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Deadlock Clock: Jul 18th 2014 at 11:59:00 PM
tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#26: Jul 20th 2014 at 9:49:48 AM

[up]Umm, looking through your list of created tropes, most of them have few examples, aren't found in many articles, and have very few inbounds, making them look like they were created solely to inflate your created trope count. I'd wager if we really tried, we could run that entire list through TRS and find problems with many of those tropes

Edit:Awkward pagetopper is awkward, but my point stands

edited 20th Jul '14 9:50:16 AM by tryrar

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#27: Jul 20th 2014 at 1:47:05 PM

^^ Did someone else describe them that way, or is "good tropes" your opinion? ;P

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tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#28: Jul 22nd 2014 at 8:06:43 PM

Votes bump! We have cut at currently 9-1

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#29: Jul 22nd 2014 at 10:14:38 PM

As I understand it, Hunger Hyperbole means "A character expresses how hungry they are by saying they'd be willing to eat either a ridiculously large amount of food and/or something they'd not normally find appetizing." How is that not a trope?

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#30: Jul 22nd 2014 at 10:23:02 PM

It has the same problems other Stock Phrase tropes have: It would simply be a list of characters saying they are hungry enough to eat X, which if I understand correctly is chairs.

One fix would be for X to actually appear(no matter how improbable it would be for that to happen), but since that would require changing the definition, name, and most of the examples, it would be better to cut then YKTTW a new trope.

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#31: Jul 22nd 2014 at 10:35:06 PM

If the specific words people use to express themselves don't count as tropes, then why do we have Added Alliterative Appeal, or Cluster F-Bomb, or Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, or any dialogue tropes at all, for that matter?

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#32: Jul 23rd 2014 at 1:03:33 AM

Because none of these tropes are about specific words. Cluster F-Bomb is about profanity in general, Added Alliterative Appeal is about alliterating words and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness is about an overy complicated/technical style.

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#33: Jul 23rd 2014 at 2:59:14 AM

Okay, what about this example: in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin is really hungry because she hasn't eaten for two days, so when someone tries to make her wait before getting a burger, she shouts, "I will eat your hand!"

That fulfills the trope, but the only words it shares with the stock phrase are "I" and "eat".

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#34: Jul 23rd 2014 at 9:28:57 AM

Umm, that example isn't someone exaggerating how hungry they are, that's someone being angry at being made to wait to eat, and thus threatening cannibalism. not the same thing.

edited 23rd Jul '14 9:29:20 AM by tryrar

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#35: Jul 24th 2014 at 12:53:10 PM

bumping to say this is at 15 votes, with cut at 13-2. I think we can probably call this

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#36: Jul 25th 2014 at 5:20:44 AM

Calling it; cutlisting shortly.

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#37: Jul 25th 2014 at 10:38:05 AM

Ok, I want to take this time to bring up all the other tropes Cavecat has created, which most are in just as bad a shape. If nothing else, we need to go through the list and see which ones might need more crosswicking to promote better usage (consistent usage of 10 articles and around zero inbounds aren't healthy tropes. At all.)

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#38: Jul 25th 2014 at 10:54:15 AM

I second that. Not to sound like I'm attacking Cave Cat, but they do have a tendency to... sorta brute force tropes through YKTTW. Not breaking any rules and they're excellent at adding peoples' examples, but aggressive bumping and ignoring criticism (as well as not making suggested changes) lead to... issues. I'm going to go see if I can find some problem ones.

By and large, a lot of them seem like they could be tropes but just aren't defined as such and are just "things that happen."

edited 25th Jul '14 11:00:47 AM by Larkmarn

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#39: Jul 25th 2014 at 11:08:29 AM

Methinks other problem pages are better off in their own threads and problems with Cave Cat belong on Ask The Tropers.

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#40: Jul 25th 2014 at 11:29:02 AM

[up] Yes, let's use established procedures instead of making new ones.

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tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#41: Jul 25th 2014 at 2:35:34 PM

Fair enough, I'll see if I can go through the list and bring up the ones most in need of help.

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#42: Jul 26th 2014 at 4:59:28 PM

Aaaand it appears Hunger Hyperbole has been cut. Guess that means this can be closed.

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SingleProposition: HungerHyperbole
18th Jul '14 7:09:22 AM

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There is some consensus that Hunger Hyperbole is not a trope and should be cut. Vote UP if you don't think this is a trope and should be cut.

Vote DOWN if you think this is a trope and should be fixed in some other way.

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