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Well, I've officially left TVTropes

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  • DYREDYRE
    IJBM isn't there anymore.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    What I don't like? List is long.

    What I do like? List is long as well. 
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    So, what exactly don't you people like about TVT's forum?

    It's very exclusive, and not very welcoming to people not part of the inner circle.

    It's very in-jokey.

    There's a lot of flirting going on, all the time.

    There's not very much to do there.
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    That sounds like you're talking about a specific subset of people, rather than the forum as a whole...

    ... but I guess, for some people, that's just what the forum is.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    IJBM isn't there anymore.

    This. Though I don't think I've been less active in the non-IJBM parts of the forums any less since its demise.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I'm too attached to the MTG group, but I'm losing interest in the MSPA thread.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-12 00:15:24
    You can change. You can.
    ^^^Yeah, I was going to point that out.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    That sounds like you're talking about a specific subset of people, rather than the forum as a whole...

    That's what a large part of the right-hand side of the forum is.

    And I mostly just lurk in the middle section.
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    edited 2011-07-12 00:19:26
    Eh, I've been there for a while, and seen tons of people come and go, it's a lot more flexible than people give it credit for. In fact, while there are a few cliques, it's hardly an homogeneous group. As for the flirting thing, it's probably a recent trend, I don't pay attention to most of Yack Fest threads anymore, so I wouldn't know when it started or when it'll end.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    It being a recent trend doesn't mean that it's exactly tolerable...
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.

    I went to the site a few times.

    ADS AND FIFTEEN YEAR OLDS

    ADS AND FIFTEEN YEAR OLDS EVERYWHERE.

  • NoimportaNoimporta
    edited 2011-07-12 00:22:37
    I never said it was, I'm not trying to get anyone to stay, I just like to put things into perspective. In which threads does that happen anyway?

    ^Oh please, you got banned from there. Twice.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.

    That doesn't mean that there weren't ads and fifteen-year olds everywhere.

    And my ban has almost been universally declared as bogus, anyway. I didn't know that decrying Nazi fetishism and bestiality were considered to be cardinal sins on that site.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Nah, I get you, don't worry, just felt like pointing that out.

    Anyway, I'm thinking it's mostly a Photos/Jammies/Fetishes deal.
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    Anyway, I'm thinking it's mostly a Photos/Jammies/Fetishes deal.
    Jammies/Fetishes


  • StormtroperStormtroper
    That is why I don't read megathreads.

    Actually, it's because they're too big and grow too quickly, but still.

    Exceptions for the ones I do read, of course.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Sorry, Tommy Lee Jones, didn't mean to offend you.

    But apart from those three? Of course there is! It's more of a clique deal rather than a thread deal, but those are the threads where the people in question hang out.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    And there's... not very much discussion to be had in the other threads.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    There's nothing new or exciting on the right side, on OTC is full of people I wish I never associated with. I still hang around the middle, but that's it.
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    You know, for as much as some of the shit at TV Tropes pisses me off (Madrugada locking a gush thread for no reason still bugs me), I can't find it in me to leave the place. It's got problems, but overall its no worse than most other forums. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if IJBM developed a lot of the exact same problems at some point.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    (Madrugada locking a gush thread for no reason still bugs me)

    Which one?
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    I quit going mostly because people didn't want me there, and one person finally said "I don't hate you, but you are really ruining this place and annoying a lot of people." so eventually I took her advice and quit coming back.
    The disproportionate feel of "If it gets too serious, make it lose all seriousness, after all, it's just the internet" behavior when it came to touchy subjects, and how willing people are to fixate and parrot negative responses and half-assedly inject drama into anything that may be a touchy subject. Aside from that, all of the people I went there to read posts from got less and less intelligent and more cynical and jaded, and rather than explaining why things should be better, began telling others why it will never get better.
  • DarkDecapodianDarkDecapodian
    Clean your room little Billy
    I pretty much go on the TVT forums out of habit now. It's kinda like heroin, except heroin has the decency to give back a little.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Haha.
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    edited 2011-07-12 02:38:37
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    @Juan_Carlos - It was in Western Animation and called something like "unpopular cartoons that you like" or something. I think there's a link to it in one of my blog entries where I called Madrugada out on it. The only reason she gave was that it was an "unpopular opinions" thread... which raises so many red flags I don't even know where to begin, since no matter how you parse it she basically said that only popular opinions are allowed now.

    There's actually a screencap from it in Encyclopedia Dramatica's TV Tropes entry now.

    EDIT: Added link to relevant blog entry to this post.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I think Eddie gave an announcement against those because they led to several shitstorm. I recall in particular Tnu getting a tempban for trolling one and the Anime one getting a nuke the size of Texas because of some nihilistic asshat who thought that Light was the epitome of everything good. 

    I do admit that the wiki and the forums have a negativity bias. Both in terms of the actitude of the posters themselves as well as in terms of the moderaton.

    However, I think that most of it comes from the fact that it mostly seems that having this threads where people basically go "BAWWWW, NOBODY AGREES WITH ME" or "Look at me! I'm so edgy and shit" to cause way much more trouble than its worth
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    nihilistic asshat who thought that Light was the epitome of everything good.

    Darkdisciple
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-07-12 02:49:25
    000
    Moe; Fast Eddie banned threads that are about nothing but complaining, and he assumes that any "popular opinions" thread will be like that.

    He also believes that TV Tropes is popular because of its positive, gushing tone and that sites that focus too much on negativity will die out or lose relevance in a few years, pointing to Something Awful and ED as examples. While it's not my business how he runs the site, a tiny, stupid part of me wants the forum and/or site to collapse,  just to prove that you can't run a website solely on smiles.
  • DarkDecapodianDarkDecapodian
    Clean your room little Billy
    ^^ It's a known fact of the internet that anyone whose username begins with 'dark' is a nihilistic asshat.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-12 02:47:05
    You can change. You can.
    That wasn't the nick he was using at the time, though.

    He goes by hishighnessofheretics now. Although he didn't use that nick during that time.

    ^Hehehehe.
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