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Deadlock Clock: Mar 2nd 2012 at 11:59:00 PM
Routerie Since: Oct, 2011
#1: Dec 9th 2011 at 5:04:26 PM

The current picture for Everything's Better With Indexes shows a guy's index finger.

Hilarious as that is, the page is not about indexes. "Index" is just a placeholder; the tropes take the form Everythings Better Than X, which is also a redirect for the page.

Can I pull the image? The article doesn't really need an image at all. In fact, were working on killing the snowclones that it lists.

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#2: Dec 9th 2011 at 5:55:50 PM

[up]It's a Visual Pun. That's essentially an automatic Keep Until Better Image Suggested(technically, you'll pretty much get nothing but "Keep Until Better Image Suggested", starting now).

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#3: Dec 9th 2011 at 7:37:53 PM

[up] Nope. Vote to remove, because it's an awful and low-quality pic.

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#4: Dec 9th 2011 at 9:00:58 PM

Eh, I'll call Keep Until Better Image Suggested on this one. It doesn't really add much to the page, but it isn't causing problems, so I don't see any reason to axe it.

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#6: Dec 10th 2011 at 10:13:11 AM

This would be a visual pun if it were a trope about indexes. "The trope is about everything being better with indexes, and the pic acts as though everything's better with index fingers. Ha!"

But the trope isn't about indexes. "Index" is just a placeholder, like "trope" used to often be. So this image no more belongs here than it belongs simultaneously here and on The Power of Index, Let This Index Be Your Umbrella and Tastes Like An Index.

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#7: Dec 11th 2011 at 5:43:57 AM

Oh, you have a point there.

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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#8: Dec 11th 2011 at 11:24:55 AM

This might be better with a two part picture. We show two versions of the same scene. One without one of these tropes, and the same scene with one of them. Might have to be a custom picture though.

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#9: Dec 13th 2011 at 12:30:55 PM

Vote to pull the current pic...doesn't really add anything to the page, Visual Pun or not.

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#11: Dec 16th 2011 at 3:41:30 PM

Why? We didn't vote against a pic at all.

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#12: Dec 16th 2011 at 5:03:14 PM

The worst thing about the image is that the pun isn't even accuarate becuase the pun is about indexes and the page is an index for the "Everything's Better With".

Support pull.

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#13: Dec 18th 2011 at 9:24:06 PM

Update: The votes are pretty much dead even right now on whether or not to pull the pic vs. Keep Until Better Image Suggested, from what I can tell.

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#14: Dec 18th 2011 at 9:28:47 PM

Supporting the pull for not adding anything.

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#15: Jan 31st 2012 at 12:02:22 PM

Bump...the pic got pulled a while back by the OP. I don't miss it, but I figured I'd check and see if we wanted to try to do something else or just put it back since there wasn't a strong consensus to pull.

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#16: Jan 31st 2012 at 4:06:54 PM

It doesn't show the index at all, not even as a JAFAAC example, and that is a good reason for removing an image.

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#17: Feb 28th 2012 at 9:41:32 AM

Clock is set; anyone want the finger back? I don't miss it.

edited 28th Feb '12 9:41:42 AM by Willbyr

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#18: Feb 29th 2012 at 1:29:02 AM

I certainly don't.

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#20: Feb 29th 2012 at 1:44:30 AM

Liking the imageless route best, to be honest.

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abk0100 Since: Aug, 2011
#21: Feb 29th 2012 at 1:45:30 AM

This page doesn't actually have anything to do with indexes. That's just a placeholder word.

If this page has an image, it should show "any trope where X is thrown in to a story to improve it even though X does not contribute to characterization or the plot."

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#22: Feb 29th 2012 at 4:20:54 AM

[up][up][up] Those are cute, but I lean toward imageless still.

edited 29th Feb '12 4:21:11 AM by Willbyr

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#23: Mar 3rd 2012 at 6:20:57 AM

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.

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