Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
NOTE: Keep it civil; try not to get into any Flame Bait-y territory, per the forum rules (in particular, drama importation and popcorn posting are not allowed, and this thread is for discussion about the site and not the users). In addition, while discussing the Edit Banned thread is not prohibited on its own, discussing and/or alluding to specific cases is not permitted.
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 Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
I have no clue how to use it, but I am kinda dumb so.........
Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behindgoddammit
Edited by Archsage on Oct 6th 2022 at 4:17:42 AM
Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behindWhy isn't the markup [[quoteblock:like this?]] Spoiler and strike markup are like that, and nothing else in the wiki uses [[/this]] to close.
I'd like to apologize for all this.[[note]] and [[labelnote]] use the [[/closing tag]] style, though [[labelnote]] still uses colons to separate the tag from the text that's displayed on the note.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 6th 2022 at 4:23:12 AM
2 ÷ 0What's the difference between [[note]] and [[labelnote]] again?
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."Notes have the generic “note” text, while labelnotes can implement custom text .
Wait, how do you put custom text in label notes then?
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."[[labelnote:your text here]]
Cool! TYIs it ridiculous that
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."TBF, I try to avoid using labelnotes if I can help it. A standard note almost always gets the job done.
in general i think it's preferable to use as little markup as possible, like avoiding Bold Inflation in your entries. spoilers and notes should be used sparingly.
Italics are often used, though; for obvious reasons.
I'd like to apologize for all this.To my knowledge we've never implemented a quote button. There was an earlier time when quoting someone did look kinda different though, but the way to do it has been the same since forever.
"What a century this week has been." - Seung Min KimI think Accidental Passenger just rendered Accidental Astronaut redundant and obsolete. It isn't a case of the former being a Missing Supertrope, but rather the later being The Same, but More Specific to the former before anyone realized it's TSBMS... if that makes any sense. There's a lot of example overlap with the spaceship-oriented examples.
I've been using these forums for... over a decade (😰) and I still can never remember whether it's "quoteblock" or "blockquote".
Think I put in a Query Wishlist request ages ago for both to be valid and got denied on grounds similar to *gestures broadly at everything FE said about disliking quotes in the first place*
That or I expected to get denied and so didn't bother actually making the request. One of the two.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.If it were me, I’d just make the markup be [[quote]].
Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Oct 6th 2022 at 10:52:38 AM
SoundCloudIs serial tweaking good (maybe that's not a good term, maybe neutral?) or bad? I'm seeing some mixed signals on it all.
Sometimes I make mistakes and/or realize I didn't add something I wanted to add before it was too late so I had to edit the page again, and I want to make sure I'm not subconsciously doing something wrong.
whatsapp yukariOn its own, it's just annoying and the worst you'd get is probably a "knock it off" warning. There are people who have abused it in the past though.
It's also a matter of degree. Nobody's going to mind if you edit something two more times because you missed some words or punctuation the first time, but if you're just fixing minor stuff ten times in a row you'll get some raised eyebrows.
Serial tweaking means more like suspicious edit frequency. It's natural for someone to add more examples as they remember then. But if history shows someone fixing own formatting three or more times, it becomes evident they need to study formatting and use preview or a sandbox more.
In workshop threads I only agree with proposes when it looks crystal to me, but I always want to form own opinion instead of going lemmings, even if takes longer. I have a feeling me "making sure this is right" may come of as keeping votes from being unanimous (and if I disagree well I have to state so) and it's kinda scary. TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I'm follow both the Image Suggestion Thread and to Crappy Image Pickin', and it's worrying how many times I looked at a post from the former and thought it was from the latter. I mean, it's happened to me more than it should.
Please visit the "AITA" forum gameIs it just me or are work pages for fanfics disproportionately train wrecks? I've been gradually working my way through a big wick cleaning project, and it's been relatively smooth sailing (a few "too long" warnings and two or three disasters that required further cleanup) until I hit the fanfic namespace. And then all the sudden every third page is a catastrophe that demands I stop everything to fix. One was "look up the page creator and clean everything they've ever touched" level of bad (luckily that particular troper hadn't edited anything since 2018, so mod action shouldn't be required).
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Fanfic pages and Roleplay pages are both typically worse than normal work pages because they're usually made by people who don't otherwise use the site and thus they just want to have fun troping their works, rather than actually trying to make a legit works page. Exceptions exist, it's just that they're the two namespaces where Sturgeon's Law most applies.
Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 6th 2022 at 12:41:09 PM
Current Project: The TeamBeginning to think the “you can trope your own works” rule might have been a mistake. It has led to works being on here that probably wouldn’t have otherwise, but... often it takes the blatant self-gushing angle.
Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Oct 6th 2022 at 12:42:55 PM
It is rather inconvenient, though. (I think I recall that it's "quoteblock" and not just "quote" - if it isn't the longest markup tag on the wiki, it's certainly close - as a deliberate decision on Eddie's part to discourage people from overusing it. But don't quoteblock me on that.)
Open with [[quoteblock]], close with [[/quoteblock]].
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Oct 6th 2022 at 9:14:59 AM
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