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 |
78 | |
79 | |
80 | |
81 | ''In other words... pretty much everything.'' |
82 | |
83 | Anyway... This page is a way of [[SelfDeprecation lampooning]] whining Tropers! |
84 | So recite the MST3KMantra and laugh! |
85 | |
86 | ---- |
87 | --> p.s. [[Website/TVTropes This wiki]] was also DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER by the creation of [[TheStinger Stingers]]. |
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