I read that thread. Mostly, it's just a bunch of SA styled "troping websites are evil incarnate and filled with perverted pedophile nerds who obsess over stupid crap and certain things don't deserve to be talked about", and frankly, stuff like that makes me laugh and facepalm.
Okay, they don't like tropers because we make pages for certain things and make a ton of lists about it. So what?
Wikipedia hosts a page on "Kodomo No Jikan" (which they also hate and the SA mock threads call "The Anime That Must Not Be Named"), but I have yet to see anyone hating on Wikipedia simply for informing the world what the manga/anime is about, and to pretend certain things don't need to be discussed (even if doing so is legal) because some people feel it's immoral is absurd, and one of the reasons I'm disgusted with what TV Tropes has become.
I wouldn't mind getting an account there and discussing why they hate tropers/troping so much and feel its so worthy of scorn if they'd like, and I would be willing to keep an open mind regardless of my own views (their registration captcha seems to be broken ATM though), but for the most part, their views don't trouble me, as they are entitled to their opinions.
Regardless, I'm convinced I should feel no guilt for allowing the discussion of tropes and all works of fiction that contain those tropes, and thus I politely reject the assertion I should be ashamed to discuss certain matters because others want me to be ashamed for doing so.
Okay, they don't like tropers because we make pages for certain things and make a ton of lists about it. So what?
Wikipedia hosts a page on "Kodomo No Jikan" (which they also hate and the SA mock threads call "The Anime That Must Not Be Named"), but I have yet to see anyone hating on Wikipedia simply for informing the world what the manga/anime is about, and to pretend certain things don't need to be discussed (even if doing so is legal) because some people feel it's immoral is absurd, and one of the reasons I'm disgusted with what TV Tropes has become.
I wouldn't mind getting an account there and discussing why they hate tropers/troping so much and feel its so worthy of scorn if they'd like, and I would be willing to keep an open mind regardless of my own views (their registration captcha seems to be broken ATM though), but for the most part, their views don't trouble me, as they are entitled to their opinions.
Regardless, I'm convinced I should feel no guilt for allowing the discussion of tropes and all works of fiction that contain those tropes, and thus I politely reject the assertion I should be ashamed to discuss certain matters because others want me to be ashamed for doing so.