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* '''Don't Use Internet Acronyms:''' AFAIK, IIRC, BTW, and the like have no place in an example. In fact, if you remove one of these while leaving the rest of the example intact, not only does the example lose no information at all, it actually becomes ''more'' comprehensible because people who aren't familiar with Net slang don't have to go look up the acronym. And since these acronyms are meant to make texting and forum posting quicker, when you see it here it makes the page seem like you didn't put a lot of effort into it. Despite the relaxed attitude, we are still trying to be well written.
** '''In Fact, Don't Use Abbreviations At All'''. We embrace a loose and informal style, but there's such a thing as ''too'' informal. Abbreviations make an article or example look sloppy. They're also unclear. (As an example, what does "[[GTA]]" stand for? Odds are you didn't think of Ron Howard's film first.) Don't do it.
* '''This is not a Wiki of [[Memetic Mutation|Memes]]:''' We know [[Transformers Film Series|Bonecrusher hates everything]], [[Chuck Norris]] is a [[Memetic Badass|god in mortal form]] and [[Iron Man (film)|Tony Stark built a suit of armor]] in a cave with a box of [[Seinfeld|yadda yadda]], but these cute gags rarely stay popular longer than 6 months. Unless you are listing an example of a [[Memetic Mutation]] from a work, there is no real reason to list it among tropes that have nothing to do with the meme in the first place.
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