Scud East: Not sure how to handle this: the hacked-server anecdote is on here twice. Halfway down (text search "brazil") and second from the end (search "spykidz").
Yinyang107: I've removed it:
- This Troper's fifty year old father got one. He's a good worker with computers, to the point where he can teach advanced classes... and I'm understating it. Anyway, due to circumstances, he has to keep the servers he uses off-site. One day, the people who update the servers don't do their job properly and the site gets hacked (spykidz, if that means anything to anyone) Well. My dad finds out and calls up the people and they give him a bunch of bs about something that is obviously a lie. He calls the bs and sets out to find the hacker. He eventually tracks the hacker to Brazil, where he discovers some teenage kiddy-hacker. My dad convinces the kid to tell him how he did it, while dialing the FBI.
The Nifty: I realize this page was never gonna be particularly high-quality, but
damn. It's currently nothing more than several pages of poorly-written self-aggrandizement. Am I alone in wanting to cut this, or at the very least; exile it to the
Sugar Wiki?
Bob: I don't think we'll have to cut the whole thing but we should have some limit for what is awesome enough to qualify for this.
Purple Panther Girl: Tell me
Bob, what is awsome enough to qualify? How do we decide this?
Green-Stapler: This is really getting out of hand. Maybe we should do what we did with
Berserk Button and reboot it, only this time we'll put a warning at the top of the page about what is awesome and what isn't.
Crazyrabbits: As far as personal moments go, I can live with it, but it is disconcerting reading some of these entries that stretch on for an entire screen-length with little attention paid to grammar or sentence structure.
- Shellsh0cker: This is a wiki; if it bothers you that much, go ahead and fix it.
Smerf: Honestly, my solution is to make snarky comments.
Shellsh0cker: Might I offer a different solution? Categorize them. I'm seeing a lot of trends: standing up to bullies, video game achievements, academic achievements, personal achievements. I'd hate to have to reboot the page; a lot of these moments are
really awesome, like the Giga Fist Breaker guy, or the bard that used
Guitar Hero to win the D&D game.
Ripsaw: Two suggestions: Split into categories (yes, it's all
Real Life, but you can still categorize...), and put to the crowner.
Be: Suggestion 1 - anybody who uses the word "calmly" has their moment removed. Suggestion 2 - apply the same thing that's used for the Buffy page for this as well and put the moments up to a vote. Suggestion 3 - include "Violence" as a category. I, for one, am not impressed by people talking about how they totally beat up some guy for some insult. Suggestion 4 - get rid of ninety percent of them. Like this:
- This troper has two friends who recalls a CMOA after an anime convention. The two of them were harassed by a few jerks due to their cosplay. As the jerks are driving off, one of the friends picks up a rock and throws it exclaiming "GO GEODUDE!".
Rubbish. What's awesome about that?
- Roihu:I feel as though there is a lot of ego in this for small feats... sometimes not so C Mo A-worthy...
Ok, who decided to cut a bunch of examples out? I don't think anything was agreed and some of those examples were
cool.
This whole thing SHOULD be understood to fall squarely under
Your Mileage May Vary, so I don't feel ANYTHING should be cut. I do think a bit of organization would help, though.
- Heodez: Perhaps we could keep only anecdotes referring to other people (i.e. not "self-aggrandizement"). Which wouldn't prevent new posts made in the third person (and not the third person person), but at least it would allow for clearing of the already-existing posts. Who is a troper to deem themselves "awesome"?
- Heo again. I took it on me to start categorizing, using Shellsh0cker's suggestions. I do hope this is going to go well with everyone, and also that I'm not going to do the whole page on my own.
