TV Tropes meta thread

Parental Bonus, I guess.

Speaking of that, I just noticed that Wakko's face in that page picture looks hilariously weird.

Edited by Bluethorn on May 18th 2022 at 3:52:52 AM

A great Mascot Mook.

:oD

Edited by DrNoPuma on May 18th 2022 at 11:06:01 AM

He may be a giant, nightmarish brute, but like all villains in this series,he sure can sing.

I appreciate the Word Cruft article calling out "*shudder*" as an overused term under Gratuitous Emoting: That phrase was all over Nightmare Fuel entries and it drove me nuts.

Hopefully I'm not overstepping a boundary in saying this, but some parts of that page, while I'm not arguing against the points being made specifically, feel kind of mean. Like the "Science cannot explain it" at the start of the Mind-Boggling Verbal Tics bullet point or this bit on in the About Rhetorical Question bullet point: "Unfortunately, an explosion in a lead paint chips factory in Montana has left a fair chunk of the internet with the approximate IQ of a brain-damaged gibbon." Are bits like this really necessary in informing tropers what writing choices they should avoid using?

I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.

Okay, you have three guesses as to who wrote all that on the page several years ago, and the first two don't count.

It was the fast one again

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

I'm wondering if Fighteer's behind it, it sounds like his brand of snark. I'd say maybe Eddie but I don't know how anti-Word Cruft he even was.

Ah, ninja'd so I look like I'm missing the point.

Edited by mightymewtron on May 18th 2022 at 12:58:42 PM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

Main.Word Cruft is a redirect now, so you can check the history if you want to verify

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

Oooh... that page did not used to say "brain-dead." It said something less PC.

I shouldn't be surprised... back in the early 2010s I guess you could just straight-up put slurs in guidelines pages.

Edited by mightymewtron on May 18th 2022 at 1:04:02 PM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

Talk about keepin' it breezy...

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

It's not our fault. Back in the 2000s or very early 2010s, people simply were much less offendable and/or such words weren't seen as negatively. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to you to decide.

On an unrelated note, we now have 600000 articles!

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)

Wowers.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

I actually agree that the Word Cruft page may be a little too snarky for its own good. Maybe bring it up in Outdated Pages if you're concerned?

Damn, we've grown.

TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall

And about a tenth of them are Recap/ pages, of course. Are you going to make a thread about it like you did for 50K? (Good stuff for Trope Report, by the way.)

Edited by FernandoLemon on May 19th 2022 at 11:14:22 AM

I'd like to apologize for all this.

Nah, I think it's not that major to need a whole thread. More likely at the big 1,000,000. However, it definitely deserves a mention on Trope Report and Timeline.TV Tropes.

Edited by Piterpicher on May 19th 2022 at 4:29:56 PM

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)

I completely agree, I've always found a few Administrivia pages to be unnecessarily aggressive and mean, especially that one. It acts as if everyone who makes these "crufts" were part of the "Fan Myopia troper" archetype when many of the examples said there are just typical in amateur writing. This should teach new users how to write good and concise examples, not blame the old ones for all the problems in the wiki.

oh hey how are you doing?

I have a slight disdain for examples that bring up other works. It's understandable why it happens (Fan Myopia and all that jazz), so I can't say it's odd to see stuff like "X doesn't do this trope as much as much as Y, which is good considering how much it ruined Y" stapled at the end of a YMMV entry. It can be good shorthand. But only when the reader in question knows Y well enough to understand the comparison, which isn't exactly a guarantee even if Friendly Fandoms is in play.

Edited by RacattackForce on May 19th 2022 at 12:29:34 PM

I feel like the sheer amount of trope pages is overwhelming. There is no way I could plausibly browse them all in an effort to contribute to the pages for my favorite media!

Still, as an older user who's been around for a while (off and on) it is nice to see the wiki thriving as it is.

Edited by Misuki on May 19th 2022 at 11:47:06 AM

Even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through

There's a page for DethroningMoment.Animation Domination High Def, but there isn't an actual work page for Animation Domination High Def. Literally the main presence this YouTube channel has on the website is through peopple complaining about it (specifically the "Scientifically Accurate (X)" videos).

Please visit the "AITA" forum game

That's honestly impressive.

A different sort of dedication, I suppose.

Even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through

Dang...

To be clear, if you can't keep track of every single trope, that's okay. There's like 30000 of them, no-one can manage everything at once. Just stick to what you need at the moment, or perhaps what you want to get more wicks, as long the examples are actually examples.

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)

I wonder how many people learned the word "egregious" from this site.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

An egregious number, we presume

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

...All of them, probably.

A great Mascot Mook.