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'''Tropedia''' — why a(nother) [[mirror]] site for [[TV Tropes]]? | '''Tropedia''' — why a(nother) [[mirror]] site for [[TV Tropes]]? | ||
The original [https://www.tvtropes.org TV Tropes site] has this, written right on the front page: "We are not [[English Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. We're a buttload more informal. We encourage breezy language and original thought". That's a great concept in theory, and | The original [https://www.tvtropes.org TV Tropes site] has this, written right on the front page: "We are not [[English Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. We're a buttload more informal. We encourage breezy language and original thought". That's a great concept in theory, and we try to live up to it here on the {{tag|mirror}}. Unfortunately, the original TV Tropes wiki has, historically, failed to live up to this glorious ideal in several ways. | ||
The moderation is heavy-handed and arbitrary. Pages are permanently deleted, renamed, reclassified, or heavily edited without real reason. [[User]]s are often permanently banned arbitrarily, often for expressing unpopular opinions, | The moderation is heavy-handed and arbitrary. Pages are permanently deleted, renamed, reclassified, or heavily edited without real reason. [[User]]s are often permanently banned arbitrarily, often for expressing unpopular opinions, not because they are breaking the rules. All on a [[wiki]] that is supposedly built on "consensus building" and "the will of the troopers." | ||
Granted, it's their site, and they can run it any way they want, | Granted, it's their site, and they can run it any way they want. Still, when your guidelines are supposed to say "we're not Wikipedia" and that you "encourage breezy language," it sort of behooves you not to act as the Wikipedia moderators act and to encourage the less casual atmosphere. | ||
As with the original site, this {{tag| | As with the original site, this {{tag|Fandom}}-hosted wiki (originally known on Fandom as TV Tropes Wiki) is a catalog of "the tricks of the trade for writing {{tag|fiction}}". Tropes are, as noted elsewhere, literary devices that writers rely upon to get standard images and ideas across. They are things the audience already recognizes, and even if they don't know, they realize them. They aren't necessarily cliches, though they can be used as such sometimes. And we exist to present those tropes entertainingly, like the site we are mirroring. | ||
Welcome aboard! | Welcome aboard! | ||
See also | See also its fork [[The True Tropes Wiki]], and [[All The Tropes]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:01, 28 January 2025
Tropedia — why a(nother) mirror site for TV Tropes?
The original TV Tropes site has this, written right on the front page: "We are not Wikipedia. We're a buttload more informal. We encourage breezy language and original thought". That's a great concept in theory, and we try to live up to it here on the mirror. Unfortunately, the original TV Tropes wiki has, historically, failed to live up to this glorious ideal in several ways.
The moderation is heavy-handed and arbitrary. Pages are permanently deleted, renamed, reclassified, or heavily edited without real reason. Users are often permanently banned arbitrarily, often for expressing unpopular opinions, not because they are breaking the rules. All on a wiki that is supposedly built on "consensus building" and "the will of the troopers."
Granted, it's their site, and they can run it any way they want. Still, when your guidelines are supposed to say "we're not Wikipedia" and that you "encourage breezy language," it sort of behooves you not to act as the Wikipedia moderators act and to encourage the less casual atmosphere.
As with the original site, this Fandom-hosted wiki (originally known on Fandom as TV Tropes Wiki) is a catalog of "the tricks of the trade for writing fiction". Tropes are, as noted elsewhere, literary devices that writers rely upon to get standard images and ideas across. They are things the audience already recognizes, and even if they don't know, they realize them. They aren't necessarily cliches, though they can be used as such sometimes. And we exist to present those tropes entertainingly, like the site we are mirroring.
Welcome aboard!
See also its fork The True Tropes Wiki, and All The Tropes
| Wiki size: | 177,118 article pages see stats |
(Page count as of: 2025-01-27)