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There are a variety of reasons for leaving the TV Tropes Mothership. [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]], a desire to see occasional [[Natter]] when it was actually interesting, [[Revenge]], curiosity at us crazy folks who decided to [[Start My Own|Start Our Own]] wiki. Either way, there's [[You Are Not Alone|a place for you here]]. Our founding administrators' own reasons for leaving are detailed on [[All The Tropes:Why Fork TV Tropes|Why Fork TV Tropes]], but you don't have to share our values. All you need is a desire to create and improve pages about creative works and the tropes used therein. (At least one administrator never had an account on TV Tropes.)
=== Some Tropes have different names ===
There are a few tropes on TV Tropes (and here) that have ... let's call them [[Esoteric Trope Names]]. In-joke names are fun, but they aren't really useful on a wiki that's (trying to be) a resource for writers and writing. So we've given some of the old tropes new names, and tropes that were created after mid-2012 aren't guaranteed to have the same names as the equivalent tropes on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]].
Basically, unless the trope name is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], it's best to double-check that where you think you're linking to is where you're really linking to. ("This! Is! Sparta!" Well, no, it isn't - we call that trope [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]])
For some reason, "Red Baron" is a frequent victim of this. Our page [[Red Baron]] is about the man called the Red Baron. What TV Tropes calls "Red Baron", we call [[Sobriquet]], which is the real-world name for those nicknames.
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