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Pig_catapult Hurler of Swine from Knee-deep in Nightmare Fuel Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#1: Jun 6th 2013 at 5:15:40 PM

"Trope" as a placeholder (again). It's not even a very clear name, either. According to the description, it's about bleeping-out innocuous words to make a sentence sound dirty.

We can do better than this.

MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#2: Jun 6th 2013 at 7:17:23 PM

I'd suggest a transplant with the redirect Unnecessary Censorship from the meme title, but it could be misused as complaining about censorship. And, well, it's a meme.

Hm... Censored Cleanliness?

edited 6th Jun '13 7:17:44 PM by MikuruFan

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#3: Jun 7th 2013 at 12:58:24 AM

Censored Cleanliness is good for me.

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#4: Jun 7th 2013 at 4:50:48 AM

Or perhaps Son Of A Bleep. I know it falls under naming the trope after its own example (not a Good Thing), but at least it makes more sense and doesn't use the word "trope" gratuitously.

edited 7th Jun '13 4:51:43 AM by Stratadrake

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AmyGdala Since: Oct, 2012
#5: Jun 7th 2013 at 5:36:02 AM

Anything's better than the current name, but that's not a good alternative. It sounds like tropes about bleeping swears.

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#6: Jun 7th 2013 at 5:58:05 AM

Naughty Censoring? Censored for Comedy?

edited 7th Jun '13 7:19:07 AM by Larkmarn

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kiukiuclk from 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693 Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: My TiMER is ticking
#7: Jun 7th 2013 at 7:13:19 AM

Well, the image is terrible and it isn't even a correct example according to the description. Should this be in the other forum? I saw a couple misuses also, where people seemed to think any form of bleep censoring was an example. *Bleep*-dammit! should probably also be linked to from it's page. And there seems to be some overlap there.

There is also some weird cases, like shows using censoring as an alternative to a Bland-Name Product (aka it's not profanity, but also not arguably unnecessary) . Also, looking at the examples, there seem to be a ton of cases where it's not obvious what the bleeped out word is (it could be something that needs it or not).

People seem to be using it as a generic censoring trope(which we don't seem to have, oddly enough, it might be worth having a definition only super trope). The whole censoring tropes hierarchy could probably use a bit of a re organisation (or at least an index), and this one seems to be attracting the stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.

MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Jun 22nd 2013 at 2:35:59 AM

This looks like a case for a plain rename.

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MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#12: Jun 22nd 2013 at 7:33:57 AM

OK, I've asked for a rename crowner.

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#13: Jun 22nd 2013 at 1:17:48 PM

Single prop crowner's hooked.

Leaper Since: May, 2009
#14: Jun 22nd 2013 at 1:47:17 PM

@7 Actually, according to the caption, it is. But you'd have to mull over it a bit to get it, or else have seen the scene in question.

MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#15: Jul 7th 2013 at 3:06:53 AM

11 votes support renaming with no opposition.

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#16: Jul 7th 2013 at 4:04:21 PM

I'd say that's enough of a consensus; calling for the rename.

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#18: Jul 7th 2013 at 9:17:21 PM

[up] Swapped; I'll adjust the title.

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shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
#20: Aug 11th 2013 at 12:44:28 PM

There appears to be a little bit of misuse on the page as well.

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#21: Aug 12th 2013 at 9:37:57 AM

Called crowner in favor of Censored for Comedy

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#22: Aug 13th 2013 at 5:13:44 AM

I and MacronNotes finished the rename, save for a ghost wick and a wick on a to-be-cut page.

Requesting closure.

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