They also created the "Darth Wiki" as a corner of the wiki where tropes that were not only inherently subjective but prone to starting flame wars by their mere presence (such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Ruined FOREVER" ) were ghettoed off to, and where standards for civility lowered, and people could say what they really wanted to about a movie, book, show, etc. They ordered everyone to make the main articles as free as possible from judgment under the "Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment". To stifle the edit wars, the site admins decided to move all "subjective" material to the Reviews and YMMV (short for "your mileage may vary") sections. The Whedon-verse is a property that thrives on snark and witty dialogue, which the fans love it for, so at first, TV Tropes peppered its articles with a snarky point of view.Īlas, anyone who spends longer than a single Planck time day on the Internet knows that many (or at least the most vocal) Internet nerds tend to get extremely sensitive and hysterical to any perceived negativity towards their favorite works. The website grew extremely quickly around 2009-10, when references to it started to circulate the Internet and its userbase grew past the original collection of Buffy and Joss Whedon fans, with websites like xkcd and plugging it. Because nerds have a diverse set of interests, they then spread to encompass all TV shows and then all media. The wiki started in 2004 on, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan forum, as a fan project to catalog said tropes from the Buffy television show by forum nerds.
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