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YMMV is supposed to be documenting general audience opinions, not for individual tropers to spout their personal opinions.
Really? I thought some (like Broken Base) were general and others (like Squick) were individual.
For every low there is a high.
If that was ever true, it isn't anymore. YMMV tropes attract a lot of complaining and/or shoehorning of complaining. Limiting them to known, preferably documented, fan reactions helps mitigate the worst of that.
I think only the moments pages are purely individual.
Edited by sgamer82
YMMV has always been a magnet for complaints. Heck, I'm pretty sure its creation was originally meant to clean up garbage from the main pages.
Though it probably isn't as bad as the Reviews section...not that that's a high bar to clear...
Plus it's worth remembering that YMMV tropes still have objective criteria to meet. People often try to write around that (see shoehorning of complaining) but most YMMV trope definitions are written in such a way to try and avoid that issue.
You have already asked a similar question before
, and about the same film and trope, no less. Personal opinions go on the Reviews page only. If you would like to discuss an entry, you can always start a Discussion or head to the General Disney Thread beforehand.
YMMV was originally created to segregate opinions from objective tropes. Whether the opinion was one troper's or widely held was immaterial back then, because Fast Eddie thought that trying to determine how widespread each opinion is was both off mission and too much work for too little gain.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Are we allowed to make entries that reflect our own opinions, or do we need to only put things that have a general fandom consensus? If someone has an alternate interpretation, does this mean that they are allowed to put their own entries?