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First of all, that example should be thrown into the YMMV page for the work in question. I don't know what YMMV page policies are, but damned if that isn't clearly a YMMV.
Not to mention that CMoA is YMMV.
If you think the example just doesn't fit at all, you're free to remove it entirely (or shuffle it over to the YMMV page). I wouldn't feel bad about doing so, especially since the text is still in the edit history should there be a reason to re-add it. The alleged hugbox doesn't prevent another user from making an edit.
If you've got a specific, real instance of something like this that you edited and got moderator disapproval over, I'd like to know about it.
@Juan_Carlos > Because the idea is that .Main is supposed to be neutral. It doesn't like or dislikes. It's just that annoying reviewer who gives everything 2.5/5.
It's not supposed to be doing reviewing at all. It should just aim to describe.
Now for some works, audience opinion is a major facet of our understanding of a work. For example, Custer's Revenge. However, for most works, it isn't.
@Neo_Crimson > >Put back all the "sexual" stuff that wasn't sexual, including things
next to other things that were deleted. For crying out loud, if you're
going to try to be a Moral Guardian, pay attention to what you're doing, and at least read the tropes you're deleting. Example: read the last line of Cute Shotaro Boy.
> The edit reason for reverting all my changes to the MLP character page.
And the person who did them is not a moderator to my knowledge.
Talk it out with them or something.
Wait, Elbeem just told you exactly what to do. I'm not even familiar with the ATT section myself.
@nohaynicklibre > IJBM: How every non-hideously ugly kid is described as a Cute Shotaro Boy.
If that's the case, we have a problem. Trope Talk is the first place I would go to to work on that.
@Neo_Crimson > >* HotGoddess: No, unless you go FurryFandom that way. But she is drawn more aesthetically - more clean, shiny, "beautiful" and pretty, right down to her voice - compared to the rest of the cast. It's vaguely implied that she's the ideal for equine beauty in Equestria; the beauty parlor in Ponyville has a picture of a pony with her tall and slender proportions, for instance.
...what the fuck did I just read
"I'm leaving because of the direction the site has taken..."
Way to be fuckin descriptive."
HI KINO.
Anyway, on the topic of 'bile' and 'hugfests', I think part of the problem is that people are treating the word 'subjective' as 'meaningless'. If a work is panned by both critics and consumers, saying 'WELL THAT'S JUST THEIR OPINION,' is missing the fucking point. The work was probably bad, and just because some idiot in Jersey City climaxes every time he sees it doesn't change the fact that, for all intents and purposes, the work was a goddamn catastrophe, and there was a reason for it. Furthermore, if a work, like FATAL or Pokegirls contains highly offensive portrayals and content, pretending that's all hunky-dory and skirting around the issue is equally offensive. Just because racist, homophobic pedophiles might think that work is the shit doesn't mean you should just run around pretending there's nothing wrong with it.
A lot of TvTropes users, and frankly, people in general, have somehow gotten it into their head that something being an opinion makes it immune from criticism. The fact is, opinions don't come out of thin air. There's a context behind why people hold certain opinions, and opinions built upon falsehoods, ignorance, and bigotry should NEVER be treated as holding the same weight as opinions based on an understanding of the subject at hand.
The removal of all subjectivity from the wiki, especially negative opinions of works, is frankly part of the reason the site has become so creepy and unpleasant. For example, treating outright racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic works as being simply works with tropes that portray certain groups of people in a negative light, instead of as highly offensive, doesn't paint a nice picture of the site.