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Bubblepig (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
14th Dec, 2020 02:22:27 PM

Yikes. People edit waring over someone's option, not a good look. Someone needs to notify the op.

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PlasmaPower Since: Jan, 2015
14th Dec, 2020 05:44:45 PM

Is that name even allowed?

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BKelly95 Since: Jan, 2001
14th Dec, 2020 05:59:34 PM

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure user names must start with a letter.

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
14th Dec, 2020 06:04:53 PM

Narm is allowed. It's flame bait banner it a glitch, I asked.

Narm it moments supposed to serious that come off as unintentionally funny. Being "unintentionally humorous" isn't this trope it if it was still meant to be non-serious.

I can't tell if the case form the entry, but deleting YMMV because of personal feeling seems a big strike against especially if it's edit warring.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
14th Dec, 2020 06:05:21 PM

^ They were asking about the username, not about Narm.

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Serac Since: Mar, 2016
14th Dec, 2020 06:20:53 PM

There's no rule against usernames that don't start with a letter (although it messes with pings and you can't make a Tropers/ page), but I feel like names that are intentionally obnoxious to look up, such as Thirteen Consecutive Underscores here, shouldn't be allowed.

mightymewtron Since: Oct, 2012
14th Dec, 2020 06:31:33 PM

I don't think Thirteen Underscores knows what "intentional" means. If the creators clearly set it up to be a humorous scene, you can't list it as Narm for the same reasons it was intended to be humorous.

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
14th Dec, 2020 06:36:05 PM

Wasn't there another recent report about this user?

I'm having trouble finding it because, shock of all shocks, typing underscores into the search bar doesn't actually do anything.

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Serac Since: Mar, 2016
14th Dec, 2020 06:43:16 PM

^^ I assume they mean something like "I'm laughing at the writers of this game over how terrible and cringeworthy that 'joke' was". But yeah, it's still misuse either way.

lpk675 Since: Jun, 2019
14th Dec, 2020 06:44:53 PM

^ If that's the case, should I remove it and cite this discussion as my reason?

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
14th Dec, 2020 06:45:16 PM

Update, found the discussion they were originally mentioned in.

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lpk675 Since: Jun, 2019
14th Dec, 2020 06:49:33 PM

^ Yeah, I already linked that discussion in my original post, since I thought it would be relevant to bring up.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
14th Dec, 2020 06:50:23 PM

Ah, could've saved myself the search. :P

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
15th Dec, 2020 01:15:52 AM

Moved the entry to the discussion page. Normally _____________ would be due for stronger discipline but Zaptech is very fond of deleting YMMV entries for at best marginal reasons.

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MegaJ Since: Oct, 2009
15th Dec, 2020 09:23:16 AM

We need to have a discussion about Narm, because that entry doesn’t even really fit and needs to be removed. There’s nothing dramatic about that scenario at all, and Narm mostly gets used as “thing I found to be stupid in the work.”

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
15th Dec, 2020 10:16:15 AM

As-written the entry doesn't even establish that since as I pointed out on the discussion page, it just describes the scene, not stating that it's funny or stupid or anything.

If you change narm to Crowning Moment Of Funny or Fridge Horror it would make just as much sense.

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mightymewtron Since: Oct, 2012
15th Dec, 2020 11:11:44 AM

Maybe we should take this to Narm cleanup to see what they think? (Though even within that thread, there's disagreement on what counts as Narm, but this appears to be a comedic moment so I'd say it should stay cut.)

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