![]() ![]() Only a small number of works of historical or artistic value or notoriety (like Lolita, A Serbian Film, and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ) are grandfathered in, and even they have had their pages permanently locked to prevent anybody from tampering with them. The site no longer accepts pages for pornography or other works with a heavy sexual focus. TV Tropes restored the deleted pages after this outcry. The removal of 12 pages containing valuable information on sexism and sexual harassment, while leaving more innocuously-titled articles intact regardless of content, understandably resulted in an outcry from Aja Romano of The Mary Sue. In late June 2012, in response to repeated concerns from Google AdSense, TV Tropes initiated a purge of pages listed on the "Rape Tropes" index, attempting to remove or rename all tropes containing the word " rape" in the title. The Fandom mirror has but a small fraction of the pages TV Tropes has, while the Miraheze mirror has a much more complete page dump of TV Tropes from June 2012, and both wikis have a small but regular amount of editing. Many who disagreed with the policies of TV Tropes, such as the porn exclusion, the increasingly strict moderation, and the requirement of copyright assignment for submissions from November 2013 through March 2015, moved to Fandom and Orain Miraheze to form their own "mirrors" of TV Tropes. They elected a body called the P5 to make the judgment call on whether a thing was disposable porn or artistically-valuable porn, which has since been replaced with an open forum for all users to discuss such things. Driven to act by the loss of advertising revenue, the site's moderators quickly launched a campaign to eliminate and lock such works from the wiki. This eventually caught the attention of the site's primary revenue source, Google AdSense, who pulled advertising from the site and stopped the money on more than one occasion due to their policy against hosting their ads on sites containing explicit material. The "Troper Tales" and "Fetish Fuel" sections also grew notorious for the downright-perverted and otherwise-maladjusted comments left by users, which soon became Exhibit A for people looking to criticize and make fun of the site. Ī problem facing the site in 2011-12 was the growing accumulation of works of a fetish-intensive nature, many of which were explicitly pornographic/ pedophilic. The idealistic "Sugar Wiki" appeared as a counterbalance to the cynicism of the "Darth Wiki" for positive and saccharine tropes and discussions. Eventually, though, the editors caught on that they were still entitled to say whatever they might like about a work, as long as it was in the right place. Naturally, some people perceived this as an attack on their opinions, unable to cope with the subtle complexities of moving the opinions to a different page. This shift didn't remove all of the complaints, as you can see with how toxic their now-deleted page letting people complain about works they didn't like was. They also created the "Darth Wiki" as a corner of the wiki where tropes that were not only inherently subjective but prone to starting flame wars by their mere presence (such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Ruined FOREVER" ) were ghettoed off to, and where standards for civility lowered, and people could say what they really wanted to about a movie, book, show, etc. They ordered everyone to make the main articles as free as possible from judgment under the "Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment". To stifle the edit wars, the site admins decided to move all "subjective" material to the Reviews and YMMV (short for "your mileage may vary") sections. The Whedon-verse is a property that thrives on snark and witty dialogue, which the fans love it for, so at first, TV Tropes peppered its articles with a snarky point of view.Īlas, anyone who spends longer than a single Planck time day on the Internet knows that many (or at least the most vocal) Internet nerds tend to get extremely sensitive and hysterical to any perceived negativity towards their favorite works. The website grew extremely quickly around 2009-10, when references to it started to circulate the Internet and its userbase grew past the original collection of Buffy and Joss Whedon fans, with websites like xkcd and plugging it. Because nerds have a diverse set of interests, they then spread to encompass all TV shows and then all media. The wiki started in 2004 on, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan forum, as a fan project to catalog said tropes from the Buffy television show by forum nerds. ![]()
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