As the saying goes: Haters gonna hate.
But seriously, there are few hovels of butthurt greater than the Game FA Qs forums.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.They do have a small point buried in all that vitriol however, sometimes we are a bit too keen to (if not defend then not to defame) any particular subject matter about which there is a certain amount of discussion/popularity. Take for instance the Avatar (last airbender not blue cat people) film, for the most part critics audiences and the undead having been shown this film want to gouge out their own eyes and burn M night Shamwow on a pyre (possibly not in that order).
This does not apply to some of the less well known areas of the site, where negativity is allowed to exist and discussed and if most people agree it is negative will be left alone. As I mentioned its only the too big to fail or ones that generate an iota of discussion that have problems.
That said these are still nice fora and for the most part I have enjoyed my time here more than on any other board.
^ On that topic, we aren't trying to be a critique site, We're about the parts that were used to tell the story, and to a much lesser degree whether they were used effectively. The negativity gets cut when it overwhelms that primary purpose. And while gushing is less likely to become overwhelming, a page that is simply giving a tonguebath to a work will also get toned down eventually — it's just less likely that it will ever get to the stage of unrestrained gushing.
Aye, the wiki itself isn't there for opinions, it's there for plot devices used in media and which ones apply. Now the community itself in the fora and reviews sections can critique however the hell it pleases, because that's what those parts of the site are for, discussion and critique.
Of course, conflict always flares up when people disagree, such as when I point out that to me, anyway, Sonic was just a fun little sidescrolling game I played on the Sega Genesis as a child. Not a series with interesting characters and a deep plot worthy of fanfiction and rule 34, that is like the OMG BEST SERIES EVAR.
Seems kind of funny for a Gamefaqs user to be complaining about Tv Tropes... I mean, the site isn't exactly known for its intelligence or it's fair and laid-back moderation.
edited 24th Dec '10 11:49:46 AM by Miijhal
I kinda agree with the person on game faq, not trolling just an opinion.
That's not the worst I've heard about tv tropes I've heard it be a called:
"one giant meme factory"
That I took offense too, tropes are not memes. (well some are but...so yeah)
edited 24th Dec '10 7:46:30 PM by americanbadass
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?...wut? That would be 4chan.
Really, I don't care what Gamefaqs has to say about Tv Tropes. Bunch of 13 year old kids, they are.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -LandstanderI'm going to have to agree with this post
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Honestly, I wouldn't trust Game FA Qs' opinion on anything. They're so immature that /b/ used to make fun of them on a regular basis.
online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.comI actually haven't had any many negative experiences with "pretentious, shut-in" fanbases. However, I have had encounters with "pretentious, shut-in" hatedoms. There's a mindset at work that not only doesn't accept that anyone could like a given work, but feels that it would be a bad thing if anyone who knew of the work had the idea that it might be good, and as such requires that any mention of the work, even in regard to characters' hairstyles, add that it's So Bad Its Horrible. The "draconian policies" mentioned seem to be a direct response to these people.
edited 25th Dec '10 2:03:06 PM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulSounds like someone got banned.
Half-Life: Dual Nature, a crossover story of reasonably sized proportions.On a related note, the #Tropers group on Deviant Art occasionally gets comments from someone who is a tad bitter about being banned from here. The guy in question seems to be trying to copy the wiki at another site. Suffice it to say, his arguments to try and get me to join him were pretty weak.
Accidental mistakes are forgivable, intentional ones are not.I'd agree with the laid-back fox. This site is about neutral analysis of storytelling techniques, not passing judgment on whether something is "good" or "sucky". I can see where anything involving the word "neutral" could get a healthy dose of flame on the Internet, as the concept scarcely seems to exist.
I like it here. The haters can go suck a bag of diseased moose wang.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~That Jack Butler guy or whateverthefuck his name is. Yeah, he has his own mini mirror of the wiki running at Wikia. It's good for a laugh, especially since he seems to be the only member.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

I was going on the Metroid Other M Board, when somebody mentioned that Tv Tropes was a horrible site. After I asked what was wrong with it, I got this response:
"They're filled with the most pretentious, shut-in portions of series' fanbases. Combine that with Fast Eddie's draconian rules against negativity, and you get a very poisonous hive of defenders that take forever to admit FFXIV blowed."
Disscuss.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.