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 ban/suspension 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 Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM
Yes. Forgot to capitalize.
Edited by Amonimus on Oct 27th 2022 at 6:16:00 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupThe "x in popular culture" list the essay says Wikipedia has too much of has helped me find examples in TLP more than once in the past.
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I mean, TRS, IP, and the Projects forums are being pretty active lately... as is Edit Banned. It depends on which part of the forum you look at.
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Yes, they do. They just have no access to it (can't change, delete or add avvies). Some people delete their account after they get bounced so that's probably why that user doesn't have an avatar anymore.
Edited by MacronNotes on Oct 27th 2022 at 2:23:21 PM
Macron's notesCan bounced users use the watchlist or to do list?
My most wicked TLP launches:
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: 426 wicks (inbounds: 3,792)
- Secret Message Wink: 117 wicks (inbounds: 561)
- High-Five Left Hanging: 90 wicks (inbounds: 502)
- No Poker Face: 80 wicks (inbounds: 1,054).
Interesting that there's such a spike in inbounds for that last one.
My lowest (not counting indexes) is my very first launch, Ram by Braking at 18 wicks.
My most inbounded launches:
- Completed Webcomics (9,724)
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears (3,792)
- Wild West Tropes (3,333)
- Theatre Tropes (1,911)
- No Poker Face (1,054)
- Tropes of Awkwardness (1,004)
^ I tested it by bouncing myself: I had access to the watchlist and I follow and unfollow pages. I couldn't access the to-do-list though.
Macron's notesIt's hysterical to me that mods can just casually bounce and unbounce themselves.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThey have secret secondary accounts for this, though the phrasing is funny.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupFortunately, mod powers don't interfere with bans so I don't have to log into Hastily Made Sock Puppet.
Macron's notes
Same but I won't be surprised if it was made by Fast Eddie. That sounds like a very Eddie thing.
The main thing I know about sock puppets is the great jokes about them they made on my favorite TV shows. XD ^_^;; Homer is scared to death of them and Frasier got peeved when Daphne tried to cheer him up with a sock puppet routine she used to do for her brothers.
Reminds me of when I ran a warrior cat's RP clan (on the warrior's forums) and my friends and I decided to do something silly in our third "generation" and create a shared account called the "WaterfallClan Leaderboard", though we all had specific text colors to identify ourselves I would often just roleplay with that account instead of logging into my normal one
Occasionally we'd edit a post someone else wrote to be goofy.
Now I'm imagining the mods deciding to use Hastily Made Sock Puppet to enact Voice of the Legion when carrying out mod tasks.
Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 27th 2022 at 2:39:53 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallNow I'm just picturing the Phineas and Ferb "doomed by a puppet
" scene.
(BTW my trope with the most wicks is Alternate Self Shipping. My YMMV items tend to get slightly more traction I guess.)
Edited by mightymewtron on Oct 27th 2022 at 2:42:44 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I was wondering how is CM/MB thread is doing because it's now at whooping 132 pages and I've not been following.
Fortunately, Sandbox.Thread Suggestions tells me everything I wanted to know. Wow as well.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupPeople also just like to keep posting there about, at this point, mostly minor things?
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThe Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory entry at Sonic Dreams Collection made me do a Spit Take due to how it sounds out of context, even if I know what it's trying to say.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupLmao, that's, uh... a very silly take on the game.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall

When you talk about "locked thread", you mean this
?
Edited by FernandoLemon on Oct 27th 2022 at 12:14:37 PM