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REGENDarySumanai said:
Despite the fact that the site raised money to redesign the website and to make it mobile friendly, it's practically unusable on mobile, since you'll be redirected to an ad with a URL that screams virus. How does one fuck up that badly?
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It's the fucking ads. It's always the fucking ads.

(At least I think it is. I can use the site on an iPad just fine. Only when using it on a phone does it do that.)
 
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REGENDarySumanai said:
Despite the fact that the site raised money to redesign the website and to make it mobile friendly, it's practically unusable on mobile, since you'll be redirected to an ad with a URL that screams virus. How does one fuck up that badly?
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And then the regular site shrieks at you to turn off your ad-blocker, presumably so it can redirect you to some viruses as well.
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
Once again, why not start a fucking Patreon? Lord knows the userbase would just send them as much of their parents' money as possible.
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I feel the need to point out a few things.

One, the ad support is there to stay. While originally Eddie's idea, the fact that ad support pays the bills is not at all unattractive to the current owners, and is preferred to Patreon, as that means they have a guaranteed source of constant income from parties who will not renege on payment except under very specific and easily avoidable conditions.

Second, it's a parasitical yet mutually beneficial relationship: TV Tropes becomes a gestalt ad whore entity, and the advertisers help pimp their SEO out the ying-yang.

Whether it makes viewing the site harder is immaterial, one side gets shekels, the other party gets to link whore their asinine shit until the end of time with no discouragement whatsoever.

Finally, having ads allows them to hew to their family friendly policy, which they want to keep since they are frankly too lazy to moderate anything beyond their current "safe for work" material since they'd have to give up the shekels to do so, and from a purely economic standpoint, I can see why they'd do anything to keep that excuse going, it's profitable for both the site owners and advertisers.
 
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Very Clever Nickname said:
I found some cartoon network sperging whilst searching.

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YOU ARE TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD! YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED CARING ABOUT THAT FUCKING CHANNEL YEARS AGO
 
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See also - or rather, don't - The Adventures Of Miss Daring Do, the supposed range of adventure books in the Friendship Is Magic universe that the ponies read for some fun escapism but which we never see anything of. Guess who'd create a honking great page all about non-existent books, cramming them full of Harry Potter and Doctor Who references? Why, TV Tropers, that's who...
 
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Wakko Warner said:
Why do people even make pages for fanfiction as if it was canon to the series it was based off? And a whole fanfiction about using the bathroom? What were they thinking?
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Probably fetish. Which is disturbing as hell since the characters in question are literal babies.

Wakko Warner said:
Here's another example of people thinking their fan idea is real on the site, based on a joke from a Channel Awesome video!
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At least when they make pages for fanfics, the fanfics actually exist. This is some next-level spergery.
 
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GethN7 said:
I feel the need to point out a few things.

One, the ad support is there to stay. While originally Eddie's idea, the fact that ad support pays the bills is not at all unattractive to the current owners, and is preferred to Patreon, as that means they have a guaranteed source of constant income from parties who will not renege on payment except under very specific and easily avoidable conditions.

Second, it's a parasitical yet mutually beneficial relationship: TV Tropes becomes a gestalt ad whore entity, and the advertisers help pimp their SEO out the ying-yang.

Whether it makes viewing the site harder is immaterial, one side gets shekels, the other party gets to link whore their asinine shit until the end of time with no discouragement whatsoever.

Finally, having ads allows them to hew to their family friendly policy, which they want to keep since they are frankly too lazy to moderate anything beyond their current "safe for work" material since they'd have to give up the shekels to do so, and from a purely economic standpoint, I can see why they'd do anything to keep that excuse going, it's profitable for both the site owners and advertisers.
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I don't care about them having fucking ads, I care about them keeping an ad that locks my browser and tells me that Google thinks this site is a virus and therefore I need to install the Google Anti-Virus App and that's probably going to put a virus in my phone.

Worst thing is that every Wikia page does that too.
 
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  • SCP-2721 is criticized for being a blatant self-insert character with an illogical and cringe-inducing story, seemingly made entirely to make references to Tumblr and Homestuck. On the other hand, some find her to be a cute specimen with an interesting story, and believe that there's no problem with a silly SCP object like this every now and then. The fact its comment section and even off-site commentary quickly got political (in ways that won't be elaborated here) only made things infinitely worse.
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I like the passive aggressiveness.
 
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NARPASSWORD said:
For some reason, that "rule of cautious editing" BS pisses me off more than the rest of that "example".
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Heaven forbid if someone has a different political opinion than everyone else, despite the crying and kneejerk reactions in the political threads on that site.
 
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