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I think that's because they went through at least 3 to 5 instances of people leaving the site over the redesign, an sudden policy change, and from Fighteer being Fighteer.
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Gondolindrim
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The worst part is that it never a debate. It's a small group of powermods and their friends who make all the descisions with no oversight. I was in one of the threads for disambiguating a trope once and, I shit you not, one of the last replies on it was "I went to bed and when I awoke I realized that X was not a trope, so cut it"
Like excuse me? Are you fucking crazy? This page has been here since 2008 but suddenly it's not going to be a thing anymore because you slept on it?
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What trope was it? It really helps explain to the class how these assholes act to see what drove their “decision”
Gondolindrim
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Boobs of Steel. I realize that's not exactly a good hill to die on, but once I noticed it was gone I went down the rabbit hole and found the "misuse" thread and was very annoyed at what I was seeing. 15 years and no one had a problem, then one day they open a TRS on it, and then
Some tropers tried to fight, but the mods made sure their complaints went unheard.
Eventually, they're going to do this with every "sex" trope because there's nothing liberals hate more than natural human attraction. Not enough troons I guess. Won't stop there though, it's going to spread until the site is just needlessly compartmentalized.
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Fighteer claims another victim
Random autist getting angry because justice wasn't served
Random autist getting angry because justice wasn't served
At least link to it, their forum search feature has been broken for years.
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I remember being mad about it when I saw it happen myself. As dumb as it sounds, the trope existed for a reason: there is a relatively popular trend of making physically powerful women have big knockers almost as a shorthand for strength, especially with anime-inspired media. The decision to just delete is based on one mod's brief pondering is absurd and a sign that the site's moderation policy is fucked. It's really close to RPGNet mod behavior, and the “locked cuz y'all can't behave” shit is classic power-mad jannying.
Cave Fisher
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"It's just something that sometimes happens" Then what the fuck IS a trope?
Gondolindrim
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"What are Optimus Prime's pronouns?
But it could have certainly benefited from an public announcement
Yeah, it's one of those things where they have so much shit that it's superfluous to something else. Only weird thing that I see is one of the jannies moving the goalposts on what counts as an "trope" because so-and-so in the industry never really commented on why some woman who has giant tits is equally capable of kicking ass.
But it could have certainly benefited from an public announcement
Lone Star
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Just letting everyone know that characters with red hair and green eyes get to keep their page. I guess that's notable enough.
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One of my favorite looks for women. I’d be mad if they got rid of it, especially since it's a pretty notable stylistic choice.
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An really specific question which leads to an classic from 2011.
Gondolindrim
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They had a page on LowTierGod and uh, now they don't. I guess the Frieren anime getting it referenced on their meme page drew some attention to it and it was cut the next day. That's how quick it goes, one guy discovers somehting that rustles his jimmies and now no one gets to have fun. TVT is so scared of becoming worse Kiwifarms that they purge all lolcow pages on sight.
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I might have seen that page, an while back. It wasn't really notable for being just another YTuber who sucks at vidya. But at any rate, I've found why they cut it.
The jannies are still being autistic over userpages, again. I see an URL to an image, that they didn't immediately delete. Let's see what it is...
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This thread could really use a proper OP, as it tells me almost nothing about TVtropes or the drama involved and I'm not going to read 669 pages.
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I could rewrite it and ask the jannies to edit it in. But they'll probably just leave it as it is, since an lot of the older threads are like this.
But you aren't really missing out on much, nowadays
SecretMagicalGirl
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Socially awkward nerds, and people with legit mental issues join together to talk about their nerdy interests in a site created by a mentally ill sad old man, that also happens to be authoritarian, and, worst of all, a Buffy fanboy.
A wiki created for buffy fanboys, evolves to classify “tropes”, Aka patterns that you see in media. And then devolves into people deluding themselves that somehow makes them masters in the craft of storytelling instead of it being a huge waste of time. Others are just obsessive, and opinionated fans with too much free time, and near zero knowledge in having empathy with other human beings.
Site gains its own culture, popularity, and a huge influence online among creatives. But Plot twist, turns out putting together a bunch of outcasts is a big problem because, guess what, a lot of them were outcasts for a reason. Contrary to popular belief, nerds are not inherently nicer or kinder. Many of them tend to have hidden resentments, anti social behaviours, a lack of empathy, huge egos, or even hidden sexual deviancy. And TV tropes is their only outlet.
Moderators can only somewhat control all the insanity by being power hungry tyrants, and being Mentally ill weirdoes with too much free time themselves. Nerds are susceptible to group think so they all become easy prey to current day Wokeshit, and cult-like mentality.
Seeing them all interact creates endless drama. You’re pretty much caught up with that.
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LightDragonman1
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Bit late to the party, but the TV Tropes community isn't very happy about The Marvels underperforming.
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Don't feel too bad, I stopped caring about the Marvel movies an little bit after Stan Lee passed away.
Gondolindrim
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Immediately taking the "All the haters are incels or bigots" stance is hilarious. Maybe the movie just wasn't very good, have we considered that? Or, if you really want to get down to the heart of the issue, maybe no one actually cares about this iteration of Captain Marvel as much as the suits hoped we would.