Needs Help: The Tetris Effect

To-do list:

• Since the trope is now In-Universe Examples Only, examples are now limited to character reactions, so Audience Reactions must be removed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 14th 2022 at 3:24:00 AM

Anyway, to give my own $0.02, this might work as an Audience Reaction due to what the wick check picked up.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 5th 2022 at 12:20:58 PM

Either that or Def-Only since it's a real world terminology.

I'd prefer IUEO over definition-only if we don't make it YMMV. There appear to be enough in-universe examples for it to work.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 6th 2022 at 6:09:22 AM

If we recall correctly, this trope predates the YMMV split, so it seems likely it was just... missed.

on making it an audience reaction.

If there are many valid In-Universe examples, we can also instead ban RL examples and make a new YMMV trope with similar definition.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 6th 2022 at 3:09:13 PM

I wouldn't want to cut the IU examples, personally, because they do really use the term well. But I might be biased from having pulled them myself for the check.

I would say make it YMMV, and maybe split the example section between In-Universe examples and audience reactions.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether to do a soft split, but I don't think a hard split is necessary since out-of-universe examples outnumber in-universe examples in the wick check.

I think a YMMV move seems the simplest, don't think there's a need for an In-Universe split.

YMMV. Softsplit In-Universe for now.

I'm not sure how YMMV would even realistically work. It honestly seems like a very personal thing and not a general/widespread audience reaction.

I say IUEO.

I agree with , I'm not quite sure how this would play out as YMMV. Since there's a decent amount of IU examples, I guess IUEO works, but I'm also for def-only. *shrug*

Oh, that's a good point, it is a bit too personal for YMMV.

I'm also fine with Definition-Only. Just as long as YMMV examples are completely gone.

Also, going over the wick check shows many of the write-ups for the reaction examples are just awful. Like yikes. As an aide, there's a Darth Wiki example, which I don't think should be considered valid for a wick check like this.

Edited by Karxrida on Jul 7th 2022 at 5:00:42 AM

All wicks are valid in a wick check, so long as they have actual content and aren't just index wicks or whatever. That's sort of the point of them being random.

Edited by WarJay77 on Jul 7th 2022 at 8:12:27 AM

The thought of Troper Tales-style examples did occur to me, which is why I now kind of lean more toward IUEO. However, the Troper Tales-style examples used to be significantly more prevalent in the early days of the site, from what I remember regarding the page being like then (and even if we disregard the fact that they were personal examples, the examples I saw back then were usually misuse that fit Just One More Level! and not The Tetris Effect).

Edit: Speaking of Just One More Level!, I saw that it's already IUEO.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 7th 2022 at 9:48:00 AM

Reading through the examples, I felt like they were best suited to something like JFF, and I think this trope should be IUEO.

Posting this comment to make public that I voted in favor of making the page IUEO. I didn't upvote or downvote any of the other options.

It may have not been there before last time I've checked, but JFF sounds like a better version of YMMV option, personally.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 9th 2022 at 5:27:38 PM

It's been there since the beginning since I saw that it was suggested when I was reviewing posts to compile crowner options. The post above the one I made announcing the crowner (which was almost exactly a day old at the time) mentioned making the trope IUEO and moving out-of-universe examples to Just for Fun. I don't think anyone has touched the crowner since I made it.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 9th 2022 at 10:17:55 AM

Either I've voted right while the options were being set up (I check the followed threads, so that became rather common lately) or I've left it neutral, or it just didn't click, because it was the only one without my vote on it. Well, not like it matters.