Line #10 JustForFun/RuinedForever


1	Engaging SarcasmMode.
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3	Tropers realize something [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff the TVTropes staff]] does not, that robust [[Website/TVTropes 16-year-old website]], while seemingly healthy, are in actuality as fragile as two [[FlyingBrick bricks]] tied together with tissue paper. One mistake, one bad mis-step will cause the entire thing to [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter and fall apart]]; and TV Tropes would be ruined forever. Much like this analogy.
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5	Fortunately, there ''is'' hope. The Members of TV Tropes has resolved to remain ''ever vigilant'' against something that could Ruin TV Tropes Forever, and call out a warning if they see something that could potentially do so.
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7	Some TV Tropes conservationists suggest a more extreme approach, that TV Tropes should [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks abandon all attempts at re-invention]] and instead [[PanderingToTheBase cater exclusively to the old-school Tropers]]. Though attractive, this approach may prove [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14478420050A97600200 impractical as a long-term solution]]. %%any ideas for the long term solution link?
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9	Ruined FOREVER remains a serious threat to TV Tropes now and in the foreseeable future, though it's possible a proposed initiative requiring all Tropers to purchase an annual [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset bandwidth offset]] could ensure our fragile site's existence through the mid-21st century.
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12	!!Things that have '''Ruined TV Tropes FOREVER''' in the past:
13	* [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER Inspiration from other wikis]]
14	* The Manual of Style
15	* Adding Examples :: Cutting examples
16	* Administrivia/FirstPersonWriting :: Making Administrivia/ThisTroper a red link
17	* Not listing items in alphabetical order :: Listing items in alphabetical order
18	* [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes Renaming Tropes]] :: Not renaming tropes.
19	* Administrivia/LockedPages :: Unlocked Pages
20	* [[JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities Wiki Cutlery Wars]]
21	* Anything British (e.g. ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' and ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'')
22	* Non-TV examples :: Too many TV examples
23	* {{Anime}} :: Not enough Anime :: Way too much Anime
24	* Administrivia/TropeRepairShop
25	* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?type=att Ask the Tropers]]
26	* The Image Pickin' threads
27	* DarthWiki/DarthWiki
28	* SugarWiki/SugarWiki
29	* LaconicWiki
30	* HaikuWiki
31	* TroperTales :: Completely removing Troper Tales from the site
32	* Headscratchers :: Completely removing It Just Bugs Me from the site
33	* JustForFun :: Removing subpages for JustForFun pages
34	* WildMassGuessing
35	* FetishFuel :: Completely removing Fetish Fuel from the site
36	* [[{{Jossed}} Jossing]]
37	* Forums
38	* Being nice
39	* Being too much like Website/{{Wikipedia}} :: Being not enough like Wikipedia
40	* Articles that are too much like other articles :: Articles that are too different from the usual style
41	* {{WMG/Time Lord}}s
42	* Troperiffic works
43	** Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya
44	** Literature/{{Twilight}}
45	** Franchise/LyricalNanoha
46	** WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers
47	** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Ponies]]
48	* Putting up Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage :: Removing Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage
49	* {{Fanfiction}}
50	* [=YKTTWs=]
51	* Changing the image on Main/PercussiveMaintenance from [[Series/HappyDays one of the most notable examples of the trope]] to [[Webcomic/SomethingPositive some ugly-looking webcomic]]
52	* The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub
53	* Meddling with anything to do with [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]].
54	* FlameBait :: Flaming those baited to flame by FlameBait.
55	* Forbidding any examples of FlameBait.
56	* Nuking redirects :: Adding redirects.
57	* Strict moderators.
58	* Anything to do with the search bar.
59	* {{Shipping}}
60	* Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent
61	* Anything to do with Sexual Content
62	* Archive/TheGoogleIncident and its aftermath.
63	* Expanding into [[WebVideo/EchoChamber videos]].
64	* [[DontExplainTheJoke Explaining the jokes]].
65	* [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Removing Real Life Examples]]
66	* [[Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy Removing entire pages of their examples.]]
67	* Removing subpages' icons and changing them with a drop-down menu.
68	* Improving the overall look of the forum.
69	* MemeticSexGod :: Completely removing MemeticSexGod from the site
70	* Letting DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible continue to exist
71	* Video Examples :: Letting all those ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'' and ''Film/SgtKabukimanNYPD'' video examples get posted
72	* Censoring coverage of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' redub's controversy as being complaining
73	* Banning [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample examples that don't have context]]
74	* Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly
75	* Not having an archive of many ''Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub'' pages before they were covered in gasoline, set on fire, and thrown into the grand canyon... [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 3 times over.]]
76	* [[SelfDemonstratingArticle The creation of]] [[JustForFun/RuinedFOREVER this very page]]
77	* The high amount of tropes related to Shapeshifting that are clogging up this Wiki
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81	''In other words... pretty much everything.''
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83	Anyway... This page is a way of [[SelfDeprecation lampooning]] whining Tropers!
84	So recite the MST3KMantra and laugh!
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87	--> p.s. [[Website/TVTropes This wiki]] was also DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER by the creation of [[TheStinger Stingers]].

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