During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
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That's true, but my point wasn't that she had a mitigating quality. My argument was that her role in releasing the Umbrum is so tangential that it doesn't contribute to her heinousness. The most she does is taunt to the heroes "Ha Ha, you're going to die" and leave. A Kick the Dog moment for sure, but not something I would consider as making her exceptionally heinous.
Edited by DrUnknown on Oct 27th 2021 at 5:34:03 AM
I will give one last thing so the thread can vote on this with all the facts. The comics have already proven capable of having CM's via Cosmos. And when it comes to her actions: She drained all the cat creatures of their love leaving them emaciated, took over their land and imprisoned them so they could be used as a food source, killed one of them in front of the CMC's, told them that they had outlived their usefulness and she was NOT letting them go, started to drain Twilight's friends which was shown to be painful, planned to make Twilight drain her own friends herself, drained a bunch of ponies leaving them emaciated while destroying their villages, and abandoned her own allies while taunting them and the heroes they would all die.
I am just making sure you guys have everything to vote, at this point I doubt I will be able to change anything. Now I am going to duck out of the thread for a bit.
Edited by Ordeaux26 on Oct 27th 2021 at 5:54:52 AM
Being perfectly honest I'm getting more sketched out about the other keepers from the franchise. I recall there's one from the older series that was deemed to be well vetted, another that went up despite a lot of us finding it questionable and idk if that ever got resolved and at this point I'm just hoping whoever else is listed from the comics has an actual bodycount and doesn't just inject unfun fuel into their victims so they can't experience the magic of friendship.
Looking at Cosmos’ writeup from the same comic, I think she’s good, since it does say that the fabric of reality is in danger, and there’s several other crimes instead of non-lethally fucking someone up.
Edited by nwotyzal on Oct 27th 2021 at 6:17:42 AM
I'm tired, tuckered out from back to back to back morning shifts and midterms, so I'll just say "no" to Chrysalis.
Cosmos, as fucking insane as it is, can stay. I double checked during the EP. They break the Never Say "Die" rule as strongly as I've seen within the medium's (admittedly tight tight tight) conventions.
Lavan, IMO? Needs to go ASAP. I've never understood why he went up. You know when we voted down Sarah Ravencroft because her "destroy the world" goal was heinous on paper but generic in execution? Like, no emphasis or threat of death whatsoever because G rating and young children? That is Lavan's exact issue.
Hell, at least Sarah wilted some trees. Lavan doesn't even do that.
Edited by Scraggle on Oct 27th 2021 at 7:38:26 AM
Yes to Red Demon, Whateley, Evil Ash, and Big Boss Man.
Cut Lavan.
No to the MLP villain, MLP should not have many C Ms in general. Other kids franchises Masters of the Universe, TMNT, Transformers, GI Joes, etc are aimed at a older audience, have consistently nastier villains than MLP and have consistently higher stakes than MLP, it's why She-Ra 2018 has a keeper and 2020 MLP does not.

Man, this is bringing back memories of the debate we had when show!Chrystalis was mentioned.
, sadly- same issue.
One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.