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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-19 05:46:29

Bump.

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Jinxmenow Since: Oct, 2012
2014-06-19 09:37:52

Wow, three whole examples on the entire page. This was very prematurely launched.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-19 10:42:45

It was one when it was launched a few days ago. And only one of the three examples has anything resembling context.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-20 06:14:27

Bump. Please also unlaunch Sleep With A Guy And He Goes Evil.

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AnoBakaDesu Since: Oct, 2013
2014-06-20 09:13:58

I have another premature YKTTW that was launched today: Sugar Critic. According to the YKTTW history, editors have not agreed on how to make a correct example out of this, and argue that it's mostly Gushing About Shows You Like bait.

"They played us like a DAMN FIDDLE!" — Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
lexicon Since: May, 2012
2014-06-20 11:20:44

If three examples makes a page very prematurely launched despite Three Rules Of Three then how many examples should a page have and why does Three Rules Of Three exist?

Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-06-20 11:30:38

Three Rules Of Three is a guideline; it's a statement of the absolute bare minimum you need to make a launch work. It is not a statement that anything that's lived in YKTTW for three days and has three examples is automatically a go. We want quality tropes, and the YKTTW process is intended to stop the bad ones from getting through as well as improve the quality of the good ones. Three Rules Of Three is sort of obsolete, anyway, given that we've got the hats system now.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-20 11:48:20

Three Rules of Three is still a mimimum standard for non-hat related business, though.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
FastEddie MOD Since: Apr, 2004
2014-06-20 12:09:36

Unlaunches are done.

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