Discussion SugarWiki / MomentOfAwesome

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Change it back!, started by Kexruct on May 20th 2011 at 9:29:45 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I think that Light Novels should not be under Literature (they're already under Anime and Manga) or anything else but, well, Anime and Manga. Anyone (dis)agrees?

We've got a bit of an issue in the real life section. Namely that people seem to be giving whoever they feel like their own page. Ben Affleck has only one example. Takei, 4. We have a sub page for real life events and I think we're better off moving those with fewer than at least 6 examples to their name to a sub section their.

I don't mean to diminish anything they've done, but the point of having your own page on this list is you have many, MANY such moments. Like Teddy. He has quite a number of truly awesome examples. Baring disagreement I'm going to move some of them over there.

I'm baaaaaaack

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Here is exactly why it was changed.

1. The original intent was one singular, Crowning, moment per work. Clearly that did not happen. The voting system implemented to enforce this failed miserably because nobody used it.
2. After much wrangling, the admins of this site stepped in and enforced the name change, to emphasize that it is really about all the moments one found awesome in a work. At the same time, the official rules were changed such that all Awesome Moments go on that subpage rather than in the main page for a work, since they are subjective.
3. Complaining on this page about the change is not going to accomplish anything useful, and in fact incites further complaining that spills over into the rest of the wiki.
4. The proper place to discuss trope names is the forums. There is currently a thread about it here.

Thanks for your attention.

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I know the original intent for this trope was to focus on only the most awesome moments, rather than every awesome moments, and that didn't happen, hence the name change. But I still feel like there should be a trope devoted only to those moments that truly outshine all others, the ones that made your jaw drop. Ideally, it would require entries to be signed, and not allow multiple entries from the same person on the same page (or something like that). We would also have a message at the top of each examples page reminding users to only share their top one or two moments, unless someone else already has. Yeah, I'm just repeating what was originally intended for this trope, and it didn't work, but I can't help thinking it's a shame we don't elevate the truly great moments above all the others.

Why are any of the interactive games (tabletop & video games) still in existence? If they are about what the tropers did, they're troper tales and not allowed. If they're about background events they're either Literature or New Media.

When I have a little time, I trope. If I have any left over, I work and sleep.

What happened to the Moment Of Awesome World War II page?

So what IS the most awesome thing ever seen on film in the page image?

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Awesome moments may not be tropes, but they are none the less AWESOME. The site has already altered its structure in order to encourage listing them, so I don't see why anyone would want to cut them out again.

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