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* [[Big Lie]]: The efforts made by the Fast Eddie-headed administration to convince TVT users that All The Tropes and other legally-forked troping wikis somehow constituted [[Plagiarism]], that they were [[Troll]] sites, ''and'' their staff and users focused on salacious material to the exclusion of all else can be considered this.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Many users have since come to regard Second Google Incident-era statements concerning [[Troper's Law (Darth Wiki)|users' ability to "disagree with the site's editorial or administrative policies"]] as this.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The [[Token Loli]] trope was renamed into "Token Mini-Moe" to not attract the attention (and fury) of [[Moral Guardians]], that associate the world with child sexual abuse.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]/[[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: An editor of the site will often introduce themselves as "[[This Troper]]". This is frowned upon for examples both there and on here.
* [[Censorship Bureau]]:
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* [[Mind Screw]]: At least half the entries in [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: [[Trope-tan]] -- and her [[Tropey the Wonder Dog|little dog, too]].
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Although they formally deny it, if one reads the threads in which wiki pages are reported and judged for possibly violating TVT's content restrictions, one will see that work pages are not judged by their content but by the work they describe. One will almost never see a discussion like "Will this page as written cause us trouble with Google Ads? Can we change it so that it doesn't?" Rather, the commentary is almost universally along the lines of "the work this page describes is offensive to me, we should not even acknowledge it exists" and decisions are made on that basis alone. Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, except in the cases of certain famous works whose removal would bring (and have brought) negative press attention, TVT imposes a moral standard for the works that are allowed to appear on the wiki. That standard is determined by the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] of [[Squick]] and/or prudery found among the
* [[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]], other forks of TV Tropes arose as ostensible examples of this to the site, seeking to establish fairer rules and better treatment of users and preserve cut content from the site. TV Tropes administration also tried to portray the site as this in comparison to some or all the forks - see [[Big Lie]].
* [[Never My Fault]]: Constantly, the mods tend to do any and everything they can not to claim responsibility for a fault in how they run the site. With many reports of them deflecting blame when it's pointed out to them and often (and commonly) either threatening or just outright banning the user who complains to them about it.
* [[Orwellian Editor]]: The moderation staff routinely deletes ''anything'' they don't like or that dares to disagree with their opinions ([[Unperson|They also delete those who do the disagreeing]]). Entire threads have been known to vanish when the subject matter ventures into areas that the mods simply don't want to be discussed. They are aided in this by PMWiki's bare-minimum history feature, which retains little more than the last couple dozen edits (let alone a full audit trail back to the page creator), and which provides no simple mechanism for restoring deletions.
** Plenty of tropers think they own the pages they edit and patrol them, changing/deleting anything they don't ''fully'' agree with. For example, rva98014 thinks they own every animated film page, earning the ire of several tropers. He has since been perma-banned for edit warring, one of a very small percentage of banned users that actually deserved it.
** If you're only familiar with the comic version of [[The Umbrella Academy]], you will be thinking that Vanya was gender-swapped in the television series from the start thanks to the television series page only mentioning Viktor. The moment Gerard Way decided the character should be a man after Season 2, however, Tv Tropes erased almost all mentions of the character's appearances as female.
** Parody Visual Novel ''[[Snoot Game]]'' had its page erased because the developers of the game is parodying, ''Goodbye Volcano High'', along with several forum users (including one notable user who had a Special Thanks credit in the game), complained about its contents.
* [[Paedo Hunt]]: TV Tropes's headlong rush to embrace censorship in 2012 was framed as a Paedo Hunt, using this trope as both a rallying cry and as a tool to discredit dissent and dissenters. It conveniently allowed the [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] [[Abomination Accusation Attack|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 (and continues to be) taken—and the targets it was pointed at—suggest it is more a political/economic tool than a kneejerk [[Think of the Children]] reaction.
* [[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 of the time admitted it was removed in error (which was considered quite rare for them).
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* [[Self-Demonstrating Article]]: A whole index of them, many of which were inherited by All The Tropes at the time of forking.
* [[Sex Is Evil]]: In the immediate aftermath of The Second Google Incident, the administrative over-correction for the excess of commentary that was outwardly sexual (and frankly crass in some cases) was largely viewed as this by some of the [[Broken Base]], and still is to this day - for what it's worth, this attitude has been significantly relaxed since, although [[Think of the Advertisers!|retaining Google Ads]] still means there's some level of constraint. See also the [[Big Lie]] example above regarding the older administration's attitudes towards forks that aimed to preserve the NSFW content (whether for better or worse is another matter).
* [[Theme Naming]]: Their trope-naming "organizations",
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The overly harsh punishments handed out to users that accidentally break a rule or even worse, do something that isn't bad but is perceived as bad anyway.
* [[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 in regards to [[Porn Tropes]], [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Fan Wank]] in general, the admins' solutions were seen as [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|tilting hard towards]] [[Sex Is Evil|the other extreme]] and generally did not sit well with the userbase at large.
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