I'm Only Sleeping
Delete it, then disavow every notion of it. Damnatio memoriae.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
Laugh it off, everybody
We actually don't get to decide whether or not it springs up somewhere else, if people want Troper Tales, they'll have them.
The most important thing is that they are not here, or anywhere near us.
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We wouldn't be the ones hosting it elsewhere. If somebody moved it off-wiki, I wouldn't care so long as I didn't have to put up with them here.
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So if I support keeping TT though offsite, would I be voting yes?
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Correct, Glenn.
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You would be, Glenn.
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Laugh it off, everybody
Indeed you would.
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At the risk of getting mass flamed, I'm in favor of keeping it, moving it offsite (a la IJBM) if needed. I've found that some of the TT's on the more innocent topics are interesting and fun to read. If the tales for the more questionable topics are permanently deleted and locked, I've no objections.
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Yep.
Ninja'd x4. I really shouldn't be surprised.
edited 7th Aug '11 8:57:15 PM by INUH
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I am in very much agreement with Ten - I completely ignored the Troper Tales section but that's because I didn't care about it. Once I had joined and been hanging out for a week or so I actaully looked at one and went all "OMG What have I gotten myself into?"
So, to summarize:
EX/TER/MIN/ATE! EX/TER/MIN/ATE! EX/TER/MIN/ATE!
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@Glenn: Yes.
edited 7th Aug '11 8:57:44 PM by RocketDude
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I'm for moving it off-site.
Like Spain said, if people want Troper Tales, they'll just remake it.
edited 7th Aug '11 9:00:47 PM by Malph
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Laugh it off, everybody
If you want Troper Tales to be maintained off-site, you are completely free to start your own Wiki at Wikia or Wikidot or somesuch place, but the issue here is whether or not to keep it on this site.
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Troper Tales honestly makes me embarassed to admit that I'm a troper. And not because of how other people look at it. It's because I look at TT, and ask myself "Is this something I really want to admit being a part of?"
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If it does get moved off-site, I'd like a name change to further distance ourselves from it.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
Laugh it off, everybody
That's not something we can enforce, unfortunately.
Afaik, we have no legal hold on the word "Troper".
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
The forum is a bigger and more integrated community than the scattered wiki pages that make up TT. People looking for discussion and connection can take their anecdotes here. People looking to dump the minutiae of their lives into the vacuum of the internet can do so on the billion other sites made for that very purpose.
It would also free up some time for our small, overworked mod crew.
Faith in the self.
I agree with the general sentiment of knocking it off for good. Unnecessary, dull, unhelpful in any shape or form and hardly important or relevant.
Whether people want to create another TT wiki is another matter altogether and I don't think it should be discussed here
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Penguin: your avatar is quite disturbing. Derail aside you and others all have a good point about fora space and needing mod attention.
Who watches the watchmen?
While I'd be overjoyed to see Troper Tales go, is that actually a realistic possibility? The crowner shows a large vote in favor, but the previous times this has come up, I remember the idea being vetoed by Word of Mod. So I'm asking as an open question to the mods and especially Fast Eddie: if the majority of tropers want Troper Tales cut, will it actually be cut?
Troper Tales existing in one form or another is not the discussion, the discussion it getting rid of Troper tales from the websites www.tvtropes.org
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We renamed Nakama which had the same treatment.
Who watches the watchmen?
I'm Only Sleeping
I think moving it off-site isn't a bad idea.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
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Should Troper Tales be removed? Vote down for no, up for yes.
It's fucking creepy. I enjoy reading TT when it's innocent, but then you get to some more of our disturbing or naughty tropes, and just...good sweet merciful God.
And Haldo is right, it DOES discourage new members to join. I was terrified of people here after I made my account because of TT. And I agree that it's redundant. We have a forum, we don't need TT. It's literately just a waste of space.
So yes, it should be axed. And by axed, I don't mean we need to host it somewhere else. I mean burn that shit down to the ground.