Idea For New Sliding Scale Project

You know, I have been thinking:

Since there are Cleanup Threads for Base-Breaking Characters, Ensemble Dark Horses, and Scrappies:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15191965060A89849000

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13673564680A84684000

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13598973560A64980100

And there exist Sliding Scales on TV Tropes:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SlidingScale/HomePage

And many works, especially Gacha Games, have Loads And Loads Of Characters,

I was thinking of an idea for a new Sliding Scale project for TV Tropes Just for Fun!

A Sliding Scale Of Character Reception/Favoritism/Popularity

With this scale, we can determine which characters rank from Most Favored to Least Favored in terms of characterization, abilities, feats, and the like! This way, people will know which characters are generally liked or disliked even if they don't fit in the Base-Breaking Character, Ensemble Dark Horse, or Scrappy tropes!

Here's an example:

1. Most Loved

2. Loved

3. Indifferent

4. Hated

5. Most Hated

Of course, a 1 to 10 scale could work too, with 1 being the Most Loved and 10 being the Most Hated!

But what do you guys think? I think I'd be a great idea and it wouldn't hurt the website one bit!

Edited by P360360P on Oct 28th 2021 at 11:01:36 AM

1. This really isn't the proper forum to plug your trope ideas.

2. This idea is a flame/edit war waiting to happen.

3. Sliding scales are no longer accepted on the site for a number of reasons.

See, it actually would cause problems because people would just edit war and argue over where certain characters fit. How do you quantify if a character is "hated" or "most hated"? How do you know if the fans aren't talking about them because they're indifferent or because the hate them? Where to Base-Breaking Character go? That's why the other scales are more objective and about patterns and in-universe portrayal.

A scale like this is a fight waiting to happen, regardless of the third point HMHC made.

Also, why on Earth do you think that having multiple cleanup threads for issues like these would make us want to do this?

Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 28th 2021 at 3:33:07 PM

The idea, for all intents and purposes, was to stop the edit wars between Ensemble Dark Horses, Base-Breaking Characters, and Scrappies, especially when you take into consideration the Loads And Loads Of Characters that exist in Mobile Games, some more infamous or loved than others! To list every character in either of the three categories would clog up the individual YMMV, Base-Breaking Character, Ensemble Dark Horse, and Scrappy pages!

But I had no idea that this idea would enact a flame/edit war!

Plus, I wasn't sure where to put in my ideas for a Long Term/Perpetual Project that I thought we'd all agree upon and the Sliding Scales still exist on TV Tropes and none of them have been removed as far as I know, like the Nintendo Hard scale for example:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SlidingScale/NintendoHard

Edited by P360360P on Oct 28th 2021 at 7:35:10 AM

how would this stop the edit wars, instead of making them worse

Most Sliding Scale projects are grandfathered in, them not having been cut doesn't mean we want new ones

Interesting idea in concept, impossible to actually pull off without all kinds of issues.

Edit wars would be very common if tropers begin judging characters by morality, ability, or popularity.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Oct 30th 2021 at 10:02:18 AM