Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
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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
Some of the Administrivia and mechanical pages are rather difficult to find. I think I went looking for an index of all the pages in a given namespace a while ago and don't remember if I actually found it.
(As for the red dot, I deal with it the same way I deal with all my notifications: leave it up until I forget it exists, and then weeks later notice it has a different number on it. ...I'm doing much better about this recently, but the extremely basic functionality of the message system does not work with my brain well.)
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOI know how to eventually find the right administrivia page, my issue is that a lot of the pages are really clunkily named and that can make them awful to type out. Like... Administrivia.Everything You Wanted To Know About Changing Titles? It sucks, but we have to keep typing it out because people keep suggesting renames without doing the prep-work.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallIt has Administrivia.Renaming A Trope as a redirect, which I'd prefer.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupI kind of wonder if I'm going to end up having a habit of sleeping through mod promotions if this post from last year
and this post from today
are anything to go by. At least the blue "MOD" indicator didn't take a day to get hooked up this time and is currently working (the "MOD" indicator is coded separately from the actual mod tools for some reason, so it wasn't displayed immediately last year), as seen from this ATT query
.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 17th 2022 at 5:46:23 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.The way you phrased the "maybe Twiddler is asleep too" bit made me imagine a scenario where a troper didn't know they'd be getting promoted, and so were fast asleep and then woke up for another casual day being stuck in the Lotus-Eater Machine that is TVT, only to then discover that they've been made a mod over night.
It did sort of happen to me at the HOA wiki, because while I did get my name on the staff waiting list I wasn't seriously thinking I'd be promoted, especially not a week later, and I missed the news while at school or something and was quite shocked. So I can't imagine how someone would feel if that happened on TVT, especially since there is no public waiting list and the site is much bigger.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI find it ironic that Star Wars Holiday Special, already at Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining, was just added to Funny.TV Tropes specifically for the snark.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupInterestingly, about half of pages in Paintings and Sculptures are about nudity.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupHey remind me next Halloween to make my avatar the red message indicator. The scariest costume of all.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldAre all the tropes with “Everything’s Better with” in their titles gone now?
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!We'll get there by 2030, I'm sure.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)...rainbows and sparkles can stay, since those actually are used as visual indicators of things being 'better'. The more Bishie Sparkles a person is surrounded by the prettier they're meant to be, a sunny sky with a rainbow implies a better mood than one without, etc.
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Everythings Better With Plushies is already on TRS, so that'll probably be knocked off the list soon.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 18th 2022 at 3:36:01 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Everything's Better with Chairs
Edited by Amonimus on Dec 18th 2022 at 1:37:02 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupHey why do we still have Web Original when our own Namespace List admits it's kind of pointless?
Edited by BackSet1 on Dec 18th 2022 at 6:34:26 AM
Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald

This is the fourth time I've tried to find Example Sectionectomy and Tropes in Aggregate and it took me quite a while.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup