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
I have no thumps (one was undone) and hope it stays this way. Though I do have an issue of multi-choice implications coming out worse than what I meant.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupWhen I get a thump nowadays I'm just like "okay, what was it this time?" instead of the utter confusion when I first got one. I've accumulated quite the number now, so I'm still a bit worried about getting suspended.
Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.Whenever mods decide you can't take a hint.
Edited by Amonimus on Feb 10th 2023 at 7:28:53 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupDepends on the type as well: some thumps/notifiers are more urgently actioned. Someone with three rudeness thumps probably needs a chat more than someone with three offtopic thumps over the same period of time. Similarly, someone with two plagiarism notifiers needs to be dealt with ASAP; two ZCE notifiers is often in "well, maybe they'll get it next time" territory.
Edited by Synchronicity on Feb 10th 2023 at 10:33:33 AM
We'd imagine that frequency comes into it too. Three rudeness thumps over the course of three years is gonna give a different impression than three rudeness thumps over the course of three days.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.IIRC, I was only thumped I think twice, both times for being off topic at the moderation thread, because that thread has a tendency to derail and suck everyone in.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallRE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=624#comment-15600
Length of time between warnings probably also matters. It's not like getting whacked once every 3 years means that you're automatically out on your ear by the 3rd time.
Edited by techno156 on Feb 11th 2023 at 4:26:30 AM
My thumps were over a few months, which is why I'm a little concerned.
I long knew the Recent Edits tool
could filter by page type, I often used it to see if anything was going on in discussion pages, but only now do I notice how arbitrary they are: there are "Title Bin" and "Wallbangers" namespaces which were cut a decade ago, there's a "Synopsis" one that only has two pages, there's one for "Games", even "Worldbuilding" that to my knowledge was never a thing outside the forums. Meanwhile there is no So Bad, It's Good or Visual Novel, I'm guessing because they have no namespace icon. In fact this "Synopsis" space needs looking at, it seems to be the recent work of two editors and is redundant to Recap.
Finally, the So Bad, It's Horrible namespace is written as "Bad? Horrible!" whereas everywhere else the shorthand is just "Horrible".
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.Did you know? There's about as many Quotes pages as Tropers (Pages)! Grab one now before supplies run out!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/articlecount.php
Edited by Malady on Feb 10th 2023 at 10:35:18 AM
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Go to the Images List
in the tools drop down menu and search for your handle.
Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 10th 2023 at 1:43:41 PM
Macron's notesI slept through the thump discussion (but anyone who saw I stopped talking for a while probably knew that), but I'm glad the ability to unthump posts exists since the approach I ended up taking to what led to the thumps meant they were no longer necessary.
Correct, and the last part is why for me specifically, recovering from an illness was followed by catching another one instead of just being able to be done being sick. Either way, I didn't even have suspensions in mind for the thumps in the Absent people thread even if I hadn't retracted all of them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 2:25:03 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.
x5: Heh. Looking through that page just now, I discovered that the French version of the Administrivia namespace is FrAdministrucs — portmanteau of 'administratif'/'administration' and 'truc' (thing).
Re: Synopsis
— We shouldn't have Synopsis pages, that namespace was deprecated long ago. I put both in the Cut List.

Ive had my share of thumps mostly for being offtopic
have a listen and have a link to my discord server