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As I already told you in the draft itself: it'd be best to just make the midpoint category its own trope. A three-point sliding scale isn't really a sliding scale anyway, especially when the other two points are already their own tropes. Also, I'm not confident this idea wouldn't just add more fuel to the fire WRT edit warring - especially with your original idea, which would lead to more fights about whether a character belongs on one end of the scale or another.
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Hi Guys,
I recently put together a trope in the Launch Pad called Sliding Scale of Philanthropic Vs Selfish Extremism to try and help curtail how YMMV the use of Well-Intentioned Extremist and Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist has become.
The idea behind it was that by collating the two tropes into a single spectrum and adding a midpoint category "Esoteric Extremism", it would help circumvent the issue by removing the dichotomy altogether.
From what I understand there has been a general kibosh placed on any new "Sliding Scale" tropes, however I believe that this would be a worthwhile entry to the wiki as it would help prevent future edit wars and stealth complaining.
At present, the proposed trope has been placed under the title "Spectrum of Philanthropic Vs Selfish Extremism (WIP)"
Please let me know what you guys think.
Cheers, Vidkid