I'm not sure I should have made this YMMV trope.: Megaton Announcement

The original intent for this was any announcement that set a whole bunch of discussion off, positive or negative. It seems to have just turned into "Gushing about announcements you like".

But even without that, it's an audience reaction at best, and barely tropeworthy. So should we cut this, or try to find a way to fix it?

Wow, this just seems like another glurge trope. I'd say cut it.

I'll also argue for a cut (though if we keep it, it might work better as trivia than as YMMV.)

Cut; it's pretty much impossible to mention this trope without gushing.

Cut.

Yeah, I'm for cutting this, as well. We have more than enough gushing tropes already.

I could see this being reYKTTWed as in-universe announcements, like Gundam 00 did a few of these and so did Ghost In The Shell.

as is nah maybe Trivia though.... maybe.

edited 20th Dec '11 4:14:21 PM by Raso

Yeah, may as well cut it.

Although the original intent was an announcement that sent people into a frenzy of discussion, good or bad. What if we made it a no-example page?

That's not really a trope or anything interesting enough to warrant a page.

Cut it. It's trivia at best, and not very interesting trivia.

Cut It. Not seeing the value in this. Subjective as hell too.

Cut.

Okay, cut was declined. So do we ask again, or just make this definition only?

Perhaps a crowner?

Did you send a link to this thread supporting the cut? Maybe they just saw there was a TRS and didn't cut because of that, ignoring that it's the TRS that decided to cut.

edited 8th Jan '12 3:49:36 AM by DrMcNinja

I didn't make the request, but who did had included the URL of this thread. You can see it on the recent cut list.

Then we should make a crowner to decide if it gets cut or not. I don't think they can ignore it if there's consensus.

If my opinion matters, I'd like it to stay an example-free definition. There are some small-scale occasions where it is invoked; an example I can think of off the top of my head was when the longtime GM of A Game Of Chance said that he was going to resign. There, it lived up to its definition and provoked shock and discussion, just as the definition says.

I am fully aware that that is a rare exception rather than the rule and was thinking of adding this to the RP's works page because of the shock and discussion it provoked, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents before the entry gets redlinked.

So crowner whether to cut, make example free, or other options we can still throw in here.

I made a single-prop crowner to decide if we will cut this or not.

Why not a page action, since there are other things more might prefer?

I've noticed that page-action crowners tend to get kind of messy. If we decide we don't want to cut this we can always make another crowner.

But you're putting one option ahead of the others. We should have both choices at once, not just going for one only after the other is voted down.

Can we stick with the single proposition anyway, or should we restart the crowning?