I'm mostly an editor and tends to focus on cleaning up entries and pages, although I have created quite a few of both (as listed below) and added tropes and examples. I've been probably been editing since about September of 2008. I fit pretty well into the bell curve of
Troper Demographics. I'm from Southern California.
My main (relevant to this site) life objective is to know enough about everything to fool an expert in anything into thinking I'm a fellow expert for at least a couple of minutes. I've had some excellent conversations that way. Unfortunately, it's also led to an acute sense of how much I don't know.
A few of my philosophical views as a troper:
- Spoilers should be reduced as much as possible. I keep them on so that I can be aware of them, though I always look underneath. Founder of Tropers Opposed To Negligent And Gratuitous Spoilers to counter their mis- and overuse.
- I lean heavily towards SPOON, but decline to commit to any naming convention, as each have their pros, cons, and exceptions.
- I believe in politeness, yet I have a tendency to be sarcastic. Sorry about that, it's a personal demon I try to counter. I can also be politely rude sometimes, usually to self kicking when I look at it later.
- There are several common practices on the wiki that I consider rude, like bolding trope names in a response.
- I try to avoid the forums for multiple reasons, a lot of them having to do with my faith in humanity.
- Edit entries are generally only necessary the second time around, since edits seem to follow a modified form of Sturgeon's Law, in that 90% are driveby edits, never to be checked up on again and never to notice if you delete it an hour later — or if they do check, they don't decide to read it (modify language as needed for any other editing activity, eg. adding a trope, spoilering it). I still do it sometimes on the first edit, but don't get angry if that isn't the case.
It feels like bragging, but I've noticed it's a common thing for people to note on these pages what pages they've created/edit/whatever, so here's mine.
Articles I have started (not really indicative of my interests, just what I came across that lacked a page yet):
Tropes I have created the pages for:
Articles I've overhauled and am keeping a close eye on (read: I check every time their main page and subpages are edited):
The Salvation War
Up in the Air
A quite a few others.
