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If you've stumbled upon this site, you might be asking, "How are you different from TV Tropes, other than the
;Modern Wiki Engine
:We have a website that supports multi-level namespaces, and where any character can be in the title. We have an auto-completing search box, to help you find pages faster. (And the suggestions the search box offers are all live links, so you can open any of them to a new tab without waiting for a results screen first.) We run all web traffic through SSL. We have an editor that doesn't rely on weird hacks to display page captions, but actually has buttons to help you with formatting. Once you get used to the [[Help:Editing|new syntax]], you find it's quite easy to work with and much more flexible.
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;No Advertising
:We're not going to annoy you with ads, and we plan to stay that way. We won't be influenced by corporations to regulate our content, just
:Just so we're clear, embedded videos
;No Anti-Ad-Blocking Shenanigans
:TV Tropes actively attempts to subvert ad-blocking and ad-disabling technologies in its users' browsers, and when it can't, resorts to nagging and guilt-tripping you to "persuade" you to view their ads. We don't ''do'' ads, so we have no reason to try to take over your browser to maximize our profits.
;Better Search Tools
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;We're not Interested In Censorship
:We want to create a place where people are free to offer literary criticism (and in-jokes) about any work of fiction -- not just those that are approved as goodthink by the [[Censorship Bureau]]. This doesn't mean that we are free from censorship either -- we just have much less. Sexually explicit material will be removed, but ''discussion of'' explicit works is encouraged.
:This policy derives from our sense of {{w|Academic freedom}} -- the idea that no researcher should be barred from any field of inquiry. While we're a lot less formal than a scientific paper, we believe that there is value to be had in looking at the tropes in famous works like ''[[Deep Throat]]'', ''[[La Blue Girl]]'', and ''[[Lolita]]'' (yes, even that was briefly banned). These works may be unpopular with some, but they address an important part of the human condition.
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;Collaborative Culture
:While Fast Eddie [https://web.archive.org/web/20190623052734/https://images.encyclopediadramatica.
:We're 100% non-profit, so we could easily take the content from the current version of TV Tropes with its non-commercial license. We choose not to do so, because we want the knowledge on our site, such as it is, to be as freely available as possible. Instead, we use the same Creative Commons license as Wikipedia, so that content may be freely interchanged between our two sites and through any other means.
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[[Category:Wiki Policy]]
[[Category:This Index Asked You a Question]]
[[Category:Wiki FAQs]]
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