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This wiki is a fork of [[TV Tropes]], done so for philosophical, creative, and legal reasons, as [[All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tropes|elaborated here.]] However, we have no desire to be party to any harassment, trolling, vandalism, or other mischief intended to do TV Tropes harm. This site is merely an alternative for those who do not wish to trope there for any reason,. but thisThis does not mean you cannot submit content to both sites, but this will restrict what you can copy from there to here and vice versa, as [[All The Tropes:Copyrights|explained here]].

SinceAlthough Fast Eddie stepped down as owner of TV Tropes as of November 2014 and it'sits current owner is Drew Schoentrup, the same still applies,. and evenEven though Fast Eddie held our site in contempt, Drew does not, and while we understand if anyone still holdholds grievances against TV Tropes for one reason or another, we ask that any animosity not be expressed here regarding TV Tropes, as Drew has shown a willingness to extend us an olive branch which we wish to reciprocate,. and ATT Staff are currently cooperating with TV Tropes in ensuring troublemakers known to both our sites cause neither harm.

=== We do not store Unpublished Works in the Main Namespace ===

TV Tropes allows for works that have not been officially published to be hosted in their [[Darth Wiki]] namespace. WeFor dous, notthey becausemust webe feelstored in the User namespace, as a subpage of [[Special:MyPage|your user page]]. While they servedon't noreally academicfulfill a purpose norto others, they do theirhelp authors furtherto our[[ATT:Be siteCreative|create goalsstories]].

[[Troper Tales]] orand [[Fetish Fuel]] were two subsections of [[TV Tropes]]. where oneOne could post personpersonal anecdotes about tropes encountered in theirone's own liveslife in the former, and in the latter about their fetishes. Both devolved in ainto quagmirequagmires of disturbing, overly sexual, and downright creepy content that proved impossible to police, so both were banished from TV Tropes to offsite wikis.

We have elected not to host this content for the same reasons TV Tropes did not.

A wiki has no space limits on how much content you add. In fact, feel free to add as much content as you wish, so long as it's within the project scope. However, we DO''do'' have technical limits on how much content can be added before page loads and saves become difficult, so some pages may need to be broken up into subpages. That aside, we have no content limits for size reasons.

We use many templates, some content, and even the same software as their websites do, but we have no connection to them whatsoever, and while we may emulate some things they do for technical or practical reasons, we are nonot affiliated with them in a technical or legal sense, though we do believe in the same free content reusesreuse policy as they do, as that philosophy aligns with our own site mission.

While this site does serve as a compendium of tropes and gives their definition, we are not a general purpose dictionary site like [[WikitionaryWiktionary]].

While it's perfectly permissible to make a page for one's own work and trope it, this is not a place to write vanity articles or puff pieces,. andAlso, since this is a community website, no one is allowed to remove civil criticism or objective fact from these pages, even if the work is something they hold high opinion of.<ref>This ''specifically'' includes, but is not limited to, works that [[All The Tropes:Contact us|members of the wiki's moderation staff]] have created.</ref> We do have a YMMV subspace for subjective opinions, but this is not to become an edit war zone where any one editor tries to force their opinions or beliefs on others. We will tempban people who turn YMMV pages into edit-war zones, and in the past we have done exactly that.

If a troper dies, their page may be archived and brief comments paying respects to their memory are permissible where appropriate, though this is not meant to be a shrine to anyone in particular.

While we do not host pornographic imagery (as it is out of our site scope), we may allow NSFW links for illustration of certain topics, which are permissible so long as they relevant and properly labeled. OK, so we're a little bit censored, but not very much.

We also may discuss works and tropes of an adult nature, and so long as the discussions remain civil and on topic, they will not be censored. We discourage the use of profanities in these discussions; there's usually other ways to say the same things, and our reading audience does include people under the age of majority. See our policy on [[ATT:ACAFREE|Academic Freedom]] for details.

While we felt [[TV Tropes]] had too heavy handed an administration, we do have rules as well, we just prefer not to enforce them unless need be, and we try to assume good faith and be patient onwith those who make mistakes in good faith.

However, we do enforce polices on showing other tropers basic courtesy, a manual of style for pages, and certain common sense guidelines, like not posting criminal content. Again, butwe otherwiseassume good faith and do not enforce the rules with an iron fist nor do we make up new ones as we go along.

We prefer to make decisions regarding site direction and policy by consensus, though certain technical matters may be decided by our hosting provider and staff,. though theThe community is always free to solicit advice, criticism, and suggestedsuggest changes or alternatives.