Topic on All The Tropes talk:Why Fork TV Tropes

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Rob beat me to the pedantic response!

My vote is also to preserve the existing language. Anonymous nonspecific "people" offended by a single explicitly-non-offensive word, whose collective opinion is relayed entirely second-hand, is a disturbingly suspect justification for an edit. If they are users here, they should step forward and make their own cases why this is such a horrible, terrible word to use to accurately describe TVT circa 2012. And if they are not users of the wiki, why should they have any input at all? And as long as they remain hidden and using Umbire as a mouthpiece this boils down to Umbire appearing to be using Appeal to Popularity to effect a change.

(And unlike Rob, I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind</a> on TVT in 2012, and I was sideswiped by the hugbox on more than one occasion -- being the oldest continuous non-admin user on TVT and being told I was a "troublemaker" by Fighteer simply for disagreeing with him was just the start of it.)

I also second Rob's final point and further note for irony's sake that if a simple edit had been made to change it to an allegedly "less offensive" term, I suspect no one would have noticed or cared. But by making a fuss about it beforehand, as if it were a genuine issue of significant import, it became one, because it awakened the memories of those of us who were there and actually experienced it. I doubt such a simple edit would pass now; one of us would probably revert it in a second.