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TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.n

TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.net/ http://www.scp-wiki.net/

delecti 10y ago
SCP was a great rabbit hole, until I took some psychedelics after I'd been reading it during my downtime at work the previous few weeks. I spent much of the trip seeing the face from SCP-87 [1] bulging through the inside of my eyelids. I haven't been able to enjoy browsing it since. [1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 (bottomless staircase below a school)
- taneq 10y ago
  SCP is an real mix between "Agents of SHIELD" type weirdness and the occasional truly disturbing nosleep material. I dig into it every now and then but usually stop when I read something I'd rather I hadn't.
labster 10y ago
I'm a cofounder of All The Tropes, a noncommercial advertising-free fork of TV Tropes: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page Because we don't have advertising, we can take a low censorship approach while protecting your privacy. We'd love to have you come on board if you have many hours that you're not using.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  I've been interested in ATT, but the community is significantly smaller, and the community is a big part of the draw of TVT. What disgusted me was what TVT said in response to ATT. There was a thread essentially claimed it was a weird XXX trope site that was ripping them off: nobody corrected this perception, and nobody even disagreed, despite the fact that looking at the FAQ for five minutes would have made it abundantly clear that this wasn't the case. The mods then said that ATT "didn't deserve any more attention or discussion" and pretty much outright said that mentioning it further was asking for a ban. It says something about a community when they aren't mature enough to discuss their competitors and legitimately assess them, instead constructing strawmen and saying that anybody who talks about it will be banned: TVT, of all places, ought to know better.
  - Analemma_ 10y ago
    I'm not familiar with this situation, but if what you're saying is true, I can see where the perception came from. The unfortunate reality is that the Internet is full of sites which just copy-paste an existing popular site (Stack Overflow, various fandom wikis, etc.) and slap a bunch of ads on it hoping to make some fly-by-night profit. If I had came across ATT, I absolutely would've assumed that's what it was and would not have taken the time to read their FAQ explaining otherwise.
    - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      But they read enough to be sort of aware of the differences in philosophy, in that they knew that ATT allowed for content that had been taken off TVT for being too explicit. If you already know that, then you've taken some time to actually look at the site.
    - labster 10y ago
      I'm not sure how you would have gotten that impression with the 100% lack of ads. Aggressive adblockers, I can only hope. Either way, brand-name attraction is strong. If you'd like to be a little more familiar with the situation, there's a write-up of the copyright situation here: http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-commons.html http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-comm... with HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 There's also the statement of why we forked: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tropes https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tro...
- fapjacks 10y ago
  Awesome! I had seen AllTheTropes before but never understood what it was. I'm always a fan of noncommercial ad-free forks.

TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.net/ http://www.scp-wiki.net/

delecti 10y ago

SCP was a great rabbit hole, until I took some psychedelics after I'd been reading it during my downtime at work the previous few weeks. I spent much of the trip seeing the face from SCP-87 [1] bulging through the inside of my eyelids. I haven't been able to enjoy browsing it since. [1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 (bottomless staircase below a school)

taneq 10y ago
SCP is an real mix between "Agents of SHIELD" type weirdness and the occasional truly disturbing nosleep material. I dig into it every now and then but usually stop when I read something I'd rather I hadn't.

labster 10y ago

I'm a cofounder of All The Tropes, a noncommercial advertising-free fork of TV Tropes: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page Because we don't have advertising, we can take a low censorship approach while protecting your privacy. We'd love to have you come on board if you have many hours that you're not using.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I've been interested in ATT, but the community is significantly smaller, and the community is a big part of the draw of TVT. What disgusted me was what TVT said in response to ATT. There was a thread essentially claimed it was a weird XXX trope site that was ripping them off: nobody corrected this perception, and nobody even disagreed, despite the fact that looking at the FAQ for five minutes would have made it abundantly clear that this wasn't the case. The mods then said that ATT "didn't deserve any more attention or discussion" and pretty much outright said that mentioning it further was asking for a ban. It says something about a community when they aren't mature enough to discuss their competitors and legitimately assess them, instead constructing strawmen and saying that anybody who talks about it will be banned: TVT, of all places, ought to know better.
- Analemma_ 10y ago
  I'm not familiar with this situation, but if what you're saying is true, I can see where the perception came from. The unfortunate reality is that the Internet is full of sites which just copy-paste an existing popular site (Stack Overflow, various fandom wikis, etc.) and slap a bunch of ads on it hoping to make some fly-by-night profit. If I had came across ATT, I absolutely would've assumed that's what it was and would not have taken the time to read their FAQ explaining otherwise.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    But they read enough to be sort of aware of the differences in philosophy, in that they knew that ATT allowed for content that had been taken off TVT for being too explicit. If you already know that, then you've taken some time to actually look at the site.
  - labster 10y ago
    I'm not sure how you would have gotten that impression with the 100% lack of ads. Aggressive adblockers, I can only hope. Either way, brand-name attraction is strong. If you'd like to be a little more familiar with the situation, there's a write-up of the copyright situation here: http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-commons.html http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-comm... with HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 There's also the statement of why we forked: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tropes https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tro...
fapjacks 10y ago
Awesome! I had seen AllTheTropes before but never understood what it was. I'm always a fan of noncommercial ad-free forks.