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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 Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM

Noaqiyeum Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they) from the gentle and welcoming dark (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
#11451: Oct 6th 2022 at 1:14:04 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.)

[down] Open with [[quoteblock]], close with [[/quoteblock]].

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Oct 6th 2022 at 9:14:59 AM

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Archsage MAGIC MISSILE SWEEP from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
MAGIC MISSILE SWEEP
#11452: Oct 6th 2022 at 1:14:19 PM

I have no clue how to use it, but I am kinda dumb so.........

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind
Archsage MAGIC MISSILE SWEEP from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
MAGIC MISSILE SWEEP
#11453: Oct 6th 2022 at 1:17:29 PM

goddammit

Edited by Archsage on Oct 6th 2022 at 4:17:42 AM

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind
FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season
#11454: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:17:45 PM

Why 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.
GastonRabbit One album, Please (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I've got the brains, you've got the looks. Let's make lots of money.
One album, Please (he/him)
#11455: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:22:24 PM

[up][[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

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Cutegirl920fire CG for short from Denmark (Rule of Three) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
CG for short
#11456: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:29:48 PM

[up] What's the difference between [[note]] and [[labelnote]] again?

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#11457: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:33:19 PM

Notes have the generic “note” text, while labelnotes can implement custom text .

Cutegirl920fire CG for short from Denmark (Rule of Three) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
CG for short
#11458: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:35:16 PM

[up] Wait, how do you put custom text in label notes then?

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#11459: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:35:55 PM

[[labelnote:your text here]]

Cutegirl920fire CG for short from Denmark (Rule of Three) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
CG for short
#11460: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:37:49 PM

Cool! TYIs it ridiculous that 

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#11461: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:39:02 PM

TBF, I try to avoid using labelnotes if I can help it. A standard note almost always gets the job done.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#11462: Oct 6th 2022 at 2:50:26 PM

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.

FernandoLemon Nobody Here from Argentina (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: In season
Parable State of Mind from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
State of Mind
#11464: Oct 6th 2022 at 3:56:12 PM

Did it? I remember Eddie despised the idea of a quote button because he thought its only purpose was to feed flame wars.

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 Kim
CytoZytokine Since: Jun, 2022
#11465: Oct 6th 2022 at 6:40:21 PM

I 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.

wingedcatgirl I'm helping! from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
I'm helping!
#11466: Oct 6th 2022 at 7:44:59 PM

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.
WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
ShinyCottonCandy Industrious Incisors from Sinnoh (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Industrious Incisors
#11468: Oct 6th 2022 at 7:52:28 PM

If it were me, I’d just make the markup be [[quote]].

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Oct 6th 2022 at 10:52:38 AM

SoundCloud
Wafer whatsapp yukari from Gekkoukan High School, Iwatodai City Since: Oct, 2021 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
whatsapp yukari
#11469: Oct 6th 2022 at 8:16:45 PM

Is 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 yukari
Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11470: Oct 6th 2022 at 8:24:31 PM

On 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.

Amonimus the Retromancer from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the Retromancer
#11471: Oct 6th 2022 at 8:41:54 PM

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
m-95 Har har har from my place of residence Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Loves me...loves me not
Har har har
#11472: Oct 6th 2022 at 8:49:22 PM

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 game
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from that rainy city where they throw fish (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#11473: Oct 6th 2022 at 9:38:23 PM

Is 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.
WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
#11474: Oct 6th 2022 at 9:40:24 PM

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 Team
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#11475: Oct 6th 2022 at 9:40:47 PM

Beginning 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


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