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I am not ready to quit TV Tropes yet
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You feel that they are useless, but these are terms that many English speaking fans come across that are not intuitive or especially well-defined in the media they encounter them in. So, to those fans, the pages can be useful.
If you can show that Stupides is a term that is seeing use in the English speaking fandom, go for it.
I have demonstrated how those pages can be helpful. No one has demonstrated how those pages are in any way harmful, aside for the fact that they simply don't care for them. Why give up utility with no measurable gain in utility in other areas?
I don't give two shits if it gets cut or stays, but I will say if anything it should be rewritten. About 1/3 of the article is spent explaining that the previous 1/3 is irrelevant. Seriously?
the word Baka goes untranslated in a English-to-Japanese translation of
an anime, I really don't see how you can stumble upon the word.
And we are partly responsible, for letting the untranslated baka slide.
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Typing that caused me actual physical pain.
We have many, many types of pages that are not tropes. We have wild mass guesses, headscratchers, trivia, quotes, image collections, fanfic recommendations, haikus, tear jerkers, and many more not even getting into everything we have on the forums. None of those things "affect media", they are resources for the fans brought about because media affects us.
While none of those pages aid the core mission of cataloging tropes, neither do they detract from that mission, and they provide content that our many readers use and enjoy. I would apply the same standard to the request for the removal of any of those page types as I do for the fan speak pages: namely, that you give me a much better reason than the fact that you don't personally find it useful.
But that's just a redirect for Rail Enthusiast.
Nobody was able to find what Mina was meant to be, so why we still have that, is a mystery.
but without the awesomeness?As for how it's useful for you, I have no idea. Pettanko and Zettai Ryouiki were useful for me, because while I had seen it referenced among anime fandoms in the past, I really wasn't aware of its background until I read the TVTropes page for them.
But while we're at it, the Haikus, Quotes Pages, WMG pages, and the entire right hand side of the forums aren't useful to me, as I never visit them. Is that a good reason for me to request their removal?
I'm completely missing the point of abandoning TV tropes. Partly because alot of my online social life is now invested in the site (pathetic I know), but also because it is a great site. Not perfect. It has some awkward coding and wiki clutter which need to be fixed.
Yet the core of the site, the reason I was attracted there in the first place, is good. And the forums, besides being awkward and very basic, still appeal to me. I won't be leaving unless the forums become too dead to bother with, or if wiki activity grinds to a massive halt and the place turns into an archive. There are still thousands of unique users posting on the fora and editing the wiki daily.
@Shichibukai: Duly noted.