Apparent Edit War in the works over the Chorocojo Pokemon Platinum LP link. On the one hand, I think it's a fair cop to link to ongoing LPs on SA, but on the other hand, it's Fast Eddie himself dropping the hammer on it.

As someone who plunked down the "tenbux" almost solely to get my LP fix on, I can't exactly see how "it's a valid link, but it counts as broken if Tropers can't access the content within" is proper protocol and/or logic. LPs spend about four weeks on free view, one week off, if my last count before registering is correct, and I think we can keep the link as is (along with several others still going to the SA copies rather than LP Archive copies) if we put a disclaimer about this next to the core SA Let's Play forum link or something. Thoughts?

Should we make a new section for Penny Arcade forum L Pers? There seems to be quite a few of them, but some might consider it not enough.

Also perhaps we should move all the Youtube only L Pers to its own section too. Just to make it more organised.

I think some of these examples need to be removed as they're not that great. Or put a your milage may vary somewhere in the intro.

Why are the Freelance Astronauts being moved to the So Bad Its Good / So Bad Its Horrible section? There are other tropers who disagree and anyone who moves them back to the proper section are automatically accused of vandalism despite there being edit reasons that detail the move to the proper section.

I'm trying to understand the order of the Let's Plays on the page...and I don't think there is one. Perhaps each section should be alphabetized by game or player? It may make adding future examples easier in the long run.

Why can't we have a so bad it's horrible section admin? So are genuinely bad. Unless we can Darth Wiki it of course

What's the point of this page? It's not a trope. If this site called "Something Awful" has fans making a wiki article about their favorite site, can I make an article about mine? (it's mainstream to me!)

> due to the Something Awful forums

I'd call Older Than You Think on that too. I'm sure they didn't popularize gameplay videos.

You know, has anyone ever heard of Draygone's Let's Plays of games made with RPG Maker 1-3? http://www.pavilionboards.com/forum/showthread.php?s=14ac94c05c0c60092809c3683347e790&t=23880 He has some great work, albeit not on the Something Awful Forums, rather a very obscure forum that I'm part of, the RPG Maker Pavilion.

What is the term for a video game playthrough that contains neither audio commentary nor subtitles? Examples are DerfsonicGaming (formerly known as Derf Sonic) and Blitzmage.

At this point in time the page has become simply a list of dozens of Let's Play examples, with no way to tell which are any good or not. Beyond the first fifth of the page they degenerate into "NAME and his girlfriend NAME 2 have a number of funny L Ps, including GAME X and GAME Y. Check them out!", with no attempt to link to the rest of TV Tropes. I suggest removing the page entirely and replacing it with a link to The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing; this appears to be the only example worth saving.

Is it time to make a Let's Play Index? There are already pages for Sonic2006 and Sonic 2 Special Edition, and there are likely other pages, so it would be more convenient if they were compiled.

Does "No Such Thing as Notability" apply to Shameless Self Promotion?

Because if it doesn't, there's a whole pile of pages at the bottom that really shouldn't be there.

How does bikdiponabus not have his own page? I'm not really an editor, much less a page-maker, but...seriously, someone get on that! For that matter, Brynnagiadrosich(Bikdip's Girlfriend/co-L Per) should be on here too!

Since this page is still a mess, if nobody has any objections I'm going to try and make at least the first folder somewhat organized. I was thinking of listing them alphabetically by game (y'know, like it says on the page itself) with the name first, since sorting by L Per makes it difficult to quickly find a game you're looking for. I'm not entirely sure what to do with L Pers with multiple L Ps though, seems silly to scatter them if somebody likes that person's particular style. Was thinking of something like "Other Let's Plays by <Let's Player>: <list of that person's L Ps listed on the page>" as a note in small letters under the game in question, and then have the actual Let's Plays of those games and their detailed descriptions where they belong.

I think the page has also been bloated by all the separate comments describing a single aspect of each LP, but since I obviously haven't read through every single one, I can't know which ones are relevant and which aren't. We'll see.

Either way, it's quite a bit of work, so any good ideas are welcome (maybe more/different kind of folders or somesuch).

I was thinking of adding some Let's play from Nico Nico Douga but I'm not sure where I should put them or even if a new section should be done for Nico Nico Douga as they have quite a lot of Let's Play there. Yes, I know that they are mostly in Japanese but that's what make them interesting, especially when stuff like No Export For You, Bad Export For You, Difficulty By Region and Bowdlerise are in full effect.