The Great Headscratchers Complaining Clean-up

Well, we need start it already. Sugestions? Voluntaries?

I volunteer to clean up Headscratcher pages that are chock-full of complaining.

Your spelling seems a little off.

Has there been a problem with complaining?

Title fixed.

^ BTW, your potholing seems a little off.

^^ That was why it was renamed, so yes. Not all of the pages have been cleaned up from when it was IJBM, and some people persist in complaining anyway. Just clean up any you come across.

You just ninja'd me.

You know, I was cleaning the Batman page and it wasn't so bad. It was much less of flame/stupidfest than I expected, ecspecially for a franchise with such a wide audience. I was done in like 10 to 20 minutes.

edited 4th Jul '11 9:13:56 PM by DrStarky

Let's start with the stuff on Trope Overdosed.

I think a few of those pages should be cut. Like the Real Life subsections "The World" and "Real Life in General". They are just complaining magnets.

Headscratchers about Tropes are turning into what Pet Peeve Trope once was. What do you think we should do about those? Should we remove the problematic ones or just try to tone down the complaining?

I guess trope headcratchers are rather unnecessary.

I think that the ones on real people should be deleted, especially the ones on musicians. They just turn into complain-fests and don't help anything. Just look at the Lady Gaga page or the Kesha page.

edited 25th Jul '11 8:30:54 PM by wuggles

So just to clarify, Headscratchers is about "Canon Q&A", not "Creator Q&A"? Meaning, we can discuss how a plot hole could make sense in-universe, rather than why some idiot writer introduced the plot hole?

Well, yeah, that's kind of obvious I thought. Your headscratcher can be, "Why did X happen the way it did?" but not, "Why did the idiot writers insert X Plot Hole?"

Pinned the thread For Great Justice. Also, I tackled Headscratchers.Inheritance Cycle today and cut off 220K characters. I'm really very tired.

I second cutting the Trope Headscratchers and the Creator Headscratchers. Especially the former, which people are using as a place for bitching about creators they don't like and nothing more.

Methinks you mean "the latter".

I just had my attention called to World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, which have been taken over by a lot of author bashing and need cleaning. Someone needs to do this other than me, because if I do it, I'm going to purge both articles.

I just chainsawed out everything but the actual Headscratcher-type questions and an answer or two on World War Z. Let me know if I went too far. Fighteer, do you want me to put in a comment to keep out author bashing, etc.?

edited 16th Sep '11 8:24:52 AM by unhappyyak

That's very good. I think we need some kind of banner on all Headscratchers pages (including the edit page) reminding people that it's not Just Bugs Me anymore.

Finished the Zombie Survival Guide one too. I think some of them were a holdover from IJBM, because the phrase was used word-for-word several times.

I'll run through the Avatar The Last Airbender headscratchers myself.

Also, shouldn't this thread be in Special Efforts?

EDIT: derp. I'm tired.

edited 17th Oct '11 10:00:44 AM by SalFishFin

On Headscratchers.Bob And George, is it okay if I remove the fourth one? It's not bile, but it's still essentially just a complaint.

Also, I'm not sure where the first one on that page belongs.

edited 19th Oct '11 1:50:00 PM by MangaManiac

It is perfectly okay. I already deleted it, by the way.

Well, this explains things, not complaining but at least all the cuts make sense.

Is this thread like the Natter Alert thread where tropers who are busy with other projects (or just overwhelmed by the crud, or unsure how much is OK to cut) can point out which pages are especially bad? Or is it assumed that all Headscratchers are horrible and need cleansing eventually. Or is pointing out pages without doing them ourselves bad manners?

edited 18th Dec '11 7:55:02 PM by ArcadesSabboth

Where The Hell Is Springfield is basically only Complaining and Complaining About Complaining. Can it simply be blanked, or is this off-topic here (the Ca C, not the Complain)?