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<!--* [[Abomination Accusation Attack]]: Fast Eddie and the pre-sale administration of TVT routinely accused anyone who disagreed with the censorship regime they imposed in middle-to-late 2012 of being a pedophile or wanting to use the wiki to disseminate "pedoshit". (I don't personally ''dis''believe this, but I'd rather comment it out to be safe until we can substantiate that, because that's still a serious thing to accuse someone of.)-->
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: [[Darth Wiki]].
* [[Ad Dissonance]]: TV Tropes's ads are documented by [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/AdOfWin Ad of Win] and [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/AdOfLose Ad of Lose] at opposite ends of the spectrum.
* [[And Stay Out!]]:
** Frequently seen in 2012, when various wiki contributors made it known they were leaving because they did not approve of the measures the wiki management [[Think of the Advertisers!|had chosen to impose]] in the wake of [[TV Tropes/The Second Google Incident|The Second Google Incident]]. Fast Eddie or other staff would routinely lock the accounts of such departing users and [[Unperson|blank their troper pages]] as "punishment" for quitting the wiki.
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** Of course there's also [[Darth Wiki]], where several negative opinions and similarly-inclined content is placed or "contained" go.
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: The moderation staff have made it clear that some pages will always remain salted (i.e. cut and locked). These pages are known as the [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub Permanent Red Link Club].
* [[Drinking Game]]: They have one, which we [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|inherited]].
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: For all that users on the anti-TVT side of the [[Broken Base]] have complained about the site in the years following the split, practically no one mourns the loss of the Troper Tales section that didn't ''already'' have a significant [[Bile Fascination]].
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* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: [[Trope-tan]] -- and her [[Tropey the Wonder Dog|little dog, too]].
* [[The Moral Substitute]]: In the wake of the Second Google incident and the administrative efforts to [[Think of the Advertisers!|purge itself of revenue-threatening content]] resulted in other forks of TV Tropes arising as examples of this to the site, seeking to establish fairer rules and better treatment of users.
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▲** During Fast Eddie's tenure as admin, forum threads that criticized him or his wiki ended up nuked, meaning that anyone who tried to access it would be redirected to a blank page. Eddie wasn't the only one with nuke powers, though - the moderators themselves had the ability to nuke threads, and took full advantage of these, also resulting in [[Unperson|the bans of those who do the disagreeing]]).
* [[Overused Running Gag]]:
** [[I Am Not Making This Up]] and [[So, Yeah]] were so overused that the wiki said "enough is enough!" and purged all mention of them from the wiki, deleting and perma-locking their pages. Other tropes that were the subject of troper misuse due to [[Opinion Myopia]] (such as [[Complete Monster]] and [[Magnificent Bastard]], which were also subject to similar contention here) were either disambiguated or given an [[Example Sectionectomy]] to prevent their overuse.
** Some particular [[Fetish Fuel]]-related tropes such as [[Panty Shot]], alongside relatively tamer examples such as [[Hot Mom]] and [[Hot Dad]], fell afoul of similar misuse, especially among the genuinely creepier elements of the old userbase. Both this unsavory behavior and the excessive administrative action taken in curtailing it is source of at least one [[Broken Base|major break in the userbase]], and among many other things resulted in the creation of a Fetish Fuel Wikia (that ended up deleted when [[Wikia|FANDOM]] went on a purge of its own). It's worth noting that both [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/NoLewdnessNoPrudishness TV Tropes] and All The Tropes have a [[All The Tropes:No Lewdness, No Prudishness|"No Lewdness, No Prudishness"]] - and/or deter [[A Date With Rosie Palms|excessive one-handed editing]].
* [[Poe's Law]]: TV Tropes fell victim to this during [[The Second Google Incident]] - several works were cutlisted by members in protest of the "zero-tolerance" policy that was adopted. While obvious ultra-famous works like ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''<ref>...which has [[wikipedia:Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition#Majority opinion|a history of being used this way]].</ref> were at little risk, one particular work named ''[[Black Bird]]'' ended up being cut for real; it was restored afterwards, and the TV Tropes administration admitted it was removed in error (which was considered quite rare for them).
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** [[Ear Worm]]: Prepare to be hearing the piece of music from that link for the rest of the day.
** [[Rickroll]]: Do we really need to explain this one?{{context|Yes, we do.}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: Fast Eddie's sole guiding principle during his final years as owner of the site, starting with the Second Google Incident.
* [[Seen It All]]: Read the site enough and take it too seriously, and you may become this.
* [[Self-Demonstrating Article]]: A whole index of them, many of which were inherited by All The Tropes at the time of forking.
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* [[Theme Naming]]: Their trope-naming "organizations", [[SPOON]], [[FORKS]], [[KNIVES]], and [[PLATTER]], were all named after kitchen utensils.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: A few years ago, TV Tropes happily handed out permabans to anyone who criticized them. Disagree with the administration of the site? Well, then enjoy getting a permanent ban and being redirected to Google every single time you try to access it.
* [[Think of the Advertisers!]]: One of the primary motivations for the content purge in the wake of the Second Google Incident. While partially justified by the sheer amount of [[Squick]] that the site was developing a reputation for, the solution of tilting hard towards [[Sex Is Evil|the other extreme]] did not sit well with the userbase at large.
* [[Thrown Down a Well]]:
** The Permanent Red Link Club, used for tropes and features that are deleted and locked to make sure that they could never return.
** This treatment was also given to the infamous [[Troper Tales]] feature.
* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: You thought we were kidding?
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* [[Left Fielder]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [[TV Tropes/Memes|By the bucketload]]
* [[The Moral Substitute]]: For any tropes wiki which does ''not'' censor its content.
* [[Multinational Team]]
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