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

[Bob Schroeck]

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. 

And after reading that link, may I say "Congratulations"?  All I ever did along those lines in college was post announcements for the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu in the Daily Princetonian...

I really see nothing there worth deleting, really.

Well, I made it pretty clear that I felt that Fast Eddie  (heh, I just typo'd that as "Fast Eddit".  Freudian slip? )  was morally and ethically in the wrong.  Obviously that couldn't be allowed to remain on the wiki, which has no one who disagrees with admin policies whatsoever.  Especially not one of the original first (well, first-and-a-half) generation tropers.

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.

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.

I can't say I know the reason all the other original Tropers left, but yeah, since Webmonkey Gus died (or got tired of the wiki and just pretended to have died) and Fast Eddie took over, things have been a lot more arbitrary and abrupt.  I always felt that Eddie was a lot less... social -- or just less friendly -- than Gus was, though I always did my best to deal with him on a polite basis.  But on more than one occasion I got the definite impression that the last thing he wanted on his wiki was to have one of the very first tropers still hanging around.

But it's not just Eddie's management style.  It's humorless geeks coming in and trying to purge everything that's whimsical and informal about the wiki.  It's the johnny-come-latelies who have decided that the wiki is and always has been an academic resource and has to be written that way.  It's all these damned kids on my lawn.  
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.