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Edited by Mrph1 on Mar 29th 2024 at 10:55:20 AM
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
Speaking of locks, is the Jimquisition thread a temporary lock? You know, one of those "everybody, cool down for a while" locks?
Because a permanent one seems...too harsh.
Edited by fredhot16 on Feb 4th 2021 at 12:08:53 PM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
I would think it's permanent, after being egregiously off topic for a solid week. But that's just my opinion.
Lost in Space
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Given that it was a necro, there clearly wasn't a lot of interest in the topic, and if it's just for wonderposting and memes, it has no value.
Well what if there's a new wario game, just start a new thread? If that's the answer, I guess that's fine.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the mid
Lots of coffee
What does wonderposting mean in this context? Theories, speculation, headcanons? If they're related to the subject of the thread, then I don't see why they can't be shared. Same with memes, if there's some discussion and not just "look at this!"
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
The Camp Crystal Lake Slasher
I feel like if a new Wario game gets made, just unlock the thread. There’s no reason to make a new one necessarily.
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
I'm helping!
Unlocking the thread would require moderator action. Making a new thread could be done by anyone.
Admittedly, it's not that much added effort to holler the existing thread with a link to the announcement of Wario Universe 9000 or whatever to ask for it to be unlocked, but it's still some.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Redmess
I think necroing an old thread for a good reason is better than just demanding people start a new one, which just leads to clutter with duplicate threads in search results. Not that forum search isn't a huge mess already, but regardless, we don't need to add to it.
Optimism is a duty.
Lost in Space
Well, if someone wants to talk about Wario in terms other than a weird dream they had, we can consider reopening that thread.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Redmess
I agree that was random, but I think that was more deserving of a thump than locking the entire thread.
Optimism is a duty.
Lost in Space
Very well. We'll see where it goes. I've unlocked it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Redmess
Speaking of search, when is that getting fixed? It's been years since the last site update broke it, and it is still just as broken.
Optimism is a duty.
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
Like...forum search, the "Search Forums" bar?
Edited by fredhot16 on Feb 4th 2021 at 3:52:45 AM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
It'll be fixed when the admins decide it matters.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
A procrastination in of itself
I believe the site upgrade request list is very long and doesn’t get much in the way of resources assigned to it (in part because I believe the site doesn’t have a ton of resources).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Redmess
Yes, the one you see when you go to the forum page.
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
Yeah, I'll toss in my two cents: it was O.K when I first found the website (around 2016) but the update kinda made it worse.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Disasturbator
Alright,this comment struck like a raw nerve with me as a someone who had a brush with a cancer and lived,you don't EVER call people cancer,coming from a moderator this is beyond lame,this is totally unacceptable,it's not cricket,it's foul play
> And those people are cancer. Look, I'm totally fine if this decision makes some people quit the forums. No loss.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16111037120A87575400&page=30#comment-748
I don't normally make comments like this,I get you like being blunt,and that's fine,but this right is not on.
Edited by Ultimatum on Feb 15th 2021 at 9:22:33 AM
New theme music also a box
Lost in Space
Give me a break. You do not get to decide what words are and are not acceptable based on your personal triggers. Using "cancer" and "cancerous" in this sense is common slang, last I heard.
Edited by Fighteer on Feb 15th 2021 at 4:26:22 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Tbf, while I agree that it was unnecessarily harsh, it's clear to me that Fighteer meant that they're cancerous, which just means something harmful and spreading.
Aaaaand the power of ninja proves me right.
Edited by WarJay77 on Feb 15th 2021 at 4:26:37 AM
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Lots of coffee
I actually agree with Ultimatum. I even said in that thread that if a normal user had casually referred to groups of people as "cancer," they'd probably get thumped or even suspended for rudeness. I know it's kind of a meme and all, but it's just really immature. There's other ways to express exasperation with annoying, unproductive shitposters.
And "cancer" in Internet lingo isn't the same as "cancerous." I also think that, even though we can't accomodate everybody's triggers, I think Fighteer's tone ("Give me a break") comes across as really dismissive of the fact somebody would even have a trigger. Plus it's not really a ridiculous complaint. I associate "cancer" in the context of Internet lingo with 4chan-style "cringe" trolls. It doesn't have good connotations. ("Cancerous" doesn't have the same connotations - I see "cancerous" to refer to "spreading out of control and causing negative effects" but "cancer" usually just means "I think this thing is, at best, cringe and, at worst, worth eradicating altogether.")
Edited by mightymewtron on Feb 15th 2021 at 4:30:08 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Lost in Space
Look, I meant it to be taken exactly as expressed. Sometimes you have to rip off the bandage and say what you mean bluntly. I'm sick of talking around these issues. If someone is that offended, they have permission to leave.
ETA: I don't think I have ever thumped someone for using "cancerous" in that sense and neither has any other moderator, although I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Edited by Fighteer on Feb 15th 2021 at 4:28:33 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Disasturbator
Its not a personal trigger,I found your comment genuinely hurtful and am flabbergasted that you're acting like this
New theme music also a box
Following this att thread
, why was It's'a Wario Time!
in the videogame subforum locked? Having read it's last post before it was thumped, I thought maybe that was a bit extreme, it was just a mild imagination/dream that the poster had about Wario. Still I can understand a mod thinking that's too off topic for the thread. What I don't understand is why the thread was locked. Yes the newest post was maybe-sorta a necro, but the thread itself seems to be valid. We have threads for subseries, we have a paper mario thread, a donkey kong thread and so on. I don't see why one post being maybe off-topic means the thread has to be locked.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the mid