Given the amount of "I hate this" and "I hate that" threads in the Wiki subforum, I thought it would be better if they are all condensed in one thread, making them easier to track and blah blah blah... so

What aspect of the wiki bothers you? why? suggestions on what to do with them? Post them here.

I like Troper Tales and This Troper and creative titles. I'm not going to pull out any The Other Wiki citations, but we keep talking about "What Readers Want To See!" while forgetting that lots of readers, myself included, were drawn to the site BECAUSE of such things. It was like reading the frozen-in-time archives of an incredibly dedicated, intelligent, troll-free forum. It's the difference between reading a Webster's dictionary for pleasure and reading a well-written, detailed, funny book on etymology where you can tell there's a personality involved. Only here there are lots of personalities. And that's even better.

That's pretty poetic, tropette.

I suppose I had a hand in this thread with my last steam-blowing, so I'll mention here that I've thought that this site is great since I first saw it a couple months back, and people have been quite friendly so far.

My annoyance at "How have we gotten this far without mentioning [insert semi-obscure reference here]?" is a fairly half-hearted complaint, all in all.

Why isn't there a mechanism to delete posts?

I hate it when people don't follow formatting, and adding an index marker at the bottom of an article doesn't add it to the index itself (or does it?)

No, it doesn't.

Although Fast Eddie is working on a script to make it do that.

edited 26th Mar '09 12:19:18 PM by MetaFour

The Net Hack entry's being vandalized. Some trolls are deleting anything they don't like. Judging by the discussion page, this has been going on for a while.

I hope there's an easy, obvious way to stop this. Right now I'm so think I can't mad straight.

Natter and Justifying Edits, of course. But the persnickety atttitude toward spoilers grates. OK, Watchmen is 20+ years old, but I understand spoiler texting the ending. It's a big surprise. I get that.

But when someone on the Dollhouse page gets fussy because I removed the spoiler tags around the name of an actor IMDB says will play Alpha, well, that bothers me.

That thing, in the forum, where someone quote's some's page and it's like "Mr Bigglesworth at 10:50 PM Guam Standard Time said: [DATA EXPUNGED]" and it has a little speech bubble icon and everything.

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

Seriously, there's nothing in the markup help for that and not being able to reliably quote forum posts is pissing me off.

[[ quoteblock ]] Blah blah blah [[ /quoteblock ]]

Remove the spaces. If you want it to say who said the text you're quoting, you have to add that yourself. I like to format it:

[[ quoteblock ]] '''That Troper:''' Blah blah blah [[ /quoteblock ]]

Well, jeez, I'm sorry if you feel my post needs to be deleted. I missed the section in the original post which said "Express your opinions, just not about that."

I don't think anyone was calling for your post to be deleted, Tropette. Why'd you think so?

...For what it's worth, I actually agree most of the time. There are places where towers of discussion get ridiculous, but I hardly see them like the wiki-cancer most people seem to. Especially This Troper.

Considering the "Why isn't there a mechanism to delete posts?" and "IGNORE" replies, I think it's a very fair assumption.

I think Cliche wanted to delete his/her OWN post, not yours. Like, wrote something silly, then edited it to tell us to ignore it, then asked why he couldn't delete it.

I don't think that was aimed at you.

tropette: I agree; Cliche wanted to delete or ignore his own post, not yours. It's a common complaint here.

Yeah, I was peeved that there was no option to delete posts. No ill will intended.

Anyways, does anyone else get annoyed by Bold Inflation, or, to a lesser degree, italics? It's the equivalent of someone screaming or making an annoying emphasizing sound in your ear attempting to make sure you never forget what the wiki is trying to say, and I usually destroy the formatting on the spot. It's about as annoying as Two Words: Spurious Emphasis.

edited 29th Mar '09 5:14:24 PM by Cliche

I agree, but in my experience, people who misuse emphasis often just TYPE IN ALL CAPS instead of using italics.

I disagree where italics are concerned. There needs to be some way to add emphasis, and italics are much less offensive than bolded or capitalised text.

As a chronic abuser of italic emphasis, I'll admit that my speech patterns are probably just as annoying.

What? You can't be serious. This will not stand.

SPOOOOOOOOON!

Okay I'm done now.

4, 629 pages contain the word "basically".

Need I say more?

Actually, yes, yes you do. It's spelled right... is there some annoying phrase that uses the word?

It's a meaningless word, only used when people lack the courage of their convictions.

edited 30th Mar '09 8:45:33 PM by Micah

It's one on those pet-peeve formulations. You'll note that you can usually zap the word and comma and not change the sentence meaning at all.