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openTrope Launching Pad-style voting template for forum threads
Aside from all sorts of cleanup threads, Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard rely entirely on voting, but it's kinda tedious.
Having to count the votes must suck for the moderators, and you can't even see how much votes have been passed regarding a certain proposal/removal/tweak/rewrite or whatever. Or the stuff that you wanted to put to a vote gets ignored altogether or gets a tiny amount of votes.
Maybe adding a TLP-esque voting template for all forums will streamline the process a bit, since it's green and big and very visible, and it conveniently displays the exact number of votes.
No idea how to actually implement the idea (or it's even technologically feasible), but still the idea is worth consideration.
closed Previous Version
I wish that this TV Tropes website should go back to the previous version since a lot of people don't agree with the new design. Even I don't like this because it looks very compressed on my phone
closed Fanfic tropes pages
I put this down on a the basic Ask The Tropers list, but I think it's more appropriate to put it here. I gave some fanfics that I enjoyed their own tropes pages but they still need work and I can’t really be a one person troper, especially since I’m still new. If anyone can help with them, then I’d really appreciate it. The fanfics are Justice League: Thunderer located in the DCAU fanfic recommendations page. Omni Evolution located on the Ben 10 fanfic recommendations page. TFA Kaleidoscope located on the Transformers Animated fanfic recommendations page. Lastly, the Against Despair character page could use some more love in my opinion, especially since the author is going through a bit of a depression. As for this new overhaul and its glitches and errors, I made minor edits on each of those pages to check for these problems. I did so on both the phone and computer and it seems to work just fine. Also, another fanfic I gave a tropes page but seems to have been deleted is Virtue Of Revenge, a young justice fanfic. I already submitted the complaint in the Bugs list so I won't complain here. Granted, this may be a bit much since unless you've already read the fanfics you wouldn't know what tropes to put into the pages, but I hope you have because in my opinion I find these fanfics to be well written and I appreciate any help that can be given, thank you.
openPage link in TLP draft upon launching a trope
It would be nice if launching a trope adds a link in the TLP draft that allows people to go to the newly made article with just one click.
openNo Title
I've seen this before on here, but it's a good idea so I think I'll make another wish for it: Have people on the Launch Pad give reasons for hatting or bombing a draft. It's a courtesy thing right now but not a lot of people do it, and if a draft seems otherwise healthy but gets a bomb it can be really confusing when no reason is given for it. This'll also stop draftmakers from hatting their own draft right from the start and it might make people think a little more about the actual purpose behind hatting and bombing.
openTLP History
The TLP History seems to be broken and I can't seem to find my replies to the active drafts.
openRework the browsing system
I like to find new medias to watch by serendipity but let's face it, among all media listed on tv tropes library only a few of them seems interesting. So to find a watchable media you need to scroll through a lot of medias. This wasn't a hassle with the former design thanks to the auto-scroll but now I have to click too many times on refresh and lose interest before satisfaction.
If the auto-scroll cannot be restored for technical reason may be you could implement a faceted search so we can have more pertinent results, because there is no point to show me 20's romance movies when I'm looking for a recent action movie for instance…
openQuote formatting: text size
Not sure how much of this is a bug, but here goes. Since the redesign, quoted text (->, —>, etc) is now smaller than standard text and ignores double spacing after the quoted line, where before it was slightly larger. Just curious if the intention is to make quotes larger or at least equal in size again (or if this is just me, for that matter).
closed Update the Administrivia/AboutImagesAndCopyright page
So I just learned that when using images as page illustrations, the policy is now to use less than half of the original image. As About Images and Copyright only says "You can only show an excerpt, not the whole thing." rather than less than 50%, it should be updated to state that.
closed Magnum Opus page and FLCL
These two topics (seen in the title) are unrelated to each other, and I've placed them in order of subjective importance, and I'm leaving it here because I don't necessarily know who to talk to about this.
In regards to the Magnum Opus page, from my understanding, the page was officially made to be "in-universe only" because a lot of users were adding real life examples that were heavily biased (and I'll admit I myself may have even be guilty of that). That said, I think that we should seriously reconsider this stance, mainly because I believe that part of what made the page so interesting and entertaining to read was seeing what artists works were considered their very best. Simply put, it's what made the page so fun, and I think it really loses something when you take that away.If the real life examples were to be allowed again. What they need is an overhaul rather than being banned outright. There should be guidelines as to what counts. For instance, an authors work can't be counted as a magnum opus just because "well, it's MY favorite". The general rule is that it should count as a magnum opus when general consensus, among fans, critics and scholars, is that this is the authors most enduring work. Their legacy (for instance, C. S. Lewis wrote many novels, such as Literature/The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, but what he's gotten the most recognition and acclaim for, even after his death, is the The Chronicles of Narnia. Another example: Akira Toriyama created Dr. Slump and Franchise/Dragonball, both are well-known in Japan, but the Dragonball franchise is known around the world and has received more popularity and acclaim, while Dr. Slump is very obscure outside of it's native country, making Dragonball Toriyama's magnum opus of the two. It also might be better if the work in question has been finished. And if the artist tops themselves and people come to a general consensus about is, an example can be changed accordingly. I think we should at least consider allowing real life examples for each medium (literature, anime, film, western animation), and this time make it more objectively written.
As for FLCL, I feel the current page image for or it (official artwork of Mamimi, Naota, and Canti), should be replaced with the one from this wiki page:
http://flcl.wikia.com/wiki/Fooly_Cooly
(my reason being that Mamimi is more of a supporting character while Haruko is more-or-less the face of the series, and the second most important character after Naota. A FLCL page image without her is like a Calvin and Hobbes page image without Hobbes).
openAn Itty Bitty Tool to turn Curly Brace trope formatting into WikiWord, to fix things like...
An Itty Bitty Tool to turn Curly Brace trope formatting into Wiki Word, to fix things like...
closed Night Vision (forums)
I'm not sure if it's a bug, but for me, the background-on-text is dark grey-on-medium grey when previously it was dark grey on white. This makes it difficult to read and forces me to turn night vision on and off depending on where I am. I would very much like for this to be fixed/changed. EDIT: After initial submit, I noticed EVERYWHERE (except the wiki pages themselves) was like this. Clicking on the date/time of a comment to highlight it blue makes the text completely illegible. EDIT 2: It only seems to happen in waves (sometimes) and I'm not sure what causes it.
Edited by AgentParadoxopenThe Followed Threads Formatting
The Followed Threads page has every thread title take up two lines, even when there's plenty of available room and I have Wide Load enabled (not like it does anything, but that's a separate complaint). This seems to be because of the timestamp text always wrapping around to a second line, even when there's a lot of room. It would be great if the only threads that took up multiple lines were the ones that couldn't fit otherwise since the Followed Threads list is currently taking up about twice as much space as it logically should.
openIdentify the show
A group of friends travel in time and stop the events from change as another person wants to change in his favour..
Thay show has an episode from pyramids age..
It is an animated series
openMake it possible to search for tropes
When ever you write a trope hoping people will know which tv series or game etc you referring to. Most similar tropes to your trope should pop up, so you don't have to post the same description of show someone else has already posted.

I think that, while editing a page, there should be pop-ups suggesting potential changes, such as grammar or formatting, or a reminder that a trope is a YMMV or Trivia item and should be moved to the appropriate page. I think this would help users a lot, especially since I still keep seeing people put creator names in italics.