3) People editing pages occasionally need to put a little bit more thought/research into things, but mostly, the editor pool seems to have way too many people obsessed with popular culture (or specific works) in ways that negatively influence their editing judgment, to put it lightly. This is especially true when you see a page that is obviously edited primarily by *fans* - not critics, or impartial patrons of fiction, but *fans* (wrong angle from which to approach literary criticism, that's for sure). Also, people need to stop using tropes as in the post directly before mine here (although I assume that's parodical in that case). It's as if they're trying to hammer the sapir-whorf hypothesis directly into their brains, or invent newspeak. Tropes are useful terms but they don't have to be used eighty-six times per sentence, or treated as gospel.
Actually, I disagree with this. I think TvTropes should be written by fans, and try to stuff as many tropes into a page as possible.
I think you misunderstand where I'm coming from on this.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be written by fans. I'm saying it shouldn't necessarily be written from the
perspective of a fan. Even a fan can be at least a
little rational and objective, I would hope. Also, you're making an assertion without backing it up here: Why should a page for something be written only by its fans and not its critics? That's not exactly how good articles get written.
Also, regarding use of tropes in sentences, I mean that some editors seem to try to pigeonhole everything in existence into the form of popular tropes from tvtropes, as if they're part of some grand unified cosmology; they aren't. Tropes are tools for explaining things. Using them is great, but there's use and then there's slinging them around as if they apply to everything in the universe as-written without qualification or other description. That kind of speech actually limits good thought and understanding.
So yeah, the problem isn't "lots of links", just the way they tend to be used sometimes, especially in the more fan-oriented sections (like Troper Tales, which we obviously need, because the world isn't complete without anime fans talking about how they "took a level in badass" by freaking out at someone in gym class, while pretending to write in the third person by find-and-replacing "I" with "This troper" in Windows Notepad).
Huh. Personally, the anime sections are my favorite. My least favorite is live-action television.
The lucky thing about sections is that you don't have to look at them all, though. I do happen to think anime (as well as certain authors like Joss Whedon) tend to get a little overrepresented or glorified, as that's the nature of the fanbase, but I generally like the way the sections are set up and auto-hid.
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