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{{historical|This page is about the very earliest events which eventually led to the original TV Tropes Wiki's enthusiastic embrace of censorship as a way of <s>[[Think of the Advertisers!|keeping the money rolling in]]</s> life. It is maintained here as a historical record. All links to the TV Tropes Forums are retained for the morbidly curious, although there is no guarantee that they still exist, thanks to constant [[Orwellian Editor|Stalinization]]. TV Tropes has ''always'' been at war with Eastasia.}}▼
▲{{historical|This page is about the very earliest events which eventually led to the original TV Tropes Wiki's enthusiastic embrace of censorship as a way of life. It is maintained here as a historical record. All links to the TV Tropes Forums are retained for the curious.}}
== Highlights ==
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* Google disabled ad serving, cutting off ad revenue (October 26th, 2010)
* Panic ensued (along with some saner responses, fortunately)
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* Potentially NSFG (Not Safe For Google) content was moved behind the Curtain (a click-through confirmation system)
* '''Google restored ad serving; ad revenue is resumed''' (November 9th, 2010)
The above came to be known as [[The Situation]] and [[The Google Incident]]. Also known as [[The Strange Case of the Missing Ads]], named after [
== Other Things Of Note ==
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## Other sources of ads. We're giving Casale a try right now. We are also considering using Amazon Associates. Other suggestions are welcome; please add them on the discussion page for this page (the little orange speech bubble icon at the top of the page will take you there.)<br /><br />As of early October 29th, Casale is looking like it might deliver. Insufficient data to be certain yet, (less than one day, and not including the most important part of the day, at that) but it ''appears to be'' getting close to the numbers Adsense was producing. Admin says "If we see the Casale numbers getting up close enough to the Adsense numbers, Adsense can take a long hike over a high cliff. "<br /><br />As of November 4th, Casale is doing well, but not well enough to take over completely.
## A Donation Button is already set up if you'd like to throw some money at us directly. (PayPal will take their little slice, and sometimes has problems with folks outside of the US. It may not let you donate. We're sorry about that.)
## This may eventually include TV Tropes merchandise, probably through a POD company like Zazzle, Printfection or Cafe Press. This option is being discussed [
** '''Merch Update: Oct 29, 9:30 PM server time''': A crowner is now attached to that thread. Vote for the ideas you'd most like to see (or even better, be willing to buy) on t-shirts.
** '''Second Merch Update: November 4th''' The Zazzle store is now up and running.
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== The Timeline ==
This is the draft of the timeline as composed by fellow [[Troper
=== October 26th, 2010: ===
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=== October 27th, 2010: ===
* 11:04:10 AM: [[User:Freezair For A Limited Time]] opens the thread "[
* 11:23:42 AM: [[User:Fast Eddie]] responds in the thread: "This is under frantic investigation. The very life of the wiki hangs in the balance."
* 1:51:05 PM: Amazon associate ads are put on the wiki as a stop-gap measure. Other click-through ad providers are being contacted.
* 4:03:31 PM : [[User:Fast Eddie]] [
{{quote|While reviewing your site, we noticed that Google ads were displaying on your site in a manner that isn't in compliance with our program policies. As stated in our program policies, Ad Sense publishers may not display Google ads on pages with adult or mature content. While we understand that it may be challenging to monitor user-generated content, such as comments, on your site, we require publishers to check that the webpages containing their ad code complies with our program policies.
}}
The initial plan at this point is to move all adult-like content offsite, to one of the <mediatropes> domains (which we own), and adding no-follows <ref>an invisible tag that tells the ad-server "this isn't our site, don't consider anything you find there ours"</ref> to all links that go off the main tvtropes.org pages. General freaking-out commences. So do efforts to calm the freaking-out by level-headed tropers. Alternate solutions begin being offered.
* 5:09:28 PM: [
* 5:12:09 PM: Threads opened for [
* 7:55:18 PM: The [[TV Tropes]] Merch thread [
* 8:17:56 PM: Original idea of moving adult-like stuff off-site exchanged for [
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=== November 2nd, 2010: ===
* 9:16:41 PM: [
=== November 3rd, 2010: ===
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