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Crazy as Eddie was, I still admired the way he came down on the open pedophiles after years of ignoring the obvious. DELETE EVERYTHING.... then slowly put everything back because it hosed up the site's coding..
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cptn_dr posted:
'Tis a sad day. I remember the last thread had a guy making intentionally awful stick-figure comics during the pedo purge, so I tried to replicate his style here:  I mean, it's not like this will change the userbase in any way, but still. It's worth some sort of memento.
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Wonder who these new guys are. They don't appear to have had a wiki or forum presence before this. Ahab didn't lose the site in a tavern bet, did he?
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Darth Walrus posted:Wonder who these new guys are. They don't appear to have had a wiki or forum presence before this. Ahab didn't lose the site in a tavern bet, did he? He reproduced asexually and is now two smaller admins.
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Dec 1, 2014 00:03
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A facebook like UI, a blatant ripoff is still miles better than what Fast Eddie Could ever do. Although I must ask if they're like FE in regards to not liking a quote system. Hell since I'm being delusional maybe they'll remove all fanfic links and references to real life. And moniter the threads. And stop non family friendly content. And the Notability clause. And give babies superpowers.
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BlueDude posted:'Tis a sad day. I remember the last thread had a guy making intentionally awful stick-figure comics during the pedo purge Intentionally awful?  But seriously though, It's strange to visit this thread after so long only to find out ol' Fat Eddie is stepping down and handing control of the site over to some new guys. These are some crazy times!
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Annointed posted:A facebook like UI, a blatant ripoff is still miles better than what Fast Eddie Could ever do. Although I must ask if they're like FE in regards to not liking a quote system. Hell since I'm being delusional maybe they'll remove all fanfic links and references to real life. And moniter the threads. And stop non family friendly content. And the Notability clause. And give babies superpowers. Sadly, they are not changing any of the policies (as Drew's forum post above shows.) And yes, I know you're bein' sarcastic. On an unrelated note, does Kickstarter have any policies against copyright infringement? There's at least two definite strikes on the TV Tropes one (Bowser's in one of the pledge goal images, and the video ends with a picture of an anime dude), and I'm pretty sure there's a lot more. You can't really claim it as "fair use", either, since it's not being used to make a point - it's just background decoration.
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Dec 1, 2014 01:15
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A choice comment from a backer of the Kickstarter:Lin Liren posted:Just wondering
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Dec 1, 2014 03:23
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BlueDude posted:A choice comment from a backer of the Kickstarter: Big google is holding up the hebephilia vs. pedophilia debate! We'll never advance as a species if we can't clear this up!
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Dec 1, 2014 03:29
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Wonder how much these two idiots paid Fast Eddie to buy the site from him. Whatever it was, it was too much. I mean sure the content is basically free, since the user base provides it... But you have to police those pervs to make sure google doesn't pull out again. No ad revenue is worth that.
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Dec 1, 2014 05:25
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I want all anime or at least all Japanese named tropses removed
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Dec 1, 2014 05:28
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amuayse posted:I want all anime or at least all Japanese named tropses removed  You are an anime.
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Jojo is one of the good ones so it doesn't count.
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Dec 1, 2014 05:43
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What are the odds that the new guys actually remember to put in such features that every other website has like password recovery and quotes in the forum? If they actually do that I'll call them more competent than Fast Eddie. Who am I kidding, if they aren't storing passwords in a plain text file then they're more competent than Fast Eddie.
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At least this means the old guard (the pedos and racists who were used to an "open environment") are going to be leaving because they "don't trust the new admins" even if they don't know them. I've been on enough forums (and even workplaces, come to think about it) to know what happens when a new admin comes aboard.
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FrozenVent posted:Wonder how much these two idiots paid Fast Eddie to buy the site from him. They must have paid a lot. Their kickstarter is asking for 50 000 dollars. How much do you want to bet that most of that will go towards recouping whatever they shelled out to buy the site?
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And of course she's a brony.
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BlueDude posted:A choice comment from a backer of the Kickstarter: I thought TvTropes' problem was that it was too Family Friendly.
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Hey, at least she's quit doing that stupid "this one" third-person bullshit.Ague Proof posted:I thought TvTropes' problem was that it was too Family Friendly. 
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Does anyone know what happened to Fast Eddie? Dead? Eaten? And the Kickstarter is, unsurprisingly, already up to $18k in a day.
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Dabir posted:Ahem. Ahem. Utter human garbage.
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Both pegasisters and bronies are the epitome of human garbage, I don't think it matters which one they are.
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This is my first exposure to the wonderful world of TV Tropes. I hate it, I hope they die
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Everybody pour out a 40 for Captain Ahab . Now taking bets on when Yahtzee turns up dead.
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I'm not giving a dime to the TVTropes Kickstarter until they bring back all the links I put up on the "Bigger is Better in Bed" trope page Yes they were all links to imgur photos of my junk but that is why I posted them in the "real life examples" section. Under the subheading "subversions."
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You folks are way too cynical. I'm confident that not only will the Kickstarter reach its goal, but also that in a year's time, we'll all be marveling at what a vastly improved site TV Tropes has become. Just you wait and see.
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Shrikesnest posted:Can I just say a huge "thank you" to Fast Eddie? He did an amazing job running my favorite website for a decade, and I can't imagine it was easy. Being in charge is a constant headache, especially when you're running a wiki. Eddie had to make calls for the wiki that were absolutely the right move, but weren't popular with big groups of people. I'm glad he had the guts to do it.
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And I thought there were no more laughs to be had in the TV tropes threads. Farewell, paranoid old Eddie, and hello new admins who may or may not know what kind of sinkhole of weirdos they just bought for a handful of magic beans and a string of utterly busted code. Here's to a whole new 'fun, breezy, informal wiki' full of rape tropes and catastrophic misunderstandings of every work of literature that doesn't contain elves or a motherfucking dragon.
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Anais Nun posted:And I thought there were no more laughs to be had in the TV tropes threads. Farewell, paranoid old Eddie, and hello new admins who may or may not know what kind of sinkhole of weirdos they just bought for a handful of magic beans and a string of utterly busted code. Here's to a whole new 'fun, breezy, informal wiki' full of rape tropes and catastrophic misunderstandings of every work of literature that doesn't contain elves or a motherfucking dragon. And most of the ones that do.
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quote:There's a hundred alternate universes where this wiki doesn't exist or is changed beyond all recognition. Truly we live in the worst of all possible worlds.
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DaveWoo posted:You folks are way too cynical. I'm confident that not only will the Kickstarter reach its goal, but also that in a year's time, we'll all be marveling at what a vastly improved site TV Tropes has become. Maybe they'll hire Radium as a coder, and no-one will be able to access the site. What a vast improvement that would be.
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Honestly, the thing that weirds me out about TV Tropes is that the sheer number of people who don't realize what it's about. That is, a lot of people fall for its facade as a time-waster and general funny-but-informative database, but somehow completely overlook the emptiness of its content and incredibly creepy userbase.
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BlueDude posted:Honestly, the thing that weirds me out about TV Tropes is that the sheer number of people who don't realize what it's about. That is, a lot of people fall for its facade as a time-waster and general funny-but-informative database, but somehow completely overlook the emptiness of its content and incredibly creepy userbase. It's not that weird. Wikipedia works the same way.
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BlueDude posted:Honestly, the thing that weirds me out about TV Tropes is that the sheer number of people who don't realize what it's about. That is, a lot of people fall for its facade as a time-waster and general funny-but-informative database, but somehow completely overlook the emptiness of its content and incredibly creepy userbase. I get that the user base is creepy (like Wikipedia) but the whole "emptiness of its content" thing sounds maudlin. Most of what drives the traffic to TV Tropes are the mainstream trope and work pages, and people find them fun and amusing. There's no need to act like those people are dimwits, or at least any more mindless than the people who choose to watch Orange is the New Black, or read a book, or whatever. I think it would be a perfectly good site if it didn't have any creepy sex poo poo on it or a forum full of furry paedophiles.
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TildeATH posted:I think it would be a perfectly good site if it didn't have any creepy sex poo poo on it or a forum full of furry paedophiles. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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