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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM

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#9201: Aug 17th 2022 at 6:56:55 PM

But with internet radio stations (which also host podcasts) is that even an important distinction? Many of these shows are saved online now.

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#9202: Aug 17th 2022 at 6:56:59 PM

it's the same as the difference between Comic Book and Comic Strip imo. we trope by initial method of publication regardless of similarities or differences in production style. (except in the cases we're already discussing re: animation and video games.)

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#9203: Aug 17th 2022 at 6:59:40 PM

I'll think about it if I research Radio/ pages, in my head not all radio are podcasts and not podcasts are radio, but how the works pages are used may shows something different. I wouldn't mind merging both with Audio Play/.

Edited by Amonimus on Aug 17th 2022 at 5:00:14 PM

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#9204: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:01:08 PM

As mentioned, the less interactive V Ns are like virtual books with/or pictures so they wouldn't belong on Video Game/ unless someone wants to argue that they should go in Literature/.

Podcast/ and Radio/ existed before the Audioplay/ catchall. I (and I think others) suggested the namespace because we needed a catchall for works that aren't podcasts or on radio like drama cds.

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#9205: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:01:49 PM

In other news, every time a forum shows an odd timestamp with no new posts having been made I always get a little suspicious because it's like... I know I missed something but now I'll never know what. This sort of thing only happens when thread get moved/deleted, but most of them just get deleted.

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#9206: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:03:14 PM

I've only seen that on thread moves to cleanup so far.

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#9207: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:03:36 PM

There's an example with FAQ right now. [lol]

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#9208: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:04:47 PM

I was creating and nuking threads to test if pinging tropers in the OP works on other subforums or if it's just TRS. Turns out it doesn't work anywhere.

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#9209: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:05:20 PM

Ah, cool.

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#9210: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:11:55 PM

Well that's not cool, but is interesting to know what would happen in certain cases.

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#9211: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:22:44 PM

RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=367#comment-9171

There is apparently a wiki overhaul in the process, and if they're switching to a database for namespaces, that would make such changes much easier.

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#9212: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:27:14 PM

[up] 2.0? Well, it's taking a long ass time to the point it might not be made as said here.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Aug 17th 2022 at 7:27:45 AM

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#9213: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:28:01 PM

From what I gather 2.0 is the Half Life 3 of TV Tropes.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#9214: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:29:03 PM

That wiki overhaul was suggested in like 2016 and up today has been nothing more than a suggestion.

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#9215: Aug 17th 2022 at 7:42:36 PM

I like how it can some times be really obvious when a work page was written mostly in response to a critic making a video about the work as opposed to people watching the work itself.

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#9216: Aug 18th 2022 at 1:49:38 AM

It's fine if done well. It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white (fan of work or brought by a critic) as long as it catches mice (made a good work page). I've actually done that a couple of times, like with VideoGame.Raid 2020.

Edited by Piterpicher on Aug 18th 2022 at 10:51:24 AM

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#9217: Aug 18th 2022 at 1:56:06 AM

I've done it before too, though I take care to only trope the objective information, and I usually get the info from reviewers and analyzers who don't exaggerate or alter the original work (at least beyond the sake of a few very obvious gags). It's how I made pages for things like My Dads Tapes without needing to binge the pretty long series.

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#9218: Aug 18th 2022 at 7:33:12 AM

Hey question, do mentions actually work?

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#9219: Aug 18th 2022 at 7:34:32 AM

Do you mean pings? Yes, they do (unless you are doing it wrong or if it's in an OP post).

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#9220: Aug 18th 2022 at 7:34:47 AM

[up][up] If you're referring to pings, yes as long you format them correctly (they're seen in the Show Markup Help section upon clicking on it).

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Aug 18th 2022 at 7:35:01 AM

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#9221: Aug 18th 2022 at 10:23:54 AM

Regarding pings not working in opening posts (as Macron previously mentioned), the admins started looking into that after I mentioned it to them, so eventually paging the creators of TRS thread drafts to threads made by others using said drafts will no longer require double posting.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 18th 2022 at 12:26:24 PM

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#9222: Aug 18th 2022 at 10:27:23 AM

I'm surprized they're even looking into it, it's not like it's the most pressing bug at the moment.

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#9223: Aug 18th 2022 at 10:29:42 AM

Who knows why the admins do anything?

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#9224: Aug 18th 2022 at 10:45:41 AM

consider that "looking into it" could mean anything from "we're fixing it as we speak" to "we put it at the bottom of the Word doc of issues we work on occasionally".

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
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#9225: Aug 18th 2022 at 10:56:16 AM

So I'm working on a post and noticed that in a preview, you can see what you written inside the spoiler tags if you use colored text.

check it out

EDIT: Oh shit, I thought it only applied in the previews.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Aug 18th 2022 at 10:56:55 AM

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