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With Fast Eddie gone and Fighteer becoming increasingly more authoritarian and batshit than even Fast Eddie was, I'm wondering if we're going to see a collapse of the TV Tropes Forums community in the next few years?
The wiki will still likely stay up due to its prior reputation as a autistic yet mildly amusing way to kill spare time and read for fun.
The TV Tropes forum were an utter cesspit from day one but it used to be that the wiki was a mildly amusing website to read on a slow Tuesday and was largely separate from the forums. As long as you stayed on the Wiki and avoided the forums, you were fine
TV Tropes was pretty much started as a geekier and more laid-back pop culture Wikipedia but over the years it went downhill.
Honestly, the mass hentai purge in 2012 was where things went wrong in retrospect. It needed to happen but it was handled in the worst possible way. Kind of a "Road to Hell is paved with good intentions" sort of deal.
The purges gave the wiki a much-needed cleanup but due to Fast Eddie's autism and severe overreaction, it hurt the already dysfunctional community and caused increased overlap between the Wiki and the Forum wings of the site's community.
Oddly enough, I think the hentai purges in 2012 and the nuking of The Nunnery containment thread a while later played a major role in the current SJW zeitgeist that is dominant on TV Tropes.
Given the nature of Current Year, I'm sure SJW nonsense would have eventually infected the TV Tropes forums either way, but the wiki may have been more likely spared instead of being an even more autistic version of RationalWiki where the old articles are mildly entertaining but the newer stuff is utter culture wars garbage.
The 2012 purge was also where Fast Eddie's already notorious paranoid authoritarian tendencies went into overdrive and after the disputes regarding our good friend @GethN7 for daring to run a fork of the old Wiki, Fast Eddie eventually was replaced by Fighteer and his clique, who were every bit as awful as Eddie was.
Honestly, once the pendulum swings back, I think the already disreputable TV Tropes forums will decline but I would not be surprised if the wiki keeps going for a long while.
The wiki will still likely stay up due to its prior reputation as a autistic yet mildly amusing way to kill spare time and read for fun.
The TV Tropes forum were an utter cesspit from day one but it used to be that the wiki was a mildly amusing website to read on a slow Tuesday and was largely separate from the forums. As long as you stayed on the Wiki and avoided the forums, you were fine
TV Tropes was pretty much started as a geekier and more laid-back pop culture Wikipedia but over the years it went downhill.
Honestly, the mass hentai purge in 2012 was where things went wrong in retrospect. It needed to happen but it was handled in the worst possible way. Kind of a "Road to Hell is paved with good intentions" sort of deal.
The purges gave the wiki a much-needed cleanup but due to Fast Eddie's autism and severe overreaction, it hurt the already dysfunctional community and caused increased overlap between the Wiki and the Forum wings of the site's community.
Oddly enough, I think the hentai purges in 2012 and the nuking of The Nunnery containment thread a while later played a major role in the current SJW zeitgeist that is dominant on TV Tropes.
Given the nature of Current Year, I'm sure SJW nonsense would have eventually infected the TV Tropes forums either way, but the wiki may have been more likely spared instead of being an even more autistic version of RationalWiki where the old articles are mildly entertaining but the newer stuff is utter culture wars garbage.
The 2012 purge was also where Fast Eddie's already notorious paranoid authoritarian tendencies went into overdrive and after the disputes regarding our good friend @GethN7 for daring to run a fork of the old Wiki, Fast Eddie eventually was replaced by Fighteer and his clique, who were every bit as awful as Eddie was.
Honestly, once the pendulum swings back, I think the already disreputable TV Tropes forums will decline but I would not be surprised if the wiki keeps going for a long while.