The Official TvTropes Thread!

[Nabber]

Ever heard of a little site called TvTropes? Then this is the place to discuss it!

 

[Lario]

It's a good read every now and then, but there's way too many things that irk me. This sums up what bothers me quite well.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

I remember a few months ago when TVTropes was stealing my sleep because I couldn't stop reading.

AUGH

I'm better now though.

 

[Gumball Machine]

My favorite trope is "Even Evil Has Standards" and I'll be making a forum game based on TvTropes.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

I'm not sure what my favorite is, probably Tsundere. But whatever, there are a bunch of good ones.

 

[Glowsquid]

It's an ok idea executed terribly.

-The wiki software is rather mediocre and full of gapping security flaws (lol plaintext password) that the owner refuse to fix,
-Thanks to Sturgeon's Law and being a wiki, the quality of the individual pages can vary widly. Way too often, you'll find creepy shit (for ex, the iCarly page had a lovingly detailled listing of every instance of "panty shot", the actors's cup size, some bullshit about sock length... ect), "examples" that only fit a trope with some particularly throughout mental gymnastics, whiny fandom entries and obvious self-promoting pages for horrible fan-fictions and webcomics.
-Its userbase is full of bigots, sexual deviants, militant pedophiles and people who really, really need to get serious psychiatric help. This Youtube series and a tl;dr Something Awful thread only scratch the surface.
-Not helping matter is that the moderation is ridiculously overworked and not very competent.

The site's ED page (NSFW obviously) is a good summary of its problems

It's still an ok read if you avoid the creepy sexual tropes and works with a large nerd following, but the management really needs a good roundhouse kick to the head.


(oh, and before the thought cross your mind, please don't describe yourself using tropes. It's awful.)

 

[Lario]

One guy said that GURPS is on the Trope Overdosed page just because he tried finding every little trope that has little to do with it.

One thing that really bugs me is labeling real things and people with tropes. What. Also, pretty much every Averted Trope.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

a tl;dr Something Awful

Good god. I'm glad I just read the simple tropes and haven't gone into the "Troper Tales" part.

 

[Nabber]

I actually have an account, I'm just too lazy to post it.

 

[Lario]

a tl;dr Something Awful

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

That doesn't mean I won't eventually make an account, though.

(Key word: Eventually)

 

[Nabber]

I don't really do much with it. I make minor edits sometimes.
I really like the Evil Overlord List. Look it up.

 

[Pokemon DP]

-Thanks to Sturgeon's Law and being a wiki, the quality of the individual pages can vary widly. Way too often, you'll find creepy shit (for ex, the iCarly page had a lovingly detailled listing of every instance of "panty shot", the actors's cup size, some bullshit about sock length... ect), "examples" that only fit a trope with some particularly throughout mental gymnastics, whiny fandom entries and obvious self-promoting pages for horrible fan-fictions and webcomics.
-Its userbase is full of bigots, sexual deviants, militant pedophiles and people who really, really need to get serious psychiatric help. This Youtube series and a tl;dr Something Awful thread only scratch the surface.

I couldn't agree more, mate. The community of TVTropes is quite terrifying.

(oh, and before the thought cross your mind, please don't describe yourself using tropes. It's awful.)

Which reminds me, I had a tropes page once. I should go remove that immediately.