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I think it's a better three strike system, though.
And night, dude.
I left both TV Tropes and IJBM, I would sign up to Something Awful, but I don't know if I'd do anything other than post in the TV Tropes thread, and I need to lay off forums in general anyway, as they're continually eating into my time I could spend doing more important things. I think on something awful, post quality is gauged by how much you put back, so TV Tropes-style "I..." posts don't really cut it.
SA: Feel free to read and reply to this if you want
I have to admit whenever I see DLC's name come up I cringe a little. (I'm Pacific in the soulbonding liveblog thread) we stayed in contact after she left TVT, and I think she's got better- she still does the whole bonding thing but she's got a lot better as a person and now takes criticism on board instead of ignoring it. I thought maybe some positive news might make that thread you are in a little less faith-in-humanity draining. Don't know.
Do you think she is actually schizophrenic? It's the obvious answer, but I admit I have no idea how it manifests.
Also, this is basically all I wanted to say, no leechin'.
'I'm gonna make me, some cinnamon toast.
So I can be tropey, the rest of my life,
With some cinnamon toast...'
Actually, where do spiced pastries come into all this?
There is also quite a bit of hasty generalization, such as taking the opinions of some forum posters and turning that into "TVTropes hates literature" or "TVTropes supports pedophilia." Some of the criticisms are leveled at issues that are endemic to internet pop culture as a whole. For example, "Wiki Groaning"
was named after Wikipedia, and is far from a TVTropes only phenomenon. It's not hard to see why most people would focus a lot on Pop Culture media, due to it being popular by definition.
Some seem to be aware of it and just doing it to take the piss, while others take the generalizations at face value, and use that as a launch point to take it even further into demonization territory. However, I
noticed at several points that some among the first category were willing to call out members of the second category when the latter were taking things a bit too far, so points for that.
There also seem to be a few people in the thread that come across as desperately seeking approval from their peers, which is pretty common in any internet community. Lord knows we see it plenty in the TVTropes fora.
All in all, though, it's been a pretty interesting read so far.
edit: Good lord, I forgot how annoying the formatting can be here sometimes. ~_~
Thread hop: while I think it's good that the mods continue to refine their policy, reviewing your mod policy with people on SA might not work the optimal since forum culture is a tad different and what you need most now is a bit of trust in your own assertivity instead of relying on their advice too much.
To add on to what Meeble posted, a big part of the problem is, thanks to the security issues and poor vigilance, anyone can waltz in and treat the site like their very own confessional booth and self-validation device. My heuristic is, the further a page drifts away from listing tropes, the more questionable the content is going to be.
Hammer Backspace posted:
but Fetish Fuel got split off into it's own site a while back.
Doesn't it go by "J-List", now?
I would make an account there so I could post in the CAD mock thread,but I'm cheap and lazy so I won't
For example, the use of the term "This Troper." As far as I am aware, the administration has never approved of the term being used in the wiki, and the majority of people on the fora can't stand it. However, as a brand new editor you wouldn't know this unless you happened across the page that mentions it's bad wiki writing, or saw discussions about it in the forum community... which I believe something around 90% of editors never even visit the fora.
Things like that and a myriad of other issues do have people trying to fix them, but the process is slow going. Trying to bring about cultural shifts when a large majority of the editors rarely ever communicate with each other is a challenge.