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I already commented it on the draft, but April Fools Jerk has a suspiciously high number of hats.
^ Yeah, I pointed that out here
too.
I still think the large amount of hats is just because the concept is good (even if the formatting isn't) and because a lot of people who don't know Trope Namer Syndrome just support anything with SpongeBob references.
Eh, I always tend to find drafts that get that many hats that quickly to, well...smell distinctly of fish, unrelated to that yellow sea-sponge the title is named for. But just because I tend to get overly suspicious of these things doesn't mean you're wrong- we just have no way of knowing since literally nobody popped in to say "hey, I hatted this".
Mods can check who hatted and bombed things now though, so if they look into it they can give us a better idea of how fishy it is or isn't.
Edited by WarJay77
Their other two drafts don't have too many hats, so maybe there wasn't any funny business going on. Still, the hats around April Fools Jerk just seemed suspicious. I remember that the hats would keep up with the bombs consistently.
His (?) TLP proposals aren't all bad, to be honest. They did make Pre-Final Boss, which is a decent concept on it's own, but then completely abandoned it and left the draft to be adopted by someone else, who then proceeds to whip it back into a decent shape.
I think the user in question is one of those people who goes by the "I have a ton of cool new trope ideas, but I'm too lazy to keep every single one of them updated constantly" mentality, hence the pile of TLP drafts that sounds cooked up on the spot.
The ideas are okay, but the sheer lack of effort and refusal to work on their drafts afterward is the issue.
It could be that they just don't want the TLP idea to be forgotten, and are putting ANYTHING out there in the hope that someone will latch onto it.
^ If so, they should use the Trope Idea Sounding Board and/or the Trope Idea Salvage Yard for ideas they can't focus on.
^^ Writing a draft with the intention to put it up for grabs soon after is against the rules. The TLP already has 7904 drafts that need work, it doesn't need drafts with debatable tropability.
If they're not responding to the posts in their drafts, maybe someone should send them a PM to try to get some sort of explanation.
I wasn't saying it was acceptable. Just offering a possible explanation for the behavior.
^^ I wouldn't call it "not responding" so much as "complete abandonment".
I'm not trying to be difficult, but aren't those two pretty much the same thing? Or are you saying that it's different because they're also not editing?
Read I Need To Get Off This Site's troper page. I think they're not coming back.
Oh damn dude i thought you needed a career to retire but i guess not
↑ ↑ ↑ "Not responding" implies that they're seeing the responses and ignoring them, "complete abandonment" is moving on to other things entirely and leaving the potential tropes in the dust.
And yeah, it's safe to say they're gone, so the problem's likely solved either way. I've cut listed their troper page since they've just left it as an insult to the site as a whole.
↑ Bean, unnecessary comments like that are part of what we were telling you to fix in the previous discussion. You can dislike other tropers all you want, but there's no reason to jump in with a rude comment like that when the problem is already solved
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
...welp. I guess that's settled then?
Assuming they're being serious, I'd assume so, yeah.
↓ A whoooooooole lot of stuff regarding the 2020 election, and that's all I'm gonna say here.
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
...the fuck is even in Humiliation Conga?
- The troper has left the site and left their page as an outcry against the site as a whole - assuming they're being serious, there's no reason to keep the page up as it insults the site's alleged "political leanings"
Agree with Warjay. Subject troper just posts and leaves, with minimal effort and no attempt to update, fix, take suggestions, address criticism, etc.
Enough. The problem has been solved if the troper is serious about leaving the site. Any more replies at this point are just unnecessarily bumping this thread and taking attention away from other queries that need it. Please stop replying to this.
^ Thanks, Kev. I'm requesting a lock on this now.
Chronically Poor TLP work
Troper I Need To Get Off This Site might, well...need to get off the TLP for a bit. They keep making subpar drafts and leaving them without fixing them. Here's
some
examples
, including their newest effort which shows they haven't really been listening to any criticisms on other drafts except maybe about the formatting issues. They just aren't sticking around to actually improve their drafts, leaving behind messes and not actually learning from their efforts.