TV Tropes meta thread

I did observe that some of the review areas around the site can get pretty nasty and a lot of the tropers you see there don't ever appear on the forums.

edited 12th Oct '15 9:18:32 PM by Bleddyn

There's a whole community who treat the review comments as an alternate forum. I wish I could make some of the more thoughtful ones come over.

This being the Internet, I can see some Fan Myopia coming up from time to time.

For example, most so called "Critical Research Failure" regarding character bios and infos in YMMV pages of review sites/channels/blogs/etc are hardly critical.

edited 13th Oct '15 9:18:14 PM by dRoy

So apparently a new kind of add appeared recently here. They don't run on Flash (so they can't be blocked by just blocking plugins), they make sound, and worst of all they pop up fucking "do you really want to quit this page" messages. I wish it didn't have to come to this, but I'm considering Ad Blocking TV Tropes.

You'd want to bring that up in the Wiki Talk subforum.

@Aetol: You might actually want to try this thread.

Some of our self-demonstrating articles are really, really super cringeworthy.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

Getting Crap Past the Radar page for cartoons.

Oh, such horror! What audacity!! Such subtlety and unsubtlety!!!

Yes, it's not like it's 2015. -rolls eyes-

Yep, that's the year we all currently exist in.

And?

Go to many parts of Eastern Europe and you'll see one reason why it happens.

Some parts aren't so bad, but there are many people who are plain old reactionary and think everything animated needs to be squeaky clean.

This place to me seems like one of the few places mostly not affected by um, the huge landslide of reactionary ultra right stuff that's been sweeping through the internet for the last few years.

Sure you can complain about iron fisted rules or whatever but i can put up with a few moderations or whatever. It's pretty chilled generally.

edited 3rd Nov '15 7:55:37 AM by ElectricNova

We're still talking about the radar pages for cartoons, right? And how apparently all the entries are written by Moral Guardians as opposed to people who are surprised that such-and-such cartoons was able to get away with whatever it got away with?

Many of the tropes, particularly the Shipping Tropes, seem to have 75% of their Fan Fic example sections dedicated to Asuka/Shinji fics.

On the matter of how fan work tropes are treated, I've noticed that there's a struggle between having fics mentioned by name (which makes checking straightforward but can drown the page in sub-par works that probably shouldn't be getting too much attention) and giving general overviews of how fan writers tend to treat the matter (which is usually easier to read and more informative, but relies on the judgement of a fan who might well carry their own biases). Different pages, even sub-pages go back and forth.

God, it can be so annoying when people here bring up realism, especially in terms of character actions.

Firstly, some of the said realistic actions are not realistic at all.

Secondly, you can't apply realism in some characters' actions to justify them, while not doing the same to others, for God's sake.

Lastly, just because it's realistic doesn't make it stop annoying/frustrating/etc.

Being plausibly^note I prefer "plausible" to "realistic" in the context of character actions, especially in fantasy annoying is not bad writing. Better to point out if the realism is lopsided, like Evangelion which puts grounded if extreme characters in a genre setting.

It's kinda funny reading the first few pages of especially long threads (those that started back in 2010 or earlier). People aren't hesitating to stating their dislike of something in a straight fashion. Now you don't see people going 'I hate series X.' in series X's threads anymore.

The current approach seems to be 'Don't like, don't enter.' for most topics in the Media subforum (the OTC is another case entirely).

edited 11th Nov '15 10:09:36 PM by FlowingCotton

People do that from time to time these days, though it's usually in a more snarky or subtle fashion. I remember a while back when the Pewdiepie thread got bumped back up in the New Media subforum, a bunch of the regulars from the Retsupurae thread basically raided it to make fun of and express disdain for PDP. Can't remember if mods got called in, though. That tends to happen when people go overboard with that in threads in those subfora.

If the Edit Banned thread is to be believed, a lot of people seem to think that "cloud to butt" text substitutions are funny for whatever weird reason.

80% they deliberately enable it and act surprised at the mess afterwards "Oh how silly of me!"

What is this cloud to butt thing?

They're browser extensions which replace certain words with other words. They mess up the wiki and stuff when editing.

I don't know why anyone would use such things.

for the lulz mostly

Cloud-to-butt in particular is because of "the cloud" as a tech buzzword; it's injecting juvenile humor into stale topics.