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
to Howard Famiglia, Hans Kozak (and his quote), Tang, Al-Shabaab, Susan Helen Danford, Muhammad Abdisalaam, Rasheed Hamud, The Shepherd/Captain Morton, Manuel Borbon, General Lao Li , Grigori Rasputin, Dr. H.G. Halliwell, Professor Adrian Cowley, Professor Hugo Strange, Chucky, the Joker, Punchline/Alexis Kaye, Adriane Toomes/Vulture, Ton, the Voleth Meir, and Charles Lester IIII.
to SCP-973-2/"Smokey", Kliff, Andrew DeSalvo, Pedophile Priest, Smith, all of the Dio Brando images, Diavolo images, Ragyo images (none of them look heinous enough), and the Teen Idol. Cut Mongul.
As for the Disney page, I'm in favor of moving the Film entries.
Yes to Charles!
Also talking it over with Lighty, we felt Trunicht's very last little bit gives him an extra bit of nastiness worth adding:
- Job Trunicht is remembered as the worst of the Free Planets Alliance's corruption and excess. A petty, arrogant man who will cling to power at all costs, Trunicht glorifies a war killing millions and uses the ultranationalist Patriotic Knights Corps to torture and kill any who speak out against him as well as rival politicians. Trunicht enacts a plan that leads to tens of millions dying so he can secure power as Supreme Council Chairman and rule unopposed, expanding his rule to force the whole society under his near-dictatorial reign. Trunicht also works with the violent Terraist cultists to allow their terrorist attacks to occur as long as they support him, ultimately selling out the Alliance itself to ensure his own safety and power and in his final moments alive, admits to plotting to use the conquests of the empire's heroic kaiser, who spared his life, to kill while Trunicht grasps all the power he can.
I'll put that on the drafts.
Edited by 43110 on Jan 7th 2022 at 6:42:00 PM
Charles
I'm a bit late to the convo; what's going on with the Disney page?
Read Slender Man vs Siren Head 2: The Foundation hereAlright, I Lied, one more call for votes on the Priest
as the votes are super close still.
Edited by DemonDuckofDoom on Jan 8th 2022 at 12:14:44 PM
Yes to Charles
Having just got back from The King's Man, I'll give a late yes to the Shepard but a no to Razputin since I don't think he does enough to stand out as a minion of a much worse person.

Edited by Powermaster201 on Jan 7th 2022 at 10:45:40 AM