Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
Until further notice
...Funny, I thought that was more because of the "No Negativity" policy.
Do a barrel roll!
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"Just as planned."
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One thing I have noticed because of that is some people will play Devil's Advocate in what they say to bring legitimate flaws in the work into focus, which is often not a bad thing because it uncovers what might otherwise have been an Elephant In The Livingroom
edited 18th Aug '14 8:07:12 AM by RatherRandomRachel
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Still just awesome like that
So you may or may not know about the podcast The F Plus, where they read terrible things on the internet (with enthusiasm). Here they are reading a collection of weird things that have been posted in this site's Writer's Block section.
As long as you post at least once a day, people won't forget you exist.
That's not true. There are plenty of tropers who no longer post and are still remembered.
'80s TV Action Hero
And some who post all the time that everyone's forgotten?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
'80s TV Action Hero
Sorry, have we met?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
The Beta Male
Like Chagen.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
State of Mind
Like who?
"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min Kim
Party Crasher
You don't really want to know.
Anyhow, this gravedancing is pointless.
edited 25th Aug '14 2:33:17 PM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
I do enjoy them, from time to time, cause it's a thriller.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
This. It's best to not worry about who Chagen was.
"Just as planned."
Thriller nights! And no one's gonna save ya from the beast about to strike!
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
You're fighting for your life inside a killer!
Thriller tonight, yeah.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
So under some entries, especially in YMMV, about Awesome Moment, HSQ, Nightmare Fuel, Genius Bonus, etc:
"Too many to list."
Oh, fuck you.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Yeah, that is a classical ZCE entry. Worth noting also that there aren never "too many examples" for their listing not to be worthy - one, not all examples will actually be added, and two, a page can be split to accomodate overly long example lists.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
"Just as planned."
Quite often that much irritates me, especially on things like Genius Bonus where it comes off as gushing - I'll admit in some works like Hamlet pages like Alternate Character Interpretation need a full on page, but you shouldn't need to do it for most and it should be said as something less gushy like "Plenty of ideas have been given over the years - See Here for the full list"
"Did you expect somebody else?"
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I remember Chagen. He got fired for harassing female posters about unrequited romance I believe?
And one observation I've noticed is there is no YTTKW Graveyard, or Trope Graveyard, or something along the lines that one can read about to see what once was here, was deleted or cycled out for something else.
Also quite a lot of people on here hate Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, but everyone I know in real life think he's adorable. Do people go on the internet to hate him? He doesn't belong in the Complete Monster category.
Coverage on Lindsay Lohan's drug activities doesn't belong on the TF 2 page, nor does Kim Kardashian's wedding plans.
This place is content with Mc Donalds, I like that. This place gives budding writers a lot of good ideas, but I haven't seen any new books that included TV Tropes in their Thank You sections. Same with game developers and animators.
I remember some person trying to write trope articles about bees. Not like, animated bees or book bees, like actual bees. He got banned I think.
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Do a barrel roll!
I have, actually. Though I don't refer to TV Tropes by name; I say "my friends." :)
Flora is the most beautiful member of the Winx Club. :)
Chapter 1 (Discontinued)
Would Eddie take offense to somebody including the site in their Thank You section or is it not one of those kinds of sites? (I remember sites that dislike being credited something or another)
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The Beta Male
He was also banned for threatening suicide for attention and being a paedophile that wouldn't shut up about his diaper fetsish, I think.
I think that might be more of an issue with Creative Commons than Fast Eddie, though, so you may want to contact then. Then again, I'm not an expert on all this legal crap.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Zzzzzzzzzz
There would be no problem if someone wanted to include the site in their "thank you"'s.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
One thing I've noticed is that people here aren't as hipster-y as other similar sites. I'm a commenter on other sites with a similar focus and it seems everyone in their comments always falls all over themselves to show how they don't like X popular thing.