage that you probably don't have decent access to anything stronger than wine-gums, but definitely you weren't in full control of your keyboard. We've other people on here, as young as you, and have had even younger ones. If we can actually believe what anybody reveals about theirselves. (I'm a 111-year old hobbit, by the way.) You've been one of the most immaturely-acting people here who haven't actually been obviously trying to vandalise this site, and I'm sure you've strained the patience of pretty much everyone.

But you're not the first to go a little wild, like this. And - dare I say it - some of those who went on to be mainstays of this site got over the novelty of "anyone can edit (almost) anything", and possibly a rush of teenage hormones messing up their judgement. May I suggest you take a deep breath and work out what it is that you're doing that is creating such friction and push-back? I've seen you being a reasonable contributor before, and it's not even been all bad over the last week or so.

And you may have personal life changes going on. Those hormones, issues at home/school/elsewhere, general worries about the state of the world that you're growing up into... maybe a combination of them, or some of these things even causing some of the others. It happens. You're not alone ...even if one of the key issues is actually in feeling alone! But this is not necessarily the place to try to reshape the world like this.

How about you stick a little more to just xkcd matters, for the time being. There are plenty of other ways, and places, to run through whatever it is that you might be going through, and it might be best to balance things a bit more 'worklike' here than too much 'at play', like it looks like you're doing at the moment. Rebalance back to 'just enough of each' later.

And if you do get somewhere to blog, you'll even have a lot more control. Create anything you want (more or less, within the T&Cs of the service), not worrying about other people editing it, and probably even later cleanly delete anything you no longer want (with no pesky Page History open for everyone to read). You could even put a link to your blog here in your User space, if you want to. At least the blog that you want to connect to yourself here. (You can have an xkcd-adjacent one, and one to cry out in anguish if you so wish. And a third to... well, you get the idea.) And the skills to maintain blog code is a bit more 'real-world' than the purely wiki-related markup you learn here, and you can still learn the wiki-markup in parallel with getting to grips with HTML or other popular Content management system markup, giving you a few more useful lifeskills that merely being eventually a master wiki-guru.

How does that sound? Please do stay, but please also consider if everything you're doing is strictly necessary. I see I'm not the only one driven to try to explain this to you. And for some reason I thought I might be able to quickly suggest a solution to this little quandry. (No, it hasn't actually been that quick, has it.) If you really don't like what I say here... delete it. And I'll say no more. Or just tell me to mind my own business. I've probably got some other things to do around here, if our other old-hand editors don't get there before me! 92.17.62.87 22:34, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

I really should, shouldn't I... I'll try to find one. Yesterday and today have mainly been focused on What If? Chapters and a potential new project with Tori (Have you met her? She's lovely) about Sigs. Today has mainly been the latter, with a bit of the former, and some sig ideas I've been working on. I've been trying to stick to more useful matters. For example, /WORKPAGE currently contains drafts of some unfinished What If? Chapters I've been working on. So, I have been attempting to work on more xkcd-related matters. Is it ok if you could
But, I shall heed your advice. I shall get a blog (not blood, autocorrect). Do you have any recommendations for where to start?
One last thing: Could you show me one of the apparent 'drunk typing' incidents? I edit on my school Chromebook, so I wouldn't be surprised if the keyboard decided to be weird. Thank you for the advice! Once, again, I shall heed it. --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 22:51, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Oh, and by the way, I will not delete this thread. Also, how do you access the internet in Valinor?
'Drunkeness', or whatever it was, was very evident in something like here. More mundane 'misuse of the keyboard' issues are the times you add multiple linefeeds between very simple statements. You need to do two line-feeds to 'separate the paragraphs', any more than that is not normally visually necessary at all, and can look like you weren't even paying full attention at the time, however well-written the line-fragments between are. If it weren't for the fact that there were actual (sort-of-)discernable words in there, the 'drunk' one could also have perhaps been a "cat walked on my keyboard" issue. Were you and the cat both trying to use the keyboard? (Or one of you trying to walk on it, the other trying to type on it. One way round or the other?) I think it's that kind of thing that got people initially concerned about you. Help us to help you (to help yourself?), maybe. 92.17.62.87 02:10, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
i don't think the help is strictly necessary, but, as I said before, do you have any suggestions for places to make a blog? --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 18:30, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
I don't blog, so nothing from personal experience. I bet you could use some Google-Fu (or Bing-Fu, or DuckDuckGo-Fu, or AltaVista-Fu, or AskJeeves-Fu, or...) to find a few such solutions, then look at all their offerings (check their wikipedia pages..? and, yeah, add some Wiki-Fu to the previous list of ways in which to search) and decide which one works for you. Or which two or three, and try them out with either completely identical aims in mind or initially split up your interests (one's your sports-appreciation, another is about what your favourite TV is, a third being your humorous observations about things you see every day, ...), then you can keep running the one(s) that turn out to work for you.
You know what you currently want, better than me or aanyone. 92.17.62.87 23:50, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
If you need a blog, and don't know what platforms to use, I'd recommend making a Google Site or Wordpress blog. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 19:10, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ltbdl

they think we're the same person, ha. raeb 02:29, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

I did not think this is what I would come back to. That's wild and hilarious.
They are raeb
And I am Dollar
And we are not the same person

--DollarStoreBa'alconverse 13:42, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

OMG THEY BANNED YOU WTF? I've pleaded your case, but idk if they'll respond. --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 13:49, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
Okay, wait a second. A checkuser does checks on User IPs. If you were found guilty, that means that you were editing under the same IP as me. By any chance, do you go to school in Lincoln, NE? --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 14:04, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
one, revert your case pleading, it's silly and won't help, and two, we're "very unlikely" to be the same person according to checkuser, don't panic. maybe link them here. (i don't go to school in lincoln.) raeb 15:00, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
But your ban message says you were CONFIRMED to have used multiple accounts. The only sockpuppet investigation is about ME. That's a false ban, you should submit an appeal. --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 22:52, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
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