April 17, 2014

I didn't need this

Someone decided they needed to fork TVTropes.

I won't be using the new site.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 10:14 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 I am sympathetic with the motives for forking the site ( I was on the periphery when Fast Eddie started turning erratically tyrannical ). . . but in practice, I still use TVTropes.  There is too much value in having one large tropes site versus multiple small ones.

Granted, there is *also* value in having the ability to fork.  Hell, I am part of ( and currently run the home of ) an exodus of residents who fled policy change on their old forum of residence.  However, its a pretty high threshold of inertia to overcome.

Posted by: metaphysician at April 17, 2014 11:54 AM (3GCAl)

2 Agreed with both of you, but I'll note that when I went to the front page of this new fork (it mentions there was another incomplete one done earlier), I noticed under Popular Articles Monster Girl Quest, a game I needed to gain an understanding of to follow a potentially good fanfic starting the male protagonist.

And if you ignore the huge squick that's part of the game, or as the page on this Wiki puts it, "Monmusu Quest: Lose and the Girls Rape You", it's actually somewhat interesting, certainly enough that an author might choose this character to "import" into a crossover fanfic.
 

Posted by: hga at April 17, 2014 01:27 PM (SBLCe)

3 Oops, forgot to mention the not entirely implicit fact that this game used to be on the original TV Tropes page but was purged.  I was rather annoyed when I discovered that.

Posted by: hga at April 17, 2014 01:30 PM (SBLCe)

4 What often bugged me about the site was how it became increasingly out of date with its examples. Naruto, One Piece and Code Geass references abound, but newer anime wasn't plugged into older memes, just newer ones as they were invented.

Posted by: Mauser at April 17, 2014 11:35 PM (TJ7ih)

5 Here's another verbed noun.

Posted by: muon at April 18, 2014 03:05 AM (XIprt)

6

I got banned from TV Tropes, even from the discussion boards, for linking to evidence that Egypt practiced chattel slavery from the New Kingdom till the end of World War I. Didn't fit the narrative at the time, though I wonder what they would think now that The One has thrown his hands in the air and given up on anyone in Egypt being worthy of his endorsement.

Not sure if I'll log in at the fork or not, though. It's probably just another echo chamber, with even more vicious moderation.


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