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Without an example, it's hard to say how to deal with it. Normally with convo on the main page the best course of action is Repair, Don't Respond, for ex:
- Character X displays Trope Y when they ...
- Well, actually it's not a real example because of reasons ...
In that case either the second bullet is correct, in which case you cut the whole example. You could also just edit the first bullet so all the pertinent information is contained in one example. If the second bullet is incorrect, you just cut the second bullet.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meI should post it here? Not at the forums? Okay. So here is the offending example, from the draft of Aesop Dissonance
:
- At the end of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann it's not really clear whether Spiral Energy can resurrect the dead, or if the characters are speculating if it could. Regardless though, the characters conclude they shouldn't bring back the dead. Gurren Lagann has the major theme of accepting and moving on after death. While a good value in real life, this might not be as good in a world where resurrection is possible.
- Except the villains of the stories very firmly establish real consequences for such an ability; in fact, all of the "Spiral Power" the heroes use violates the conservation of matter and energy and speeds up the collapse of the universe into a supermassive black hole.. Making this more of a "Don't abuse your power" aesop.
- Even ignoring the threat of the Spiral Nemesis, the power to bring anybody back to life is pretty much a one-way ticket to disaster. The fact that Gimmy's list starts with Kamina and starts growing should give you an idea where I'm going with this: once you start, where do you stop? If you can resurrect your friends, why are all the other victims you didn't personally know any less deserving?
I don't know which one of these is actually the case as I'm unfamiliar with the work, I just want to merge the points given into something more coherent.
Time is subjective.This clean up
thread deals with natter so you could also bring it up though.
The first second level bullet just contradicts the main point and the second one just seems to be a another counter argument + first person writing. I honestly think it’s best to just comment out the example or just delete it outright if asking the person who wrote the original example to rewrite it isn’t possible (and it’s not clear if the example is even valid to be begin with…)
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One of TLP trope drafts I adopted has an example with Conversation in the Main Page that needs to be removed, but I have no idea how to fix that myself, and deleting the whole example just to get rid of natter seems like a waste. What would be the appropriate forum thread to get help with that?