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Not in the slightest. To continue the metaphor, give it the bacon-at-a-bat-mitzvah treatment.
Can you show us some examples?
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Remove negative comments. They belong into reviews, not on the recommendation page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Question, how does one add an review for a fanfic recommendation?
Use the button "add review" at the fanfic page. All pages about works have it, fanfics included.
If there is no page, just leave it. Fanfics are not recomended by TV Tropes itself but by specific users, it goes without saying that YMMV on every such recomendation.
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Pokémon General has an example like that with more de-recommendations than actual recommendations for "Unoriginality 1 An Original Trainer Story."
Edited by lalalei2001 The Protomen enhanced my life.
@AegisP: For example, in FanficRecs.Durarara, there was a comment that reads "YMMV. This troper found the story dreadfully predictable (except the last part, maybe, because I was hoping for the author to come through with some kind of unforeseen stroke of genius and save Izaya) and the writing rather bland."
I've removed that additional criticism, but I think some people mistake the "Comment" section to mean that they can add whatever remark they feel about the fic in question.
Edited by Adept
This Troper is trash that should be removed.
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Once upon a time a special markup allowed one to add reviews through the fanfic recommendation page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
So do we actually have a guideline on what's allowed on the Comments tag? I mean, outright derecommendations should be cut, but what about multiple recommendations from tropers who don't quite agree on what's recommend-worthy about the fic? Should they be merged into one entry, or do each contributor get their own say?
I'm also a bit iffy about the excessive gushiness of some of the Comments, which may or may not attract the unwanted derecommendations.
I'm personally not entirely sure why the Comments tag exists. I always thought the point of the fanfic recs section was the fics being recommended, not the particular tropers doing the recommending.
I personally don't mind removing the Comments section entirely as well. But I have to make sure, do other potential readers want/need additional reasons why a particular fic is recommended beyond just a Summary?
I wouldn't mind removing the comment section and instead have a mandatory review of a few sentences by whoever adds the fic. One serious problem here is that our system can't handle properly reviews in fanficrecs pages; they appear on the review index, but link back to a non-existent page in a Fanfic Recs/ namespace.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
The comments tag is not supposed to exist, it is a relic from tvtropes 1.0 but past clear up efforts have always ran out of steam, for a variety of reasons and muddied policies on what to do with the comments. The template still says not to use them, but they still crop up anyway.
At one point we were supposed to transition them to reviews, but then there were complaints that tropers on clean up were somehow spoofing reviews or cluttering review pages with one liner reviews, it was suggested that they just be deleted and that was policy for a while before some people complained that it wasn't right that the comments were just deleted and tropers who were no longer troping had their comments deleted outright, and I don't know what the policy ended up after that.
FWIW, I still support the proposition that they just be mass deleted if the mods are prepared to back that policy. It would need mod unanimity though for that to happen though.
I think a broader discussion about comments on fanfic recommendations pages would be best suited to the forums. To answer the OP question, negative comments that argue against the initial recommendation should be zapped on sight.
If someone will create the thread, and post it here, this query will be locked.
So I've encountered this in a lot of fanfic recs page, where in the comments section, another troper would remark on how they don't find the particular fic as recommended as the initial poster (e.g. that the fic has a boring start, or that the later chapters aren't as well written, etc.)
This is not kosher right?