Editing 2d4chan:How to win an edit war (section)

==How to avoid pissing third parties off==

It cannot be emphasized enough: It's really hard to win a two-to-one edit war, so either getting a third party on your side or avoiding making another opponent is a solid step to winning your edit war.

* Try to sound reasonable. You're playing in front of an audience who can interfere here, so try to go for methods that will convince them to take your side.
** Citations help, a lot. If there's something objective wrong with your opponents point, it's that much easier to convince third parties, at least.
** Try to maintain an, if not positive, then at least not aggressive and insulting attitude. We may be 4chan-related, but we're also a wiki, so a collaborative attitude is going to get you a '''lot''' further than telling people who you disagree with to "fuck off".  (The 4chan comes out in the content, not the editing process, which is fairly bog-standard small wiki.)
* Avoid excessive insults. Being excessively insulting to your opponent just makes you look stupid and in the wrong. We can overlook a few minor insults, but repeatedly calling your opponent "subhuman", "nazi", "SJW", and "retard" at the same time is not a good look.
** Alternately phrased: Yelling racial slurs at someone in excessive levels is probably just going to make you look like a crying bitch, since if that's all you've got left...
** You'll see some of the regular editors here use insults, but the important thing to notice is that most successful 1d4chan editors use insults '''tactically''', only using one or two that seem to accurately describe the target (for example, "Go back to /pol/" or "Go back to tumblr", depending on if the target is being fascist or marxist, or "Reverting vandalism" for removing an edit that looks like it was made by a eleven-year-old with [[wikipedia:Coprolalia|Coprolalia]]).
* Try to be brief or at least provide a TLDR. Having to sort through a thousand word manifesto to figure out what you're trying to say is not going to make you look good. Quite the opposite.