All The Tropes:History: Difference between revisions

:In response to increasingly annoying questions by wiki members about their copyrights, TVT administrator/moderator Fighteer inserts language into the "Welcome to TV Tropes" page explicitly and unilaterally seizing all copyrights from contributors without their consent<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140122054355/httphttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 22 January 2014]; see the final section, "Your Rights (Legal Stuff)".</ref>, thinking in [[Artistic License Law|his adorable childish naïveté]] that this was both legal and an appropriate solution to uppity users who should know better than to question the wiki administration.

:A [[Kickstarter]] for the TV Tropes Revitalization Project is launched. TVT changes ownership, Fast Eddie is no longer in charge.<ref>[httphttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14173833970A61798800&page=1 Big Things Happening on TV Tropes]</ref><ref>[https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Topic:S78jxmw2qe9h1b49 Eddie wanna be kickstartin' somethin' (ATT thread)]</ref>

:The new design for TVT is unveiled.<ref>[httphttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14207444490A65280600&page=1 New Design and Code Update - January 8, 2015]</ref>

:The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the illegal rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for a year and a half, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20150326011500/httphttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 26 March 2015].</ref>

:The second new design for TVT is implemented.<ref>[httphttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14549652050A65996800 TV Tropes 1.3 Released! (Forum thread)]</ref>