Describe Troper here.
Yeah, like
that's going to happen. The first occurrence of "troper" as a name for the people who record their thoughts here was in 2003, about a month after we launched. It was coined by a guy who wrote a lot of good TV.
And a few movies.
Moving on...
Mostly, it means You.
That's right, You. Time Magazine's person of the year,
2006
. A "Vigilante Taxonomist", so to speak. A person who
gets it.