Thread:User talk:GethN7/Post-TVT? & misc/reply (3)

@Comradeclaus - For several reasons, especially moderation difficulty and the fact that we'd like to remain focused on tropes and the works that contain them, our forums are strictly limited to on site matters. We don't have post thumping and we're not maniacs for censoring what we don't like here, but at this point we don't think it would be a good idea to have a full blown forum here, especially since there are so many other places on the internet you can discuss that sort of thing. However, anything related to tropes, troping, and the works that contain them (in the context of troping) is fair game.

Also, I fully back Vorticity's point on post-June 2012 content: it's a legal minefield, and even Eddie reluctantly consented the worst he can do about June 2012 or earlier content is gripe about it, so we plan to err on the side of caution. You can always recreate those post June 2012 pages from scratch here, but any deliberate copy-paste is infringement, and we don't want to cross that line legally even though we're not sure if the license change was legal. We're pretty sure it's not, but that would require settling things in a courtroom, and we'd rather not go down that road.

@Topazan: I'm not opposed to pages on Real Life figures like the US Presidents, various wars and eras of history, the Real Life page itself, and I'm not half as anal-retentive about what pages can and can't have Real Life examples (or I plan to avoid it where I can if at all possible), but a full blown forum for discussing real world issues is off topic, however entertaining and educational it might be, so we'd rather our tropers discuss that sort of thing elsewhere for now.

@Both: I have not closed myself off to the possibility of having a full blown forum, but for now we are very leery of the downsides of having one due to manpower and ability to moderate it effectively without becoming dictators concerning content, so for now, we ask those topics be discuss elsewhere outside of their context to tropes and troping.

We do have a subreddit where you guys can discuss troping somewhat more informally if you prefer (and Reddit offers other forums for other topics), or you could discuss non troping related matters on other forums for now. I might be open to the possibility of an offsite forum for tropers like that on TV Tropes with the same range in the future that is not officially regulated by the ATT admins, but for now we're not sure it's a good idea. We also have an IRC channel you guys could take advantage of, and while it's mostly for site related stuff we have discussed other matters there informally, but since Vorticity runs it I'll defer to his judgment on what he allows.