Bob Schroeck Wrote:Say, Geth... why the massive purges from the fanfic recs pages? It looks like you're deleting anything specifically attributable to a TVT troper who didn't sign on with us -- rights issues?
Half a technical cleanup, half a policy reason cleanup.
The technical side is that we have a TON of red links from tropers who don't exist, which makes using Special;WantedPages very tedious. Second, the less red link to nonexistent crap, the faster dynamic pages like most of the special pages do their thing, meaning faster page load times.
The other half is for policy reasons. Some removed material was self promotional crap, like an author wrote a story then blatantly shilled for it on the Fanfic Recs page. Both TV Tropes and ourselves have a policy against such naked, shameless whoring of one's own work. I'm also removing stories that are dead, had poor explanations (someone dropped a link and left no context for the recommedation), were drama magnets (massive wars broke out over whether it was worthy of being on the page), lead to dangerous/potentially illegal sites, and stripping a lot of Thread mode nonsense, as most of it is review stuff that either belongs on the site where the story is for review or our own Reviews subpages (Vorticity still needs 2 fix this).
I'm trying to be careful as I do this, but if I screw anything up, feel free to revert and fix it.
The technical side is that we have a TON of red links from tropers who don't exist, which makes using Special;WantedPages very tedious. Second, the less red link to nonexistent crap, the faster dynamic pages like most of the special pages do their thing, meaning faster page load times.
The other half is for policy reasons. Some removed material was self promotional crap, like an author wrote a story then blatantly shilled for it on the Fanfic Recs page. Both TV Tropes and ourselves have a policy against such naked, shameless whoring of one's own work. I'm also removing stories that are dead, had poor explanations (someone dropped a link and left no context for the recommedation), were drama magnets (massive wars broke out over whether it was worthy of being on the page), lead to dangerous/potentially illegal sites, and stripping a lot of Thread mode nonsense, as most of it is review stuff that either belongs on the site where the story is for review or our own Reviews subpages (Vorticity still needs 2 fix this).
I'm trying to be careful as I do this, but if I screw anything up, feel free to revert and fix it.