You've got a real point. If one allows the text examples, readers could in fact potentially skip a work from their wish list if they find out it contains something they're highly sensitive to. The only red flag would be video examples. We don't wanna scare our folks into the next life, and adding those is past the point of not making ourselves responsible for a Nothing Is Scarier effect caused by a simple explanation. Then again tho, there's the Related subpage... but unless readers are to look for it, I doubt they'll ever see work examples for it until they examine the work or its page by themselves. I'm kinda worried.
But I did not give it importance.
Good point with the video examples. Those should be forbidden for obvious reasons. However, text examples should still be allowed as it's purely information.
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Previously, a user uploaded a jumpscare video from Five Nights at Freddy's and later it was taken down. Just to know, if you upload a video on a "No Video Examples, Please!" page, like this one, will you be banned or suspended?
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Apparently the "No Video Examples, Please!" lock isn't working. Some joker put up FNAF as an example ~ten hours ago.
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That's not fair! Would someone take it down before delicate readers see it please? I just saw it 30 seconds ago and clicked away fast. The page specifically said "NO VIDEO EXAMPLES"!
Can we get a mod in here to help?
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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Duplicate Trope
, started by BlueGuy on Aug 17th 2012 at 9:37:11 PM
"No examples, please. We're just defining the term. If we did include examples, chances are we'd be sued for accidentally scaring some of our more delicate readers into the next life, if you catch our drift."
Well, it would be nice if at least text-only (link can be optionally added, then again even Creepypasta page on this very wiki has links) examples are compiled. Given that we already have Nightmare Fuel, in which most of the examples are subtle scares or fridge horror instead of jump scares.
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Are there any alternatives that can be listed? I came here partly hoping to find examples of counter tropes, concepts/methods/tropes that manage to achieve utter terror without Jack-in-the-Box scares. For that matter, I imagine it'd be shorter (and possibly more interesting) to have a list of horror works that can be noted for a relative absence of jump scares.
Is there any reason Jump Scares from outside the horror genre can't be listed? Or even attempts at Playing With a Jump Scare?
Why can't we have examples? That's part of the fun of reading TV Tropes!
Oh and BOOOOO!
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On one hand, yeah, true, but on the other, this is HARDLY the only trope to lack examples, and, well, it's about in every horror work. EVER. It's such a classic and widely used trope that you can find it almost everywhere. I mean, you just have to turn on the TV and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT BEHIND YOU!
Heh. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
I'd like to see examples of films that avert the trope. Horror films that don't contain jump scares, or at least have only one or two very well done jump scares. That way I can use the page to scavenge for potentially great horror films.
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I believe the "no examples" ruling for this article should be overruled for a few reasons.
- The content is not inherently illegal.
- The wiki has tons of content just as bad as what would be on here.
- Users are responsible for themselves. A reasonable user is smart enough to acknowledge that by viewing the examples, they run the risk of being scared if they seek out the media. If anything, a content warning could be created above the example section so the user is certain to see it before they reach them. This wiki shouldn't be censored because some people are too stupid to acknowledge warnings.
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