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** Fast Eddie's abrupt and unilateral change of TV Tropes' license from Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) to the incompatible Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) within days of learning that the wiki content had been scraped and forked in early July 2012 can also be seen as an example of this trope. It did nothing to undo the fork or stop competing wikis from using the legally-acquired content -- it was nothing more than a "door slam" whose only purpose was to give Fast Eddie the illusion that he had any control over the situation at all.
** Fast Eddie's abrupt and unilateral change of TV Tropes' license from Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) to the incompatible Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) within days of learning that the wiki content had been scraped and forked in early July 2012 can also be seen as an example of this trope. It did nothing to undo the fork or stop competing wikis from using the legally-acquired content -- it was nothing more than a "door slam" whose only purpose was to give Fast Eddie the illusion that he had any control over the situation at all.
* [[Artifact Title]]: TV Tropes started with ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' in particular before expanding to television, and then to all forms of media.
* [[Artifact Title]]: TV Tropes started with ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' in particular before expanding to television, and then to all forms of media.
* [[Artistic License Law]]: Fighteer's belief that casually adding a non-negotiable, unilateral (and implicitly ''retroactive'') claim to all contributors' copyrights to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140122054355/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes the TVT Admninistrivia page] in 2012 was both legal and an appropriate response to contributor questions about their license status. Fortunately, the new management actually consulted a real lawyer about this in 2015 and backpedaled on it so quickly they left skid marks - even so, both this and the license changes previously discussed (see [[And Stay Out!]] above) have caused All The Tropes in particular to adopt a strict anti-plagiarism policy that disallows copying from TV Tropes ''unless'' the editor in question is importing changes that they made.
* [[Artistic License Law]]: Fighteer's belief that casually adding a non-negotiable, unilateral (and implicitly ''retroactive'') claim to all contributors' copyrights to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140122054355/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes the TVT Admninistrivia page] in 2012 was both legal and an appropriate response to contributor questions about their license status. Fortunately, the new management actually consulted a real lawyer about this in 2015 and backpedaled on it so quickly they left skid marks - even so, both this and the license changes previously discussed (see [[And Stay Out!]] above) have caused All The Tropes in particular to adopt a strict anti-plagiarism policy that disallows copying from TV Tropes ''unless'' the editor in question is importing changes that they (and they alone) made.
* [[Author Appeal]]:
* [[Author Appeal]]:
** TV Tropes spawned from a fan-site for a [[Joss Whedon]] TV series, and many tropes like [[Big Damn Heroes]] can be traced back to Whedon's work (which is one of the many influences All The Tropes inherited).
** TV Tropes spawned from a fan-site for a [[Joss Whedon]] TV series, and many tropes like [[Big Damn Heroes]] can be traced back to Whedon's work (which is one of the many influences All The Tropes inherited).
** TV Tropes really liked [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and its spin-offs once upon the time. As the [[Colbert Bump]] pages notes, it took only an hour after his ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' review was posted for the [[Non Sequitur Scene]] page to be created (under the name inspired by the review, "Big-Lipped Alligator Moment").
** TV Tropes really liked ''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]'' and its spin-offs once upon the time. As the [[Colbert Bump]] pages notes, it took only an hour after his ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' review was posted for the [[Non Sequitur Scene]] page to be created (under the name inspired by the review, "Big-Lipped Alligator Moment").
** ''[[BlazBlue]]'' was pretty over-represented on their ''Pantheon'' (basically a place for users to gush about their favorite characters) even by the standards of a surprisingly-popular mix of [[Fighting Game]] and [[Visual Novel]]. <!--The only character from Calamity Trigger who is not a ''god'' is [[Genius Bruiser|Iron Tager]]. (Is that still true?)-->
** ''[[BlazBlue]]'' was pretty over-represented on their ''Pantheon'' (basically a place for users to gush about their favorite characters) even by the standards of a surprisingly-popular mix of [[Fighting Game]] and [[Visual Novel]]. <!--The only character from Calamity Trigger who is not a ''god'' is [[Genius Bruiser|Iron Tager]]. (Is that still true?)-->
* [[Beige Prose]]: The [[Laconic]] pages.
* [[Beige Prose]]: The [[Laconic]] pages.
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Some of the trope titles, and increasing every day. These are listed in the [[Index of Exact Trope Titles]].
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Some of the trope titles, and increasing every day. These are listed in the [[Index of Exact Trope Titles]].
* [[Guilt Trip]]: Like several other sites on the modern web, TV Tropes circa 2021 detected some forms of ad-blocking and automatically displayed banners reading "This is page #X you have viewed this month without ads. We get it, ads aren't what you're here for, but they do pay for the hosting and maintenance of TV Tropes. Please whitelist us or purchase an ad-free pass to support TV Tropes." This is a considerable improvement over a previous tactic, which was to refuse to show any content whatsoever until you relented and disabled your ad-blocking - both of which are symptoms of the aforementioned larger internet-wide trend where various websites attempt to maintain their ad revenue.
* [[Guilt Trip]]: Like several other sites on the modern web, TV Tropes circa 2021 detected some forms of ad-blocking and automatically displayed banners reading "This is page #X you have viewed this month without ads. We get it, ads aren't what you're here for, but they do pay for the hosting and maintenance of TV Tropes. Please whitelist us or purchase an ad-free pass to support TV Tropes." This is a considerable improvement over a previous tactic, which was to refuse to show any content whatsoever until you relented and disabled your ad-blocking - both of which are symptoms of the aforementioned larger internet-wide trend where various websites attempt to maintain their ad revenue.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Moderator Fighteer is known for this, especially towards those who have been suspended for any reasons; in his eyes, they are scum that don't deserve to participate at TV Tropes. He himself has admitted that he's like this to keep "troublemakers" in line and to intimidate trolls, though he has alienated a lot of people, and most of the people he has mistreated do not deserve it.
* [[Hive Mind]]: A conscious goal. At one point, the Ask The Tropers page description was "Appeals to the troper hivemind".
* [[Hive Mind]]: A conscious goal. At one point, the Ask The Tropers page description was "Appeals to the troper hivemind".
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]:
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]:
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