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I believe that some people made an effort to move troper tales offsite back when we deleted it. However, I am not aware of the status of that effort; I heard it may have died for lack of interest. We did not archive any of that information, nor would we provide it even if we could. Best to let our embarrassing past lie buried and unmourned.
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There were some good Troper Tales that I enjoyed reading, but I now understand why they were outnumbered by the bad ones. There were a couple of cleanup efforts, but (I think) one died and the other is incomplete - I don't know if it can or will be completed. Many old TT pages no longer exist in any form that I know of - the Wayback Machine doesn't even have them. So, sadly, I'll probably never be able to read them again.
Edited by Lymantria on Nov 4th 2018 at 10:19:43 AM
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What exactly was Troper Tales? I've seen it mentioned before, and I know it was purged a long time ago, but it was before my time on the site.
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People telling stories about tropes in real life
I say stories because I doubt any of them were true
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Lost in Space
Things like this:
- Memetic Sex God: I am legendary among my friends for my conquests.
Again, nothing of value was lost.
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It honestly was worse than Fighteer's example. People wouldn't just say "I'm a Memetic Sex God" but they would actually describe in lurid detail their sex lives. Some pages were akin to a porn novel, as I recall. And even worse than that is the fact tropers would try to "one up" each other, so the further down the page you read the more lurid and disgusting it would get. Think of an unregulated Conversation in the Main Page problem but instead of the conversation concerning media it concerned sex.
All of the Troper Tales pages had this problem of tropers one-upping each other. Even relatively benign tropes would have tropers obviously making things up just to be the "loudest voice in the room."
There was nothing worth keeping and there's really no Troper Tale story worth archiving.
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There was still truth-telling, but it was rare and frankly didn't make it worth keeping around anyway.
Cleanup was next to impossible. But yes, some stories were just way too descriptive.
Yeesh! Yeah, I can see why it got the axe.
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Saying none of it was worth saving is untrue, but I can see why the bad TTs overnmbered the good ones to the point that the former were unsalvageable. Again, is there any way I can read old (good) Troper Tales that the Wayback Machine doesn't have? (Like ~Spinosegnosaurus77's ones on TroperTales.Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying, just to give one example).
Edited by Lymantria on Nov 24th 2018 at 7:12:36 AM
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You can find some in the history of the Main.Troper Tales page.
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All I can find is what looks like some kind of trope list for a work.
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Oh. My bad. I thought those were actual leftover Troper Tales.
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Can we please drop this. No one on the site is actually willing to dredge up that horrid embarrassment. Let it die already.
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Yeah, I think this has pretty much run its course.
I used to enjoy reading Troper Tales and was actually kind of sad when it was deleted. Because of this I just wanted to ask... is there a full archive of Troper Tales still out there?