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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 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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# All discussion pages, all reviews, and the forums are behind the curtain.
# Turn off anonymous editing in the wiki. This is so that we can tell Google, "See, we ''do'' have standards, and we ''can'' identify and take action against people who violate them." This has already been implemented.
## To make a edit on a wiki or discussion page, or to post in the forums, you must agree to ''our'' TOS <ref>"''We ask you to respect our need to keep the wiki family friendly. We don't really need lewd pictures or tons of cuss words to have the fun we're having. Anyway, clever is always funnier than obscene. Shocking stuff just gets old. This wiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Here is a link to our Privacy Policy. No email address on file means you will have to keep track of your own password. We can't send it to you if you forget it or lose it.''" Yep, seriously. That's it.</ref> and
## You will have to do the "I agree" thing for each ''computer'' (not IP) you use to get to the site. It's a cookie thing. If you delete your cookies at the end of each browser session, you will have to re-agree each time you log in.
## We still don't require an e-mail address; there's no confirmation email rigamarole. Just make a handle and enter a password and you're Known. ''Don't'' use punctuation, special characters, or non-alphanumeric characters in either one; doing so just causes problems.
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# Find additional and/or replacement revenue sources.
## 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.
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## This may eventually include TV Tropes merchandise, probably through a POD company like Zazzle, Printfection or Cafe Press. This option is being discussed [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=x1yzy57z2za0y17gagvy45qh&page=1 here, in the forum]. If you are interested in helping out, go there. We've got lots of ideas; what we really need are artists or designers and people who are good at organizing. (Not that we'll turn away more ideas, of course)
** '''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.
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** {{green|While the admins haven't (and probably won't) make exact figures public, they have said "The operating budget is thousands per month."}} If it gives you a ballpark, our average daily pageviews are typically over 2,500,000 going up to 5,000,000 on certain days.
* '''How about donations?'''
** Donations are always accepted; you can make a donation from
* '''Why isn't the donation button more prominent?'''
** In the past, there have been issues with vandals donating small amounts and then immediately requesting a refund which almost caused [[TV Tropes]] to lose our PayPal account. The matter of how to make the button easier to find while still disallowing this is currently under consideration, but frankly, it's not a top priority right now.
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