# TV Tropes' "New Content Policy" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936 "2012-04-16T09:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/101 "2012-04-25T13:40:13Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You really are dense, aren’t you? The enemies are the reason the site keeps getting attacked. It’s why they get hacked That sounds like criminal activity to me. If that’s what’s going on, TV Tropes should report it to the FBI and then get a lawyer to bring claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/102 "2012-04-28T10:05:46Z")
FYI, for my comments here, I’ve been banned. Yip, because I use the same name here, and he got mad at me. And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/103 "2012-04-28T14:17:36Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. You’ve said he’s evil no less than four times in this thread, why wouldn’t he ban you? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/104 "2012-04-28T14:26:14Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You’ve said he’s evil no less than four times in this thread, why wouldn’t he ban you? Cecil Adams is evil. Cecil Adams is evil. Cecil Adams is evil. Cecil Adams is evil. Ed Zotti is evil. Ed Zotti is evil. Ed Zotti is evil. Ed Zotti is evil. ? I await my banning. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/105 "2012-04-28T14:44:42Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > ? I await my banning. BigT is actively railing against a policy that TV Tropes has enacted to save its business. Not the community as it currently stands, but the business. As the businessowner, he has a right to ban anyone he sees fit for any reason he sees fit. So does the SDMB for that matter. The infamous “Don’t be a jerk” rule. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/106 "2012-04-28T15:23:22Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Cecil Adams is evil. > > Cecil Adams is evil. > > Cecil Adams is evil. > > Cecil Adams is evil. > > Ed Zotti is evil. > > Ed Zotti is evil. > > Ed Zotti is evil. > > Ed Zotti is evil. > > ? I await my banning. I think he’s talking about being banned on TV Tropes. This is not to say that Cecil and Ed are not evil … ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/107 "2012-04-28T15:44:53Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > FYI, for my comments here, I’ve been banned. Yip, because I use the same name here, and he got mad at me. > > And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. Maybe you got banned for saying “Yip”… Yippers, skippers, ah thinks that twas the dealio. But seriously, are you saying a TV tropes maven (Fast Eddie his own bad self?) has been reading _this_ thread, and banned you from his site because you’re criticizing it over here? That is one paranoid, autocratic response. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/108 "2012-04-28T15:48:14Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. I’m trying really hard to follow the logic that someone who is trying to _remove_ content about rape, pedophilia, incest, and other un-savory things is evil… I guess it’s “evil” because he’s only doing it to make some money, right? And making money is always evil! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/109 "2012-04-28T15:49:09Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > BigT is actively railing against a policy that TV Tropes has enacted to save its business. Not the community as it currently stands, but the business. As the businessowner, he has a right to ban anyone he sees fit for any reason he sees fit. > > So does the SDMB for that matter. The infamous “Don’t be a jerk” rule. People have rights to do all sorts of things. However you can still legally be a dick. The community as it stands obviously represent something important to some people. You take someone important away from someone you’re either delusional, or cruel, if you expect them calmly accept it. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/110 "2012-04-28T15:58:06Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > … However you can still legally be a dick. And thet right thar is what’s wrong with the entire frickityfrickin’ world, by gum! Dadburn pesky dick-bein’ varmints… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/111 "2012-04-28T16:06:18Z")
He’s also tacitly supporting capitulation to those who would employ or threaten of technological attacks to cripple the site. ---
**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/112 "2012-04-29T14:03:09Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I’m trying really hard to follow the logic that someone who is trying to _remove_ content about rape, pedophilia, incest, and other un-savory things is evil I think it has something to do with anime fans being intellectually stunted sexual predators. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/113 "2012-04-29T15:54:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > FYI, for my comments here, I’ve been banned. Yip, because I use the same name here, and he got mad at me. > > And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. How do you know BigT wasn’t banned at TV Tropes because, unbeknownst to you, someone else is using the name BigT on another forum somwhere, saying truly offensive, banworthy things? ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/114 "2012-04-29T16:47:06Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > FYI, for my comments here, I’ve been banned. Yip, because I use the same name here, and he got mad at me. > > And people wonder why I think the guy is evil. Maybe you were banned because you are as annoying and lacking in perspective in that community as you are here. _Evil?_ Really, dude? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/115 "2012-04-29T23:31:01Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > Maybe you were banned because you are as annoying and lacking in perspective in that community as you are here. > > _Evil?_ Really, dude? :rolleyes: Sh-yeah.. “evil”. It’s the right word…geez. Don’t you know _anything_? :rolleyes: The hierarchy of evil goes:[ul] [li]Satan[/li][li]Hitler[/li][li]Stalin[/li][li]People who stop BigT from reading kiddie porn, incest porn and tentacle rape porn stuff on their site–because he really enjoys reading that stuff.[/li] [li]\< big gap–everyone below this is much less evil…though…still evil \>[/li] [li]Pol Pot[/li][li]Chairman Mao[/li][li]The bad girl (Misfit?) from the Jem and the Holograms cartoon who made a joke that BigT thought was really, REALLY mean![/li][li]Vlad the Impaler[/li][li]Ghengis Kahn[/li][li]The Cookie Monster because BigT resents the fact that “Cookies are now a Sometimes Treat!” and that’s CENSORSHIP!!!11!!![/li][/ul] So…I hope that taught you a few things, Myrna…if that _IS_ your real name and you’re not just a shill for FastEddie who’s stalking BigT. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/116 "2012-04-30T03:36:41Z")
> [@](#): > > People who stop BigT from reading kiddie porn, incest porn and tentacle rape porn stuff on their site–because he really enjoys reading that stuff. I keep seeing this assertion - “TVTropes is a wretched hive of kiddie porn etc. and that’s why they have to crack down”, but in six years playing around on the site pretty much every day I have never once ever seen any such thing. Cite? Even if they deleted it all, the archived version ought to be on Wayback still. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/117 "2012-04-30T04:28:28Z")
[quote=“Fenris, post:115, topic:618936”] [li]The bad girl (Misfit?) from the Jem and the Holograms cartoon[/li][/QUOTE] No, the Misfits were the name of the bad girl _band_ on _Jem and the Holograms_. (Can’t believe she still remembers this stupid shit) ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/118 "2012-04-30T05:30:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I keep seeing this assertion - “TVTropes is a wretched hive of kiddie porn etc. and that’s why they have to crack down”, but in six years playing around on the site pretty much every day I have never once ever seen any such thing. > > Cite? > > Even if they deleted it all, the archived version ought to be on Wayback still. > [@Trepa\_Mayfield](#): > > There used to be unlabelled links to furry torture porn on small trope pages just sitting there (holy god was that disturbing), which I understand they at least make an effort to hide now. Check the history on the page “Hellevator”. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/119 "2012-04-30T05:46:26Z")
The pages for Lolita and Nightmare Fuel are still up, and Les Yay redirects to Ho Yay. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936/120 "2012-04-30T06:30:52Z")
> [@Trepa\_Mayfield](#): > > Check the history on the page “Hellevator”. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. I see a single deleted reference to a video game where one of the villians is a pedophile, in an article about elevator malfunctions. Stating that such things as pedophiles _exist_ hardly qualifies as “kiddy porn”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936.md?page=7)