Inspired by this thread
, I've noticed that this wiki doesn't have a dedicated cleanup thread for negativity.
As we all know, Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, Creator Bashing and other negativity isn't desired on the wiki, except in a few selected areas like reviews and several Darth Wiki pages (and even then, with limitations). And yet, it's one of the most common sins wiki contributors can make.
So, if you find a page, TLP or discussion whose content seems like a straight-up insult or any other bitching - including complainy soapboxing -, you might ask here for help with removing said content.
The sandbox for this project is located at Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining.
Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 27th 2022 at 5:36:47 AM
Zapped the commercial/audience reception stuff of Deuce, and while I was there nuked the Take That! thing, as it was only tangentially related to the films.
All your safe space are belong to TrumpI'm not sure if I should even bother with this one, but You Tube probably needs some help with this.
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.Probably because it didn't end up on Ask The Tropers yet.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI watch this thread. I'll take a look at them.
Edit: Wow, okay. Those should probably be locked, indeed, but I'm not sure where to start with cleaning them.
edited 20th Dec '13 6:33:57 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Here's my suggestions for a MASSIVE cut down on the YMMV page. I cut based on complaining, a couple ZC Es, being flamebait, discussion, and similar issues:
- Abandon Shipping: Averted. Tumblr will go down with its ships.
- Crossover Ship: Tumblr is an inventive place. Not surprisingly, there is a tag for it.
- Doctor Who/Sherlock, both shipping the characters, as well as shipping characters from the respective shows, such as Amy Pond/Sherlock
among others.
- Doctor Who/Sherlock, both shipping the characters, as well as shipping characters from the respective shows, such as Amy Pond/Sherlock
- Crack Ship: Put any two objects or people in close proximity and Tumblr will probably ship it.
- Deader Than Disco: Jokes can be born, thrive, and die within a matter of days thanks to tumblr spreading them around quickly and allowing an endless string of permutations. It doesn't take long for many to become tired of the gag and for it to vanish nearly forever, although many still appreciate the memes even after they stop circulating.
- Everybody Hates Mathematics: A large chunk of Tumblr users seem to hate mathematics, as evidenced by the percentage of posts in the "mathematics" and "math" tags consisting of posts complaining about math homework rather than posts about math itself. It's generally the exception to users complaining about seeing hate in their tracked tags.
- Flame Bait: Rape jokes, they will easily piss everyone off in no time at all. If you really want to start a flame war and make a rape joke.... go right ahead.
- Forced Meme: Due to the incredible speed something can spread, a meme can be created, get forced and die in weeks if not days while still getting thousands of views.
- Fridge Horror: Tumblr users apparently love looking for this in their favourite works of fiction, no matter how hard they have to squint to find it. A common recurring pattern is for someone to post a gif or image of a funny, sweet or romantic moment from a particular show, only for someone else to then reblog it while also adding an often lengthy list of reasons (sometimes plausible, often less so) for why it's actually a dark, depressing or terrifying moment if you look at it the right way.
- Internet Backdraft: Tagging a post with a topic, then complaining about said topic in the post, is a quick way to get hate messages, especially if that topic happens to be a pairing (see Ship-to-Ship Combat below).
- Memetic Badass:
- On 25th June 2013, Senator Wendy Davis and Senator Leticia Van de Putte stopped Texas' anti-abortion bill with a thoroughly Crowning Moment Of Awesome 13-hour Holding the Floor session. In late June, they took over your dash. No exceptions. Davis later announced her candidacy for Texas governor. Tumblr's reaction was predictable — and enthusiastic, to say the least.
- Obama had a memetic badass reputation on the site during the 2012 presidential election.
- Beyoncé after she released a surprise album complete with music videos in December 2013. No one even knew the album existed beforehand but it was still a gigantic hit-selling over 400,000 copies in a day.
- Memetic Mutation: Naturally has its own page.
- Never Live It Down: Many a blogger has been chased off the site by saying one stupid thing on a post and being unlucky enough for it to get popular, the site's reblog feature ensuring that it'll never truly leave the public eye. Cue hordes of hateful messages for many, many months until the blogger finally shuts down their blog.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: "4chumblr" for 4chan/Tumblr, a bizarre ship that popped up when the fanbase of Tumblr and 4chan tried to invade the other.
- Ship-to-Ship Combat:
- Any work with a large fan following on Tumblr has this to varying degrees. Ship wars can get pretty bloody on this site as there is pretty much zero moderation, that any single person can cause havoc in a tag, and any one single person can retaliate on a massive scale. Worst in the small to medium size fandoms because they don't have the numbers to 'outflood' a ship war with positive posts, but are big enough that a ship war can be sustained a long time by retaliation and counter-retaliation before it fizzles out.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: No matter how small a change, you can bet there is going to be a large group of people who feel this way. Some examples:
- The new dashboard looks of 2011 and 2012. Almost immediately after both of the changes took place, many users demanded the staff to change back to the old dashboard.
- Tumblr getting rid of the old customizing page for themes, which resulted in this for many.
- Subverted when Tumblr went down for five hours in September of 2012 due to maintenance and everybody feared that when they came back, nothing would be the same. The only change ended up being the background, which was three shades darker.
- Changes to the trag track system function, which went from displaying the tags on the sidebar to a drop-down feature from the search bar, fueled this for many. The fact that it is supposed to make searching and tracking tags easier but instead making it disorganized and non-intuitive doesn't help. Thankfully, people quickly wrote some programs to put it back in the rightful spot. The only good thing is that you can search multiple tags, now.
- They changed the "Someone reblogged/liked/replied to your post" dash notifications ever so slightly, by making them a tad bigger and adding a preview picture of the post the person reblogged/liked/replied to. Immediately, everyone started screaming about how terrible it was — primarily because it broke Missing E's reply-reply feature, which most of them had forgotten wasn't part of Tumblr.
- The Yahoo acquisition. When the news broke that Yahoo bought the site, many users went nuclear, fearing that the site would eventually be "Yahoo-ized", and one user made a site called "Tumblr Refugees" for users to go there if in case if does.
- As of October 2013, the site has a new sidebar look with new icons and fewer lines, which is intended to be cleaner and sleeker, but it ended up being more tedious for users to do simple things like customizing their theme and checking followers. Fortunately, some users made some programs to make it back to its rightful state.
- The search bar, which instead of showing results of tags in the "tags" page, now goes to the "search" page itself. Users were not happy, especially those with slow internet connections, which can take longer to load with the endless scrolling. Many of them found a way by manually put the "tagged" in place of the "search" on the url.
- Parodied in a recent post showing that the m no longer had a curve on the serif.
- Troll:
- ForFutureReferenceOnly, who was offended by literally everything, and wrote rants on said everything. They became a joke, with thousands of reblogs each post. That was, until later when a post revealed
that, yes, it was all an elaborate trolling/social experiment/rp blog.
- ASeasonedPlateOfMurder appears to be a continuation of ForFutureReferenceOnly, with the added habit of changing opinions on a dime to infuriate anyone who takes them seriously.
- ForFutureReferenceOnly, who was offended by literally everything, and wrote rants on said everything. They became a joke, with thousands of reblogs each post. That was, until later when a post revealed
- True Art Is Angsty
- Post an image, any image. Fandom, not fandom. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be the tiniest bit sad. Users will eventually add some short, heartbreaking story, explanation or observation to go with it. Sometimes to Tear Jerker results... and, occasionally, to the funniest things, such as claiming an MRI of a zombifiation from The Walking Dead is the brain releasing endorphins during death, or a horse dildo supposedly being a picture of an African-American burn survivor's arm.
Everybody Hates Mathematics, Forced Meme and Portmanteau Couple Name aren't YMMV, and Flame Bait is an Administrivia stuff.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIt's a collaborative and continuous work, to av even greater degree than TV Tropes.
On an unrelated note, Captain Obvious Reveal is apparently "The Un-Twist, but always negative and incomprehensibly not YMMV".
Ben The Looney (and Ben The Looney) seems a bit too interested in bashing and Follow the Leader accusations.
May I bump the Ben The Looney pages? There's a huge "Follow the Leader of The Nostalgia Critic" vibe and people have edited out the shoehorning but it always goes right back in.

Is it just me, or does the page for Deuce Bigalow needs a cleanup for this? It seems more focused on its overall (negative) reception than the movies themselves.
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.