Zzzzzzzzzz
Yes, it's a work-named page, but I really can't think of a better name for it. I read the name and knew immediately exactly what the pose was.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
This is a bad name? What else could you possibly call it? Isn't this like trying to find a new name for Funny Bruce Lee Noises?
edited 20th Mar '12 11:13:05 PM by abk0100
Doesn't seem like a bad name to me.
Doesn't look like a premature launch either. It had multiple hats, the launch name had more support than any other suggestion in the draft comments, and the YKTTW was running for a good week and a half. And it was bumped multiple times before launching to state the intent to launch, and nobody stepped in to stop it—in fact, it got Just Launch It Alreadys.
edited 21st Mar '12 6:13:53 AM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
It's not like they called it The Staying Alive.
Its redirects are Disco Point, Standard Disco Dance Pose, and Skyward Pointing Dance Pose. Seems fine.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Does it have misuse to justify a namechange?
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
It's a newly-created trope, so no.
The problem here was that the person who launched it basically ignored all feedback on the name and refused any redirects because one of "his tropes" had been switched with the redirect in the past.
I have no real opinion on this name. It's...meh, but I can't say I've seen a better suggestion.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteeredited 21st Mar '12 6:14:40 AM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Is this name misleading in some way, or is the complaint only about it being Trope Namer Syndrome?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I think the name works reasonably well. You can tell just by looking at it that it is about a dance pose.
Besides, the entire point of this is that is is supposed to be a shout out to Staying Alive. Like Elvis Impersonator or Charlie and the Chocolate Parody, referencing the thing/person that trope is a direct allusion to should not be a problem.
edited 21st Mar '12 6:44:24 AM by Catbert
The fundamental problem with Bad Trope Namers is that they are often unclear or Not An Example. This name is clear enough, so I don't think it's one bad enough to warrant a rename.
Are there other problems, or can we just close this?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Zzzzzzzzzz
After reading all of the YKTTW (archived on the trope discussion page, for anyone who doesn't already know that), I see that
- the only opposition to "Staying Alive" Dance Pose was from My Timing Is Off and
- consisted of "It's named after something from a work", and
- this thread was started by My Timing Is Off,
- with exactly the same objection and
- no further support for his argument that that made it a bad name.
Locking this thread as being started with an unsupported claim that the trope name is bad, and a strong appearance of sour grapes by My Timing Is Off.
edited 21st Mar '12 7:05:54 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
This is a continuation of an Ask The Tropers query I posted (simply search the name of the trope on ATT and you should find it) - to sum it up, this trope was rush launched to get a Bad Trope Namer past the system. The sponsor apologized for this action, so that's been straightened out. We now need to get a better name for this.