Per Ask The Tropers, this thread will be used to reduce the number of old, poorly written drafts on the Trope Launch Pad
. We don't want to discuss on the drafts themselves because that will bump them and mix them with active proposals.
Sandbox for the project: Trope Launch Pad Discard Project
Sandbox for discarded drafts but viable ideas: Trope Idea Salvage Yard
The first sandbox page above contains drafts proposed in the thread that are still pending and drafts that we've decided to leave alone, either with no action or a bump.
The second sandbox page is for awful drafts but viable ideas. According to moderators, badly written but interesting/tropeworthy drafts should remain on the TLP. Rather than allow low-effort drafts to clog TLP, though, the salvage yard was opened to keep just the ideas behind them, in one place.
On this thread, we will mention which drafts we think are unworkable, add enough bombs, and discard (nuke) them. Discarding requires at least 5 bombs. Among the features of "unworkable" drafts:
- There have been no edits for a very long time, or at all
- The draft is low-effort, containing atrocious spelling and grammar and/or little to no examples, e.g. NEVER saw THAT coming (!), Nut-Chuks
- The draft was seemingly created so the sponsor could complain
- The topic is People Sit on Chairs, Too Rare to Trope, a search query created by mistake, etc. and therefore not tropeworthy
- The topic is already sufficiently covered by one or more tropes or is a duplicate of a better-written TLP draft
- The draft is problematic in other ways, such being closely tied to a page that has been historically problematic, e.g. Fetish Fuel, Complete Monster
- There's no discussion currently occurring in the comments to improve the proposal
If we decide to discard a draft after discussion via this thread, whoever does so must provide the discard reason in the comment section of the draft, for transparency's sake. Those looking at the discards section won't think it was nuked for no reason.
Also, check out the sister project, Trope Adoption Drive, where good drafts put Up for Grabs or abandoned can be grabbed, given a bit more improvement, and launched.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 24th 2022 at 12:02:43 PM
Short-Term Projects herald
Nuked a good few of these.
EDIT: This would be:
- 3-Page Book
- Friends With Prey
- life saving flight
- No Really He's Okay
Edited by Brainulator9 on Mar 6th 2019 at 4:51:06 AM
Contains 20% less fat than the leading value brand!
- Car Chase Truck Crunch is The Same, but More Specific to Wronski Feint. Bombing.
- How To Become an Evil Overlord for Dummy: Bombed and nuked for Tabs's reasons.
- Unusual Momento: Bombed for Yes, We DO Have This One and the misspelled title.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Mar 6th 2019 at 11:58:23 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Mutilation Equals Redemption: Duplicate of Redemption Equals Affliction.
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Tossed in my bomb.
NEVER saw THAT coming (!)
: Low-effort draft. Captain Obvious Reveal with a smattering of TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
Edited by Tabs on Mar 8th 2019 at 12:30:47 PM
Agreed, bombing.
Short-Term Projects herald
Nuked "Unusual Momento" and "Mutilation Equals Redemption".
Contains 20% less fat than the leading value brand!
Added the fifth bomb and nuked it.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Thicker Than Blood. This one is covered, can we get two more bombs?
I found and bombed Invisible Platform. It has a poor description, questionable examples, and a case of Yes, We DO Have This One (Invisible Block), among other complaints.
As for Thicker Than Water, one of those three bombs is already mine, so I can't bomb it again.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Mar 6th 2019 at 2:35:49 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Audience Addict
— This is Attention Whore.
Survival Dismay
— One example, four bombs.
Compressed Time Frame
— This is Extremely Short Time Span
Slogan Spouting Spirit Squad
— Low effort, based on a Troper Tale, really.
Love And Lust
— Spun off from another TLP that was abandoned.
Pitchfork Works
— Covered by Gardening-Variety Weapon.
Edited by DracMonster on Mar 8th 2019 at 8:27:43 AM
Bombed Audience Addict, Compressed Time Frame, Slogan Spouting Spirit Squad and Pitchfork Works for Yes, We DO Have This One.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Unexpected Fanservice Person: twice the amount of bombs to hats, comments can't decide if it's just one of the other Fanservice tropes. Surprising number of examples.
Exotico: all of the examples are from real life and and the laconic isn't that descriptive.
The Ice King: name is a snowclone of Ice Queen. Huge description, no examples (though the comments imply there were some at one point).
Already threw a bomb on Exotico.
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There were... I think four? There are so many bombs I think the author would benefit from a new draft. The fanservice one: is that YMMV or something? I loathe it. Don't really know what to do with either.
Bugs Are Fair Game
: low-effort, and we already have What Measure Is a Non-Cute?.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 8th 2019 at 12:31:37 PM
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Tossed Ice King, since not only has there been MANY other attempts at that same draft that absolutely failed, but the OP is TLP banned for it...
Dunno about the other two. They've got their issues, but also discussion...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness- I already threw a bomb on Exotico quite a while ago, should I just press the Discard button now?
- Bombed Bugs Are Fair Game for Yes, We DO Have This One.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Mar 6th 2019 at 3:23:13 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
I'm honestly against tossing drafts with unresolved discussion and relatively recent engagement, unless the very concept is unsalvageable like with Ice King, as proven by the many other failed attempts. Exotico is a bad draft definitely, but...eh...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Exotico has an edit from this year, and the sponsor is still active. I don't know much about wrestling but there seems to be a trope.
How about Different Nationality Mob Wife
. No narrative reason behind this other than "this exists". Relies on stereotypes.
Sequel Time Skip
: no edits, five-ish tropers in the comments saying this is not a trope.
Nut-Chucks
: Low-effort draft. What the Fu Are You Doing? specifically to nunchucks resulting in Groin Attack.
Humans Are Boring
: This is Humans Are Average.
Pun Fu
: This is a Pungeon Master delivering "You Fight Like a Cow".
Midas Plot
: Midas Touch covers it.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 6th 2019 at 11:50:00 AM
- Bombed and nuked Different Nationality Mob Wife for Tabs's reasons.
- Bombed Sequel Time Skip for People Sit on Chairs.
- Bombed Nut-Chucks for already being covered by Fighting With Chucks, Groin Attack, and especially What the Fu Are You Doing?
- Bombed Humans Are Boring and Midas Plot for Yes, We DO Have This One
Went all Bomb Throwing Anarchist on them too.
Edited by DracMonster on Mar 6th 2019 at 7:54:21 AM
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Gonna get that boom, boom, boom...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
- opposite of Vehicle Vanish: Appears to be intended as a Trope Finder post, not a draft.
- This one troper made not one but two stub drafts for the same concept.
- Yoga Action Sequence is a dupe of Mid-Battle Tea Break.
- The Good Guy VS. The Bad Boy, a duplicate of Betty and Veronica that is pointlessly male-specific.
- Meet Jane, Who Has Breasts, a dupe of Male Gaze.
Bombed those drafts
Short-Term Projects herald
Nuked:
- Sequel Time Skip
- Pun Fu
- Humans Are Boring
- Compressed Time Frame
- Invisible Platform
- Thicker Than Blood
- Troper Wall
- The Good Guy Vs. The Bad Boy
- Meet Jane, Who Has Breasts
These drafts are so 2000-and-late.
No really, some of these hail back to when we allowed new stock phrases.
Contains 20% less fat than the leading value brand!
Bombed all five on your post, War Jay.
praising imperfection
: Low-effort draft. I believe it's now covered by Freakiness Shame (fantastic traits) and Just the Way You Are.How To Become an Evil Overlord for Dummy
: Low-effort draft. We have Parodies for Dummies and Specific Situation Books.Unusual Momento
: Continuity Cavalcade But More Specific.Edited by Tabs on Mar 6th 2019 at 11:47:29 AM