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I think it's fine to make new YMMV, it's usually complaining that's not wanted on TLP.
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There's no known policy against launching YMMV items. Better as a Let's Play was a YMMV trope launched recently, and no one I know has complained about it.
It says "avoid", not "never make ever". YMMV concepts can and do launch, but the majority of the ones proposed are so complain-y or shoehorn-y that it's best just to not try and make new YMMV concepts.
But there's never been a rule that "only mods" can launch a YMMV or Trivia item. It's just that doing so is more complicated than launching a normal trope, subject to more scrutiny, and doesn't usually work.
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The reasoning behind the rule is that some audience reactions, like The Scrappy, Ensemble Dark Horse, and Broken Base, experience massive amounts of misuse. This mostly applies to reactions about fans liking or disliking (ESPECIALLY disliking) something, leading to Complaining About Shows You Don't Like and other related problems.
Stock Epileptic Trees are much less likely to cause that kind of issue.
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Other recent YMMV tropes launched are Realism-Induced Horror, Rainbow Lens, and Recurring Fanon Character.
It can be done. It has been done.
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Back in the day we were discouraging new YMMV pages and we certainly do discourage new complaint pages. I think only the latter one is set in stone policy, the former is mainly advice.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
One of the TLP guidelines says:
That makes me feel like only mods are allowed to launch YMMV or Trivia items. However, Delusion Conclusion, a YMMV item, was just launched by Subject Five, who doesn't appear to be a mod. So, are we allowed to launch YMMV or not?