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That is basically the reason given by the person responsible for the edits.

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'Part of me snapped and believed it was the only way to stop the PPC from continuing on the downward spiral it has been. No more TV Tropes entries = far fewer newbies (I'm not stupid enough to think it'd completely stop newbies from coming; we get 'em from other places too) = far fewer people messing things up = those who are already here/not screwing everything up can go into damage control. Seemed to me like the only way to help fix things.

I figured, all the people causing the problems are newbies. Therefore, remove the newbies, you remove the problem. Most of the "bad" newbies come from TV Tropes, I observed; ergo, remove any way to get to us from TV Tropes. Hypocritically, I have yet to leave myself even though I'm one of the people ruining things. Actually, I think I cracked upon reading Rohirric Monkey's post, though there's not much in there that should have made me snap about this. shrug But yeah, that's why. It's also why my edit reasons tended to have a somewhat apologetic tone. I figured, once things were fixed, I could always just put them back, but there didn't seem to be any way otherwise. At least I'm not trying to stop new people from joining ever again like I originally pondered.

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They admit that they 'went temporarily insane and add 'It seemed like the only way. At the least it'd slow things down enough that we could fix things without a flood of people adding to the problem.'

Yes, I know who it is. No, I will not name them.

Didn't it recently come up in conversation that we were getting a lot of people joining the Board after seeing the links on TVTropes? I remember thinking that it might be easier for our little community if there weren't any links over there, but I don't think I ever said it and I'm not sure anyone else did.

To be honest, I'm not sure this is a bad thing, but that's me with my let's-keep-our-community-small preferences. *shrug*

Someone claiming to be one of your members has been deleting all links to your page on http://tvtropes.org. A thread about it can be found at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=w7b9ndng55th3uk4qdo232y7&page=1#4. Use the tool at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/knowerForm.php to create an account. JulyFlame has already said something at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuumDiscussion, but if other people want to clarify or discuss this topic, the links are all available here.

Sorry, should have made that clear.

Me or Ugolino?

... anyone want me to burn copies of the Molly mix CD I made and bring 'em? Egotistical, I know (or is it not egotistical unless I start trying to charge for them? :P), but I thought I should ask.

I'll see if I can find a video camera.

And I sing a lot of cheesy stuff - a lot of people know my fondness for Abba, and I'm happy to murder most nineties pop. Depending on how much I've had to drink, I'm either a fairly good singer or tone-deaf.

And click Chat, then enter the data July provided in her first post. IRC is Internet Relay Chat, and Mibbit has an online client that can handle that function.

...you get fish and chips.

(pun unintentional until I noticed it, whereupon it became intentional). I thought it was cocaine smoked and crack cocaine snorted. Thanks for the correction.

In addition to that (and Neshomeh's comments), I'd like address a paragraphing issue. This:

"Richi! You've got to help me, she's a madwoman!" Richi looked from the rather beaten-up Dakku, to Maxie, and back again, then barely stifled a giggle.

"I have no doubt that whatever it was your new partner just did to you, it was deserved," Dakku stared incredulously at Richi for a moment or two, then gave his head a rueful shake.

"What's the PPC come to, when you can't even rely on your ex-partner to back you up?"

is kind of confusing. The first paragraph looks like it's Richi talking to Richi. Would look better like this:

"Richi! You've got to help me, she's a madwoman!"

Richi looked from the rather beaten-up Dakku, to Maxie, and back again, then barely stifled a giggle. "I have no doubt that whatever it was your new partner just did to you, it was deserved."

Dakku stared incredulously at Richi for a moment or two, then gave his head a rueful shake. "What's the PPC come to, when you can't even rely on your ex-partner to back you up?"

If you have people acting and talking in the same paragraph, make sure it's the same person doing both the talking and the acting.

Would make it easier for people to come. I think that place does them.

Should also start picking songs. (I don't think I'll do "Closer". It's my favourite song, but since this will probably end up online, I don't want to tell the entirety of YouTube that I "wanna f*** them like an animal". And it's probably a good thing they don't have any of my other favourite songs, because most of my favourites are Decemberists or Nick Cave and thus about gory deaths.) And remember to bring a video camera with plenty of film time. I don't think people's phones will hold two hours of filmed karaoke.

Right now, I ain't got much going on. Doubt my summer will be all that busy, so I can be there when required. Dates aren't to important to me, and the whole "round of public embarrassment" sounds like my idea of a good time, even if I'm the one likely to be doing most of the embarrassing. :P I luuuuurve karaoke.

I was searching Tv.Tropes last year when I encountered it in the FFR page for Warcraft. You were the one who put it there, didn't you? If so, Thank you for introducing me to it. I'm really glad.

Cocaine is snorted. Crack is smoked. Heroin is injected. I wish I didn't know all this stuff.

... but I don't know what my schedule will be like then. Will have to wait till nearer the time.

Ah, the ubiquitous dude! Thank Glod that one hasn't caught on too strongly here. Although I have picked up d00ds from the lolcat bible, of all places, meaning one's people or men or army or whatever.

I can see where "that bunch" would come from - there's a similarity with a bunch of flowers. Makes slightly more sense than "that lot", at any rate.

*updates mental map of the spread of grammatical oddities*

Done.

You had a lot of fun typing that, didn't you?

I tried roleplaying the Tellytubbies once, but I forgot to save the convo log. Obviously, it was utter gibberish. :D

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hello
You: To find knowledge, you must first seek the bagel of enlightenment
Stranger: mmm bagels
Stranger: yummy
Stranger: and moist
You: They are sweet indeed, yet beware! for the salad of temptation lies hidden
Stranger: nobody likes salad.
Stranger: silly billy
Stranger: person
Stranger: called bill
You: Who would? And yet, the diaphanous willow basks in the smoke, untroubled by the cream cheese of existance
Stranger: haha
Stranger: ok you win.
Stranger: heres a cookie.
Stranger: now get out of my internet!
You: Which is more enlightened - the cookie, or the hand that creates it?
Stranger: It depends on if the hand was washed before making the cookie.
Stranger: I DONT WANT NO SWINE FLU
You: Verily, for the grime of malfiecience pmay penetrate even the cleanest abode
Stranger: ... Yes.
Stranger: No comment.
You: There's not really much you can say to that, is there?
Stranger: NO
Stranger: NOW GET OUT OF HERE DAMN IT
Stranger: i told you already
Stranger: clogging up my tubes
You: Are the tubes clogged, or is the flow merely stemmed as the straight daffodil is stemed in the spring?
Stranger: Ask ted stevens he might know...
You: Forsooth, you are a fount of wisdom
Stranger: he looks like my grandpa
Stranger: kinda scary
Stranger: ...
Stranger: im sick of your nonsense
Stranger: BYE. :(
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

(got into it thanks to BioWare games :P). I can roleplay men, women, aliens, Pokémon (want to try a Vulcan one day). But I don't even know what IRC stands for. Besides, if I have to install anything, I can't due to no private computer with internet access. *sulks* I want internet at home. Want in.

This and anything by this author.  Also, this author.  I'm sure there's more, but I can't really think of much at the moment.

I'd like to talk to you concerning recent events - my E-mail address is Techno(dot)Dann(at)gmail(dot)com. E-mail or chat works just fine.

(you're not in trouble, honest.)