I'm glad to see I wasn't just being oversensitive about what was going on at TVTropes.
One of the warning flags for me was when I stumbled into a forum thread (that wasn't where I'd meant to go) and they were talking about the strike-through text format option being removed. One person commented that a strike-through followed by a "correction" was a nice way of adding humor. The response came that entries "aren't supposed to be funny." I knew right then I never wanted to have a conversation with the person who made that statement.
The way "cleaning up of natter" was used to eliminate some of the more conversationally-phrased series of entries irked me, since it was that conversational style that appealed to me in the first place. And don't get me started about the button which supposedly will send whoever added a post "a PM explaining the badness of natter." Whoever thought making it easier, or maybe even automatic, to send nasty-grams was a good idea....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
One of the warning flags for me was when I stumbled into a forum thread (that wasn't where I'd meant to go) and they were talking about the strike-through text format option being removed. One person commented that a strike-through followed by a "correction" was a nice way of adding humor. The response came that entries "aren't supposed to be funny." I knew right then I never wanted to have a conversation with the person who made that statement.
The way "cleaning up of natter" was used to eliminate some of the more conversationally-phrased series of entries irked me, since it was that conversational style that appealed to me in the first place. And don't get me started about the button which supposedly will send whoever added a post "a PM explaining the badness of natter." Whoever thought making it easier, or maybe even automatic, to send nasty-grams was a good idea....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.