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I did take a look at the YMMV page and I am not convinced that it is trying to be "balanced" and the actual text of these Catharsis Factor and Values Resonance examples certainly isn't. To me the YMMV page as a whole sounds fairly critical.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Values Resonance doesn't count, given that is for a unintended audience identifying with a work, not the target audience.
I think the balance issue is less present on YMMV and more in the description on the main page. The whole "It's been compared to the Turner Diaries, but that's not a fair comparison" thing is... Honestly, it reminds me of white nationalists who try to make to say they're not racist.
My alignment is Chaotic Cute.
^ Edit wars over the Turner Diaries comparison between Idumean and other tropers have been going on for months. The main page has also been the site of edit wars on the author's 'historical knowledge', and whether or not the Confederacy fully or partially counts as an Evil Luddite, and the trivia page has been the site of an edit war over whether 'leftist extremists are destroying historical monuments irl'.
A lot of people have brought up the issues with Victoria where the trope page tries very, very, very hard to be 'balanced' about a book that promotes making women and racial/sexual minorities into second class citizens. As has been pointed out, this is disturbing since a page like Twilight reads far more harshly.
Should Catharsis Factor (talking about how much the alt right love this book because they get to watch minorities and women get put in their place) and Values Resonance (which is when a work is ahead of its time and begins to appeal to a group it wasn't originally meant for) really be on a page for a book that promotes stripping rights away from women, ethnic minorities, and gays?
Edited by Clanger00