I agree with Wave, does this need to be here? I mean, I know I created the thread but I don't want it to be a lost cause. As much as I want troper tales to stay, that doesn't seem to be happening.
It's a good thing our last name isn't Drew, because then you'd be Nancy Drew and I'd be Andrew Drew. -Andy BotwinThis thread does serve a purpose.
Lots of people like Troper Tales. This thread gives them a place to try to fix it, on the off chance that it isn't nuked tomorrow.
And that chance is non-zero, even if it's incredibly tiny.
she her hers hOI!!! i'm tempeI wouldnt mind for the Audience Reaction tropes to be all in-universe while we could use the Troper Tales for out of universe reactions.
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!^ Working on it.
ETA here you go:
Meta:
- pages with nearly all irrelevant content are stripped and restarted from scratch.
- Lock TT pages for tropes that can't realistically have "troper tales".
- Could lock down all TT creation by default and have mods open them on request.
- Delete all the archived old-format pages, give the new format a fighting chance for more than 6 weeks.
- Take advantage of the fact that most editors pay more attention to what's already on the page than what the rules or guidelines say
- make a button that goes with the namespace buttons at the top of the page (or elsewhere, up to discussion) that can link to a forum thread that exists to discuss the work/trope somewhere here, on the forums.
Rules related:
- I'd like to see a rule against entries about yourself unless, perhaps, you've been confirmed as an example by an outside party (i.e. someone lampshades it for you).
- Replace the vague rule against "really boring stuff" with something more objective like a rule against nonspecific entries ("this trope happens to me all the time" as opposed to "here's a specific time this trope happened to me"
- Make the guidelines less like a suggestion. Instead of "You should try not to use 'this troper', use 'I' instead" it should say uses of "this troper" will be erased and corrected
- quicker, clearer rules at the top of the page (in this case, Troper Tales), besides the link to the guidelines already in place.
- Put the Troper Tales Guidelines somewhere where they attract more attention, like the Troper Tales main page itself.
Warning related:
- Warn people that inappropriate and irrelevant content will be flagged and deleted
- Encourage people to report troublesome entries instead of going somewhere else and complaining about them.
- the "don't use This Troper" notice at the top of every TT page could be replaced with a "please flag inappropriate (creepy, not the trope, clearly made up, etc) entries" notice.
Entry-content related:
- Make it clearer that the tales must be relevant to the tropes.
- put a brief description of the trope at the top of each TT page
- Replace the "<Troper name> Sez": with something that sounds less flippant. Even just spelling "says" correctly would help.
I think that's all of them. Some were suggested several times in different wording; those I combined according to the overall idea. Otherwise I tried to simply lift the suggestion from the post as it was written if I could.
edited 14th Aug '11 12:18:10 PM by Madrugada
I think in order for a Troper Tales page to be unlocked, the one who requests the unlock needs to demonstrate that the page in question is suitible for Troper Tales. perhaps by including the they want to put in in the request
He who fights bronies should see to itthat he himself does not become a brony. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, Pinkie Pie gazes Also
More or less.
Do we really have any particular reason or motivation to bother trying to keep the new wiki clean, after all? Call it what you will, but it's a dumping ground. And it's going to get treated as such.
Everyone who ruined Troper Tales to begin with is likely to swarm there. Count on it to be a wretched hive and so on and so forth within the week.
That's what was happening to Fetish Fuel, etc. last I checked, at any rate.
edited 14th Aug '11 1:52:26 PM by FarseerLolotea
The thing is, we are not interested in that other site! for all I care, it could become a mic of 4Chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica.
He who fights bronies should see to itthat he himself does not become a brony. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, Pinkie Pie gazes Also

^^Moderators are always hard to come by, though, which undermines that idea.