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* [[Paedo Hunt]]: The headlong rush to embrace censorship in 2012 was framed as this trope, which both became a rallying cry and as a tool to discredit dissent and dissenters. It conveniently allowed the [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] to tar any work they disliked as "pedoshit" and anyone who disagreed with their agenda as a "pedophile". While admittedly TVT had attracted an unsavory and frankly creepy element that did need purging, the extent to which the campaign was taken -- and the targets it was pointed at -- suggested to some that it was a more cynically deliberate political tool, rather than the [[Think of the Children|definite kneejerk reaction]] it represented in trying to solve a legitimately pressing problem.
* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]:
** The admins and mods were largely considered to be full of these in the initial post-Second Google Incident era. One particular admin, Fast Eddie, has an enduring reputation as such among the userbase of [[All The Tropes]], long after his last edit to TV Tropes was made in 2016. In particular, Fast Eddie became infamous as an example of an [[Orwellian Editor]] during his tenure; forum threads that criticized him or the 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]].
*** Thankfully, this tendency has long since abated with his departure, and
** On a relatively lesser note, there also appeared to be a clique of tropers who for some years actively patrolled the Made of Win pages specifically to find things to delete.
* [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]]: One major reason many new guidelines were put in place during the 2010s and early 2020s, with several originating in rampant examples of [[Fan Myopia]]. A big example was the [[Internet Backdraft]] subpages, which were all wiped due to tropers consistently misusing the definition; another big [[Everyone Has Standards|and ''much less'' arguable]] example was the infamous [[Troper Tales]].
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