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this website is such an incredible compendium of wisdom and facts. how has this been accomplished?

by dontbeevil1992 6y ago

strombofulous 6y ago
It's a wiki
klenwell 6y ago
It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes. > how has this been accomplished? I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization?action=edit https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization?a... I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations.
- eindiran 6y ago
  > I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations. Agreed on the underrated front. But I feel like I interact with enough wikis that its not obvious to me that they are significantly underexploited. What is an example of a place where you think a wiki could be used to significant effect?
- chaosharmonic 6y ago
  > It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes. There's incidentally an entry for those: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  > I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case Interestingly, there is now an "official process" for getting a page created. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/CreatingNewPages https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/Creatin... I created a page a while back after reading the Wiki Magic page, which at the time described how a page might be created without much content and, if the community saw value in it, fleshed out by community members, as if by magic. The example given of the process was the Mega Neko page. All of that has been removed, along with the notion that it might be OK to just create a page and see what happens. But although the official process was already in place when I made my page, the direct process hadn't been shut down. I didn't even realize I wasn't supposed to. Coming back to something of a point, TvTropes, like Wikipedia, seems to have come around to the conclusion that user-generated content was valuable in the past, but they don't want more of it than they already have.
nsajko 6y ago
Similarly as with Wikipedia, TV Tropes is a good source of interesting factoids, viewpoints, trope descriptions and examples; but, even more obviously than Wikipedia, TV Tropes suffers from a lack of editorial oversight: there are usually many unverifiable, nonsensical and/or false factoids per page.
rektide 6y ago
I refer to it as the great index of humanity. what is tv/cinema but a way of capturing & portraying the many foibled forms of humanity? trying to re-distil those many portrayals out into organized, trope-ic forms? pure gold. an index of all humanity.
EamonnMR 6y ago
It's got no notability guidelines and no real verification. It's a free for all. Also it tries to be fun to read.
emmanueloga_ 6y ago
I wonder: * How many of the wiki authors are actually screenwriters or showbiz ppl? * How many pro screenwriters actually use this site for reference/inspiration?
- Apocryphon 6y ago
  They're fandom people.
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    That doesn't stop them from being screenwriters.
h2odragon 6y ago
It is the best current version of "the hitch hikers guide to Human Society"
lmm 6y ago
It's a wiki that didn't get taken over by deletionists. Its original guiding principle was "there is no such thing as notability".
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  Except, of course, when the trope or title be sexual enough that the advertisers might complain, then the “content policy” kicks in — which is of course really all about how pornography has no plot and thus has nothing to talk about, not at all purely about advertisement revenue, as was originally freely admitted. - The original statement: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheGoogleIncident https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheGoog... - The later historical revision: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheContentPolicyAndThe5PCircuit?from=Administrivia.ContentPolicy https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheCont... Of course, describing tropes that deal with graphic maiming, slavery, mass murder and all that deliciously family friendly matter that Google AdSense doesn't complain about, as the full might of the collective Soccer Mum has never been unleashed against such things, can carry on without incident.

this website is such an incredible compendium of wisdom and facts. how has this been accomplished?

It's a wiki

It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes. > how has this been accomplished? I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization?action=edit https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization?a... I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations.

eindiran 6y ago
> I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations. Agreed on the underrated front. But I feel like I interact with enough wikis that its not obvious to me that they are significantly underexploited. What is an example of a place where you think a wiki could be used to significant effect?
chaosharmonic 6y ago
> It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes. There's incidentally an entry for those: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk
thaumasiotes 6y ago
> I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case Interestingly, there is now an "official process" for getting a page created. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/CreatingNewPages https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/Creatin... I created a page a while back after reading the Wiki Magic page, which at the time described how a page might be created without much content and, if the community saw value in it, fleshed out by community members, as if by magic. The example given of the process was the Mega Neko page. All of that has been removed, along with the notion that it might be OK to just create a page and see what happens. But although the official process was already in place when I made my page, the direct process hadn't been shut down. I didn't even realize I wasn't supposed to. Coming back to something of a point, TvTropes, like Wikipedia, seems to have come around to the conclusion that user-generated content was valuable in the past, but they don't want more of it than they already have.

nsajko 6y ago

Similarly as with Wikipedia, TV Tropes is a good source of interesting factoids, viewpoints, trope descriptions and examples; but, even more obviously than Wikipedia, TV Tropes suffers from a lack of editorial oversight: there are usually many unverifiable, nonsensical and/or false factoids per page.

rektide 6y ago

I refer to it as the great index of humanity. what is tv/cinema but a way of capturing & portraying the many foibled forms of humanity? trying to re-distil those many portrayals out into organized, trope-ic forms? pure gold. an index of all humanity.

EamonnMR 6y ago

It's got no notability guidelines and no real verification. It's a free for all. Also it tries to be fun to read.

emmanueloga_ 6y ago

I wonder: * How many of the wiki authors are actually screenwriters or showbiz ppl? * How many pro screenwriters actually use this site for reference/inspiration?

Apocryphon 6y ago
They're fandom people.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  That doesn't stop them from being screenwriters.

h2odragon 6y ago

It is the best current version of "the hitch hikers guide to Human Society"

lmm 6y ago

It's a wiki that didn't get taken over by deletionists. Its original guiding principle was "there is no such thing as notability".

Blikkentrekker 6y ago
Except, of course, when the trope or title be sexual enough that the advertisers might complain, then the “content policy” kicks in — which is of course really all about how pornography has no plot and thus has nothing to talk about, not at all purely about advertisement revenue, as was originally freely admitted. - The original statement: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheGoogleIncident https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheGoog... - The later historical revision: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheContentPolicyAndThe5PCircuit?from=Administrivia.ContentPolicy https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheCont... Of course, describing tropes that deal with graphic maiming, slavery, mass murder and all that deliciously family friendly matter that Google AdSense doesn't complain about, as the full might of the collective Soccer Mum has never been unleashed against such things, can carry on without incident.