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Author: Knight9910

Mar 17th 2013 at 4:31:05 PM

Which is exactly what I'm saying. Barring a lucky occurrence ''we're never, ever going to have an overwhelming consensus.'' It's an issue of there being a lot of names for the trope that are good but none that really '''pop''', you know? There's no potential title that anyone would look at and say "Yes. Hell yes. That must be the title or the world will end, yes!"

And, you know, I really very sincerely doubt that some magical messiah is going to show up with a perfect name that the entirety of TV Tropes will unanimously agree on. That's why I'll say again: I REALLY think we need to just launch. I mean, let's look at this logically:

1. The only reason this is even an issue is because we made a crowner. If we'd never done that then the trope would have already launched as SpeakingLoudlyAndSlowlyTranslation ages ago. 99% of YKTTWs that get launched never have a crowner. ''A crowner is not strictly necessary.''

2. If we're going to wait for an overwhelming consensus we could potentially be sitting on the trope for months, if not years. Like I said, this just isn't something that that many people feel all that strongly about.

3. Given number 1 and number 2 I would be shocked as Hell if any of the mods actually got pissed at us for just launching. I mean, I respect the idea of due process as much as the next guy but there comes a time when you need to ignore it. Unless the mods are all robots I'm sure they'll understand.

Honestly, I just think you need to not be so timid. This is TV Tropes. We're very laid back here. You don't need to worry all that much about bureaucracy.