Examples please?
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I can confirm having seen (and corrected) poorly defined/written laconics. A good place to start would be a "fix laconics on your watchlist" drive.
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Wife Husbandry until recently had a laconic that just made it look like it was a catch all trope for paedophilia, when most of the examples of things actually happening between the characters occur when the characters are adults.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Hm?
Shouldn't this be in Special Efforts, if it's as widespread of a problem as you claim? Not that I know, I rarely to never look at Laconics.
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I see the Awesomeness.
I went and did laconics on all of my watchlist.
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When doing this, however, I'd take note that sometimes a discrepancy between Laconic and Description can be a sign of problems with the description more than with the Laconic.
I still think crappy descriptions are probably TV Tropes' #2 problem (after Natter).
edited 23rd May '11 9:01:39 PM by suedenim
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Most of the time when there are crappy laconics it's obvious that the person who wrote them didn't read the trope. They're just something unrelated to anything but the title a large amount of the time.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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That's not uncommon, but sometimes it's a sign of serious Trope decay on the main page, too. Usually a quick run through the history pages will help clear up which it is.
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The Laconic Wiki has an issue. Recently in the TRS I've noticed a trend that more than half of the laconic definitions of tropes that come up there don't match the trope descriptions. Misuse then follows from these bad laconics and ends in a mess. We really need to do some quality control on laconics because it seems that a lot of people are writing them based on what they think the trope name means, and not what the trope is.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick