Subject: Reflections and New Concerns
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Posted on: 2011-02-10 17:24:00 UTC

I was finally able to sit in on one of these trope review sessions last night. It was certainly an interesting experience, but some parts left me a little ill at ease. Don't get me wrong, the majority of the process seemed to run along rather smoothly. But, from my point of view, there are two major issues.

CONTEXT - Sometimes the calls for cutting come too fast, resulting in something getting left out of the description. One entry was almost deleted for being 'too much about the badfic' before I pointed out that it was an entry under the Fan Fic tab about legolas by laura that happened to quote the PPC. In the future, either more needs to be done to explain how entries might fit or more people need to follow along on the TV Tropes site itself, rather than just relying on someone quoting the page.

EDITING OF OPINIONS - Neshomeh asked me last night during a discussion about the Fetish Fuel Station Attendant page if opinions were to be considered sacrosanct. While I wouldn't have put it quite like that, I do believe that editing someone else's opinion for reasons of graphicness or unpleasantness is not appropriate. That's censorship. I believe that TV Tropes pages marked with the opinion header or that fall under Your Mileage May Vary should be left alone for that reason.

There you go. My two cents.

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