[Official] Discussion of Subjective formatting on works pages

I'm afraid to go look at things where the work is a review series like That Guy With The Glasses.

Can we come up with something less intrusive than underlining for the permanent solution?

It's meant to be intrusive so that the tropes are removed from the Main namespace of the work pages. They don't show up underlined on the YMMV subpages.

Right. You can make them less intrusive by moving them to YMMV.

Why not just use a different color then? That way you can color code the different kinds of non-tropes.

edited 27th Jan '11 2:28:00 PM by Killomatic

^ Cyclical discussion!

Wait, they're being underlined in the forums as well, even potholes? I thought potholes were allowed. here's a test pothole

I think that having the underlines should be an option for those who dislike them.

That's kind of missing the point of why they're there in the first place.

I never said I was against it, did I now?

edited 27th Jan '11 2:39:54 PM by Killomatic

Not sure why a pothole should be any different. Sure as the sun comes out of the East, you'll get people potholing their YMMV stuff just to go covert with it.

Surely you can turn it off in the forum?

Sure. There we go.

Looks kind of weird to me.

Do YMMV tropes need to be underlined on trope pages?

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YMMV indexes aren't being underlined.

Further problems, not necessarily related with this but certainly affecting it: several tropes tagged with YMMV on the header aren't showing up on the Subjective Tropes index, which as all of its non-index tropes underlined. This is an issue.

edited 27th Jan '11 7:57:11 PM by Chubert

Want to try that with some specifics, please? What article has a YMMV banner that is not on the YMMV index?

It probably has to do with the fact that indexes are borked at the moment and stop working if anyone edits them.

The indexes should be unborked, now.

They are unborked, but they need a null edit to show back up on the page.

I would like to ask again, is the intent to create a permanent visual style change for YMMV tropes, whatever the final design choice is, be it underlining or color or whatever?

Maybe to further the connection all text in a YMMV page or in any tropes marked YMMV could be underlined?

Maybe the underlining needs to be disabled in the index bars.

That would be very, very annoying. That's one of the places where text coloring or adding an icon (like external links have) would make more sense. You could either have the color match the background, or use the same icon (or a smaller version) as the buttons themselves do.