Engaging SarcasmMode.
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.
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.
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?
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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!!Things that have '''Ruined TV Tropes FOREVER''' in the past:
* [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER Inspiration from other wikis]]
* The Manual of Style
* Adding Examples :: Cutting examples
* Administrivia/FirstPersonWriting :: Making Administrivia/ThisTroper a red link
* Not listing items in alphabetical order :: Listing items in alphabetical order
* [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes Renaming Tropes]] :: Not renaming tropes.
* Administrivia/LockedPages :: Unlocked Pages
* [[JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities Wiki Cutlery Wars]]
* Anything British (e.g. ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' and ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'')
* Non-TV examples :: Too many TV examples
* {{Anime}} :: Not enough Anime :: Way too much Anime
* Administrivia/TropeRepairShop
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?type=att Ask the Tropers]]
* The Image Pickin' threads
* DarthWiki/DarthWiki
* SugarWiki/SugarWiki
* LaconicWiki
* HaikuWiki
* TroperTales :: Completely removing Troper Tales from the site
* Headscratchers :: Completely removing It Just Bugs Me from the site
* JustForFun :: Removing subpages for JustForFun pages
* WildMassGuessing
* FetishFuel :: Completely removing Fetish Fuel from the site
* [[{{Jossed}} Jossing]]
* Forums
* Being nice
* Being too much like Website/{{Wikipedia}} :: Being not enough like Wikipedia
* Articles that are too much like other articles :: Articles that are too different from the usual style
* {{WMG/Time Lord}}s
* Troperiffic works
** Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya
** Literature/{{Twilight}}
** Franchise/LyricalNanoha
** WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Ponies]]
* Putting up Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage :: Removing Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage
* {{Fanfiction}}
* [=YKTTWs=]
* 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]]
* The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub
* Meddling with anything to do with [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]].
* FlameBait :: Flaming those baited to flame by FlameBait.
* Forbidding any examples of FlameBait.
* Nuking redirects :: Adding redirects.
* Strict moderators.
* Anything to do with the search bar.
* {{Shipping}}
* Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent
* Anything to do with Sexual Content
* Archive/TheGoogleIncident and its aftermath.
* Expanding into [[WebVideo/EchoChamber videos]].
* [[DontExplainTheJoke Explaining the jokes]].
* [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Removing Real Life Examples]]
* [[Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy Removing entire pages of their examples.]]
* Removing subpages' icons and changing them with a drop-down menu.
* Improving the overall look of the forum.
* MemeticSexGod :: Completely removing MemeticSexGod from the site
* Letting DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible continue to exist
* Video Examples :: Letting all those ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'' and ''Film/SgtKabukimanNYPD'' video examples get posted
* Censoring coverage of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' redub's controversy as being complaining
* Banning [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample examples that don't have context]]
* Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly
* 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.]]
* [[SelfDemonstratingArticle The creation of]] [[JustForFun/RuinedFOREVER this very page]]
* The high amount of tropes related to Shapeshifting that are clogging up this Wiki
''In other words... pretty much everything.''
Anyway... This page is a way of [[SelfDeprecation lampooning]] whining Tropers!
So recite the MST3KMantra and laugh!
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--> p.s. [[Website/TVTropes This wiki]] was also DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER by the creation of [[TheStinger Stingers]].
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