For those who haven't seen— we have discussions about streamlining various Administrivia pages to less overwhelming and creating others to be informative of things we've seen as recurring problems. Outdated pages
for those discussions as well as Where to put rules for roleplay and website pages
(I forget ATM if these discussions have happened on others).
I'm compiling a list of ideas we've discussed on the thread that I don't yet see on the sandbox, but I will wait to share it because sharing that now feels like trying to evade my edit ban. So, FYI and TBA.
Covered in Star Wars Cleanup, Deadpool, and Web Video sand. I'm not coarse and rough, but I get everywhere.Well, now's the time to do it again.
There's also the Common Troping Mistakes thread.
Edited by ccorb on Sep 9th 2020 at 11:49:22 AM
Rock'n'roll never dies!Oversight discovered
— people with TLP suspensions can still see a directly linked TLP draft history, and I can confirm that also applies to editing suspension. I don't know a forum suspension or any other area of the site suspension is inclusive of those.
My editing suspension is lifted, so I've added the other thread ideas to the sandbox. I sorted the admin ideas into rough categories because... I'm organizey like that
We've had a lot of ideas, some we're more passionate about than others of course. Perhaps sometime soonish, we could run a crowner to determine our top 3 (or whatever number) requests or otherwise gauge what we consider priorities? We've collected way more ideas than is realistic.
Covered in Star Wars Cleanup, Deadpool, and Web Video sand. I'm not coarse and rough, but I get everywhere.
They'd probably need to go through the mods first, but crowner consensus could draw mod attention to them.
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Oh, I meant crowner just for the admin ideas! User ones don't involve those paid work people.
That makes sense— if there's one the mods nix, no sense in voting on it.
I remember a draft a few years ago that got to around 70-70, but I don't recall the name. I'll try to find it, but this is part of why I dislike the idea of letting the community auto-nuke drafts, especially since a bomb is supposed to counteract a hat, not act as a vote against tropeworthiness.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.The only draft of this sort I remember is Queerbaiting
, and even it has only 39 bombs and 226 comments, under that limit. And I know that's what hats were originally meant to be, a simple remove hat button, but tying it more into nuke functionality made it more obviously a vote against being a trope page (I personally didn't see a problem with it). Still, even 99 wouldn't have been that 70 you mention, so while I agree that 50 may also be a good limit, I'll mention it with a slash just in case.
Edited by Piterpicher on Sep 12th 2020 at 6:17:02 PM
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)No, I didn't comment on that draft, so I don't think that is the same one. Also, I'm assuming that we will have more tropers, which means that highly-contested drafts will have more total votes. Some ratio, like the proposal for the launch button, would be better. 20 or 50 more bombs than hats, rather than 50 bombs, irrelevant of hats.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.Great idea with that ratio. Yeah, some drafts are contested, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're instantly nukeworthy (that Queerbaiting thing was a legit attempt).
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)I went ahead and added my proposals from the thread to the sandbox (I thought they would be added when the sandbox was created, but whatever)
My troper wallLoving the sandbox page so far. I'm glad my method of helping sponsors by not insta-bombing is included as well.
Here's a suggestion from my teaching demonstrations:
- If inexperienced sponsors are struggling to format their drafts properly, teach them the steps of how to do it. This can range from showing them proper tags to use to showing example drafts to demonstrate with. Do not be snarky about it either. Be sincere in your intent to teach.

I pitched a "Welcome To TV Tropes" automated message once, but obviously for now all we have is Administrivia pages nobody reads.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall