TV Tropes' "New Content Policy"

[Ranchoth]

@CandidGamera

It’s not just storage space, it’s bandwidth. Obviously, one wouldn’t expect to start out with TV Tropes’ level of traffic, but that information would serve as a useful upper bound.

But seriously, I’d consider footing the bill myself. Love the site, hate the administrator’s tendency to nuke any problem from orbit.

Well, failing finding a less-anal ad server to offset some of the costs…I’m dirt poor myself, but I can pledge $10 a month.

[Smapti]

@Fenris

As an aside, what’s with all the Sonic The Hedgehog crap on TV Tropes? It looks like some spammer went through just about every page I’ve visited and stuck a Sonic The Hedgehog example under comic books. Was there some Sonic fetishist on at one point or other?

TvTropes calls those kind of people “entry pimps”, assuming that they haven’t blocked that article because somebody complainined that the site was promoting prostitution. (I used to be one for Battlestar Galactica and Atop the Fourth Wall before it got big.)

[CandidGamera]

@Justin_Bailey

Here’s the Quantcast profile for TV Tropes: http://www.quantcast.com/tvtropes.org#!traffic

Going back a year, the site’s viewership is clearly in the 500,000 - 1,000,000 visitors a month range. Let’s say an upper bound is 5 pageviews per visitor, and you’re looking at 5,000,000 pageviews a month.

I visited ten pages using the “Random” link and came up with an average page size of 24.22 KB per page.

So 5,000,000 pageviews at 24.22 KB per page requires monthly bandwidth of 121,100,000 KB or 115.5 GB.

For comparison’s sake, getting a dedicated server at HostGator for $175 a month will get you 10 TB of monthly bandwidth. So at the very upper bound, you’re talking $2100 a year in hosting costs.

Yeah, that sounds less like the change in my truck and more like a decent chunk of disposable income. Does HostGator include domain registration in that? At that price, they should..

[Justin_Bailey]

@CandidGamera

Yeah, that sounds less like the change in my truck and more like a decent chunk of disposable income. Does HostGator include domain registration in that? At that price, they should..

Of course they do. They include multiple domains in that.

But yes, $2100 a year is a lot of money. But for a website with over 5,000,000 pageviews a month? Chump change. The fact that TV Tropes is even bitching about this is proof they don’t have the slightest clue how to handles ads other than signing up for Google AdSense.

[CandidGamera]

@Justin_Bailey

Of course they do. They include multiple domains in that.

But yes, $2100 a year is a lot of money. But for a website with over 5,000,000 pageviews a month? Chump change. The fact that TV Tropes is even bitching about this is proof they don’t have the slightest clue how to handles ads other than signing up for Google AdSense.

Well, it sounds like you’re a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is. So assuming I’m insane enough to actually try and pull this off, are you interested in being a resource for advice?

The last website I set up was my own personal page and while I enjoy it, it wasn’t exactly a multi-user site. I need to find out what TVTropes runs on, because I like their wiki style.. and I can probably handle the tech stuff.. but ads? I’m certainly more clueless than they are. Never tried to monetize a site.

[Justin_Bailey]

@CandidGamera

Well, it sounds like you’re a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is. So assuming I’m insane enough to actually try and pull this off, are you interested in being a resource for advice?

Ask away, but the only sites I’ve monetized are video game sites, and nothing approaching 5 million pageviews a month.

But TV Tropes runs on PMWiki: PmWiki | PmWiki / PmWiki

[CandidGamera]

@Justin_Bailey

Ask away, but the only sites I’ve monetized are video game sites, and nothing approaching 5 million pageviews a month.

But TV Tropes runs on PMWiki: PmWiki | PmWiki / PmWiki

I’ll file that away. I need to do some thinking and some information gathering next..

[CandidGamera]

It appears that Mind Rape and the other Rape Tropes are only temporarily filtered, according to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident?from=Main.TheSecondGoogleIncident

• so I’m going to wait and see…

[gamerunknown]

The Sonic fetish may come from Chris Sonichu.

@Condescending Robot

Without pedophilia, is life even worth living?

Eminently, or else there would be a corporation spending millions of speech on promoting paedophilia, right?

[Trepa_Mayfield]

@Fenris

As an aside, what’s with all the Sonic The Hedgehog crap on TV Tropes? It looks like some spammer went through just about every page I’ve visited and stuck a Sonic The Hedgehog example under comic books. Was there some Sonic fetishist on at one point or other?

It’s funny, you can kind of “date” the age of a page, geology style, by which waves of fandom were active while it was up. First it was Buffy, then professional wrestling, then Haruhi Suzumiya (for the record, I did have to look that up), then Harry Potter, then Survival of the Fittest (a friggin’ forum game), ad infinitum…er, not necessarily in that order, but you get the idea.

[drewtwo99]

@VinylTurnip

Sorry, that was me. The way he runs in loops and gathers coins just says so much about us as a society, doesn’t it?

Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl… he collects RINGS, not coins! Don’t confuse our beloved Sonic with that plumber again!