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laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2021-03-06 18:35:58

Link for the quote in question. Yeah, that source link does look rather sketchy.

The Attention Whore quotes page has several entries in several folders, which one is questionable there?

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Vandagyre (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2021-03-06 18:38:51

Looks like all the quotes you mentioned were added by the same user, Chester Polarbear. It's been years since they made any edits, though. I suggest removing those kinds of quotes.


The questionable quote on the Attention Whore page is in the Real Life folder.

Edited by Vandagyre Cave Johnson, we're done here.
laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2021-03-06 18:40:51

Was just digging into it.

Chester Polarbear was suspended back in 2017 for making too many sex-related edits. Doesn't seem like all of them were reverted.

I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me
Sirena Since: Jan, 2021
2021-03-06 19:02:55

I took the liberty to remove the contended Attention Whore quote as it doesn't fit the trope. I find the liked site hilarious, though. I'd agree on cutting the cheerleader quote page and the Ethical Slut quote page looks truly horrible as well.


Courtesy links to edits by Chester Polarbear on Quotes pages. I only included edits that added new quotes that are still included in the current version (I also included edits that deleted examples by other tropers). I haven't checked them for their contents for now.


I haven't checked those yet:

Edited by Sirena
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2021-03-07 01:12:07

Made a note on their account.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
JohnnyFR00 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2021-03-07 10:41:32

Note that the site for the Cheerleader quote is made either by a troll invoking Poe's Law or a full-blown paranoid schizophrenic (the latter more likely).

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jesus_Is_Savior

We probably shouldn't give it publicity.

Theatre_Maven_3695 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2021-03-07 10:54:45

IIRC we had a page on it once upon a time, but it was cut for being too controversial. Yeah, don't give it the time of day.

Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2021-03-08 09:50:54

Chearleader subpage is cut.

Reymma Since: Feb, 2015
2021-03-08 11:06:39

I also feel there needs to be a serious look at Quotes.Commie Nazis. Some are useful input from historians, if maybe too long for a quotes page. Some are memes about Nazbols, a real political faction that may bring to mind the trope, but doesn't fit (it's about outsiders confusing communists and Nazis). Some belong on The Horseshoe Effect. I'd like to have some discussion about it, but I'm not sure where.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2021-03-08 14:46:13

Do you think bringing the subpages up one by one on the Page Quote thread is appropriate? Or is that strictly for page quotes?

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