So, we got a bit off topic over in the TV Tropes Meta Thread
(shocker) and started imagining what a video about TV Tropes in the style of those slander videos (you know the ones) would be like. Anyways, FernandoLemon suggested we make a Yack Fest thread for it so here we are.
Keep it civil; try not to get into any Flame Bait-y territory, per the forum rules
(in particular, drama importation and popcorn posting are not allowed).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 22nd 2023 at 11:01:16 AM
Random people mistaking the Trope Talk subforum for Trope Finder and never getting an answer because their thread gets closed and they never actually use Trope Finder afterwards.
People mistaking every cleanup thread for CM and trying to write an EP about why Alice is totally a Base-Breaking Character.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
M1gami looking going back and forth between edits because he didnt add a comma (the mods think Im editing warring with myself at this rate)
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.Excessive-Menace making multiple edits in the span of a few seconds because they noticed a new error immediately after fixing one (sorry for serial tweaking, it just goes brr sometimes).
SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYM-95 using the preview button frequently before making a post and still editing it for mistakes after posting anyways (he is very bad at noticing these sorts of mistakes).
Edited by m-95 on Feb 3rd 2023 at 7:40:58 AM
JustForFun.How To Be An Anti HeroExcessive-Menace not using the Preview button to read the page further, only to check if the edits they made are good enough and don't break the page in half.
SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYBlackFaithStar lowkey wondering if the mods are getting exhausted of the cut list.
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorRecap.Stargate SG 1 having JustForFun.The One With in every fucking laconic.
(I feel bad for whoever had to make all those namespace changes for TOW)
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorGastonRabbit being exhausted for reasons unrelated to the Cut List because he's sick (again) and his sleep schedule is messed up (again).
(In all seriousness, though, someone has to be the one to send those pages to the Cut List, and someone has to be the one to push the buttons to finalize the cuts, so don't worry about it.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 4th 2023 at 5:51:18 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Black Faith Star providing another opportunity to to whip out the Big Brother image (after it was previously used for "Rickrolling is not premitted [sic]") via her Cut List reasons for deprecated Laconics:
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
All tropers who hate the mods quoting 1984 only to when in positions of powers, do the exact same things (know you shall know pain)
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.Gaston having to pace himself when processing the myriad Laconic cutlist requests.
Also: Gaston deciding to start shortening his username in the Slander thread because his full username is CamelCase and thus takes a bit longer to type it without it being a Red Link.
I got a rock for Halloween.Jay ruining people's fun by reminding people about TRS rules and standards.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTwiddler adding tropes to Wick Check Project and not getting around to any of them.
Edit: Oh wait, I did contribute to the wick check for Your Worst Nightmare that someone else started. Though I think the fact that someone started a wick check for it and the fact that I'd previously added it to the sandbox as needing one may have been coincidental.
Edited by Twiddler on Feb 5th 2023 at 6:12:28 AM
Gaston helping Jay ruin people's fun by enforcing TRS rules and standards.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 5th 2023 at 1:30:53 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.
The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
Everyone secretly planning to overthrow Jay and Gaston now (VIVA LA REVOLUTION)
Pantheon server for all who click here. Lost too much money and time, this coaster ain’t stopping.Jay being "overthrown" despite merely being a herald.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThe Crappy Video Examples
forum game thread taking forever to load.
Archsage having nothing to worry about because this part of the mod code of conduct means there's no reason to:
- While private messages can and will be used as evidence in disciplinary actions as needed, moderators will not otherwise inspect tropers' PMs.
For clarification, disciplinary action usually means deciding whether to suspend someone based on how many notifiers they've received for wiki edits, since checking the timestamps of the notifiers and the edits they're linked to has to be done manually (since, for some reason, the system automatically keeps track of how many were sent, but not when they were sent or which edits they were sent for).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 6th 2023 at 10:34:20 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.


Bluethorn only just finding out that recap laconics are a thing that exists. (How does that even work?)
Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.