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[Bob Schroeck]

Mm.  Lots of people expressing the very same feelings and conclusions I had, in some cases most eloquently. 
And hey wow, we got an indirect mention in the comments on the second link:

And on a related note, and speaking of the Creative Commons licence relocation—some of those same anti-deletion tropers recently archived the complete listing of trope articles, including the deleted ones salvaged from various sources, and made them available as a torrent download.

Part of this was to gather material for a (so far) prospective censorship-free TV Tropes alternative site, should the TvT situation not improve, but the download is free for all to use for themselves. A little searching should be able to turn it up. (I’m not sure if it’d be “cool” for me to link to it here, directly.)

Thank you, Nick, whichever member or lurker you are.
ETA:  My only complaint is maybe you should have mentioned that those intrepid tropers got banned by Fast Eddie for doing so -- suggesting very clearly that it's not the ad revenue but control over content that's the real issue.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.