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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: It's become harder and harder to find archives of some of the old TroperTales as time has gone on. Some tales were never archived at all.
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** Since PersonalAppearanceTropes are magnets for Administrivia/{{Zero Context Examples}}, especially if they turn out to [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs lack narrative signficance]], a forum thread was started for cleaning them up without the need for a Administrivia/TropeRepairShop thread.
** Due to tropes with {{Snowclones}} for names having issues with clarity and often [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs narrative significance]], the Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones policy was enacted to discourage their creation.
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** It's become harder and harder to find archives of some of the old TroperTales as time has gone on. Some tales were never archived atall.all.
** Due to Archive/TheGreatCrash, some portions of the site are lost, at least on TV Tropes itself; whether archive sites like the Wayback Machine saved copies is not guaranteed.
** Due to tropes with {{Snowclones}} for names having issues with clarity and often [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs narrative significance]], the Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones policy was enacted to discourage their creation.
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** It's become harder and harder to find archives of some of the old TroperTales as time has gone on. Some tales were never archived at
** Due to Archive/TheGreatCrash, some portions of the site are lost, at least on TV Tropes itself; whether archive sites like the Wayback Machine saved copies is not guaranteed.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
** Due to changes in [[Administrivia/HowToWriteAnExample wiki editing guidelines]] over the years, it's not unheard of for older pages to feature deprecated stylistic elements, particularly with how examples are written, especially if such pages have not attracted an EntryPimp or WikiCurator, or have few {{wick}}s.
* {{Vaporware}}: The Administrivia/TwoPointZero update has been touted for years as a significant overhaul of the wiki, particularly in terms of how convenient editing and maintenance would be with it. Since it was announced, there have been more minor updates instead, such as 2018's 1.8 update.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has its own page.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the alternate names on the crowner that eventually renamed YouKnowThatThingWhere to TropeLaunchPad: Trope Lab, Trope R&D, Trope Nursery, Build-A-Trope, and even "how odd!".
** Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
** Due to changes in [[Administrivia/HowToWriteAnExample wiki editing guidelines]] over the years, it's not unheard of for older pages to feature deprecated stylistic elements, particularly with how examples are written, especially if such pages have not attracted an EntryPimp or WikiCurator, or have few {{wick}}s.
* {{Vaporware}}: The Administrivia/TwoPointZero update has been touted for years as a significant overhaul of the wiki, particularly in terms of how convenient editing and maintenance would be with it. Since it was announced, there have been more minor updates instead, such as 2018's 1.8 update.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has its own page.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the alternate names on the crowner that eventually renamed YouKnowThatThingWhere to TropeLaunchPad: Trope Lab, Trope R&D, Trope Nursery, Build-A-Trope, and even "how odd!".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has its own page.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the alternate names on the crowner that eventually renamed YouKnowThatThingWhere to TropeLaunchPad: Trope Lab, Trope R&D, Trope Nursery, Build-A-Trope, and even "how odd!".
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has its own page.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the alternate names on the crowner that eventually renamed YouKnowThatThingWhere to TropeLaunchPad: Trope Lab, Trope R&D, Trope Nursery, Build-A-Trope, and even "how odd!".
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** Many quotes will be presented in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This Is Sparta]] format, when it wasn't said like that. Partly why it was renamed to PunctuatedForEmphasis.
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** Many quotes will be presented in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This Is Sparta]] format, This. Is. Sparta.]] format when it wasn't said like that. Partly This is partly why it the trope was renamed to PunctuatedForEmphasis.
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** This has happened on this very wiki! (not [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repeatedly]], though): after TV Tropes was mentioned in ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', a mob of newbies washed over the forums and wiki, trashing the servers.
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** This has happened on this very wiki! (not [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repeatedly]], though): after TV Tropes was mentioned in ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', a mob of newbies washed over the forums and wiki, trashing the servers.
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has it's own page.]]
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has it's its own page.]]
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[Administrivia/NoExamplesAreRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[Administrivia/NoExamplesAreRecent ([[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
** This wiki has a Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being sent off to separate off-site wikis. The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** {{Troll}}s, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep {{troll}}ing, {{flam|eWar}}ing each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the Administrivia/{{edit war}}s they caused.
** In at least [[Characters/{{Frozen}} one case]], continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
** This wiki has a Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being sent off to separate off-site wikis. The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** {{Troll}}s, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep {{troll}}ing, {{flam|eWar}}ing each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the Administrivia/{{edit war}}s they caused.
** In at least [[Characters/{{Frozen}} one case]], continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
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* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
** This wiki has a Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (readWhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: So many instances that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/TVTropes it has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being sent off to separate off-site wikis. The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** {{Troll}}s, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep {{troll}}ing, {{flam|eWar}}ing each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the Administrivia/{{edit war}}s they caused.
** In at least [[Characters/{{Frozen}} one case]], continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.it's own page.]]
** This wiki has a Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being sent off to separate off-site wikis. The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** {{Troll}}s, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep {{troll}}ing, {{flam|eWar}}ing each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the Administrivia/{{edit war}}s they caused.
** In at least [[Characters/{{Frozen}} one case]], continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel FetishFuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on were moved to separate sites.sites, which are now both offline.
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** This wiki has a RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
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** This wiki has a RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: It's become harder and harder to find archives of some of the old TroperTales as time has gone on. Some tales were never archived at all.
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** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
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** This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] wikis. The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and FetishFuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and FetishFuel Fetish Fuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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** This is the reason why FetishFuel and TroperTales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in FetishFuel and TroperTales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
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** This is the reason why FetishFuel Fetish Fuel and TroperTales Troper Tales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in FetishFuel Fetish Fuel and TroperTales, Troper Tales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
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** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
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** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
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** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the {{edit war}}s they caused.
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** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the {{edit Administrivia/{{edit war}}s they caused.
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** ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
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** ZeroContextExamples Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
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** {{Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
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** {{Headscratchers}} {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
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** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
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** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the ExampleSectionectomy, Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[NoExamplesAreRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[NoExamplesAreRecent ([[Administrivia/NoExamplesAreRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the alternate names on the crowner that eventually renamed YouKnowThatThingWhere to TropeLaunchPad: Trope Lab, Trope R&D, Trope Nursery, Build-A-Trope, and even "how odd!".
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* FollowTheLeader: To Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Website/YouTube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the [=YouTube -[obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Website/YouTube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the [=YouTube -[obscurity, [=YouTube=] obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Website/YouTube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the Website/YouTube obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Website/YouTube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the Website/YouTube obscurity, [=YouTube -[obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** '''Naughty Tentacles''' and Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident killed Porn Tropes and led to the creation of a new organization of Tropers dedicated to screening new and existing pages for adult content. If a page was lucky, it came back locked. If not, it was hit with a salted nuke. Also, the creation of new porn-related pages is today considered by This Very Wiki to be our equivalent of a capital offense. As far as tropes go, '''Naughty Tentacles''' in particular is to blame for that.
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** '''Naughty Tentacles''' NaughtyTentacles and Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident killed Porn Tropes and led to the creation of a new organization of Tropers dedicated to screening new and existing pages for adult content. If a page was lucky, it came back locked. If not, it was hit with a salted nuke. Also, the creation of new porn-related pages is today considered by This Very Wiki to be our equivalent of a capital offense. As far as tropes go, '''Naughty Tentacles''' Naughty Tentacles in particular is to blame for that.that. While it did eventually return later, it would be a locked example-free definition page.
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* TheWikiRuleTheWikiRule: TV Tropes is one for media and storytelling.
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** Trolls, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
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** Trolls, {{Troll}}s, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
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** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep trolling, flaming each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
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** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep trolling, flaming {{troll}}ing, {{flam|eWar}}ing each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
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** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the edit wars they caused.
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** In at least one case, continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
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** In at least [[Characters/{{Frozen}} one case, case]], continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and FetishFuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]]. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and FetishFuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]].Website/FourChan. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* DemandOverload: The site nearly ran into this during Administrivia/TheGoogleIncident.
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Youtube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the yt obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Youtube Website/YouTube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the yt Website/YouTube obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
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** In at least one case, continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.markup.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Given its reliance on informal writing style and pop culture references, it can be made very apparent when a certain entry or article was made ([[NoExamplesAreRecent even when there are efforts to minimize such datings]]), for example something written in the mid-to-late 2000's containing plenty of references to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' or ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
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** Stock phrase titles were never good trope namers to begin with, but two tropes can be traced to this titling convention's ultimate downfall: '''I Eat Metaphor For Breakfast''' and '''WhatYearIsThis'''. [[TropeRepairShop TRS]] threads for both ended up [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot uncovering a massive epidemic of]] TropeDecay involving stock phrases. As a result, in mid-2011 it was decreed that Administrivia/NoNewStockPhrases would be used as trope titles.
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** Stock phrase titles were never good trope namers to begin with, but two tropes can be traced to this titling convention's ultimate downfall: '''I Eat Metaphor For Breakfast''' and '''WhatYearIsThis'''. [[TropeRepairShop [[Administrivia/TropeRepairShop TRS]] threads for both ended up [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot uncovering a massive epidemic of]] TropeDecay involving stock phrases. As a result, in mid-2011 it was decreed that Administrivia/NoNewStockPhrases would be used as trope titles.
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* GenreKiller:
** Stock phrase titles were never good trope namers to begin with, but two tropes can be traced to this titling convention's ultimate downfall: '''I Eat Metaphor For Breakfast''' and '''WhatYearIsThis'''. [[TropeRepairShop TRS]] threads for both ended up [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot uncovering a massive epidemic of]] TropeDecay involving stock phrases. As a result, in mid-2011 it was decreed that Administrivia/NoNewStockPhrases would be used as trope titles.
** '''Naughty Tentacles''' and Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident killed Porn Tropes and led to the creation of a new organization of Tropers dedicated to screening new and existing pages for adult content. If a page was lucky, it came back locked. If not, it was hit with a salted nuke. Also, the creation of new porn-related pages is today considered by This Very Wiki to be our equivalent of a capital offense. As far as tropes go, '''Naughty Tentacles''' in particular is to blame for that.
** Stock phrase titles were never good trope namers to begin with, but two tropes can be traced to this titling convention's ultimate downfall: '''I Eat Metaphor For Breakfast''' and '''WhatYearIsThis'''. [[TropeRepairShop TRS]] threads for both ended up [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot uncovering a massive epidemic of]] TropeDecay involving stock phrases. As a result, in mid-2011 it was decreed that Administrivia/NoNewStockPhrases would be used as trope titles.
** '''Naughty Tentacles''' and Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident killed Porn Tropes and led to the creation of a new organization of Tropers dedicated to screening new and existing pages for adult content. If a page was lucky, it came back locked. If not, it was hit with a salted nuke. Also, the creation of new porn-related pages is today considered by This Very Wiki to be our equivalent of a capital offense. As far as tropes go, '''Naughty Tentacles''' in particular is to blame for that.
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stealth complaining removed. also the bit about cut pages getting autolocked isn\'t true anymore.
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* FanCommunityNicknames: Tropers
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!
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* FanCommunityNicknames: Tropers
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!{{Troper}}s.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!
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** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.\\\
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for Tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for Tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
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** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.\\\
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
Forever.
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool forTropers.tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
** The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for
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** One of the most persistent criticisms of TV Tropes is the perception that criticism of a work, even if it's completely valid because the work is SnarkBait or DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, is deleted immediately. Unfortunately, this draconian policy is necessary, because before it was implemented, the work pages (and often even the ''[[Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage articles]]'') were full of FanDumb [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Shows They Don't Like]], and even [[BiasSteamroller complaining about "flaws" in a work that aren't flaws at all]].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
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* OldShame: Many longtime tropers are ashamed of the former Troper Tales and FetishFuel sections of the site, and for good reason. The entries there were [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement so... uh, off-color]], giving ''way'' TooMuchInformation about the tropers who posted there, that they damn near dragged this site's reputation down to the level of [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]]. Thankfully, it was removed and will never come back. The two sections are now hosted on separate sites.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Even this wiki isn't immune to this:
** Often, a quote for a trope entry or a page quote will be listed incorrectly, especially if it's on multiple pages.
** Many quotes will be presented in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This Is Sparta]] format, when it wasn't said like that. Partly why it was renamed to PunctuatedForEmphasis.
* ColbertBump:
** This has happened on this very wiki! (not [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repeatedly]], though): after TV Tropes was mentioned in ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', a mob of newbies washed over the forums and wiki, trashing the servers.
** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Youtube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the yt obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
* FanCommunityNicknames: Tropers
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!
* NewbieBoom: This wiki gets a Newbie Boom each time an outside community links in. ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' linked here once and killed the server for part of a day.
* TheWikiRule
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
** This wiki has a RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.\\\
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for Tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why FetishFuel and TroperTales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in FetishFuel and TroperTales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** Trolls, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep trolling, flaming each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the edit wars they caused.
** One of the most persistent criticisms of TV Tropes is the perception that criticism of a work, even if it's completely valid because the work is SnarkBait or DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, is deleted immediately. Unfortunately, this draconian policy is necessary, because before it was implemented, the work pages (and often even the ''[[Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage articles]]'') were full of FanDumb [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Shows They Don't Like]], and even [[BiasSteamroller complaining about "flaws" in a work that aren't flaws at all]].
** In at least one case, continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
** Often, a quote for a trope entry or a page quote will be listed incorrectly, especially if it's on multiple pages.
** Many quotes will be presented in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This Is Sparta]] format, when it wasn't said like that. Partly why it was renamed to PunctuatedForEmphasis.
* ColbertBump:
** This has happened on this very wiki! (not [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repeatedly]], though): after TV Tropes was mentioned in ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', a mob of newbies washed over the forums and wiki, trashing the servers.
** Through the nature of {{Wiki Walk}}ing, TV Tropes itself has a tendency to give support to Youtube videos that illustrate a certain trope. These videos would otherwise probably fall into the yt obscurity, and thus you may see a top comment saying "Who else got here from TV Tropes?"
* FanCommunityNicknames: Tropers
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any page on [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] that enters The Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub or gets an ExampleSectionectomy. Even if there were loads of interesting and witty bits, all it takes is one controversial entry and the whole lot goes, never to be saved, never to be seen again. Your only hope is to keep vigil on the forums in hopes of backing up the deleted/castrated pages before they vanish from all records.
** The ENTIRE [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110507231422/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleBin Title Bin]] was silently deleted. That's a lot of content. All gone forever. How many people approved that?!
* NewbieBoom: This wiki gets a Newbie Boom each time an outside community links in. ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' linked here once and killed the server for part of a day.
* TheWikiRule
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
** This wiki has a RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good, which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes. A few pages have also been locked to stop persistent vandals who are too savvy to be simply blocked. On a related note, the [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes and pages]] were created to keep the more controversial tropes off of the main pages, but even that has led to YMMV pages ending up getting locked or even deleted.
** In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.\\\
Previously, the only pages that were cut and locked were Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub members such as I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah. However, as tropers were continuously attempting to revive redundant and unnecessary tropes placed on the CutList, nowadays pretty much anything that was cut is now auto-locked. However, unless it's on the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, it can be unlocked if the page can be proven to be useful on {{YKTTW}} and the like.\\\
The trope Please Elaborate was meant to be a handy tool for Tropers. If one found a poor example, but didn't know the source material well enough to expand it themselves, they would add that example to Please Elaborate, and a troper with actual knowledge of said example could fix it. It joined the Permanent Red Link Club when lazy tropers started adding Please Elaborate to their examples pre-emptively to pawn off the actual elaboration of said example to other tropers.
** And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the ExampleSectionectomy, for which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** This is the reason why FetishFuel and TroperTales no longer exist in TV Tropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in FetishFuel and TroperTales, which led to these sections being [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page sent off to separate off-site wikis.]] The newly-separated wikis tend to die out, but that doesn't matter when the original problem is solved.
** This wiki used to have a "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough strikethrough markup]]", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format is still usable in the forums, though.
** Colored text was removed due to negative use and abuse of hard-to-read colors. Now even the easy-to-read colors like red and blue are forever gone from the site. It was eventually restored for the forums.
** {{Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes renamed]] because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
** JustForFun/TheArchiveOfBellicoseLexiconEntities was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. However, since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them eventually redirect back to that index. Tropers are no longer listed, as they can simply add themselves through their userpages anyway.
** Trolls, vandals and sockpuppeteers attacking the site and its articles led to a recreation of the login/handle creation system in spring, replacing the standard sign up theme with a CAPTCHA approval add on.
** For similar reasons, troper pages can now only be edited by the tropers themselves who created them. The days when a good-faith user could sign or leave a fun commentary in another troper's page (which was known as "fun vandalism"), or even simply fix a spelling mistake, are unfortunately over because of this.
** Many threads in the forums that contained intelligent discussions get locked when people start and keep trolling, flaming each other, or derailing the topic after being told more than once by the moderators to knock it off, ruining it for everyone else who wished to continue the discussion in a civil manner. While some threads get temporarily locked to let everyone cool off, other threads can get locked forever, never to be reopened unless a mod says otherwise.
** ZeroContextExamples used to be a free pass back when many trope names were self explanatory until people started throwing in tropes on list of works without giving any examples at all, not realizing that people won't always get why a character is or is not a KnightTemplar or that readers may not want to look up every single trope if no examples are present. Nowadays, tropes listed in works that have no examples are usually edited to be hidden until someone can find actual examples that fit the listed trope.
** {{Character Alignment}}s are no longer allowed on main or even ''[[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]]'' pages because of the edit wars they caused.
** One of the most persistent criticisms of TV Tropes is the perception that criticism of a work, even if it's completely valid because the work is SnarkBait or DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, is deleted immediately. Unfortunately, this draconian policy is necessary, because before it was implemented, the work pages (and often even the ''[[Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage articles]]'') were full of FanDumb [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Shows They Don't Like]], and even [[BiasSteamroller complaining about "flaws" in a work that aren't flaws at all]].
** In at least one case, continued violations of the Administrivia/SpoilerPolicy on a single page have caused a total page-wide prohibition on the spoiler markup.
