Votes Bump!
The top two options have less than ten opinions given. Can more people please chime in?
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.I added Invited Ghosts Only and Invited Ghosts as options to the crowner. Puns on "Invited Guests Only".
Only two options are in the positives:
- Must Be Invited has 12:5
- It Must Be Invited has 7:6
Calling for Must Be Invited. It's been long enough.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickOh ha ha, funny how my argument was not that any of those creatures is "equated" to ghosts by anyone, but that "ghosts" used in a broader sense can very well include those creatures.
And why thump away my defense of my suggestion? Was that "switching the discussion from the topic to a person", too?
Funny, too, how nobody of the people voting for Must Be Invited has bothered to explain why they think that Must Be Invited (a name that does not indicate at all it is about supernatural creatures) will cause less problems by misuse than Vampire Invitation did by (assumed) underuse.
But well, that's TV Tropes discussion culture for you. Have fun shoveling wicks, until the next rename.
I've never heard "ghost" being applied to vampires and other characters. Perhaps it's an obsolete meaning of the term.
And yes, you were derailing the discussion into being about another poster. In a thread where the rename crowner had already been called, too. And please moderate your language a bit.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI was also citing a source to support that the use of "ghost" as a broad, generic term for supernatural beings with certain traits is not nearly as outlandish as some of you think, and pointed out the close parallels between vampires, fairies, demons and the concept of 'ghost' that prevails in the broad public. That is not talking about a person, nor should it be 'derailing' a thread whose purpose is to discuss potential trope names. Yet it was also disappeared under the thump.
Dictionaries don't care about whether a meaning is obsolete, and public knowledge does override "technically possible" meaning. That makes that name unsuitable for this trope.
Besides, the crowner has been called in favour of Must Be Invited. Continuing a discussion after the crowner voting on it has been called is not proper practice.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI've cutlisted the Playing With page. The work page probably needs a general ZCE sweep.
The Playing With page has been cut, and the ZCE cleaned up. Is there anything else to be done here?
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
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What would be the best way to fix the page?

"Supernatural Invitation?"
"Supernatural Invitation Requirement?"