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The video mentioned in this section of the page has been privated. Can it be removed?
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Sweet! Thanks for passing it on.
"Look around you! It comes with lore!" -CJ The X, The Eldritch Horror of Coraline
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Does this really need examples?
, started by djbj on Aug 13th 2011 at 3:45:52 AM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by Ferot_Dreadnaught on Jun 13th 2019 at 6:03:57 AM
I thought TV Tropes was supposed to be a fun encyclopediac forum where you could talk in the first person and voice your opinions, not a restricting encyclopedia where the mods and admins are too afraid of a days-long flame war to allow biased opinion in examples. What's wrong with that?
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Agreed...Tropes is not a forum, and writing entries like that is a VERY bad idea. HOWEVER i do hate the wholesale example cutting. Some (if not most) where voted to be cut by a small miniscule of voters. Which is why i think it's important to pay attention to TRS threads
As one of those involved in the decision to cut, we tried salvaging. It was so widely misused and the thing that kept it from being pure complaining too fine and hard to distinguish to keep any other way.
Cutmaster-san
The examples have been cut as per the TRS thread. The main page remains to define the term and index related tropes.
Disagreement had its chance to be voiced in the TRS thread.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Yes, on the forums that most of the users of the site never use or look at.
I'd like to note that the idea to cut it was proposed and implemented within a few hours late at night from what I could tell, I checked the thread the night before it happened.
I voice disagreement because reading about internet culture(drama included) in a non-hated filled environment is one of the many things this site is good for.
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I tried to warn people, they need to pay attention to the trope repair shop banners at the top. Yes MOST tropers rarely if ever visit the boards. You'll change your mind soon enough when everything you like is cut right up under your nose. I do believe the votes to cut it was ridiculously miniscule, but alot of people didn't particularly defend it either. Now people show up to protest!?!? lol *Head Meets Desk*
Like I said, the vote to cut it came in the blink of an eye before anyone could protest, a mod just went "I'm cutting it" out of nowhere.
I don't deny that, but the Trope Repair discussion banner was up for awhile.
I just think this should be discussed further seeing the circumstances.
The TRS thread is 130 posts long. It was started on the 10th of August. Nothing was done overnight, by mod fiat, out of nowhere, or without proper discussion.
I saw no mention of deleting examples.
Okay there was, by like two people.
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Couldn't the mods and admins just archive the pages somewhere as a huge, Unchangeable image? I really enjoyed reading the examples; they were witty and gave very good instruction on what to avoid when on the Internet.
For reference, "Remove all examples and keep as exampleless definition page." had enough of a lead to win on September 24. Some of us on the staff thought that was overkill, so we, erm, dragged our feet a bit to give a bit more time. I didn't officially declare a winner until 9 days later, which was also over a month after voting had been opened.
So, no, this was not rushed. In fact, holding off for nine days after a clear victor had emerged is almost obstructively slow.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
Like i said people need to pay attention to TRS Threads. most of the people that respond are almost always people who support cutting things and tend to be hardcore tropers. Others needs to start taking part in the process, otherwise you'll have no one else to blame but yourself.
I also disagree with the change. The examples were quite funny and entertaining to read, to see what things set off the Berserk Button in members of fandoms that I'm not part of. Also, I believe that the Law Of Cautious Editing Judgment was at all times adhered to, so why was there any problem? If the examples aren't returned, can they at least be moved to the Flame War page?
Edited by FunSunnyDayz "It's always darkest before the dawn..."
Added to the Definition-Only Pages.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Great, first Bad Ass Grandpa is being dewicked and now Internet Backdraft.
Related tropes section cut per TRS
I've seen this confused with Internet Counterattack a lot. Maybe it should be renamed?
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I don't know if a rename would help. The concepts are quite similar, and the names are going to be as well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
since this page's examples have been deleted, why not delete or the examples on all the index related tropes? or instead, reduce them. for example, one scrappy per work? seriously, most of the examples are useless hyperbole and exaggeration.
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Disagree, but look it up
A meta-example, go to any given wiki with a specific subject, get in a debate about a specific with an admin, if he makes a mistake and somehow violates the unwritten law, call him out on it, I dare you, you'll try to avoid what ever the wiki was about, you'll never see it the same way.
Inanity in 140 characters or more
It seems like many examples added here (including some that I recently added) may actually be examples of BaseBreakers.
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The header quote is incorrect. I've seen it quoted like that in several other places (including iMDB), but I just went back to the source itself and listed to it directly. The proper quote is:
"The Internet has given everyone in America a voice, and evidently everyone in America has chosen to use that voice to bitch about movies."
Can this be changed/updated?
EDIT: They updated it, thanks!
Edited by Mayyday