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Rearranging examples and adding a bit of info re: what I think is tied to all of this
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* [[Archive Panic]]: You're gonna need a ''lot'' of time to read all the pages.
* [[Broken Base]]:
** The act of
** The "No Negativity" rule. Those for it feel that negativity tends to quickly go out of control and that negative entries tend to start sounding opinionated. By not having negativity, entries would sound more like how TV Tropes pages are meant to sound, as if they were written by one person. Those against it state that negative entries, while having the potential to get out of control, also provide fan insight on a work or situation and that depriving pages of that also gets rid of the context on ''why'' something is so controversial.
** The "No Recent Examples Please" rule added in 2019. Those for it state that many of the tropes that were added under it were frequent targets of misuse and edit wars, and that having this new rule would help organize and cleanup the examples. Others felt that the time limits that were added were too long a wait just to put down an example ([[Broken Base]] and [[Base Breaking Character]] were given a ''6 month'' wait time) and that these new rules further limited what could be put on pages.
** The complete
** Back in the site's older days, most tropes had a Troper Tales section where tropers could share funny little stories about those tropes happening in their day-to-day lives. However, it quickly became ''flooded'' with stories that tended to be either disgusting, bizzare, pretentious, blatant bullshit, or sometimes all at once, and after critical communities merciless tore into it, it was given the axe altogether. Those that remember them are of two minds: there are the optimists who think it had potential and deserves a second chance, while others feel that it's best left forgotten and unmourned, with the very concept being unsalvageable.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The community's ''obsessive'' love of [[That Guy With The Glasses
** Mostly because of Fast Eddie and Fighteer, the staff at TV Tropes have garnered a reputation for being strict, power-hungry, abusive people who will ban anyone for the most mild offenses.
** The forums have garnered a reputation for being an incredibly toxic place with incredibly toxic people, filled with biased opinions that will be shot down unless the mods happen to agree with them.
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*** For speculation, new guidelines for non-released work pages were implemented. If works didn't meet the "minimum requirements" or attracted too much speculation, they would be locked until their release at best (which could take anywhere from a few months to a few years) or deleted and locked permanently at worst. This garnered complaints for restricting tropers on what works they were allowed to make pages for and for the definition of speculation depending on what the mods felt counted.
** Trope name changes in general. Whether it's [[Spoony Bard]] becoming ''Quirky Bard'' or [[Holy Shit Quotient]] being gutted in favor of ''Shocking Moments'', many users feel that it's just another example of the fun being sucked out of TV Tropes. There's a similar sentiment for tropes like [[Dude, Not Funny]] and [[Ear Worm]] being changed to where only in-universe examples could be posted.
** Audience Reaction tropes [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] and [[The Scrappy]] have become a ''lot'' more restrictive than they once were. While there ''were'' problems with people trying to cram in characters they either personally liked or hated, it's yet another case of
▲** In general, TV Tropes' transition from a relaxed and casual atmosphere to a far more professional one is a sore spot for many an old fan. While most would agree that certain aspects of old troper culture such as Troper Tales did the site's reputation far more harm than good, scrubbing the website of ''any'' fun or personality in trope entries comes off as a major overcorrection leading not just to entries and pages feeling very clinical and robotic, but the website becoming its own antithesis by being just as stuffy and formal as Wikipedia.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: For some, the site dewicking LGBT tropes such as [[Bi The Way]] and [[Badass Gay]] ''reeks'' of this, especially since more insulting LGBT tropes like [[All Gays Are Pedophiles]] and [[Depraved Homosexual]] are still around. It also gets ridiculous when tropes like [[Transgender]] are still up, making the whole thing look like mods are picking and choosing favorites when it comes to which tropes are good, and which ones are examples of [[People Sit on Chairs]].
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