This is a thread for people who will not be or have not been on the site for a while, whether due to real life or to resist an internet addiction, the latter of which is encouraged within reason. Also, talk about the benefits/whatever of taking a day or a weekend off, or things to do when not online. TV Tropes ruining your life is nothing to be proud of.
Generally, expect the following from this thread:
- People announcing their departure or return.
- Moderators announcing a significant forum ban — not trolls or vandals, but someone people will notice and miss.
- Inquiries about an absent troper.
- Responses to inquiries about an absent troper.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 10th 2023 at 3:48:36 AM
They've been online today, and last posted eight days ago, so they haven't been inactive that long.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 30th 2023 at 6:28:54 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.not sure if this is the right place to ask since i wont name the troper in question, but i noticed someone who had blanked their troper wall and troper page had zero results in the 'posts by troper' search, despite having forum posts still visible. was there a feature to nuke forum post history? i know multiple tropers who did not want to be on the site on any capacity anymore would vandalize the wiki on behalf of jesuotaku/something awful to get their accounts nuked
i may be dead inside but at least i have Mystery :,)No, we don't have that feature as things stand right now. Also, not sure where the right thread for this question would be buut I'll answer it anyways.
I have noticed that certain users with older accounts don't display properly on "posts by troper" for some reason. I forgot if there was a workaround to this or not.
Edited by MacronNotes on Sep 2nd 2023 at 9:56:34 AM
Macron's notesI've found that sometimes the capitalization matters. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/forum_troper_posts.php?fortroper=sixthhokage1
works while https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/forum_troper_posts.php?fortroper=Sixthhokage1
doesn't for example
edit: nevermind, it's just inconsistent no matter what
Edited by Sixthhokage1 on Sep 1st 2023 at 1:38:15 PM
Did you mean to post that in the meta thread
? That has nothing to do with absent people if you're posting about yourself, since you're clearly not absent if you're posting.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 2nd 2023 at 4:42:21 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.
Oh, that makes sense. I didn't know about this quirk with posting history until now, plus it's 5 AM and I've been up for hours, so I overlooked that it was a reply due to a lack of alertness.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 2nd 2023 at 5:03:58 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Is nw09 still around? Their last edit was on August 21st — have they shown up since? (I'm asking because they have some wick checks lying around I may contribute to in the future).
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallThey were last online today.
EDIT:Meant to say yesterday.
Edited by MacronNotes on Sep 2nd 2023 at 9:45:31 AM
Macron's notesI'm going to take a break from mod work until at least the middle of the week because health problems from recent weeks have been interfering with things, so I want to get over that first.
I got a rock for Halloween.

Selkies logged in about a week ago.
Macron's notes