Complete any work for threads where a consensus was reached, but not acted upon (preferably bumping the thread in the process). Holler about threads that never reached consensus and haven't had posts in months.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.I keep assuming that hollering is something you do when a thread has become flame bait.
I guess that means I can at least holler about the Dork Age thread, since I know that one's done with.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulIt's more like . . . Actually, I can't really think of a good metaphor. I know that there is little chance that creating a Trope Repair Shop topic will actually fix a page, but a low chance is still some chance, so I keep creating topics anyways.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulWhat? TRS threads work more often than they don't. The times they don't can usually be attributed to one of
- The OP doesn't identify what the problem they see is.
- There's disagreement that the problem identified by the OP is a real problem.
- The problem being concentrated on is not the real problem. (This most commonly shows up as a thread asking for a rename, when what's needed is a rewrite of the description, a redefinition, a merge, a clean-up, or cutting.)
Regarding that last one, it probably doesn't help that our Trope Repair Shop page basically says "Repairs are done mainly because of trope name issues. See this page for more info.", and said page only has a one-line description of the whole thing.
Not sure what else newcomers are supposed to infer.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)That said, there are a lot of TRS thread ideas users have been waiting to make. Perhaps we could loosen the limit so that we can make them while trying to finish the old ones?
"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon StewartIt might be a good idea to move the conversation to this thread
, as that's the main thread for discussing the efforts to reduce the TRS backlogs.
I would suggest that if we're going to lower the cap in increments of 100, not to actually lower it until the current count gets down to the fifties range or so. That way it's not so much of a burden when it happens.
edited 28th Oct '11 9:53:27 PM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

We can't add more topics to the Trope Repair Shop until some topics are moved to the Morgue. I know one of the threads I started (the one on Dork Age) has since gone stale, but I'm not sure how many are stale in total, and I'm not sure what procedure is in place for removing stale threads. What can tropers who aren't moderators do to speed up the cleanup?
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful