Ruined Forever - Television Tropes & Idioms

realize something Fast Eddie does not, that robust 7-year-old websites, while seemingly healthy, are in actuality as fragile as two bricks tied together with tissue paper. One mistake, one bad mis-step will cause the entire thing to shatter and fall apart; and TV Tropes would be ruined forever.

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 abandon all attempts at re-invention and instead cater exclusively to the old-school Tropers. Though attractive, this approach may prove impractical as a long-term solution.

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 bandwidth offset

could ensure our fragile site's existence through the mid-21st century.

Things that have Ruined TV Tropes FOREVER in the past:

Inspiration from other wikis
Adding Examples
- Cutting examples
This Troper
- Making This Troper a red link
Gilligan Cut
Fast Eddie
Not listing items in alphabetical order
Taking the lord's name in vain
The Great Crash
The cessation of all dog-raping activity
Renaming Tropes
Page moves
Locks
Wi ki Cu tl er y Wa rs
Non-TV examples
Anime
Darth Wiki
Sugar Wiki
Laconic Wiki
Haiku Wiki
Troper Tales
- Completely removing Troper Tales from the site
Headscratchers
Wild Mass Guessing
Fetish Fuel
- Completely removing Fetish Fuel from the site
Forums
Being nice
Being too much like Wikipedia
- Using a derogatory term for this kind of complaint, just shrugging it off and then calling it a day.
Not being enough like Wikipedia
Articles that are too much like other articles
Articles that are too different from the usual style
Allowing Candle Jack to ex
- The meme of said character becoming discredited.
Suzumiya Haruhi
Time Lords
Lyrical Nanoha
Putting up conversation in the main page
- Justifying edits
  - Triple nested replies
  - The abolition of formatting for nested replies after the third.
- Removing conversation in the main page
People vandalizing the RuinedFOREVER page for their own twisted amusement.
Fanfiction
YKTTWs
Twilight
MarySue
Ponies
- Locking the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic page and most subpages due to vandalism.
The Permanent Red Link Club
Allowing the image of the Perfect Trumpet Thingy to exist on this site.
Meddling with anything to do with YMMV.
Flame Bait.
- Flaming those baited to flame by Flame Bait.
Nuking redirects.
Adding redirects.
Anything to do with the search bar.
my immortal
Misuse of the Wiki Syntax. and its aftermath.
- Misuse of the Wiki itself. and its aftermath.
Shipping
Talking about sex on the Nightmare Before Christmas page
- Forgetting to embed links to things that need to have links embedded in them
  - Eating the cookie
The Google Incident and its aftermath. (Buy the T-Shirt here)
Trope Redefinition. and its aftermath.
Renaming Tropes. and its aftermath.
Expanding into videos.
Chekhov's Gun
- Chekhov's Boomerang
Explaining the jokes.
Removing Real Life Examples
Removing entire pages of their examples.
Removing subpages' icons and changing them with a drop-down menu.
Improving the overall look of the forum.
Renaming This Is Sparta into Punctuated! For! Emphasis!.
The creation of this very page
The puritan junta.
All those pale in comparison with probably the BIGGEST case ever: Nightmare Fuel is dead.