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Instead of looking at the building blocks of programs, we look to [[tropes]] to provide the tools for building stories. While not everything in a story come from these elements, certain patterns are often repeated in storytelling. They can [[Art Imitates Life]], like [[Freudian Slip]]s or [[Kangaroo Court]]s, or they can be completely fantastic like [[Beam Spam]] or [[Really 700 Years Old]]. The question of whether something is a good idea or not (a pattern or anti-pattern) is up to debate, but the general consensus is that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
All The Tropes is in a bizarre spot with regards to its content, somewhere between a [[wiki:ContentCreationWiki|Content Creation Wiki]] and a [[wiki:ContentClassificationWiki|Content Classification Wiki]]. The site we forked from, [[TV Tropes]], started with from a similarly mixed state, but has been moving towards the Classification end, with policies against Natter and de-emphasis of subjective ([[YMMV]] -- Your Mileage May Vary) tropes. And the idea of breaking down
At the same time, we want to move more towards the Creation end of the spectrum. This means [[Thread Mode]] is permitted. And we would really like to develop the [[Analysis]] pages, which tell about why tropes are the way they are, and what the [[Theme]]s of [[works]] are. So we're going to [[Take a Third Option]] and say that we're a Content Creation and Classification Wiki!
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