TV Tropes Forum
The articles go in the wiki, the Trope proposals go in YKTTW, everything is nice, clean and Natter-free. However, there's a problem: You liked Natter, you enjoy discussing tropes and works with your fellow tropers, you love adding witty snark to the nearest Twilight or Eragon example... Worry not! for there is a place where you can do all this and much, much more: The Forum.
So... What's with this "forum" we keep talking about? Well, for starters, it allows a more fluid conversation between tropers, avoiding Conversation On the Main Page (or on the YMMV tab, for that matter -- just because every Trope there is subjective does not mean that conversation and debate is encouraged there, either.). It also covers a broad spectrum of topics, meaning you can talk about pretty much anything you like. The forum is not, however, completely isolated from the wiki: as of recent, it has taken a vital role in the administration of the site; Trope renames, reworkings, and general wiki policies are all discussed in it. But enough gushing, for those people who don't want to read through the detailed What Goes Where On The Forums guide, let's have a quick overview:
Subforums:
Wiki & Forums:
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Here we discuss everything regarding tropes: are they good? bad? how to apply them? which are your favourite? and many more Trope related discussions.
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For all your forum testing needs.
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Think the wiki or the forum could use some extra feature? Found a part of the site that's screwing up? Add your suggestions/requests/reports here.
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Anything wiki related, be it annoying edit wars, or discussion about policies for examples, tropes, Natter, etc.
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Join the multi-language TV Tropes project! The title is pretty self explanatory.
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This is where Trope renames, merges and splits are proposed, discussed, voted on, and decided. Since it deals with topics regarding the wiki, it is more serious than the rest of the forum, and off-topic posting is highly discouraged.
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See a page without an image, or with an image that doesn't explain the Trope very well? Go here to help choose a good picture.
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A place to start large-scale wiki projects, requiring the aid of many editors. Discussions of changes to multiple articles or whole namespaces go here.
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In this forum, the Five P discuss whether to cut certain pages for falling afoul of our new content policy. Of course, other people are allowed to voice their opinions and provide evidence for and against works on the chopping block.
Just for Fun:
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This subforum is for random conversation and general discussion, because every forum needs one of those. Threads tend to go off-topic very frequently, and it is also the most "community-oriented" subforum, perfect for newbies.
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Run-of-the-mill forum games... with a Troperiffic twist.
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Want to share your zany Epileptic Trees? That's what the WMG tab on your favorite work's TV Tropes page is there for, but you may also want to see whether other tropers agree with your theory.
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A place for gushing, added after much demand.
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Document your experience as you watch/play/read a new series! This board has been archived, but has been succeeded by a new section of the site, Live Blogginations.
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Get-togethers, collaborative writings, and other arcane majicks being brewed up to amuse and amaze an unsuspecting world.
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The old farts sitting around on the porch talking while the kids play tag and chase the dog and have squirt gun fights in the yard. If the kids want to come over and join the conversation, the adults won't chase them away, but they are expected to be calm and behave.
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A place to discuss and develop the latest production of the TV Tropes team. This board has been archived.
Zone: Forum RPG
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This is where you go for ongoing play-by-post games with your fellow tropers!
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If you wanna start a new roleplay, go here to get people to sign up.
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This is for OOC chat about the roleplays.
Real-ish
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The place for Serious Business. Discussions here cover several topics, unlike the rest of the forum, and (as its name suggests) all posts in this section must be related to the conversation at hand.
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Where writers join and chat. You'll find tips, suggestions and feedback for your own writings.
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Feeling Creative?
Media:
Live Performance
Here.
Visual Arts/Graphics
Here.
General Behaviour:
The forum is generally easygoing. The tropers posting there are usually polite and friendly, and they probably won't give you any trouble. Conversations on any subforums other than "On-Topic Conversations", "Image Pickin' " and "Trope Repair Shop" tend to switch topics both quickly and frequently, so it's a good idea to read at least the last page of any thread to know what's going on right now.
This is not /b/, so please refrain from making offensive, badly spelled and completely random posts. There is no hierarchy in the forum, no postcount nor join date, and everybody owes everybody the same amount of respect. A short list of rules may be found here.
No NSFW links in threads without warning people. This includes sites that have NSFW content and/or ads.
There are moderators, who want nothing more than to have nothing to do except chat like everybody else. However, they can and will delete or edit offensive or insulting posts, lock threads that have turned ugly, issue warnings and for unacceptable behavior. and they can forum-ban for repeated or excessive unpleasantness.
They're listed on the Know the Staff page, and you can PM any of them with requests for intervention if you feel it's necessary. At the top of each post is a yellow triangle icon, This is the Holler button; it sends a post to a mods-only thread. Use it to report posts that break the rules; to ask for a crowner to be hooked or unhooked, or for a thread to be locked; or to ask for a mod to take a look at something in the forums on an official basis. Since all of the mods can see a post in the Hollers thread, the response will generally be faster than PM'ing a particular mod and hoping that they're online.
Tropes which apply to this forum:
- Bread Eggs Milk Squick
- Broken Base: Obviously, Trope Repair Shop.
- Captain Obvious
- Continuity Nod
- Conversational Troping
- Crowning Moment of Funny: Made Of Forum Win.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Double Entendre
- Dysfunction Junction
- Fan Myopia
- Freud Was Right
- GIRL: There is an overwhelming amount of male members with female avatars. This is inverted frequently as well, with plenty of females sporting male avatars.
- Hidden Depths: At first the characters may seem like shallow archetypes, but the characterization they receive is amazingly human.
- Hurricane of Puns
- Hot Blooded
- Left Fielder
- Loads and Loads of Characters
- Memetic Mutation: By the bucketload. Fast Eddie isn't a fan.
- Multinational Team
- Nightmare Fetishist
- Nightmare Fuel
- Ninja Editors: The forum tends to move fast. It is not uncommon for threads to gain two or three posts in less than a minute.
- Online Personas: Most of em.
- Running Gag
- Serious Business
- Shipping
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Pretty idealistic, as far as places on the Internet go.
- Sock Puppet
- Talkative Loons
- Thread Necromancer
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: Taken to the extreme.
- Universal Adaptor Cast: There sure are a lot of troper AUs. Haven Quest, Who Are You People What Is This and Everbody Goes to School Together At Troperville High are three that have gotten so gloriously out of hand as to get their own pages.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Not helped by the GIRL (and reverse-GIRL) avatars, and the fact that gender doesn't come up much.
- Yaoi Fans
- Yuri Fans