I'll help with the alpha testing. Like BA above, I may be limited on how much time I can contribute, but I'm willing to help where I can and I'm told I write excellent bug reports. Since I'm a database/software developer myself, it's kind of a pet peeve of mine -- not writing bad bug reports, I mean.
Seconding "AllTheTropes"; one of my gripes about the existing TVTropes site is that so much of it relies on in-jokes and prior knowledge -- the classic one I keep mentioning to my roommate as bad design being the Tomato In The Mirror trope, because the name of it in no way says what it is -- and if it's up to me, even just as one vote, I'd like to help nudge this wiki into sticking with clear names that state exactly what they mean. AllTheTropes does that most clearly out of the choices listed, I think.
Bob: My read on it is that yes, that's just being spiteful. If it were up to me -- and bear in mind I'm not a troper, I have no real dog in this fight other than not liking the high-handedness and subservience to Google the existing trope site displays -- I'd say let's just work on making this better than them. People may copy it -- people will copy it -- but if it's better than the alternative then the alternative will either dry up and blow away, or, adapt to become more like this one.
Maybe I'm just an idealist.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Seconding "AllTheTropes"; one of my gripes about the existing TVTropes site is that so much of it relies on in-jokes and prior knowledge -- the classic one I keep mentioning to my roommate as bad design being the Tomato In The Mirror trope, because the name of it in no way says what it is -- and if it's up to me, even just as one vote, I'd like to help nudge this wiki into sticking with clear names that state exactly what they mean. AllTheTropes does that most clearly out of the choices listed, I think.
Bob: My read on it is that yes, that's just being spiteful. If it were up to me -- and bear in mind I'm not a troper, I have no real dog in this fight other than not liking the high-handedness and subservience to Google the existing trope site displays -- I'd say let's just work on making this better than them. People may copy it -- people will copy it -- but if it's better than the alternative then the alternative will either dry up and blow away, or, adapt to become more like this one.
Maybe I'm just an idealist.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs