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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#1: Mar 8th 2011 at 7:55:26 PM

I think it would be neat to have a site "murder list" that is on the main wiki and is noted in the little side bar dealie. Although the "Special Efforts" subforum is nice, it's mostly a focus for the forumites rather than something to recruit general wiki goers. So when something is decided to be gotten rid of like what happened with So Bad Its Horrible or Most Triumphant Example, the mods can just put the trope on the "murder list" and do a wiki update saying the murder list has been updated.

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blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Mar 8th 2011 at 8:54:15 PM

Are you talking about a page that would be a reference for non forumites to find out what the heck is happening with all these changes thing?

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#3: Mar 9th 2011 at 1:42:13 PM

Yes. It would also amuse me to have a page called The Murder List.

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nuclearneo577 from My computer. Since: Dec, 2009
#4: Mar 9th 2011 at 5:26:10 PM

I love this idea. Them we could use it to kill natter.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#5: Mar 9th 2011 at 9:38:59 PM

The problem with just putting natter on the list is that it takes thought to identify it, which is a bit more than some users can manage. Something like Most Triumphant Example though is fairly simple in that it's not something that requires thought to identify beyond "there it is!" and thus a kill order is much easier.

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nuclearneo Nuclearneo577's puppet from Not my main computer. Since: Feb, 2011
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#6: Mar 10th 2011 at 9:57:13 AM

[up]We could use it for a specific type of Natter, like This Troper. Just a thought.

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#7: Mar 10th 2011 at 11:31:33 AM

How about writing a description and starting a list of thing that would go on the page? I've been kicking the idea around myself.

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#8: Mar 10th 2011 at 9:26:01 PM

"X shows us how it's done." image captions needs to go on the list if it ever gets made.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#9: Mar 10th 2011 at 9:30:47 PM

Hm.

There are things that go in specific places on the wiki. These are not those things. This is a list of things, that for whatever reason, are no longer welcome on the wiki and are to be terminated on sight. Their mere presence offends the wiki's owners and we shall not suffer their presence. Go forth and purge with righteous fury those that are on the list.

I was thinking Natter, This Troper, X Just X, So Bad Its Horrible, Most Triumphant Example to start the list.

We could probably put a list of image captions on there as well.

edited 10th Mar '11 9:31:24 PM by Deboss

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SilentReverence adopting kitteh from 3 tiles right 1 tile up Since: Jan, 2010
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#10: Mar 11th 2011 at 7:21:52 AM

I can get why lolcats, This Troper and stuff, but why "X shows us how it's done"? If the image fits the trope I don't see the problem, unless the newest announcement is that "we" don't like characters executing tropes now.

edited 11th Mar '11 7:22:36 AM by SilentReverence

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#12: Mar 11th 2011 at 8:49:59 AM

[up][up] Also because it's generally a good sign that the above image is JAFAAC. It gives the name of a character, but it doesn't actually add anything to the image that just potholing it to the work wouldn't do.

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Mar 11th 2011 at 8:56:42 AM

If the image is that clear, it doesn't need a caption that says only "This is this trope". If it needs a caption to make it clear that it's an illustration of the trope, "X shows us how it's done" doesn't add any of the additional information needed.

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#14: Mar 11th 2011 at 9:28:18 AM

@Madrugada: ah, that flies with me. In particular the avoid repeating stuff part. "Annoying" doesn't cut it (it's merely YMMV-ing from people who Accentuate the Negative) — goin on what I think is a required tangent to this "murder list", I hope nothing prevents us from taking the good parts of a meme to use them for Quotes or Image Picking, right? (demotivators are a good example)

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Mar 11th 2011 at 10:05:47 AM

Right. If there are good elements, that can be pulled out of the meme setting, we can certainly use those elements. It's using a meme for the sake of the meme that's not good.

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#16: Mar 11th 2011 at 1:54:21 PM

This is something I'd like to see.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#17: Mar 11th 2011 at 10:58:50 PM

Also, Demotivators as well.

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SpellBlade Since: Dec, 1969
#18: Mar 11th 2011 at 11:06:14 PM

Also, BRUTALLY subverted and general wordcruft.

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#19: Mar 12th 2011 at 7:03:27 AM

Hmmm, should this be moved to the Special Efforts subforum?

miru Knouge forever!! Since: Jan, 2001
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#20: Apr 8th 2011 at 7:55:26 PM

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#21: Apr 8th 2011 at 8:27:00 PM

That's a subpart, namely pages that were murdered, we could put the various things like "brutally subverted" on there.

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TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#22: Apr 10th 2011 at 4:14:40 PM

HILARIOUSLY Sub/Averted. And how! as well, as it is impossible to use search to find and delete it when used as Word Cruft as the words are so common.

edited 10th Apr '11 4:15:25 PM by TheOneWhoTropes

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#24: Aug 23rd 2011 at 7:03:35 AM

Can we add "gratuitous curly brackets" and "capitalization correction curly brackets" to the list? As well as the ptitle [=~ code.

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#25: Aug 23rd 2011 at 10:29:54 AM

Gratuitous curly brackets? What makes them gratuitous?


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