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Should there be a new page called "There is no movie", for film adaptations that have been disowned by the fans for being so bad?
TV Tropes was the topic that won the latest Cracked.com photoshop contest. Perhaps the image could be used for the main page?
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_143_if-every-website-got-dramatic-movie-adaptation_p2#1
Not to be disagreeable, but is there a forum thread or other place which details the reasoning behind the most recent change to the front page (the removal of the "cauldron of story" bit)? I can't, offhand, see the reasoning behind it - it wasn't confusing or improper. It was just a piece of frivolous fun, of the sort which (if I understand the current mission of the site after the changes) is still desirable.
If there's a good reason behind the change, that's one thing, but if not... well, I'm just wondering why.
Why are categories like Fridge Logic, Fridge Brilliance, and YMMV no longer allowed to be added on a show page?
Who made the new Turkey logo for the top of the page(s)? And will we see more custom logos in the future?
The idea to separate the entries into their own YMMV and Fridge pages is a great one, as it makes the main pages more factual and informative. But, it means I need twice the amount of articles added to my watchlist, and who has the time to sort through them all each day?! Is there a way to prevent this?
So, are we supposed to take it to the forums, when the forums are the source problem? Any disagreement there will get shouted down by the usual suspects after all.
Does anyone have any hard statistics on just how BIG TV Tropes is? How many pages are there (minus forums, discussions, meta-pages, etc)? How many regular editors? Visitors?
Is there anywhere on this site that I can find out about the history of this web site? I am curious as to who started tv tropes, when it was started, the history of tv tropes, things like that. I mean, this site has pages where I can get information on just about anything else, why doesnt it have a page for itself?
This should help a bit. It still doesn't say who founded it though.
It still doesn't say who founded it though.
You can also try the Ask The Tropers section for a more public question.
section for a more public question.
I'm new here, and I just want to know about making pages for fanfictions. You know, really, really bad ones? XD I found this one, it's basically the Glee version of My Immportal. The author even asked for a reccomendation from us, which I thought was cool. XD
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6539378/1/Da_Princess_in_da_gle_club
Should we make a page for it, or not? =/
Should we make a page for it, or not? =/
Unless you want to use:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ExamplePage
...instead.
...instead.
Regarding your Melnibone story generator located at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php fantasy and scifi games have seen a resurgence in recent years. Turns out it was wholesome fun after all compared to the ills of urban, or suburban living. I think your story generator could benefit greatly from this gentlemans story engine. Click the link for twisted fairytales. http://eversion.com/ and come see us sometime at http://funnyfarmnews.com
fantasy and scifi games have seen a resurgence in recent years. Turns out it was wholesome fun after all compared to the ills of urban, or suburban living. I think your story generator could benefit greatly from this gentlemans story engine. Click the link for twisted fairytales. http://eversion.com/ and come see us sometime at http://funnyfarmnews.com
So lately I've been seeing little pictures of like...I guess they're scales, in front of links such as Narm (just as an example, though I'm not sure it shows up whenever it links or just on specific pages). When and why does this show up?
Hey, can you please STOP advertising Shutter Island on my page? It's been going on for days, and I'm sick of seeing it!
is there a trope for breaking the trope where the area is populated exclusively by a certain gender(yes i know that there is one for each.)?
is there a trope for the little preview for the next episode where the most hilarity happens and where most of the fourth wrecking balls show up, usually in tandem?
I'd stumbled onto this site once or twice and didn't think much of it before, I mean, it looks pretty boring, and navigation is pretty unintuitive due to page titles.
But I just spent two straight days reading tabs upon tabs upon tabs of tropes and I gotta say... this site Took A Level In Awesome.
It's very informative, the pages are utterly hilarious, and it managed to get me really laughing without ever really drifting off into that uncomfortably offensive zone modern comedy so often tends to do when it comes to matters of fictionalized discrimination and the like.
I love the loose and lax atmosphere despite one or two instances of back and forth editing, and the very least, it made me more aware and analytical of the fiction I'm writing.
I'm so glad tv|tropes expanded into anime and video games (that makes it so much more accessible, if not simply ripe for more observational humor), and I really think the site deserves a more attractive layout.
It's definitely become a favorite of mine. Thanks, keep up the good work tropers!
This is going to sound -uh- rather depressing, but... I'm thinking we should start planning for a big something special for when Terry Pratchett takes the problem with him, if you know what I mean. If Google can do memorial spreads, we can, too. Is there anything planned? As, let's face it, it could be 3 months from now... or 5 years. One thing I thought of was to highlight just how many tropes the guy does cover, by trying to find a quote-for-every-major-trope... Not sure if such a huge re-edit is possible, but, it could be a dedicated page of its own, and not just a quotes page? Just a thought…
is there a trope about someone unable to open a jar——no one can do it in a circle of friends—-and then one character does it easily and inadvertently?
I am beginning to see editors deleting entries because someone started it with 'This Troper.' Why not just get rid of the words 'This Troper' for that entry instead? Editing sentences is a middle school level skill. I'm sure the entry would be adequate if revised like that.
Example - ** This Troper can't be the only one who thought Pascal sounded like the Antlion grubs from
Episode 2.
Episode 2.
Did anyone noticed that in nearly 90% of all available ego shooters and 3D action games the player movement on the map is limited by insuperable cliffs? It's sort of the more attention seeking twin brother of the invisible wall.
Does anyone know why the spoilers don't show up on an iPod Touch after logging in and changing profile settings? I'm having trouble with viewing spoilers on my iPod. This is also happening on the PC as well.
I discovered edits made by tropers who claim, for example, "Deleting Wall Banger entry- they belong in Darth Wiki". How do they know this stuff, and where do they hear of it!? I hate having to see perfectly reasonable entries deleted because of a "new rule" on TV Tropes I have never heard of before! Can someone please provide a one-stop reference page that lists all the tropes that go where?!!
I have held off from visiting this forum part for a very long time and only posting anonymously (save for "fridge brilliance" and "most triumphant example" entries, of course), but there is a VERY vital issue facing this whole board and this whole WORLD that I simply cannot avoid any longer, and we need to make up our minds about it. The Elephant in the Room cannot be ignored any longer. People, it's time to do something! So I need your answers to this survey pronto, for the good of the site.
Cake or death?
There should be a new page for The Hunted, the one with Christopher Lambert in Japan along with John Lone and Joan Chen. I loved that movie.
Can someone, please answer, why is it okay to use "retarded" as an insult like I see in many pages of this Wiki, even though it's COMPLETELY UNFAIR AND RUDE to people who actually suffer mental retardation?
Think about, I for example am autistic, and I seriously want to cry whenever I see people using the R-word.
I doubt the usage of "gay" as an insult would last long in ANY article. Why the Double Standard?
I want Perverse Asexual Cuddlelust back. SHARPISH. And what's with all the Crowning Moments? Or lack thereof? Oh TV Tropes, I loved you! And this is how you repay me? *Wibbles* Please say I'm not alone in this?
Okay, I'm not going to say "Fast Eddy sucks wah wah wah". I see the intentions there, and mods do much more good than harm. That, and I know that Eddy isn't the only to decide things about this wiki (despite rumors...).
But my problem is this: When I was trying to write an article for Jellote, things like strike: and white: did not work. They were needed to make the article work. Now, it looks like gibberish. And the weird thing is, on Sir Ron Lionheart, strike: works. And why did we do away with these links? Because people were misusing them. As I am a firm disbeliever in allowing some people to ruin things for everyone, I think these changes do more harm than good. I don't want to undo what the mods do. I just want the wiki to be as useful as it could be.
I'm planning on making a YKTTW page called Food As Reward, but right now, I'm stuck on examples. I can only think of maybe two or three examples right now. If anyone can please help me out, I'd be very grateful.
On my watchlist, I don't see the blue dots next to the entries that have been updated since I visited last. I need to look and see which in the list is the last one I saw all the updates of now. Where did the blue dots go?
What happened to all the other languages? Their little flag buttons seem to have disappeared from the top of the main page.
So the front page says "This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction."
Except this isn't right. This wiki not only covers tropes from works of fiction, but non-fiction as well, including those from real life. In fact, if the very name of the wiki is to be taken literally, this description has always been wrong, as it means (I believe) "tropes" in the sense of being cliches. These being exclusive to fiction is hardly the case, even on TV.
So, uh. What's up with that?
We now have the bit about not being negative, snide and sarcastic on the front page? It's apparently that big of a problem we need to have it mentioned on the front page and not just in the rules for posting on the wiki elsewhere?
Is there a trope about a game that tends to make everyone screw each other over really bad? (i.e. New Super Mario Bros Wii, Mario Party, etc...) It just seems that every video I see of NSMBW, someone kills their partner or themselves intentionally.
I have a question: I once saw someone put a list of Tropes that apply to themselves on there account page. How can I do that? I haven't been able to figure out how.
Is there a trope about arbitrary gun specs in video games?(Call Of Duty is a major offender) wherein because reliabily, ergonomics and weight, the biggest factors of same-caliber guns, aren't represented, thus the designers assign wildly different stats of accuracy, range, power, etc on guns of the same caliber and near-same barrel length?
I think we need a Reason You're Awesome Speech page, you when a character's friend reminds them of what they're done and what they can do.
Why are all the Home Page namespaces like WMG and Headscratchers gone now? And what happened to the Darth and Sugar wikis?
In the Hey, It's That Voice! page, someone said that Thalía voiced the dubbed version of Anastasia, Dulce Guerrero voiced her, Thalía online provided the singing voice
In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic page, someone said that the episode five of season one was pull out of air in Latin America, I actually saw the all episode on tv; which makes that statement inaccurate