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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 slightly differentincreasingly-divergent content?" This site is what is referred to in the software community as a "fork" -- a point where we decided to go a different direction from the original site. It's a major undertaking, so we should explain the reasons why we built this site.

: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.

:I've[[User:Labster|One of our admins]] has chatted over dinner with Patrick Michaud, the author of PmWiki., and I likelikes him a lot. And his wiki software has seen better days. He's moved on to become part of the [http://perl6.org/ Perl 6] project, and so we should move on too.

: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 fromfor the income. If you want to help with the upkeep of our servers, you can [[m:Donate|Donate]] to Miraheze to help cover our costs. Or not. It's entirely up to you.

: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.

:While Fast Eddie [https://web.archive.org/web/20190623052734/https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/6/6b/Fast_Eddie%27s_epic_asspain's_epic_asspain.png has described] the Creative Commons license used on TV Tropes as a source of "stealing because you can" and "straight up plagiarism", we believe that community content creation is good for the community. You can see the results of such collaboration on websites like [[Wikipedia]], see Flickr photos incorporated into ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', or read community-writen works like in ''[[Fenspace]]'''s wiki. Sharing the content widely drives even more creativity.