Quote:No. I feel rather strongly about that -- the forums at TVTropes have become the home of an entire subculture who seem to think that if you don't participate there, you're not a real troper. Go back to the bog-standard discussion page for each entry, and maybe a few dedicated discussion pages.
I'll agree completely. From a practical standpoint, not including a forum also removes a lot of bandwidth and database transaction requirements. And having a forum will only amplify a cliquish nature among users and discourage contribution.
Quote:Actually, I was just thinking about this about an hour ago as I was mowing the lawn. Do we really need works pages? We're collecting the tropes and memes, and we'll obviously cite works as examples, but quite frankly, the collection of works at TVT was starting to outweigh the tropes. It's beginning to morph into a catalogue of fiction and the devices it uses, instead of the other way around. And it won't ever stop -- new works will always be created faster than new tropes.
I find the work's pages quite helpful. They serve as a sort of review page. In fact, this is how I found and started using TvT. The Works pages gave me what, at the time, was an honest opinion about the content of a particular.... well.... work. There are quite a few series I've picked up *because* of TvT, most recently something called RideBack. You can't have one without the other, really. It's something that really worked with the site. Not only could you find tropes that interested you, you could find works that would also contained that tropes. It was also possible to go in the other direction. It was possible to find a work you liked, find the tropes within it, then find other works with similar tropes.
One leads in to the other, if that makes sense. In general, TvT also made a useful review site, almost by accident.
Quote:Would Web 2.0 (beta) features like WYSIWYG editing be useful?
So long as it's possible to use an alternative. WYSIWYG can be finnicky at best. I've ended up fighting them, as much as I've ended up using them.
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