Ī problem facing the site in 2011-12 was the growing accumulation of works of a fetish-intensive nature, many of which were explicitly pornographic/ pedophilic. The idealistic "Sugar Wiki" appeared as a counterbalance to the cynicism of the "Darth Wiki" for positive and saccharine tropes and discussions. Eventually, though, the editors caught on that they were still entitled to say whatever they might like about a work, as long as it was in the right place. Naturally, some people perceived this as an attack on their opinions, unable to cope with the subtle complexities of moving the opinions to a different page. This shift didn't remove all of the complaints, as you can see with how toxic their now-deleted page letting people complain about works they didn't like was. They also created the "Darth Wiki" as a corner of the wiki where tropes that were not only inherently subjective but prone to starting flame wars by their mere presence (such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Ruined FOREVER" ) were ghettoed off to, and where standards for civility lowered, and people could say what they really wanted to about a movie, book, show, etc.
Tvtropes the witness free#
They ordered everyone to make the main articles as free as possible from judgment under the "Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment". To stifle the edit wars, the site admins decided to move all "subjective" material to the Reviews and YMMV (short for "your mileage may vary") sections.
Tvtropes the witness tv#
The Whedon-verse is a property that thrives on snark and witty dialogue, which the fans love it for, so at first, TV Tropes peppered its articles with a snarky point of view.Īlas, anyone who spends longer than a single Planck time day on the Internet knows that many (or at least the most vocal) Internet nerds tend to get extremely sensitive and hysterical to any perceived negativity towards their favorite works. The website grew extremely quickly around 2009-10, when references to it started to circulate the Internet and its userbase grew past the original collection of Buffy and Joss Whedon fans, with websites like xkcd and plugging it.
Because nerds have a diverse set of interests, they then spread to encompass all TV shows and then all media. Which along with the privileges of the original All The Tropes folk, were taken along with him.The wiki started in 2004 on, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan forum, as a fan project to catalog said tropes from the Buffy television show by forum nerds. Almost right after their founder and former administrator, GethN7, was permanently suspended over the user's mortal/political beliefs, in June 2021. All The Tropes itself has also been forked into Tropedia and The True Tropes Wiki, both hosted on the Fandom wiki farm. These forks have happened for several reasons, such as wanting censorship policies that are less strict than TV Tropes, wanting censorship policies that are more strict than TV Tropes, and disliking a change to TV Tropes's choice of license. TV Tropes has spawned several forks, including All The Tropes, hosted on the Miraheze wiki farm and originally a Wikia (later ) version existed as well. Luckily, the admins and moderators do take notice of fan biases, reminding users what a certain trope is not or even locking down certain pages to user edits to prevent edit wars. On a broader scale, entire pages have had to be cut due to being seen as flamebait or just distasteful after the admins started cracking down on lewd material. Edit wars are common when fan biases take center stage, particularly on the YMMV page and especially when it comes to shipping and divisive characters. The site has seen its share of drama among users, moderators, and admins. Īn emerging convention is that one should not link to a TVTropes page without warning, since a reader clicking unawares may be sucked into a wikiloop by the site's addictive nature. According to one commenter, it was started by Buffy and TWoP fans. While the site began as a collection of tropes in television shows, it has expanded over time to include examples from all varieties of media, including TV shows, movies, anime and manga, written literature, commercials, video games, web comics, fanfic, and real life.Īn earlier version of the site was linked on Metafilter on Ma(accessed 1/2009) that version is viewable on the Internet Archive.
TV Tropes is a wiki dedicated to cataloging common (and uncommon) tropes in fiction, with extensive examples from thousands of series, listed (and occasionally argued over) by fans.
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