So, the My Little Pony thread on Tv Tropes, which was over 15,000 pages long, was accidentally deleted.
There was such a community there; and, gosh dang it, memories and also nearly all of the posts from Posey, a lovely troper who passed away.
There were some darn awesome discussions on there; yeah, there was a lot of junk and drama and crap; but really, there was stuff that I found absolutely fascinating in there sometimes; and now it's all gone.
So, the My Little Pony thread on Tv Tropes, which was over 15,000 pages long, was accidentally deleted.
There was such a community there; and, gosh dang it, memories and also nearly all of the posts from Posey, a lovely troper who passed away.
There were some darn awesome discussions on there; yeah, there was a lot of junk and drama and crap; but really, there was stuff that I found absolutely fascinating in there sometimes; and now it's all gone.
So, the My Little Pony thread on Tv Tropes, which was over 15,000 pages long, was accidentally deleted.
There was such a community there; and, gosh dang it, memories and also nearly all of the posts from Posey, a lovely troper who passed away.
There were some darn awesome discussions on there; yeah, there was a lot of junk and drama and crap; but really, there was stuff that I found absolutely fascinating in there sometimes; and now it's all gone.
Which one? The one in Yack Fest?
The one that came first. The big one, which was moved to Western Animation. The huuuuuuuuuuuuge one.
Yeah, they made a new thread with the same title; but it only has 227 pages instead of 15915.
Fanfictions, OC's, records of Posey, brilliant things like that anecdote about the grey pony with the white mane I talked about a few posts ago (it was on the forum before it was added to the Wiki; a lucky break that happened to far too few brilliant ideas and observations), a good HALF of Posey's posts (almost all of the other half were in the Pony Fanfiction thread, which was not deleted); and so much more.
It was like if Troper Updates was deleted (it's still going as fast as ever.)
Interestingly, the only two threads that were deleted were the MLPFIM thread of Western Animation and the Yack Fest thread of MLPFIM.
By Mod fiat, the Yack Fest thread will not be replaced.
Aliroz: It sounds like the vandal was a fan hater who thought the threads were full of horsefuckers or something. :P
That said, yeah, TVT's infrastructure has been "eh, it's good enough" for years now. I'm actually surprised that it hasn't been hacked by that Muslim group again.
Troper Updates has been deleted; the first two versions of it were lost to a forum purge in 2010.
I hated those purges, more than anything the fact that they happened with absolutely no warning (also, this was the era in which Eddie was not to be questioned; a year later and he can't do anything right)
I do remember that there was, like, thirty tropers who all had the original Updates on archive. Dunno about the glitchy second Updates.
I do know that a lot of tropers started making archives after they heard that IJBM was going to be deleted.
Only problem is finding those tropers; bringing all those tropers together, bringing all the archive data together, and thus preserving what was lost in those abominable purges.
I mean, to see how much we've lost, you can look for posts by Made Of Meat, and they're all gone.
It's like an out-of-print book with less than a thousand copies; every one of them incomplete; you just have to find them all and compile them into an archive.
And to top it off, I would daresay the purges were completely unnecessary, from a technical standpoint. To wit: This very thread has nearly 180,000 comments in it, and I have not had to truncate or re-arrange it at all. TVT would start puking somewhere around 100,000, if I recall correctly.
Oh, and also the edit history on Tv Tropes only goes up to 900 on any page; so you can no longer go all the way back to the very first edit on every page.
There is only one thing sacred on Tv Tropes: The Gilligan Cut is a classic staple of comedy. A character protests vehemently, "What, you expect me to wear a grass skirt, stand up on top of the Empire State Building and belt out the chorus of 'New York, New York'? Well, I'm not gonna... I'm just not gonna..." Whip Pan over to the character wearing a grass skirt on the 102nd floor, singing "I want to be a part of it, New York, New York!"
That paragraph is the very first one ever written for Tv Tropes. It was written by Gus, best friend of Eddie and Janitor; and it's almost all that we have of Gus on the site.
If you change that paragraph, even to add a comma, it will be changed back.
Though the rest of the wiki change, that one paragraph is permanent, a memorial to Gus.
IJBM was purged in an attempt to clean the forum of the undesirables and the unwanted. But they were smuggled into the OTC, one by one, and the purge only took care of some poorly-built architecture and those who couldn't leave it behind.
Oh, and also the edit history on Tv Tropes only goes up to 900 on any page; so you can no longer go all the way back to the very first edit on every page.
There is only one thing sacred on Tv Tropes: The Gilligan Cut is a classic staple of comedy. A character protests vehemently, "What, you expect me to wear a grass skirt, stand up on top of the Empire State Building and belt out the chorus of 'New York, New York'? Well, I'm not gonna... I'm just not gonna..." Whip Pan over to the character wearing a grass skirt on the 102nd floor, singing "I want to be a part of it, New York, New York!"
That paragraph is the very first one ever written for Tv Tropes. It was written by Gus, best friend of Eddie and Janitor; and it's almost all that we have of Gus on the site.
If you change that paragraph, even to add a comma, it will be changed back.
Though the rest of the wiki change, that one paragraph is permanent, a memorial to Gus.
TV Tropes has been clearing out the edit history periodically for ages, since 2008 at least.
I wonder what it would have been like if Gus was still around to balance out Eddie and compensate for Janitor's AWOLness.
MY GUESS:It would be more like the tv tropes of 2007 and less like the one today. The big changes of 2010-2013 wouldn't have happened.
Weremonkey Gus was a very sweet person, from what I've read of the old archived discussions. Eddie wasn't always like he was in 2010; he (according to certain old guard tropers I've talked with) used to be a much more chill guy; a guy who would post informally and have fun; and you wouldn't have guessed he was the admin.
He even, according to old legends and rumors, used to crack jokes.
I guess having your best friend die and your other best friend leave you for years with almost no contact at all will make you less stable and shorten your fuse.
If Gus hadn't died, the wiki would be more funny and informal; more silly, more like the Hangout and less like Wikipedia. We'd have things like Most Triumphant Examples and This Troper and Tropertales; and there'd be much more in-jokes (loads of in-jokes ;Gus loved those; and Janitor apparently loved hiding secret messages in the examples she wrote) and probably unknown tropers would still be editing.
A more informal Tv Tropes would have a lot less consistency, and a lot more errors in grammar and spelling; and a lot more anecdotes about obscure stories; and a lot more arguing in the main page; and more derails and natter. Natter everywhere.
Abuses of subverted, inverted, averted, played straight, BRUTALLY SUBVERTED, would be much more common; and memes would be more prevalent; and it would be more opinion-based examples showing how people feel about certain books (like Twilight) and less actual-cataloging-of-actual-tropes.
Look at how Twilight and Eragon used to be these huge topics of conversation; and the Twilight IJBM page was the biggest page on the site too big to be supported, so they locked it and made a second page that got so big they had to lock it, and a third page that was almost as big as the other two.
We'd make fun of fiction a lot more; more sporkings.
It'd be an absolute mess; and ninety per-cent of it would be junk natter.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
There was such a community there; and, gosh dang it, memories and also nearly all of the posts from Posey, a lovely troper who passed away.
There were some darn awesome discussions on there; yeah, there was a lot of junk and drama and crap; but really, there was stuff that I found absolutely fascinating in there sometimes; and now it's all gone.
Panctice Squad Cutterback figured out a way to exploit this to get moderator privileges at will; and made a thread telling everybody how to do it.
For a while, anybody could be a mod, even without logging in.
Three years of the Pony thread; of a community there; all gone.
Except not really, because Storyyeller managed to save all but the very last page.
Yeah, they made a new thread with the same title; but it only has 227 pages instead of 15915.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It was like if Troper Updates was deleted (it's still going as fast as ever.)
Interestingly, the only two threads that were deleted were the MLPFIM thread of Western Animation and the Yack Fest thread of MLPFIM.
By Mod fiat, the Yack Fest thread will not be replaced.
I do know that a lot of tropers started making archives after they heard that IJBM was going to be deleted.
Only problem is finding those tropers; bringing all those tropers together, bringing all the archive data together, and thus preserving what was lost in those abominable purges.
I mean, to see how much we've lost, you can look for posts by Made Of Meat, and they're all gone.
It's like an out-of-print book with less than a thousand copies; every one of them incomplete; you just have to find them all and compile them into an archive.
There is only one thing sacred on Tv Tropes: The Gilligan Cut is a classic staple of comedy. A character protests
vehemently, "What, you expect me to wear a grass skirt, stand up on top
of the Empire State Building and belt out the chorus of 'New York, New
York'? Well, I'm not gonna... I'm just not gonna..." Whip Pan over to
the character wearing a grass skirt on the 102nd floor, singing "I want
to be a part of it, New York, New York!"
That paragraph is the very first one ever written for Tv Tropes. It was written by Gus, best friend of Eddie and Janitor; and it's almost all that we have of Gus on the site.
If you change that paragraph, even to add a comma, it will be changed back.
Though the rest of the wiki change, that one paragraph is permanent, a memorial to Gus.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Everyone is spooky but I can't be until October 20th, I need to be Tre on my birthday
bluh bluh
Weremonkey Gus was a very sweet person, from what I've read of the old archived discussions. Eddie wasn't always like he was in 2010; he (according to certain old guard tropers I've talked with) used to be a much more chill guy; a guy who would post informally and have fun; and you wouldn't have guessed he was the admin.
He even, according to old legends and rumors, used to crack jokes.
I guess having your best friend die and your other best friend leave you for years with almost no contact at all will make you less stable and shorten your fuse.
If Gus hadn't died, the wiki would be more funny and informal; more silly, more like the Hangout and less like Wikipedia. We'd have things like Most Triumphant Examples and This Troper and Tropertales; and there'd be much more in-jokes (loads of in-jokes ;Gus loved those; and Janitor apparently loved hiding secret messages in the examples she wrote) and probably unknown tropers would still be editing.
A more informal Tv Tropes would have a lot less consistency, and a lot more errors in grammar and spelling; and a lot more anecdotes about obscure stories; and a lot more arguing in the main page; and more derails and natter. Natter everywhere.
Abuses of subverted, inverted, averted, played straight, BRUTALLY SUBVERTED, would be much more common; and memes would be more prevalent; and it would be more opinion-based examples showing how people feel about certain books (like Twilight) and less actual-cataloging-of-actual-tropes.
Look at how Twilight and Eragon used to be these huge topics of conversation; and the Twilight IJBM page was the biggest page on the site too big to be supported, so they locked it and made a second page that got so big they had to lock it, and a third page that was almost as big as the other two.
We'd make fun of fiction a lot more; more sporkings.
It'd be an absolute mess; and ninety per-cent of it would be junk natter.
hellogoodnight
I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello