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#1: Jun 28th 2023 at 5:47:04 PM

The problem: Protective Pressure is a trope about how, to quote the (very short and unclear) description, "Whenever the heroes enter a Mad Scientist Laboratory in an unconventional way, they'll experience slight air draft coming from inside (or the other way around). Same thing happens whenever a science-y MacGuffin is opened with a slight hiss." Unfortunately, with crosswicking and including indexes and so on, this trope would have just 19 wicks since its 2010 launch. This makes it a Not Thriving candidate.

Possible solutions: Cut and/or yard, depending on how salvageable the concept is.

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#2: Jun 28th 2023 at 5:49:24 PM

Opened.

I feel this may be Too Rare to Trope because of how specific it is, so I'd prefer cutting. Hell Is That Noise already covers cases of characters finding the noises unsettling, anyway (if any of the examples are character reactions).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 28th 2023 at 7:52:43 AM

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#8: Jun 28th 2023 at 8:23:45 PM

Cut it open!

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#9: Jun 28th 2023 at 8:29:48 PM

I wonder where the "protective" part is.

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#11: Jun 28th 2023 at 10:33:34 PM

I think this is a specific part of Dramatic Wind when opening doors and artefacts. Reasonable to merge?

Edited by Amonimus on Jun 29th 2023 at 4:34:24 PM

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#12: Jun 29th 2023 at 4:48:49 AM

[up]x3: I think the Real Life paragraph is supposed to explain that.

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#14: Jun 29th 2023 at 6:37:14 AM

I saw the holler to make a mod call to waive the three days for this draft but I decided to wait a few hours (+ no other mod actioned anything). It appears that somebody already cut all of trope's wicks?

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#17: Jun 29th 2023 at 6:47:52 AM

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sorry. Jumped the gun last night. I can reinstate them if you want.

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#18: Jun 29th 2023 at 6:50:23 AM

Oh wait, the holler already said that the wicks were removed and I missed it somehow. Regardless, ~Tropers/Yindee you can't just cut a page's wicks like that without a mod call even if consensus appears unanimous to you. It's been then 24 hours since the thread was opened so it would have been best to just be patient as a mod was going to make consensus call eventually. Please do not do this again.

Also, there was a merge proposal here that hasn't been commented on yet.

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#19: Jun 29th 2023 at 6:52:21 AM

Yeah I won't definitely dumb move on my part. Glad to be shown very clearly why going rogue isn't a good idea. I can toss the examples back up.

Update: And done. I could readd the indices too, but given that neither suggested option involves keeping the trope, I didn't do that in this reversion batch. I can, though.

Thoughts on merge: Cut the page, merge the wicks I think would be a good solution.

Edited by Yindee on Jun 29th 2023 at 10:21:55 AM

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#21: Jun 29th 2023 at 8:30:39 AM

I didn't vote yet but cut + move applicable examples to Dramatic Wind sounds fine to me.

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#22: Jun 29th 2023 at 8:32:49 AM

Moving examples that fit elsewhere when cutting sounds fine.

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#25: Jun 29th 2023 at 3:54:50 PM

Calling thread in favor of cutting Protective Pressure and merging (non-ZCE) applicable examples to Dramatic Wind. I am not sure if Dramatic Wind's description needs to be modified or not.

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