I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes

[Labster]

Oh, in case you're interested, here's what I left on my troper page before Fast Eddie stalinized me:

I prefer "memory holed".  After all, I did co-found that one club in college.  I really see nothing there worth deleting, really.

I suspect it's no coincidence that none of the original tropers, who
built the site from the ground up with the sweat of their brow, have
cared to remain.

Actually, I've seen similar trends on other wikis, including those with more or less absentee administrators.  Wiki builders do a huge amount of work creating the content, but are gradually replaced by wiki maintainers.  There's always a disconnect between early adopters and those who come later, seeking to impose order on the organic chaos.  Builders tend to drift away for a lot of reasons; the most common are: finding more fertile pastures to create new things, getting tired of the old things, or conflict with the new order.  In many ways, things are just less fun when there's not red links or dashed underlines of new articles to create.  I'm a builder myself, and it's certainly a lot less fun for me when there aren't that many things to create any more.
Now, I know nothing of the specific history of TVT, but they made almost no effort to inform the community what was going on while they were implementing a censorship panel.  If things like that are typical, then yeah, surely that would drive out the early adopters.
This whole affair has hit me in the middle of my TVTropesWillRuinYourLife cycle, so I'm still editing over there.  It is encouraging me to edit a lot less though, and I've been exercising my Discordian skills in TRS -- getting replies like:

This is probably the first time (in recent memory, at least) there's ever been consensus for making a Chekhov snowclone as opposed to renaming one.

But honestly, the sooner I get myself off the habit, the sooner I'll be able to get real writing done.
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