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openNo Title Literature
Kakai
has grammar issues, with all the most recent edits being difficult to read. I can't remember for certain but I think I PMed them about it once before the form letter PMs came into effect.
Also, found earlier this month they completely re-did the description for Literature.Safehold which myself and another troper had to clean up, and changed the page image for Literature.Apprentice Adept. I'm not necessarily opposed to the change of description (unless there's a procedure for that which wasn't followed) but the grammar issues are in there, too. The page image was just to a smaller version of the image already present, which I think is allowable w/o an image pickin' thread post, but mentioning it to be on the safe side.
EDIT: Yeah, I did PM Kakai about this back in early June and it was a form-letter PM.
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title
Recently, looking to the edit story of Hypocrite, i noted that tedofg changed the definition of the trope in 25 sep.
Originally, this was: "Those who don't are hypocrites. The dichotomy here is that they may fervently and honestly believe what they say is right and good... they just don't have the moral strength or willpower to consistently live up to their own high standards. (Unless, of course, they're outright liars.) They might believe that Utopia Justifies the Means, and that they aren't worthy of it. Maybe they're deeply in denial, and justify their hypocrisy as either necessary or dismiss it with a simple, "That's different." In other cases, they might find the lure of Forbidden Fruit impossible to resist. The more self-aware among them may occasionally acknowledge (and/or attempt to justify) their situation with a Hypocrisy Nod."
They altered this to: "Those who don't are hypocrites. The dichotomy here is that they may fervently and honestly believe what they say is right and good... they just don't have the moral strength or willpower to consistently live up to their own high standards. These aren't hypocrites. A hypocrite, by definition, only pretends to believe what he preaches. The more self-aware among them may occasionally acknowledge (and/or attempt to justify) their situation with a Hypocrisy Nod."
I am not sure if this was altered because of some discussion or similar or not.
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Live Action TV
I just launched AuctionKings and I wanted to put an image up.
I've read through the Administrivia pages, but I'm still not 100% clear on what's acceptable. How do I tell if an image is legal for us to use?
I'll also take any general feedback on the page itself. Feel free to make updates yourself or suggest them to me.
openNo Title
Okay, um this may seem kind of lame, but, um, I've been writing my own fanfic, and it's relatively new (9 chapters long) and I want it to gain some traction, so, I figured it'd be lame if I write the works page myself, so. I was wondering, if someone could make a works page for it. Here's the link [1]
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openNo Title
Are we allowed to list examples for Jumping the Shark on YMMV pages? The page itself isn't entirely clear (it implies In Universe Examples Only, but only for the page itself) and potholes to Flame Bait, but isn't listed on the Flame Bait page.
Edited by KarxridaopenNo Title
Noticed that ComicBook.Deadpool redirects to the self-demonstrating page. I know there's a thread about fixing SD articles
, but it doesn't seem to apply to whether the SD version of a page should be the default or not.
So... should the SD version be the default (via redirects), or should there be a non-SD version made for the default?
(I'm not familiar enough with DP to make a non-SD version, unfortunately.)
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title
There's a dispute between me and Eagal on the YMMV page for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Basically, he cut out the Narm entries because he claims Narm is a Darth Wiki trope, while I restored them because only the examples are on the Darth Wiki while the trope itself isn't. Despite this he claims Narm still isn't to be put on YMMV pages, which I find nothing saying so on the Narm page itself. I want to hear the answer.
Edited by TuckerscreatoropenNo Title
Is it acceptable to have this on the MUSH page? The version on the page includes a link to the game itself.
- Shangri La: An intensely pornographic multiverse fetish game and consistent chief contender for the largest MUSH still around, as of 2014. If you're not into extreme internet/BDSM kink culture and/or are under 18, you really should avoid this one. They don't mess around here.
openNo Title
Someone please check dewy60's message-filled story on the Edit Banned thread. Either he was stupid enough to let himself get hacked, or a nemesis of his played dirty in sending a suspension request to Fast Eddie (assuming this story is true, of course). But either way, D60's story sounds a bit fishy to me, especially towards the end (though I'll admit I don't know about the rest of it).
Edited by ryanasaurus0077openNo Title
wiskab
has made two
spam
ykttws for "best outdoor watch." I discarded one and apparently wiskab discarded the other him/herself.
EDIT: or perhaps it was only one ykttw which we both discarded; though I know I put a spam/deletion reply on one that wiskab evidently overwrote with the word "good."
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title
Okay I'm considering adding a Complete Monster entry on YMMV.The Mysterious Mr Enter (And before his hatedom rejoices, this is not directed at the reviewer himself). The entry would be dedicated to a Patrick Star, in due to the eponymous reviewer concluding him as The Sociopath at the end of his "Patrick's a Prick" countdown video. as mentioned the trope page for The Sociopath, sociopaths are what people think of when they see Complete Monsters. However since this based a real-life person's opinion and that said person became the most controversial reviewer since Jesu Otaku. I'm refraining from adding the entry and considering alternate options such as:
- Amending the Moral Event Horizon entry on that same page (Patrick already has an entry there. And note that the entries for that trope there are also based on his opinion rather than his audience's)
- Asking Mr Enter himself if he specifically think of Patrick as a Complete Monster (he has made references to tvtropes before and apparently checks certain So Bad Its Horrible pages)
- or leaving the page alone (I'd rather play it safe regarding Mr. Enter. In part due to the controversy surrounding him)
I want to know which is the best option and for context I'll leave this link
and point out that the excerpt that inspired me to ask about this can also be found one the "The Reason You Suck" Speech entry on his works page
openNo Title
Is it just me, or does the main page description for the I Love the Exties trope seem kinda... snarky towards the trope itself?
Edited by harryhenryopenNo Title
Terran117 dropped an absolutely terrible example of bad Example Indentation (using subbullets as paragraph markers to respond to himself) on Romanticism vs. Enlightenment that didn't even relate to the trope.
Also, his history has him adding ZC Es, violating Repair Dont Respond, adding unsourced "general examples" and deleting examples without edit reasons (admittedly, the deletion I'm looking at was also a ZCE, but edit reasons are still your friend).
Edited by RamidelopenNo Title Film
Somebody please explain to the SJW who calls herself Superchristiana that we're not justifying any movie's sexism and that all we're doing is enforcing the Citations Rule for
Unfortunate Implications.
openNo Title
In an attempt to be witty, the index "Text Tropes" was made into a self-demonstrating article by... creating Sinkholes of most of the Text Tropes that make fun on what said Text Tropes are about.
Bringing this here instead of in the cleanup thread because I deem this problem to be important, and I don't want cleanup efforts for it to be ignored like almost all the other reported posts there (or so it seems to me).
openNo Title
My YKTTW for "Transformation Fiction"[1]
doesn't seem to be attracting anymore attention despite my efforts to bump it.
I think it's pretty mature myself, yet even after couple of weeks or something with no inactivity, it still only has two hats. I, therefore, want to launch it anyway.
Should I do it?
Edited by KarjamPopenNo Title
Regarding Flame Bait tropes (such as Character Derailment, for example), is it OK to list them on a work page if invoked? I understand that generally listing them on YMMV pages is forbidden, but would work page listings be OK if invoked? (Apologies for repeating myself in the same post.)

Which trope it is, when a character faces an enemy who forms several illusions of himself, so the character has to decide which one is the real deal to (for example) shoot? It's certainly related to Spot the Impostor, Spotting the Thread, and similar tropes, but I can't quite pick the right one.
An example: in one episode of Texas Ranger, Walker had to deal with a shaman doing this trick and he had only a knife. Then he noticed that only one of the visages sweats, and threw the knife into his guts.